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Italian Champion trainer Stefano Botti will saddle a record six horses Sunday at the Capannelle in the G2 Derby Italiano. The 39-year-old Botti–who has a record of three wins, three seconds and two thirds with 17 Derby runners since he became the Master of Cenaia’s training center in 2009–holds all the aces. Three of his...
By Bill Finley The Triple Crown grind, an overwhelming, virtually insurmountable force, now threatens to chew up and spit out another one. There doesn’t appear to be a 3-year-old horse on the planet that can outrun American Pharoah. But it’s not other horses that stand in his way of a Triple Crown sweep, it is the...
Irish racing fans may be in for a rare sight this weekend as trainer Eddie Lynam is considering running his crack sprinter Sole Power (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) on home soil for the first time in almost four years. Not since finishing second in the G3 Flying Five S. at The Curragh in August 2011 has the...
Sabena Power’s Irish highweight and MG1SW Sole Power (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) will have his first run on home soil since August 2011 in the G2 Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands S. at The Curragh Saturday. Eddie Lynam’s globetrotting star last ran in Ireland in the G3 Flying Five S. at The Curragh when second to Amour Propre...
There was a time when Ireland was a bit-player at best in the major sprints, but three of the bunch to have turned that around in recent years in Sole Power (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}), Gordon Lord Byron (Ire) (Byron {GB}) and Maarek (GB)(Pivotal {GB}) line up proud and tall to grace the newly promoted G2 Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands S. at...
While the catalogue of accomplishments of Cirrus des Aigles (Fr) (Even Top {Ire}) is thickening all over the world year upon year, there is no doubt that Longchamp is where he is happiest, and therefore hardest to quell. Of the 20 occasions the country’s most popular horse has turned his attentions to the Bois de Boulogne, he...
The Shug McGaughey-trained Honor Code (A.P. Indy) worked a five panel bullet in :59.91 (1/24) at Belmont Sunday in preparation for a start in the GI Metropolitan H. June 6. The multiple graded stakes winner most recently finished fifth as the 7-5 pick in Churchill’s GII Alysheba S. May 1. “He did it easily,” McGaughey said of...
Trainer John Gosden sent out two of his G1 Epsom Derby contenders, favorite Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling), for a spin around the Derby course at Epsom’s Breakfast With The Stars Tuesday, and Gosden said he was “happy” with the G2 Dante S. one-two after watching each of them train with a lead...
Southern Equine Stable’s Moreno (Ghostzapper) eyes back-to-back wins for the first time since he romped in the 2013 GII Dwyer S. in Santa Anita’s GII Californian S. Saturday. Last term’s GI Whitney S. winner kicked off his 5-year-old season with a runner-up effort to Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) in the GI Santa Anita H. Mar. 7,...
Two Australian sprinters have pleased their trainers in advance of a trip to Royal Ascot next month. The Chris Waller trained Brazen Beau (Aus) (I Am invincible {Aus}) worked four furlongs at Flemington Friday morning under Craig Williams. Waller was delighted with what he saw of the dual Group 1 winning sprinter who has the option of...
Italian champion owner Scuderia Effevi could hit a grand slam today at San Siro in the G2 Italian Oaks. The last owner to win all four Italian Classics was Razza Del Soldo in 1936 with the filly Archidamia (Ity), and four years earlier Federico Tesio snatched the four races with another super filly, Jacopa Del...
Ocala horseman Richard “Red” Curtin, owner of Shanbally Acres, died Friday. Curtin and his wife Cheryl established Shanbally Acres in 1984 and went on to breed multiple graded stakes winner Limehouse (Grand Slam). The couple boarded mares for Frank Calabrese and Curtin served as Calabrese’s sales advisor. Among the yearlings Curtin broke for Calabrese was...