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A new interactive website for Thoroughbred breeders and racing fans has been launched called www.FoalPhotos.com. The site is designed to showcase Thoroughbred foals each foaling season, and it invites breeders, photographers, or any authorized person to upload new foal photos for public viewing. “There’s just something about a foal that gets to us all,” said Christine...
by Brian DiDonato Secure Investments is the perfect name for Tami Bobo’s operation, which will offer seven juveniles during Tuesday and Wednesday’s OBS March Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. “I had my daughter at a young age, and I had to make a living,” explained the Ocala-based horsewoman. “I did what I had to do to...
By Danny Power When Archie Alexander was announced as the new trainer of G1 Melbourne Cup aspirant Renew (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) last October, not only were Australian media and racing fans Googling his name, but also some of the owners involved in Renew as part of the OTI Racing partnership. The whirlwind change of trainer from the...
Nine horses from five countries are expected to line up for the $10 million G1 Dubai World Cup Mar. 28. The Dubai Racing Club Wednesday released the projected fields for the Dubai World Cup card’s eight Thoroughbred races, andCalifornia Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) and Lea (First Samurai) are expected to represent the U.S. Godolphin’s African Story (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) will attempt...
Hallowed Crown (Aus) (Street Sense) stamped himself a colt of the highest class when earning his second Group 1 in the G1 Randwick Guineas Mar. 7, and he looks to extend his record in Saturday’s G1 Rosehill Guineas, a 2000 meter Classic that has often served as a springboard for 3-year-olds to go on to become...
Having thrown down on two straight occasions with ‘TDN Rising Star’ Dortmund (Big Brown), Arnold Zetcher’s Firing Line (Line of David) gets out of the considerable shadow of that towering foe and looms a prohibitive favorite in Sunday’s GIII Sunland Derby. An impressive maiden winner at the tail end of the Bing Crosby meet at Del Mar Nov. 30,...
Australian sprinter Brazen Beau (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) will continue on his original path and skip the Apr. 4 G1 TJ Smith S. at The Championships in favor of a trip to England for Royal Ascot in June, according to Racing and Sports. A Group 2-winning 2-year-old, Brazen Beau added last season’s G2 Roman Consul S....
It was a standing-room only crowd at Gulfstream Tuesday for a memorial service to honor Hall of Fame trainer H. Allen Jerkens, who passed away Mar. 18. The 60-minute ceremony was organized by conditioner Carlo Vaccarezza, who shared Barn 14 at Gulfstream with ‘The Chief.’ “He taught us you could live quietly but speak very...
Champion sprinter Work All Week (City Zip) put in his first official work since his victory in the Nov. 1 GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint Wednesday morning at Oaklawn. The chestnut breezed a half-mile in :48.20 with splits of :12.20, :24.20 and :36 for three furlongs, and galloped out five furlongs in 1:02.40. Trainer Roger Brueggemann said it...
Steve Sherack & Brian DiDonato will make $100 win/place bets on 20 Kentucky Derby preps. The handicapper with the highest total at the end wins. (For the BetAmerica sign-up bonus, click here). SS: GIII Sunland Derby Result -While clearly no match for Firing Line, Where’s the Moon proved best of the rest to finish a clear-cut second at odds of 11-1. Didn’t get...
The catalogue for the DBS Breeze Up Sales Apr. 23 is now online. Among the expected standouts of the 181 offerings are two colts by Shamardal: lot 30, a son of the Group 3-placed Tiffany Diamond (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells), and lot 59, an April foal out of a half-sister to Group 1 winner Blue Canari (Fr) (Acatenango...
Qatar Racing’s Peace and War (War Front), last seen winning the Oct. 3 GI Darley Alcibiades S., will return to action in Saturday’s GI Central Bank Ashland S. at Keeneland. The bay filly missed an expected start in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies after sustaining a slight tear of the tiny XYZ ligament at the base...