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Good Friends Stable’s MGISW Private Zone (Macho Uno), recent winner of the GII Churchill Downs S. May 2, has arrived at Monmouth Park and will be pointed toward a start in the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at season’s end, according to trainer Jorge Navarro. “The Classic is the ultimate goal,” commented Navarro. “[Co-owner] Rene Douglas told me...
Touted as one of Ballydoyle’s leading Derby candidates this spring, Giovanni Canaletto (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) looks to keep the dream alive and book a late ticket to Epsom in The Curragh’s G3 Airlie Stud Gallinule S. on Sunday. Ruled out of Chester due to a bad scope, the full-brother to the 2013 blue riband hero Ruler of...
Gailo Chop (Fr) (Deportivo {GB}), who ran Solow (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) to 1 1/2 lengths when second in Sunday’s G1 Prix d’Ispahan, could become trainer Antoine de Watrigant’s first Royal Ascot starter, with a possible date in the G1 Prince of Wales’s S. June 17. De Watrigant said his charge emerged from the race–his first of...
by Lucas Marquardt The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission’s Equine Drug Research Council (KEDRC) yesterday approved threshold levels for cobalt and sent the measure on to the KHRC board for full consideration. The KHRC is expected to meet some time in June or early July. If the measure is adopted and clears all subsequent legislative hurdles,...
Hughie Morrison is keen to step up one of his stable stars Not So Sleepy (GB) (Beat Hollow [GB}) in grade following his gritty win the Listed Dee S. at Chester earlier this month. A tilt at the G3 Tercentenary S. at Royal Ascot June 18 is on the cards for the 3-year-old gelding who carries the...
The 82nd running of the 2400-meter G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) sees a full field of 18 colts go to the post Sunday afternoon at Tokyo Racecourse in Japan. The stakes record of 2:23.3 is held jointly by King Kamehameha (Jpn) (Kingmambo)–who landed the 2004 edition–and Japanese Triple Crown hero Deep Impact (Jpn) (Sunday Silence),...
Trying black-type company for the first time in Ascot’s Listed Buckhounds S., Agent Murphy (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) proved more than worthy of a tilt at Sunday’s G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly with an authoritative success. Having only his fifth start in that May 9 12-furlong contest, he was professional and straightforward as well as stylish and...
Royal Ascot 2015 gets underway on Tuesday, when a face-off to focus worldwide attention in the G1 Queen Anne S. forms arguably the highlight of the whole meeting. Able Friend (Aus) (Shamardal) requires no introduction tackling his first western adventure and seeking a fifth top-level victory in succession, but standing in his way is the vastly improved Solow...
Inaugurated in 2004, Wednesday’s G2 Duke of Cambridge S. has already fallen the way of trainer Sir Michael Stoute on four occasions, and the Newmarket-based conditioner will seek a fifth renewal of the straight-mile test with last year’s heroine Integral (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) and the year-younger Bragging (Exchange Rate). Cheveley Park Stud’s Integral has registered two Group 1 victories...
Richard Hannon, who has yet to strike with his juvenile band at the Royal meeting, relies on likely favorite Illuminate (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) and Palenville (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}) in Friday’s G3 Albany S., Royal Ascot’s penultimate 2-year-old contest. Illuminate created a highly favorable impression when easily besting stablemate and subsequent Listed Naas Fillies’ Sprint victress Great Page...
Nine years to the day of his victory in the G2 King’s Stand S. at Royal Ascot, Australian sprinting hero Takeover Target (Aus) (Celtic Swing {GB}–Shady Stream {Aus}, by Archregent) has died at the age of 15. The gelding broke his leg in a paddock accident Saturday. Purchased by owner-trainer and former taxi driver Joe Janiak for...
There are no prizes for guessing that the stallion table at the five-day Royal Ascot meeting was headed by Galileo. With victories from Gleneagles, Curvy and Aloft, the ultra-prolific Coolmore stallion added more than £600,000 to his 2015 bankroll. In doing so, he succeeded in overhauling Golden Horn’s sire Cape Cross to take his habitual...