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By Michele MacDonald Bill and Susan Casner have tasted victory from some of racing’s most sumptuous platters, including the GI Kentucky Derby with Super Saver (Maria’s Mon), the GI Belmont S. with Drosselmeyer (Distorted Humor) and the GI Travers S. with Colonel John (Tiznow). Nothing has come close, however, to the exhilaration of winning the...
Hong Kong is comparatively small in the racing world, but has supplied winners on the international stage with increasing frequency over the last decade. The G1 Al Quoz Sprint has been the property of the special administrative region twice in the last five runnings of the race, first when the evergreen Joy and Fun (NZ)...
Four veterinarians practing at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania, have been charged in separate criminal informations with conduct in violation of the state criminal law prohibiting the rigging of publicly exhibited contests. According to a release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, charges were filed late Thursday...
Commissioner (A.P. Indy), winner of Saturday’s GIII Skip Away S., will point towards the GII Brooklyn Invitational at Belmont June 6. “That was a big effort from him and nice to see,” Pletcher said of colt’s run over the weekend. “That was him doing what he does best, which is kind of getting into that cruising speed...
By Christie DeBernardis Todd Pletcher may have six strong GI Kentucky Derby contenders on his hands, but it is Bob Baffert who is in the enviable position of conditioning the two early Derby favorites in champion American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) and the undefeated Dortmund (Big Brown). “They are both outstanding 3-year-olds and I feel so fortunate,” the Hall...
Trainer John Gosden has reported that leading Guineas entrant Richard Pankhurst (GB) (Raven’s Pass), who was due to make his seasonal reappearance in Thursday’s G3 Craven S. at Newmarket, has suffered a setback and will miss out on both assignments. “Richard Pankhurst was found to be tight in his hind quarter after working nicely on Saturday and...
9-year-old six-time Group 1 winner Cirrus Des Aigles (Fr) (Even Top {Ire}), who was last seen when finishing fourth to Designs On Rome (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) in the G1 Hong Kong Cup Dec. 14, is nearing a seasonal return in the G1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp, a racein which he upstaged the great Treve (Fr)...
By Emma Berry A son of Coolmore’s first-season sire Canford Cliffs (Ire) (lot 70) was one of the last horses through the ring at Tattersalls’ Craven Breeze-up Sale Wednesday evening, but he shot straight to the top of the charts when selling to Charlie Gordon-Watson for 300,000gns. Named Sparte Quercus (Ire) and consigned by Paddy...
by T.D. Thornton The California Horse Racing Board approved a reshuffling of autumn race dates for the Northern California circuit on Thursday that will mean Golden Gate Fields (GGF) has to open, close, then reopen for a series of several one-week periods in succession to accommodate a dove-tailing of meets at other venues that host...
Despite having to fly out just 48 hours after their respective runs in the G1 Longines Queen Elizabeth II S. at Royal Randwick last Saturday, the victorious Criterion (NZ) (Sebring {Aus}) and fan-favorite Red Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) have settled in nicely in Hong Kong as they prepare for that jurisdiction’s Queen Elizabeth II Cup a week from...
Headed by champion sire More Than Ready (Southern Halo), Australia’s Vinery Stud announced the 2015 fees for their roster of 11 stallions reported Racing and Sports. More Than Ready’s fee will stay at A$66,000 despite a A$320,000 yearling average at the recent Inglis Easter Sale and five more juvenile stakes winners this season. First-crop weanling sire and MG1SW All...
Last term’s G1 British Champions Fillies & Mares S. winner Madame Chiang (GB) (Archipenko) is on target for a start in York’s G2 Middleton S. May 14, according to trainer David Simcock. “She is on target for the Middleton,” Simcock said. “It has always been the plan to start her off at York. I have been pleased...