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FAST START TO READY TO RUN SALE New Zealand Bloodstock’s two-day Ready to Run Sale got off to a promising start yesterday, with 116 horses changing hands for NZ$8,658,000, a figure that was down only 1.5% despite 10% fewer horses catalogued. Demand was highlighted by a buyback rate that dropped 11 points to 32%, and...
Jockey Ryan Moore, whose recent international conquests includes victories in the GI Canadian International S., the G1 Cox Plate and the G1 Melbourne Cup, is the marquee name among 10 riders from around the world to be invited to the 2014 Longines International Jockeys’ Championship to be held at Hong Kong’s Happy Valley Racecourse the...
A change of scenery, equipment change and a new trainer helped vault Three Hearts to a career high here. Three Hearts, a half-sister to 2010 GII Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf hero Pluck (More Than Ready), closed out her tenure for Graham Motion with a Keeneland allowance victory in April 2013, her most recent trip to...
Talented Australian 3-year-old Looks Like The Cat (Aus) (Husson {Arg}) is headed to Hong Kong after the Group 1-placed gelding was purchased by Hong Kong interests for an undisclosed amount Tuesday according to Racing and Sports. The Tony Gollan trainee has accumulated five top-three efforts from six starts exclusively in group company beginning with a runner-up finish...
The lone member of the 11 horses to emerge from a date in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Three Chimneys Farm’s Rainha Da Bateria (Broken Vow) will look to capitalize on a dip in class in today’s GIII Jimmy Durante S. over the Del Mar turf course named in the entertainer’s honor. A...
An up-then-down, then up again week for the connections of Ambitious Dragon (NZ) (Pins {Aus}) ended on a sour note Sunday morning when the 8-year-old, winner of the 2012 G1 Hong Kong Mile, failed to pass the vet and was declared from the race. “In the end, the vet didn’t have to make the call – we...
In response to runner-up Terry Finley’s protest of the results of the 2014 New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association Presidential Election, that organizations newly elected Board met Monday evening and adopted a formal process to hear the protest. The six steps of the process are as follows: 1) The Board has adopted a four stage process...
by T.D. Thornton The rat poison found in the livers of six horses that died from internal hemorrhaging almost certainly entered the horses’ systems after stable employees moved commercial pest control bait closer to and even into stalls in an attempt to more effectively control rodents, a California Horse Racing Board safety official testified at...
By T.D. Thornton A Jan. 1 shutdown of New York racing and training over a lack of workers’ compensation insurance coverage for jockeys and exercise riders has been averted. According to Rick Violette Jr., president of the New York Jockey Injury Compensation Fund, the NYJICF will make the first quarterly premium payment for 2015...
by Bill Finley, special to ESPN.com My ballot is in and it was not an easy task this year. There were too many categories where you’d just as soon vote for no one, where none of the contenders had worthy Eclipse credentials. Without boring you with the obvious (e.g. why I voted for Untapable for...
by Alix Choppin Three of the top 10 trainers in Victoria are now subject to investigations into excess levels of cobalt chloride found in race-day samples taken from a total of five horses last October and November. Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Mark Kavanagh was notified that the urine sample taken from Magicool (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus})...
Last term’s GIII Hutcheson S. and GII Fountain of Youth S. winner Wildcat Red (D’Wildcat) looks to return to his winning ways in today’s Sunshine Millions Classic at Gulfstream Park. Third in the GI Haskell Invitational S. at Monmouth July 27, the Honors Stable Corp runner could only manage fifth when cutting back in distance for Saratoga’s...