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YEAR-END REPORT: MARKET EDGES UP 4% The North American and European auction marketplace, which we cover in the Weekly Sales Ticker, bottomed out in 2010, when the sales we covered saw gross receipts of just over $1-billion ($1,033,910,608, to be precise) for 21,577 horses sold, an average of $47,917. Two years later, by the end...
Old Friends, founded by Michael Blowen in 2003, will receive a Special Eclipse Award at the 44th annual Eclipse Awards Ceremony at Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino in Hallandale Beach, Florida Jan. 17 announced the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Friday. The nonprofit Thoroughbred retirement...
Bob and Mary Sullivan’s 1995 GI Sword Dancer S. hero Kiri’s Clown (Foolish Pleasure–Kiri {GB}, by Kris {GB}), was euthanized at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital from complications following colic surgery announced Old Friends founder and president Michael Blowen Tuesday. One of the original residents at the Georgetown, Kentucky Thoroughbred Retirement Facility, the pensioned stallion was 25....
by Tom Thornbury Racing and breeding in South America has lost one of its greats. Marcel Zarour lost his struggle with cancer early Sunday. To say that Marcel led an interesting life and that he had an impact on racing in his home country of Chile and throughout South America is selling him short. I...
By T.D. Thornton Facing a Jan. 1 eviction with nowhere to stable as many as 400 of 600 horses currently fenced in behind the main barn area at Calder Casino & Race Course, Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association president Phil Combest said his organization will fight the banishment by refusing to leave, and, if...
by Mark Cramer In travels across the USA to visit the outer edges of the American racing solar system, I found that racetracks such as Penn National, Charles Town, Fairmount Park or Albuquerque allowed the visitor more intimate contact with the game, perhaps because the owners of horses and those who bet on them were...
The aptly-named Sistonic (Aus) (Bel Esprit {Aus}), a three-parts sister to 15-time G1 winner Black Caviar (Aus) (Bel Esprit {Aus}), brought back fond memories of her illustrious relative when winning in good style on her racecourse debut, in a 1100 meters maiden event at Sale, Victoria. The David Hayes and Tom Dabernig trainee made virtually all to...
LONGINES CEREMONY TO BE STREAMED The second annual Longines World’s Best Racehorse Ceremony will be streamed live online from the Hotel Claridge’s in London, England Jan. 20. The stream will be available at both www.ifhaonline.org and www.longines.com. The final 2014 rankings will be revealed at the gala, with the owner of the world’s highest-rated horse receiving a rose...
Newmarket’s Future Champions Day, which was held the day before Ascot’s British Champions Day for the first time last year, will this year revert to Oct. 10, a week earlier. Future Champions Day will feature the G1 Dewhurst S., while the G1 Middle Park S.–which has been contested on the Future Champions card since 2011–...
by Liesl King When Pippa Mickleburgh first arrived at Avontuur Stud, situated at the foot of the Helderberg Mountains 25 years ago, she had no idea that she was about the embark on the adventure of a lifetime. Though if she understood the local language, Afrikaans, she might have had an inkling of what lay...
As the Dubai World Cup Carnival rolls into its third week while investigations into positive tests for cobalt keep rocking Australian racing, the Emirates Racing Authority have stressed that cobalt testing is already implemented in the UAE. ERA spokesman Andrew Holmes told The National, “The Emirates Racing Authority have been survey testing for cobalt in...
Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott has been suspended for 15 days and fined $1,000 for the finding of Flunixin and an overage of Furosemide in one of his runners, the New York State Gaming Commission announced Friday. The horse in question, Saratoga Snacks (Tale of the Cat), finished sixth in a state-bred allowance at...