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Ordak Dan (Arg) (Hidden Truth), victor of the 2013 G1 Gran Premio 25 de Mayo, will bid to earn a second trip to the GI Breeders’ Cup Turf as the headliner among 15 horses entered for this year’s edition of the race on Monday at San Isidro. The 6-year-old, who was sidelined after defeating two eventual...
Last week, Shamardal; this week, Teofilo, from Darley’s Irish base at Kildangan Stud, grabbed the headlines. The European racing season is now in full swing, and last weekend’s Irish Guineas meeting at The Curragh featured, besides a vintage Ryan Moore ride to extricate Gleneagles from a serious pocket just in time to get home in...
Donegal Racing’s GI Belmont S.-bound Keen Ice (Curlin), seventh in the GI Kentucky Derby, breezed six furlongs in 1:13.60 at Churchill Downs Wednesday. Tammy Fox was aboard and guided the bay through 1/8-mile fractions of :12.40, :24.40, :36.20, :48.60 and 1:00.60 before galloping out seven furlongs in 1:27.80. “He’s doing well,” trainer Dale Romans said. “He’s picking...
by Rob Burnet, Thoroughbrednews.com.au The second day of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale in Bundell Thursday saw solid results posted. After two days of selling, 350 horses have found new homes from 432 lots through the ring for an overall clearance rate of 81%. The gross stands at A$42,173,000, with an average of...
By T.D. Thornton The proposed Thoroughbred Horseracing Anti-Doping Organization (THADO) legislation was met with industry support on Friday, but the announcement of a plan for sweeping federal oversight of the sport’s medication oversight also raised numerous questions. To help fill in some of the blanks, click here for a condensed version of a...
Last year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red (Afleet Alex), off since a runner-up finish in Santa Anita’s GII San Vicente S. Feb. 1 after a foot abscess knocked him off the Triple Crown trail, breezed five panels in an easy 1:02.80 in Arcadia Saturday. He is likely to make his return to the races in...
When it comes to the G3 Prix du Lys, it is impossible not to give Andre Fabre’s chosen representative the spotlight, with the leading trainer responsible for 15 winners in total and nine of the last 13. Primarily the key trial for Bastille Day’s G1 Grand Prix de Paris, Sunday’s contest, staged at Chantilly, features...
Royal Ascot’s 2015 extravaganza gets underway Tuesday and one of the most eagerly awaited feasts is this year’s curtain-raiser, the £375,000 G1 Queen Anne S. over the straight mile. Alain and Gerard Wertheimer’s Solow (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}), who has garnered nine of his last 10 starts, served a lengthy apprenticeship over a variety of trips before exploding...
In an address to United States Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officials at a hearing Wednesday, National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) President and Chief Executive Officer Alex Waldrop emphasized the “outdated, unfair and overly burdensome” nature of current regulations related to withholding and reporting of pari-mutuel winnings. Changes proposed by the NTRA would clarify...
Beat of the Drum (Ire) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) is set to become what is likely the first former mainland Chinese Thoroughbred to race in the U.S. when the 5-year-old mare goes postward in Friday’s seventh race at Santa Anita. A €62,000 Goffs November weanling and 100,000gns TATOCT yearling, Beat of the Drum was a maiden...
Robert Luttrell hombred Promise Me Silver (Silver City) worked a half-mile in :49 at Churchill Downs Sunday in preparation for her next start in Belmont Park’s GIII Victory Ride S. July 4. It was the speedy gray’s first work since suffering the first loss of her career last time when 10th in Belmont’s GI Acorn S. June...
Fifth behind Quechua when trying 11 furlongs for the first and only time in his career in the prestigious Longines Singapore Gold Cup last November, the gelding resumed against the best local sprinters in the Apr. 26 Lion City Cup and came with a spectacular late run to tag the talented Zac Spirit (Aus) (Flying...