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Marty and Pam Wygod's homebred Prospect Park (Tapit) turned heads with his impressive 5 1/4-length allowance tally (video) at Santa Anita Friday and trainer Cliff Sise, Jr. admits he has been impressed by his charge's progress.  “I loved the horse on Friday,” Sise, who has some 30 horses in training at his base at San Luis Rey Downs, said. “He changed so much from the race before. He ran good that day, but he got sick two nights before with a little colic. We don't know how much that took out of...

John Deer's Al Kazeem (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), a triple Group 1 winner in 2013 and second in last year's G1 Champion S. after returning to training due to subfertility, could start off his 7-year-old campaign this year in France.  "We'll see how things go, but my thoughts would be that he could come back in a Group 2 at Longchamp in early April [Prix d'Harcourt],” Deer said. “That would obviously have to be run by Roger, but that's what I'm thinking at the moment. He's a big, strong, older horse now, so...

Godolphin's retained jockeys William Buick and James Doyle are likely to rack up some considerable air miles this year after Sheikh Mohammed's bloodstock advisor John Ferguson confirmed the riders would likely partake in the Sydney Autumn Carnival, and could also receive assignments in America.  Ferguson noted he has had positive conversations with Godolphin's trainers in both countries about the possibility of using Buick and Doyle, who have both ridden winners in Dubai this year.  "We have a very strong team of horses in Australia, as well as in America, and...

Moment of Change (Aus) (Barely A Moment {Aus}), winner of last year's G1 C.F. Orr S. and G1 Futurity S., will miss an Australian autumn campaign after undergoing colic surgery yesterday. The 6-year-old gelding was being prepared to defend that double by trainer Peter Moody.  "We took him to the vet clinic and we tried to treat him without surgery and waited as long as we could but they had to operate on him just before lunchtime,” Moody told Racing and Sports. "He's up and recovering at this point, which is...

Four Japanese gallopers--To the World (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}), Real Impact (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), Tosen Stardom (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and World Ace (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn})--are Sydney-bound for the 2015 The Championships at Royal Randwick in April, it was announced yesterday. To the World and Tosen Stardom will be aimed at the A$4-million G1 Longines Queen Elizabeth S. (2000m) Saturday, Apr. 11, with World Ace and Real Impact tackling the A$3-million G1 The Star Doncaster Mile (1600m) a week earlier.  To the World, winner of the G2 Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho, finished a game second...

Owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey, trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey Javier Castellano wrapped up the year as the North American leaders in earnings in their respective categories for the second consecutive year. The Ramseys won 153 races out of 628 starts and earned a total of $10,544,148. The complete list of top 10 owners, according to the final statistics from Equibase, were Midwest Thoroughbreds Inc., $5,704,723 (219 wins/992 starts); Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC, $4,737,344 (26/115); John Oxley, $4,238,762 (57/330); Steven Coburn and Martin Perry, $4,007,800 (6/9); Flaxman Holdings Ltd., $4,002,391 (13/37);...

Zayat Stable's "TDN Rising Star" El Kabeir (Scat Daddy) will look for his second consecutive graded score in the 145th edition of Aqueduct's GIII Jerome S. Saturday. The Florida-bred sophomore broke his maiden at Saratoga Aug. 30 and finished fourth in the GI Champagne S. Oct. 4. He garnered his first black-type when second in the GII Nashua S. Nov. 2 and annexed the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. at Churchill Downs with jockey Calvin Borel in the irons for the first time Nov. 29.  "We're very happy with the way he and...

TDN Rising Star Mr. Jordan (Kantharos), winner of the Gulfstream Park West's Juvenile Spring S. Nov. 8 and Smooth Air S. Nov. 29, has been sidelined after undergoing surgery earlier this week. The Eddie Plesa, Jr.-trainee was originally thought to have torn a ligament, but the prognosis was even better than thought. "It's a better-case scenario than I would have thought," Plesa said. "They did surgery on him Monday and the prognosis is that he'll come back 100%. The time frame--the actual down time--will be 45 to 60 days, not as long...

Mike de Kock, the leading foreign trainer by total number of wins at the Dubai World Cup Carnival, has announced that he will thoroughly revise plans for his 2015 runners, following below-par performances from all his seven starters on the new dirt track at the opening meeting Jan 8.  De Kock, who also trained Mushreq (Aus) (Flying Spur {Aus}) and Sanshaawes (SAf) (Ashaawes) to run second and fourth, respectively, in the Listed Singspiel S. on turf, said on his website, "After tonight, we can be certain that there is a...

Team Valor International and Southern Equine Stable's Savoy Stomp (Medaglia d'Oro), the top-priced colt at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale, will look to get his sophomore campaign off to a good start in Saturday's GIII Lecomte S. at Fair Grounds. The $875,000 yearling debuted a winner over seven furlongs at Belmont last September before running fifth behind Blofeld (Quality Road) in the one-mile GII Nashua S. Nov. 2. He concluded his juvenile campaign with a third-place finish as the 7-5 favorite in a Dec. 17 optional claimer at Gulfstream Park. The winner...

GIII LeComte S. winner International Star (Fusaichi Pegasus) covered five panels in 1:01.56 at Gulfstream Park Saturday in his first work back since that victory Jan. 17. "This was his first work back and he worked great," trainer Mike Maker said. "All is well." International Star is slated for a start in the GII Risen Star S. at the Fair Grounds Feb. 21.

Trainer Chad Brown sent a host of stakes horses, including GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Lady Eli (Divine Park) and GI Breeders' Cup F/M Turf runner-up Stephanie's Kitten (Kitten's Joy), out to work Monday at Palm Meadows. Sheep Pond Partners' Lady Eli, who worked three furlongs over the turf in :38.75, was returning to the work tab for the first time since her Breeders' Cup victory.  “I thought she worked great,” Brown said of Lady Eli. “I wanted her to go down there and work in :38 and change and that is exactly...