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Swedish-born, Brazilian-based owner Stefan Friborg, whose horses raced under the Estrela Energia Stables banner, has died. The oil professional was a fond horseman since his days in the Swedish cavalry during national service yet it was his wife Dalva who introduced him to racing and bought the couple’s first four racehorses at auction in Rio...
Zayat Stables LLC’s American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile), champion juvenile male of 2014, worked six furlongs in 1:12.40 yesterday morning at Santa Anita Park. Following the effort, trainer Bob Baffert confirmed that the colt will make his sophomore debut in the GII Rebel S. at Oaklawn Park Mar. 14. “He went an easy three-quarters,” commented Baffert. Also on...
by Jessica Martini Barretts concluded its 26-year run in Pomona Monday with a perfunctory renewal of its Select 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. While a colt from the first crop of Grade I winner Twirling Candy topped the sale with a final bid of $400,000 from Conquest Stable, the results sheets also featured a pair of...
With eight runners in tomorrow’s G1 Chipping Norton S., trainer Chris Waller saddles more than half the field; and as is always the case with Sydney’s champion trainer, he has more than a few live chances. He’s Your Man (Fr) (Cape Cross {Ire}) hit his best stride in October, taking the G1 Epsom H. over this distance...
Cavalryman (GB), a winner at the highest level in France and a champion in the UAE, leads a three-way assault by Godolphin on the G3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy today at Meydan. The 8-5 morning line favorite to repeat after taking last year’s edition fresh from the bench, won the G2 Princess of Wales’s S....
Godolphin’s Tarquin (Aus) (Hard Spun) and Gooree Stud’s homebred Speak Fondly (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}) produced a pair of exciting performances to land their respective Group 2 race at Rosehill Saturday, but both are likely to avoid a quick-fire return to the track for the G1 Golden Slipper Mar. 21. Tarquin presented one of Godolphin’s international retained riders, British-based...
Sunday, Abu Dhabi, UAE ABU DHABI CHAMPIONSHIP-G3, AED400,000, Abu Dhabi, 3-15, NH4yo/up & SH 3yo/up, 2200mT, 2:13.50, gd. 1–@DORMELLO (IRE), 125, h, 7, by Dansili (GB) 1st Dam: Field of Hope (Ire) (G1SW-Fr, SW & GSP-Ity & GSP-HK, $490,647), by Selkirk 2nd Dam: Fracci (GB), by Raise A Cup 3rd Dam: Fancy Walk (GB), by Tower...
Australian nursery Ruane will sell its stock in an unreserved dispersal during the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale May 3-6. “There is no greater thrill than the success of breeding and racing Thoroughbreds and I am sure these horses will give their new owners great rewards,” said Ruane’s John Baxter. “I’ve had a lot...
If anyone knows how to train a winner of the G1 Golden Slipper, it’s Gai Waterhouse. The Hall of Famer has done it five times already, after all, and in Saturday’s edition of the world’s richest juvenile race she has three live chances to tie her late father T J Smith’s record six wins. That...
Darren Smith became the first Australian trainer to be sentenced for cobalt use after Racing New South Wales stewards pronounced a total ban of 15 years on account of 42 charges related to cobalt administration. Between February and May last year, 17 horses from Smith’s Newcastle stable, involved in 20 races, returned elevated levels of...
Interviewed on horseback prior to loading the gate for the Rosehill Guineas, jockey Craig Williams cited Volkstok’n’barrell (NZ) (Tavistock {NZ})’s superior turn of foot in the final 400 meters as the main reason the duo could turn the tables on Mongolian Khan (NZ) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) after being outstayed by that foe in the G1 New Zealand Derby...
Trainer Ed Dunlop has decided to skip an outing in the G1 BMW S. at Rosehill this weekend with two-time G1 Melbourne Cup runner-up Red Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}) and instead wait for the G1 Sydney Cup at Randwick Apr. 11. The globetrotting 9-year-old showed the fire still burns bright when a close fifth over an...