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by Heather Likins When Blane Servis finally decided to hang out his shingle as a public trainer, he had plenty of family history to fall back on. His father, John Servis trained dual-Classic winner Smarty Jones (Elusive Quality) and a pair of uncles enjoyed graded-stakes success this year. Servis himself has gotten off to...
For the third consecutive year, the New Zealand Bloodstock Sale of Ready-To-Run 2-Year-Olds established new records for turnover, average and median. The two-day sale concluded Thursday at the company’s Karaka complex. Despite a catalogue that featured 41 fewer offerings, turnover reached nearly NZ$19.3 million, a 4.5% increase over the 2013 figure, while the cumulative average...
DAVID DUO TAKING GEMS TO TATTS By Aisling Crowe Three years after David Cox and David Myerscough joined forces in the sales arena to create the Baroda & Colbinstown Studs consignment, the two Irish horsemen approach the upcoming Tattersalls December Mares Sale with what Cox describes as their “best draft ever” for the breeding stock...
Saturday, Delta Downs DELTA DOWNS JACKPOT S.-GIII, $1,000,000, DED, 11-22, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:45 2/5, ft. 1–@OCHO OCHO OCHO, 119, c, 2, by Street Sense 1st Dam: Winner, by Horse Chestnut (SAf) 2nd Dam: Pennant Champion, by Mr. Prospector 3rd Dam: Personal Ensign, by Private Account ($50,000 yrl ’13 KEESEP; $200,000 2yo ‘14 OBSAPR). O-DP Racing...
STARS STILL SHINING AT TATTERSALLS By Emma Berry It was standing room only in the Tattersalls ring for each appearance by a Frankel (GB) foal yesterday, but the many spectators were left largely disappointed when none managed to find a buyer. Only three of the four catalogued took their turn, as Cheveley Park Stud’s colt...
1st-FGX, $39,000, Msw, (S), 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:12 3/5, ft. Squatty (f, 3, Congrats–Skyward Bound, by Relaunch), a $3,500 RNA yearling from the FTKOCT sale, ran second against $50,000 maiden claimers over the Arlington turf at first asking Sept. 20 and missed by a neck when switched to conventional dirt at Keeneland going six panels Oct....
ARQANA RNA XCELLENCE TO FRANKEL By Kelsey Riley Martin Schwartz’s Xcellence (Fr) (Champs Elysees {GB}), a €950,000 buyback from Arqana’s December Breeding Stock Sale Dec. 6, will be bred to Frankel next year, according to Michel Zerolo of Haras des Capucines, which consigned the 3-year-old in Deauville. “The three horses that were considered were Frankel, Galileo and...
Tom Durkin, the recently retired longtime racecaller for the New York Racing Association, Breeders’ Cup and Triple Crown, will be honored with the Eclipse Award of Merit for a lifetime of outstanding achievement in the industry. It will be the 39th time the honor has been awarded. “This is quite an honor and quite a...
ASAHI HAI FUTURITY S.-G1, ¥135,820,000, Hanshin, 12-21, 2yo, c&f, 1600mT, 1:35.90, gd. 1–@#DANON PLATINA (JPN), 121, c, 2, by Deep Impact (Jpn) 1st Dam: Badeelah, by Unbridled’s Song 2nd Dam: Magical Allure, by General Meeting 3rd Dam: Rare Lady, by Never Bend O-Danox Inc; B-Chiyoda Farm; T-Sakae Kunieda; J-Masayoshi Ebina. ¥71,274,000. Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0. Werk Nick Rating:...
The biggest and best of the Japanese turf congregate at Nakayama this afternoon for the G1 Arima Kinen, the Grand Prix of Japan, whose participants are selected–in part–by the public. Making his final career appearance today is Just a Way (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}), who will look to follow in the hoofprints of his sire, successful in...
by Bill Finley The horse eats nothing but soup and there was time you would have had to have been nuts to believe he’d ever amount to anything. Speechify (Harlan’s Holiday) is not your ordinary horse. Not only is he a two-time stakes winner, but he has overcome problems that would have ended the racing careers of...
By Lucas Marquardt After a rock-solid Book 1 kept pace well from last year, Keeneland January saw declines during yesterday’s Book 2 opener in Lexington. The session average of $16,836, from 242 horses sold, was down 30.4%, from $24,200. The median of $8,250 was off 45%, from $15,000. That tugged down the cumulative average, which...