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A winner of the G1 Golden Rose S. last Sept., Hallowed Crown (Aus) (Street Sense) resumed last start with a strong win over Sweynesse (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}) in the G2 Hobartville S. over 1400 meters at Rosehill Feb. 21. Stepping up to the 1600 meters of the G1 Randwick Guineas, the result was exactly the same again as Hallowed...
Following a formative period with Charlie Hills in Lambourn, Shaishee flourished in the desert for Musabah Al Muhairi and earned a first black-type placing when third in the Listed Jebel Ali Sprint over five furlongs last March. Enjoying two straight successes over seven and eight furlongs when campaigned here in the winter, the dark bay...
‘TDN Rising Star’ Vancouver (Aus) (Medaglia d’Oro) was promoted once again to the top of the betting market for the Mar. 21 G1 Golden Slipper after running away with yesterday’s G2 Todman S. at Randwick, a traditional Slipper lead-up race for colts. Racing on near even terms with Godolphin’s Furnaces (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) with former Slipper...
Tony McCoy, a 19-time champion jumps jockey who has booted home over 4,000 winners, has announced he will retire from racing at the end of the season. Just minutes after Mr Mole (Ire) (Great Pretender {Ire}) gave McCoy his 200th winner of the season in an incident-packed Betfair Price Rush Chase at Newbury, the champion...
Thurlow (Aus) (Sebring {Aus}), a A$150,000 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale purchase by David Redvers for Qatar Bloodstock, entered the picture for the G1 Blue Diamond S. courtesy of an assertive win in the 1000-meter G3 Chairman’s S. at Sandown. The Robert Smerdon trainee, thus stable mate to the unbeaten and Blue Diamond S. ante-post favorite Fontiton (Aus) (Turffontein...
Despite racing at a distance short of his optimal and despite giving some accomplished rivals a double-digit break in the weights in Saturday’s Centenary Vase H. at Sha Tin, Designs On Rome (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) asserted his class to lead for the first and only time on the wire in the first of a two-race...
Following the conclusion of Saturday’s races at the Gold Coast, jockey Chris Munce will conclude his 30-year career as a jockey and will immediately take up training, the 45-year-old announced Wednesday. “I knew retirement was coming when I went to bed the night before a race meeting and didn’t dream about riding winners,” Munce explained...
The finalists for the 2014 Eclipse Awards, which will be held Saturday, Jan. 17 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, were announced by National Thoroughbred Racing Association, the Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters yesterday. It came as no surprise that GI Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Bayern (Offlee Wild), GI Kentucky Derby...
By T.D. Thornton More temporary stalls in tents are going up while the threats of eviction appear to be quieting down at Calder Race Course & Casino. Churchill Downs Incorporated, which owns the track but leases a portion of the backstretch property to Gulfstream Park for year-round training and a 40-day autumn race meet, has...
By Bill Oppenheim It’s been a hard road to the top of the APEX charts for Coolmore’s Galileo, the consensus world number one. It’s one thing to be the top sire in North America and Europe by progeny earnings on the TDN General Sire List three straight years (2012-2014), while siring 60-some black-type horses a year,...
Pleasure Gains (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), winner of five of his eight previous starts around the tricky configuration at Happy Valley Racecourse, took full advantage of that horse-for-the-course status to land the venue’s lone pattern event for the season. A longshot 10th in a Class 1 handicap going 1400 meters at Sha Tin Sept. 21, the...
Capped by a season- and career-ending victory in the G1 Arima Kinen Dec. 28, Sunday Racing Co. Ltd’s Gentildonna (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) easily outpointed G1 Dubai Duty Free S. hero Just a Way (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}) to earn Horse of the Year honors in Japan, it was announced Wednesday. The 5-year-old daughter of G1SW Donna Blini (GB)...