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by Jessica Martini A pair of colts shared the bullet furlong breeze time of :10 flat during Thursday’s second and final session of the under-tack preview for next week’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale in Timonium, Maryland. Hip 337, a colt from the second crop of Grade I winner Quality Road, hit the :10 flat mark...
More G1 Deutsches Derby clues are on offer on Sunday as Hanover stage the G3 Bavarian Classic, and one who could stir the soul ahead of the Hamburg showpiece is Gestut Fahrhof’s Quasillo (Ger) (Sea the Stars {Ire}). Sharing his sire with last year’s German sensation Sea the Moon (Ger), the homebred was introduced by Andreas Wohler...
G1 French 2000 Guineas winner Make Believe (GB) (Makfi {GB}) will be supplemented for the G1 St James’s Palace S. at Royal Ascot. Make Believe will join stablemate Territories (Ire) (Invincible Spirie {Ire}) in the starting gate, according to trainer Andre Fabre. “Make Believe is fine after his win,” Fabre said. “He will be supplemented for the...
by Dean Towers I watched Golf Channel’s Feherty the other day when the host, David Feherty, was interviewing the CEO of the PGA Tour, Tim Finchem. I found one segment of the show particularly interesting. Finchem told a story about 2003’s Colonial tournament, an all-male event, which accepted the entry of golf legend Annika Sorenstam. Sorenstam, a...
The Malcolm Pierce-trained duo of Deceptive Vision (A.P. Indy) and Overheard (Macho Uno) square off in Woodbine’s grassy GII Nassau S. Saturday. The pair was separated by just a nose, with Pin Oak Stable’s Overheard coming out on top, in the nine-panel GII Dance Smartly S. here last July. Second in the GIII Violet S. at Monmouth in August,...
Dual Classic winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) turned in his first gallop since his runaway score in last Saturday’s GI Preakness S. at Churchill Downs Friday. The Zayat Stables homebred galloped 1 3/16 miles at 8:30 a.m. following the renovation break with regular exercise rider Jorge Alvarez aboard. American Pharoah, trained by Hall of Famer Bob...
The GI Belmont S.-bound Frammento (Midshipman), 11th in the GI Kentucky Derby, put in another workout over the Oklahoma Training Track in Saratoga Springs Saturday morning. With a trackside temperature of 38 degrees at 7:30 a.m., the chestnut worked four furlongs in :49.30. “He worked great,” Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito said. “We’re happy with it....
by Bill Finley Earlier this year, T.D. Thornton wrote a story in the TDN about the superstar trotter Father Patrick doing double duty–breeding and racing at the same time–a common practice in European harness racing but not in the U.S., and virtually unheard of in Thoroughbred racing. This week, the 4-year-old champion trotter had a particularly busy...
Ervedya (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), last seen winning the G1 Poule D’Essai Des Pouliche at Longchamp May 10 has been confirmed on target for Royal Ascot where she will line up in the G1 Coronation S. Twice placed at the highest level as a juvenile, the Aga Khan homebred is two from two for trainer Jean Claude...
Al Shaqab Racing’s Osaila (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) will bid to get her season back on track in the G1 Coronation S. at Royal Ascot next month. Great things were expected of the Richard Hannon trainee after she made a winning seasonal reappearance in the G3 Nell Gwyn S. at Newmarket in April. Osaila never figured in...
So eyecatching when closing into second in the G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains, Khalid Abdullah’s New Bay (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) will have to overcome another wide impost in Sunday’s G1 Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly. Positioned in 16 for that May 10 Longchamp Classic, the homebred still managed to end up just three lengths adrift of...
Often a quick consolation prize for those who just missed out on victory in the G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, Chantilly’s G2 Prix de Sandringham looks poised for one of that Classic’s latest placegetters in Mexican Gold (Medaglia d’Oro) on Sunday. Third in the May 10 Longchamp highlight, having won the G3 Prix de la Grotte over...