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One of the season’s premier juveniles, Fiona and Ian Jennings’ Ivawood (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}) robs the limelight from the featured G1 Dewhurst S. on today’s Future Champions Day card at Newmarket as he puts his unbeaten record on the line in the G1 Middle Park S. Flawless so far, the bay followed a five-furlong maiden score at...
RECORD-BREAKING OCTOBER SALE CONCLUDES By Emma Berry Over the last fortnight, the message that the upper and middle tiers of the bloodstock industry are in rude health has been writ large across the manicured lawns of Tattersalls’ Park Paddocks, which has been the scene of almost 130 million guineas-worth of horse trading. The European sector...
‘HONEY’ BC F& M SPRINT BOUND Southern Honey (Colonel John), second in the GII Thoroughbred Club of America S. at Keeneland Oct. 4, will be among the pre-entries for the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita Nov. 1. Owned by Ashbrook Farm, the $155,000 KEENOV weanling and $180,000 KEESEP yearling is trained...
The second day of the Arqana Yearling Sale, first of the three-day Part 2, registered results slightly down from 2013, owing to a more selective market as had been seen on day one. A total of 106 of the 138 yearlings on offer changed hands for a clearance rate of 76%, down 6.2% from the...
Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, who has been sidelined since having knee replacement surgery in July, has been booked to ride Martin Schwartz’s Sivoliere (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf next Friday. The bay filly, last seen finishing third in Deauville’s G3 Longines Prix du Calvados for Jean-Claude Rouget...
RAFFLES CUP, S$500,000 (US$392,102), Kranji, 10-26, 3yo/up, 1800mT, 1:46.34, gd. 1–WAR AFFAIR (NZ), 126, g, 4, O’Reilly (NZ)– Kristique, by Kris S. (NZ$70,000 yrl ‘12 NZBPRE). O-Warplan Racing Stable; B-Trelawney Thoroughbred Ltd; T-Tan Hai Wang; J-Danny Beasley; S$297,500. Lifetime Record: 15-11-3-0, S$1,832,889. 2–Goodman (NZ), 126, g, 4, Alamosa (NZ)–Lucky Street (NZ), by Street Cry (Ire). O-V-Day Stable. S$106,250. 3–Stepitup (Aus), 128, g,...
ALLEZ ALEA! Unbeaten and amongst the creme of her crop, Kirsten Rausing’s G3 Prix Thomas Bryon heroine Alea Iacta (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) takes on the colts again in today’s G1 Criterium International at Saint-Cloud. So impressive in that course-and-distance contest last time Oct. 9, the Andre Fabre trainee was six-lengths best easing down in the closing...
by J.M. Severni If there’s one GI Breeders’ Cup Classic contender who has truly captured the hearts of racing fans on a global scale, it’s the charismatic Toast of New York (Thewayyouare). That’s a bold statement, considering the loyal and vocal fanbase of dual Classic winner California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit), but it’s hard to deny. The big...
BOLGER LEAVING LEGACY AS A BREEDER By Kelsey Riley Trainer Jim Bolger has left an indelible mark on the Irish–and indeed, the global–racing world in his nearly 40 years as a racehorse trainer. The equine luminaries to have passed through his hands include the likes of G1 Hong Kong Cup and five-time Group 1 winner...
GOFFS NOVEMBER OFF TO A FLYER By Emma Berry Plenty of first-season stallions featured amongst the leading lights on a buoyant opening day of Goffs’ November Foal Sale, but Darley’s Casamento (Ire) (Shamardal) was the name at the top of the list courtesy of lot 208, who was knocked down to Gay O’Callaghan of Yeomanstown Stud...
Jockeys James Graham, Mike Luzzi, Leslie Mawing, Corey Nakatani and the recently retired Rosie Napravnik have been announced as the 2015 finalists for the prestigious Santa Anita George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. The winner will be announced on HRTV in February following a vote of jockeys nationwide. The award recognizes those riders whose careers and...
Among the first daughters of Sea The Stars (Ire) to be retiring to stud is Kaminari (Ire) (lot 1071), who was bought for €68,000 early in the opening session and was the “steal of the sale”, according to agent Johnny McKeever, who bought her on behalf of Tim and Gill Bostwick. Sold in foal to Makfi...