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Suzanne Stables colorbearer Barbados (Speightstown), winner of Gulfstream’s six-furlong Spectacular Bid S. Jan. 3, takes the next logical step in today’s seven-panel GIII Hutcheson S. The bay romped by five lengths going turf to slop at Keeneland Oct. 16 while trained by Kellyn Gorder for WinStar Farm, and subsequently brought a session-topping $340,000 at Keeneland November. “The...
Sky Classic (Nijinksky II–No Class, by Nodouble), a member of the Canadian Hall of Fame, has been retired from stud duty at the age of 28 and will be pensioned at Josephine Abercrombie’s Pin Oak Stud. Sky Classic sired six champions, 10 Grade I winners, and 59 stakes winners in his 19 crops of racing age....
On Jan. 15, the European Pattern Committee announced a number of changes for 2015, several pertaining to the Autumn 2-year-old racing program in Europe. One of them was to move the G1 Middle Park S., to an earlier date, a fortnight before the G1 Dewhurst S., and also revert the running of the Dewhurst S. to...
by Gai Waterhouse Up until the advent of ‘The Championships’ in 2014 and the revamping of the 10 furlong (2000 meter) G1 Queen Elizabeth S., the richest race in Sydney was the G1 Golden Slipper for 2-year-olds. I know that many in the Northern Hemisphere can’t believe that in a racing-mad country like Australia, one...
Eight fillies and mares will face the starter in the one-mile G2 Cape Verdi S., six of which will be making their seasonal reappearance. Eight years ago, Alain de Royer Dupre sent out the winner of this race in Sanaya (Ire) (Barathea {Ire}), and the Chantilly conditioner will be hoping for a repeat scenario with...
GII Remsen S. winner Leave the Light On (Horse Greeley) has been taken of the Derby trail after sustaining an injury in a workout at the Palm Meadows training center over the weekend. “He worked 5/8 of a mile on Sunday and he worked really well,” trainer Chad Brown explained. “But he came out of the work...
Jerry Hollendorfer, Mark Dedomenico and George Todaro’s Sam’s Sister (Brother Derek) makes her first trip to the East Coast in hopes of capturing her third straight graded stakes success in Laurel’s GII Barbara Fritchie H. The lightly-raced chestnut opened her account with a trio of wins, starting with two victories over the Del Mar synthetic July 25...
Aerovelocity (NZ) (Pins {Aus}) and Peniaphobia (Ire) (Dandy Man {Ire}), who led home a 1-2 finish for Hong Kong in the G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint Dec. 14, renew their acquaintances in this afternoon’s Chairman’s Sprint Prize over the metric six furlongs at Sha Tin Racecourse, with each looking ahead at the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen Mar. 28. ...
Parranda (English Channel), last-out winner of the GIII Marshua’s River S. in her first start for trainer Christophe Clement, drew the outside post in a field of nine for Sunday’s inaugural S$3.05-million CEFC Singapore Cup at Kranji Racecourse, the richest race ever to be run in the country. The 6-year-old, an $800,000 purchase by the China...
Japan is likely to send out a strong contingent to compete on Dubai World Cup day, Mar. 28 at Meydan, with no less than six horses expected to line up for the $29.250 million meeting according to local reports. The Dubai World Cup itself is looming for Epiphaneia (Jpn) (Symboli Kris S), the emphatic winner of the...
Andrew Caulfield responds to Dan Liebman’s Op/ed, which ran in the Feb. 3 edition of the TDN. I have to agree with Dan Liebman that the phrase three-quarter brother is somewhat imprecise, and possibly means different things to different people. But then I can remember being puzzled as a youngster as to why the phrase half-brother...
A field of nine–four males and five females–each owned by an entity of the China Horse Club, is set to go to the post for today’s CECF Singapore Cup, at a shade over S$3 million the richest race to even be contested in the country. The G1 Singapore Airlines International Cup carries prize money of...