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By Steve Sherack After just failing to reach his reserve when the bidding stalled at $145,000 at this year’s Barretts March Sale, the brain trust at Pegasus Training Center decided to hold on to Prime Engine (Northern Afleet) and prepare him for a late summer/early fall campaign. With a pair of daylight wins by a combined margin...
The opportunities to purchase daughters of top broodmare sire Darshaan (GB) will become ever scarcer, so it was no surprise to see Derrinstown Stud’s Tanaghum (GB) (lot 1199), the dam of G3 Curragh Cup winner Tactic (GB) (Sadler’s Wells), attract a bid of €250,000. The added bonuses that the mare was listed-placed herself, has produced five...
TATTS DECEMBER GETS UNDERWAY Monday By Kelsey Riley The Tattersalls December Sale kicks off its nine-day stand at the Park Paddocks in Newmarket Monday with a single-session yearling catalogue that has attracted 247 lots, including the last yearling ever to be offered by the late great Montjeu (Ire), as well a colt by champion sire...
By Ben Massam Taris (Flatter), a “TDN Rising Star” purchased for $2.35 million by Simon Callaghan at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale, has already adapted to training at Santa Anita and demonstrated her considerable ability in the mornings, according to the California-based conditioner. “She’s been doing great,” said Callaghan. “She fits into the routine really well out here in...
ROYALTY ON OFFER BY HIGHCLERE By Aisling Crowe Highclere Castle may be best known to television viewers the world over as Downton Abbey but, in reality, the 300 acre estate in Berkshire, England is home to aristocracy of a different nature. In 1902 a stud farm was established on the land by the Fifth Earl...
NEW SALES, RECORD FOAL FOR GOFFS IN 2014 A €1.8 million record-priced foal and two new sales were a few of the highlights of a strong 2014 for Goffs. The sales company’s total turnover of €109,670,464 was up 10% from last year, when it was up 45% from 2012. The average for 2,780 horses sold...
by Rob Burnet, Thoroughbrednews.com.au As was widely reported last week, Sydney’s leading trainer Chris Waller was fined A$30,000 by a Racing NSW stewards’ panel, chaired by chief steward Ray Murrihy, over a positive sample of the prohibited substance furosemide. The sample was taken from Junoob (GB) (Haafhd {GB}) after the gelding’s win in the G1...
by Bill Finley The GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile didn’t provide Eclipse voters with anything definite. And it doesn’t figure that today’s Los Alamitos Futurity, the last Grade I race of the year for this division, will either. The race drew just five horses and the only stakes winner among them is No Problem (Munnings), who...
The 59-day 2015 Belmont Park spring/summer meet will include 60 stakes races valued at $18.55 million running from Apr. 29 to July 19 NYRA announced Friday. Anchoring the meet is the expanded 3-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival headlined by the $1.5 million GI Belmont S. June 6. The supporting card consists of five other Grade...
The family of Robert B. and Beverly J. Lewis and Denali Stud announced yesterday that champion racemare Serena’s Song (Rahy–Imagining, by Northfields) has been retired from breeding at the age of 23. “Serena is still in great health and condition,” noted Denali Stud owner Craig Bandoroff. She doesn’t look anything like your ordinary 23-year-old mare. However, when...
The deadline for owners and trainers to make their horses eligible for the 2015 Triple Crown series is approaching quickly. The window to the early nomination phase for the GI Kentucky Derby, GI Preakness S. and GI Belmont S. will close Saturday, Jan. 17. The nomination of each horse must be accompanied by a fee...
Nick Eaves, the president and chief executive officer of the Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) has announced his retirement, effective Mar. 30, 2015. Eaves assumed the role of CEO in 2010 and has worked at the WEG for over 20 years, taking over as president in 2006 before his promotion to CEO. During his tenure, Eaves...