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The cobalt doping controversy in Australia continues to gather pace and it was announced on Thursday that Racing NSW stewards have issued a total of fifty two charges against six individuals in relation to positive cobalt samples taken fromMidsummer Sun (GB) (Monsun {Ger}) after his win in the Listed Gosford Gold Cup in January. As the...
G1 Middle Park S. winner Charming Thought (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) has been conspicuous by his absence this year but his trainer Charlie Appleby issued a positive update on the 3-year-old colt’s condition on Thursday. The Godolphin runner suffered a training setback in the spring but Appleby is already lining up potential late season targets and commented,...
By Steve Sherack It felt much more like a Breeders’ Cup program was on the horizon later this weekend rather than a potential Triple Crown sweep on an unseasonably brisk and rainy Tuesday June morning in Elmont, New York. With heavy overnight storms leaving the main track a sloppy and sealed mess, Tale of Verve (Tale of...
Able Friend (Aus) (Shamardal), the world’s joint top-rated racehorse, is on track for the G1 Queen Anne S. at Royal Ascot June 16 after running on nicely to finish a close second in a 1600-meter barrier trial Tuesday morning at Sha Tin Racecourse. Winner of six straight, including the G1 Champions Mile May 3, the massive...
Ryan Moore, Coolmore’s number one jockey, will ride Giovanni Canaletto (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in Saturday’s G1 Epsom Derby. The colt, one of three in the lineup for trainer Aidan O’Brien, is a full-brother to Ruler of the World (Ire), whom Moore rode to victory in the Derby in 2013. Giovanni Canaletto finished third on debut last October...
Donegal Racing’s Keen Ice (Curlin) put in his final breeze early Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs in preparation for Saturday’s GI Belmont S. The Dale Romans trainee covered a half-mile in :50.20 with regular exercise rider Tammy Fox aboard. “I thought he looked great and he worked great; it looked perfect,” Romans said. “He’s doing so good...
Godolphin’s Toscanini (Ire) (Shamardal), third as the favorite in Monday’s G3 Lacken S. as Naas, remains on track for Royal Ascot, where he will target either the G1 Commonwealth Cup over six furlongs or the G3 Jersey S. over seven. “[Jockey] James Doyle was happy with Toscanini but said that he was never comfortable on the ground–he...
The Triple Crown is on the line, and American Pharoah has one huge stat in his favor: he has beaten, it looks like, every horse set to line up against him; plus, the long-range forecast says it could rain on Saturday. Of course, he still has to be moving forward after his first two Triple...
A flashy colt by Stratum (Aus) out of Delaware stakes winner New Edition (Stormy Atlantic) (lot 1648) is set to join the training ranks in Hong Kong after being secured by agent George Moore for A$225,000 to top the opening session of the three-day Magic Millions National Yearling Sale Tuesday. The session witnessed a very...
Saturday evening millions across America will tune in to NBC to witness American Pharoah’s bid for the Triple Crown. Interest in the GI Belmont S. is certain to extend across the globe, however, and for the first time exclusively, viewers in Britain and Ireland will be able to tune in to extensive Belmont S. coverage...
Jockey Frankie Dettori, who will partner G1 Epsom Derby favorite Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) for the first time in that June 6 Classic, told At The Races Golden Horn’s John Gosden stable companion Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling)–runner-up to the favorite with Dettori aboard in the G2 Dante S. May 14–is one of the rivals he will fear...
Sir Owen Glenn’s Criterion (NZ) (Sebring {Aus}), who is preparing for the G1 Prince of Wales’s S. at Royal Ascot, pleased trainer David Hayes in workout at Ascot Tuesday. A three-time Group 1 winner in Australia–including the A$4 million G1 Queen Elizabeth S. Apr. 11–the 4-year-old was last seen finishing third in the G1 QEII Cup in...