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GOFFS TAKES CENTER STAGE IN LONDON By Kelsey Riley Goffs today stages its inaugural London Sale in association with QIPCO at The Orangery at Kensington Palace, and anticipation is high ahead of the unique event. Not only is it the first time a Thoroughbred auction has been held in central London, but it has attracted...
Officials at Breeders’ Cup Limited made it official Tuesday morning, announcing that iconic Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky, will play host to the 2015 World Championships. Additionally, Breeders’ Cup confirmed that the 2016 championships will be staged again at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, and that the 2017 event will remain in the...
Last term’s GI Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Mucho Macho Man (Macho Uno–Ponche de Leona, by Ponche) has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 breeding season at Adena Springs Farm in Paris, KY. His stud fee will be announced at a later date. Bred in Florida by John and Carole Rio, Mucho Macho Man was...
In April, Dogwood Stable’s Cot Campbell placed a wager through William Hill on his outfit’s charge Palace Malice (Curlin) taking 2014 Horse of the Year honors. The 12-1 he got at the time looks like a savvy investment so far, as the bay added to his GII Gulfstream Park H. and GII New Orleans H. victories with...
Friday, Deauville, France PRIX GUILLAUME D’ORNANO – HARAS DU LOGIS SAINT-GERMAIN-G2, €400,000, DEA, 8-15, 3yo, 10fT, 2:11.64, hy. 1–GAILO CHOP (FR), 128, g, 3, by Deportivo (GB) 1st Dam: Grenoble (Fr), by Marignan 2nd Dam: Blue Wings (Fr), by In the Wings (GB) 3rd Dam: Blue Rider, by Wajima O-OTI Management Pty Ltd & Alain...
With an eye on the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup in two weeks, trainer Jimmy Jerkens had his GI Travers S. one-two finishers V. E. Day (English Channel) and Wicked Strong (Hard Spun) breeze over the Belmont Park training track Saturday morning. Magalen O. Bryant’s V. E. Day worked seven furlongs in 1:28.30; GI TwinSpires.com Wood Memorial S. winner...
Jim Miller had a busy day at Keeneland Sunday, selling a colt and purchasing a pair of fillies, all in the space of about an hour. Miller’s Harlan’s Holiday colt (hip 1449) sold for $330,000 to Whitehorse Stables. The yearling is a West Virginia-bred out of Cape Cod Bay (Cape Town), a mare Miller purchased...
ORBY GOES INTO ORBIT By Kelsey Riley A modern day record-priced yearling; the most lucrative dispersal in European history; the highest-priced horse ever sold at an Irish auction; a Frankel foal parading at Kensington Palace in London. These are just a few of the reasons Goffs has been in the headlines over the last 12...
Friday night, horsemen and women from all backgrounds came together for a good cause during the 6th annual “The Betsy,” a grand prix show jumping gala held in honor of the late Betsy Fishback. Sponsored by Hagyard Equine Medical Institute to benefit the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation and held during the Kentucky National...
Undefeated world champion sprinter Black Caviar (Aus) (Bel Esprit {Aus}) will be bred to 2008 G1 Golden Slipper S. hero and successful young sire Sebring (Aus) (More Than Ready) for her second year at stud, according to Racing and Sports. “We have given the selection of a stallion for Black Caviar’s second mating much consideration...
A total of 11 races with major implications for Breeders’ Cup weekend in five weeks’ time will be run Saturday afternoon at Belmont Park and Santa Anita Park, and some of the nation’s top 3-year-olds will face their elders in the venues’ respective preps for the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic. In the $1-milllion GI Jockey...
Just two weeks after Top Billing (Curlin) was taken off the Triple Crown trail with a cracked cannon bone, Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey lost all chance of capturing consecutive renewals of the GI Kentucky Derby when Honor Code (A.P. Indy) was put on the shelf due to a slight tear in his right hind suspensory. The...