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Michael Buckley’s synthetic-loving Toast of New York (Thewayyouare), making his first start since Nov. 1, belied longshot odds to authoritatively break the stranglehold held on this race by trainers O’Brien, bin Suroor and de Kock and provide conditioner Jamie Osborne with his first Meydan winner from one starter. Al Bastakiya one-two finishers Asmar (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and Emirates Flyer...
WinStar Farm and Twin Creeks Racing’s TDN Rising Star Constitution (Tapit), the undefeated winner of the GI Florida Derby, will miss the GI Kentucky Derby and the balance of the Triple Crown after being diagnosed with a hairline fracture in his right front cannon bone Monday. Constitution breezed an easy half-mile in :50 3/5 at Palm Meadows...
Breeders’ Cup and NBC Sports Group have expanded their partnership to televise 18 Breeders’ Cup Challenge races in the U.S. from June until the Breeders’ Cup in November, they announced yesterday. The televised races will be supported by an integrated marketing campaign that will run across NBCUniversal properties as well as Time Inc. properties...
After his GI Kentucky Derby dreams were crushed in 2009 when likely favorite Quality Road was scratched with a quarter crack the week of the race, conditioner Jimmy Jerkens will saddle his first ever Derby runner May 3 in Wicked Strong(Hard Spun). “It’s a great feeling, no doubt about it,” Jerkens remarked. “Out of all...
NATIONAL SALE IN THE SPOTLIGHT By Kelsey Riley Bloodstock South Africa hosts its annual Emperor’s Palace National Yearling Sale Apr. 27 & 28 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the timing could hardly be better. The sale comes a month after South Africa’s dual Horse of the Year Variety Club (SAf) (Var) and the country’s juvenile...
by Liesl King There are three things that I have learnt today. One, yellow is definitely not my colour; two, wearing a plastic photographer’s jacket in the tropics is not recommended and three, Designs On Rome (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) andMilitary Attack (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}) are seriously good horses! After a week of rain and drizzle,...
by Dan Liebman It was refreshing listening to Adam Silver Tuesday afternoon. The NBA had a problem, and it needed to deal with it swiftly and strongly. One of its owners, Donald Sterling, had been recorded making racist remarks. So when NBA Commissioner Silver addressed the world, he was as forceful in his remarks as...
Wayne Scherr grew up racing at the bush tracks of North Dakota, but had been out of racing for nearly two decades before consignor Scott Bergsrud convinced him to get back in the game two years ago. Through Bergsrud’s SAB Sales banner, Scherr will offer six juveniles at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale...
GOSDEN WEIGHS IN ON OAKS FAVORITE Trainer John Gosden will hope to earn his second European Classic of the season–the first coming in last weekend’s G1 Irish 2000 Guineas with Kingman (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire})–in the G1 Investec Oaks June 6, and he has as good a chance as any with the early favorite Taghrooda (GB) (Sea...
BEHIND THE SCENES AT ROYAL ASCOT– MOVING A MONARCH Every day of the Royal Ascot Festival, come rain or sunshine, Her Majesty The Queen arrives at the entrance of Ascot’s straight mile at precisely 2 p.m. Drawn by the famous Windsor Greys, Her Majesty’s Landau leads the procession of carriages up the mile, past the...
JUDDMONTE GRAND PRIX DE PARIS-G1, €600,000, LON, 7-13, 3yo, c/f, 12fT, 2:41.76, vsf. 1–s@#GALLANTE (IRE), 128, c, 3, by Montjeu (Ire) 1st Dam: Crazy Volume (Ire), by Machiavellian 2nd Dam: Desert Ease (Ire), by Green Desert 3rd Dam: Easy to Copy, by Affirmed O-Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Lynch Bages Ltd & Camas Park...
Horses based in Hong Kong that experience exercise induced pulmonary hemorrhaging (EIPH) raced just as long as their non-bleeding contemporaries without the addition of furosemide, commonly known as Lasix, according to a study published Friday by researchers from the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center. These findings resulted from one of the first reports using...