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In a move to expedite the resolution of Australia’s cobalt scandal, Racing Victoria will redirect investigators from its integrity department to work on the case, according to Racing and Sports. Earlier this week, horses in the care of leading trainers Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh and Danny O’Brien tested positive for elevated levels of cobalt. “We...
PASSPORTS A PRIORITY FOR RACING NSW Racing New South Wales, the governing body for racing in that Australian state, has revealed that it is working on the development of an equine biological passport that would monitor physiological changes in a horse throughout its racing career, according to Racing and Sports. The passport would be similar...
Team Valor’s Euro Charline (GB) (Myboycharlie {Ire}) is set to target the G1 Dubai Turf, formerly known as the Dubai Duty Free, after pleasing trainer Marco Botti in her morning exercise. The 4yo filly spent has not been seen since her victory in the GI Beverly D. S., Aug. 16, having been sidelined through injury....
Entries for this year’s G1 Investec Oaks will close Tuesday, Apr. 14, six weeks later than the original date in early March, officials at Epsom Downs announced yesterday. The G1 Investec Coronation Cup will also close that day, a week later than originally programmed. “We have felt for some time that the first week of...
By T.D. Thornton Terry Finley’s protest to reconcile what he claims was a flawed-process loss in the 2014 presidential election has been met with a legal riposte from officials at the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association. Among the highlights in 244 pages of affidavits and exhibits released Friday are: 1) details of how NYTHA officials...
Longtime NBC Sports handicapper Bob Neumeier won Saturday’s inaugural NTRA NHC Charity Challenge in Las Vegas. With a final mythical bankroll of $65, Neumeier bested runner-up Mike Watchmaker of the Daily Racing Form, who checked in with $62.40. The popular handicapper, who suffered a serious stroke just prior to last year’s Breeders’ Cup, never led...
by Steve DeCaspers While jockeying for elbow room on a cramped Southwest flight home on Monday afternoon, I couldn’t help but wonder what the travel experience would have been like had I played as well as John O’Neil who won the $800,000 top prize at the NTRA/Daily Racing Form National Handicapping Championship. Would I have changed...
Hard Not to Like (Hard Spun), winner of April’s GI Jenny Wiley S. at Keeneland in her last start for Hillsbrook Farms and trainer Michael Matz, makes her belated return to the races for new conditioner Christophe Clement in Tampa’s GIII Lambholm South Endeavour S. Saturday. The grey, who also took a Gulfstream allowance last February...
By Steve Sherack Jaw-dropping GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red (Afleet Alex) isn’t the only comebacking 3-year-old that will be looking to make a statement in Sunday’s GII San Vicente S. at Santa Anita. Arnold Zetcher’s Punctuate (Distorted Humor)–the second foal out of the wildly popular unbeaten millionaire Peppers Pride (Desert God)–will line up for the...
Ron the Greek (Full Mandate), the three-time American Grade I winner now raced in Saudi Arabia as Wattani, should prove the one to beat in Saturday’s The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup (King’s Cup), the country’s most prestigious race for Thoroughbreds. A seven-time stakes winner in the U.S., the strapping 8-year-old won the GI...
Making his eagerly anticipated return following 8-months on the sidelines through injury, Kizuna (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) was given a patient ride at the rear of the field in the G2 Kyoto Kinen, more than 10 lengths adrift from the strong pace set by Suzuka Devious (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}). The dark bay started delivering his challenge turning for...
Last week I inveigled TDN International Editor Kelsey Riley into offering her “columnist’s choice” picks for success among four crops of unproven North American stallions with first foals 2013-2016, which we presented as well as my own. This week–special treat– we have expanded our scope even further by asking TDN’s other columnist, Andrew Caulfield, to...