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By Emma Berry The second of Tattersalls’ breeze-up sales gets underway Friday ahead of the two-day Guineas Festival just down the road at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile. In a fiercely cold wind, around 150 juveniles were put through their paces alongside the famous Classic course on Thursday morning, with one unfortunate accident at the start of...
One year ago to the date, Repole Stable’s Stopchargingmaria (Tale of the Cat) used a victory in the GII Black Eyed Susan S. as a catapult to multiple Grade I-winning success later in her sophomore campaign. The dark bay will look to do the same as a 4-year old in Friday afternoon’s GIII Allaire DuPont Distaff S....
If the GI Preakness S. is Saturday’s main course at Old Hilltop, the GII Longines Dixie S. is a most intriguing appetizer, as a full and contentious field of 14 will load the gate about an hour before the 3-year-old claim the spotlight. War Correspondent (War Front) could rule a slight favorite at or slightly higher...
John Gosden holds the enviable position of training two of the top three horses in the betting for the G1 Epsom Derby June 6 in Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) and Jack Hobbs (GB) (Halling) and the Newmarket trainer could yet saddle a lively third string for the Epsom Classic in Christophermarlowe (Tapit). Fast ground is a prerequisite...
Trainer Willie McCreery feels Devonshire (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}) deserves her place in the line up after she was supplemented by Godolphin for Sunday’s G1 Tattersalls Irish 1000 Guineas at The Curragh. The Fast Company filly has been second on both her outings in Group 3 company this season and in an open year connections...
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and John H. Whitney, two names synonymous with Thoroughbred racing and breeding, will join the 2015 class of the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame after being elected as ‘Pillars of the Turf,’ it was announced Wednesday. The London-born and Massachusetts-raised Vanderbilt assumed control of his mother’s 600-acre farm–named Sagamore–in Glyndon,...
Sophomore fillies take center stage Sunday in Japan for the G1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks), the second Classic of the season in their division, and Let’s Go Donki (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) will be out to justify the form of her win in the G1 Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas) Apr. 12. Let’s Go Donki wired the...
Shel Evans’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Tonalist (Tapit) breezed five panels in a snappy :59.84 (3/20) at Belmont Park Friday under Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez, who will pilot last year’s GI Belmont S. and GI Jockey Club Gold Cup hero for the first time in the June 6 GI Metropolitan H. “He worked this morning with...
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...