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When Coolmore did the deal to buy the breeding rights to American Pharoah in January, before the Eclipse Awards, they were just hoping they were buying their fifth champion 2-year-old colt in six years to stand at their Kentucky arm, Ashford Stud. They couldn’t have bought the sixth anyway; that was the gelding Shared Belief, in 2013....
By T.D. Thornton Canterbury Park in Minnesota has emerged as the latest track to take a stab at wooing Triple Crown champion American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile). According to Eric Halstrom, Canterbury’s vice president of racing operations, track management is considering completely overhauling and raising the purse of an existing non-graded stakes race by a factor of...
By Geoffrey Riddle Thanks to Wesley Ward’s troop of ten horses that have arrived in Britain, Royal Ascot next week is set to be the most international that there has ever been. After a numerically strong challenge in Dubai on World Cup night in March, American trainers have embraced the five-day Royal meeting, which starts...
Richard C. Pell’s Calculator (In Summation), a late scratch from the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with a foot ailment, headlines a field of eight slated for today’s GIII Sham S. at Santa Anita. The maiden of four starts held his own with a pair of second-place finishes behind Eclipse Award finalist American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) in...
Local Queensland trainer Darryl Hansen has just three 2-year-olds in his stable, but that didn’t stop Hansen and one of those charges, Le Chef (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), from overhauling some of Australian racing’s biggest players in yesterday’s A$2 million Magic Million’s 2YO Classic, the country’s second-richest juvenile event and restricted to Magic Millions sales graduates. ...
GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies heroine Take Charge Brandi (Giant’s Causeway) worked a half-mile in :51 flat at Oaklawn Park yesterday morning in preparation for a start in Oaklawn’s Martha Washington S. Jan. 31. The “TDN Rising Star” annexed the GIII Delta Princess Nov. 22 and GI Starlet S. Dec. 13 following her Breeders’ Cup victory. Take Charge Brandi...
The British Horseracing Authority will implement hair testing to screen for the retrospective administration of anabolic steroids as part of its enhanced zero-tolerance anabolic steroids policy, according to Racing Post. Hair samples can be used to detect if a horse has received anabolic steroids at any point in its life. Under the BHA’s new policy,...
Qatar Racing’s 2-year-old filly Thurlow (Aus) (Sebring {Aus}) leads the G1 Golden Slipper order of entry after winning the G3 Chairman’s S. Saturday. Trained by Robert Smerdon, Thurlow finished second on debut in the G3 Emirates Airline Plate at Flemington Nov. 4, and graduated 11 days later in Sandown’s Listed Santa’s Magical Kingdom S. She was victorious...
by Alan Carasso Al Shaqab Racing’s Mshawish (Medaglia d’Oro), who overcame traffic in the stretch and knifed through between horses to win the GI Gulfstream Park Turf H. last Saturday, has come out of the race nicely and is being targeted for a start on Dubai World Cup night, according to Al Shaqab’s USA Racing Advisor Bradley...
Russo, Russo, Gatto and Hollendorfer’s Thegirlinthatsong (My Golden Song) seeks a Grade II double in Saturday’s Santa Maria S. in Arcadia. Third in Del Mar’s GIII Torrey Pines S. in August after a private purchase and trainer change from Andrew Konkoly to Jerry Hollendorfer, she was second in both the Remington Park Oaks Sept. 28 and Zia...
Satono Crown stretched his unbeaten record to three with a smooth win in the G2 Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho (Japanese 2000 Guineas Trial), a race whose roll of honor includes such future stars as Deep Impact (Jpn) (Sunday Silence), To The World (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}), Victoire Pisa (Jpn) (Neo Universe {Jpn}) and Special Week...
Shared Belief’s romp (Beyer 111) in Saturday’s GI Santa Anita H. propelled his sire, Lane’s End’s Candy Ride, to the number two spot on the TDN Year-to-Date North American General Sire List (click here), behind only Gainesway’s super-sire, Tapit, who had his 15th Grade I winner from seven crops of 3-year-olds (of 2015) when Ring Weekend captured...