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Champion trainer Caspar Fownes made an earlier-than-usual appearance at Kranji Racecourse Tuesday morning to check up on Lucky Nine (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Military Attack (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}) as each gears up for another attempt in the G1 KrisFlyer International Sprint and G1 Singapore Airlines International Cup, resepctively. At the advanced age of eight, Lucky Nine is back in...
Trainer David Hayes admits that it took some time for his triple Australian Group 1 winner Criterion (NZ) (Sebring {Aus}) to adjust after shipping to England, but the conditioner insists his charge is now spot-on for a date in the G1 Prince of Wales’s S. at Royal Ascot June 17. “He has really settled in well,” Hayes...
QIPCO has renewed its sponsorship of the British Champions Series, including the QIPCO Guineas Festival, and its official partnership with Ascot Racecourse until 2024. QIPCO became title sponsor of the British Champions Series, which culminates in Britain’s richest raceday, QIPCO British Champions Day, at Ascot in October, in 2011, and since then purses across the...
Betfair has priced Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) at 8-13 to stand for a fee between $175,000 and $200,000 at his first season at Coolmore. The son of Pioneerof the Nile, who stands at WinStar for $60,000, is offered at 11-4 to stand for less than $175,000 and 4-1 to stand for over $200,000....
Lane’s End Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, has been named a presenting partner of the Breeders’ Cup Trackside Breakfast Marquee at Keeneland Race Course, the site of this year’s event Oct. 30 and 31. The Breakfast Marquee will be the central location where horsemen and other racing VIPs from around the world will congregate in the...
Candy Boy (Candy Ride {Arg}), winner of the 2014 GII Robert B. Lewis S. and placed behind Eclipse Award candidates in the GI Santa Anita Derby, GII Los Alamitos Derby and GII Pennsylvania Derby, has been accepted to run at the Dubai International Racing Carnival. The gray colt will continue his career with trainer Doug Watson,...
Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence’s Top Decile (Congrats) and Charles Fipke’s Forever Unbridled (Unbridled’s Song) turned in works Sunday at Fair Grounds for their sophomore debuts in Saturday’s Silverbulletday S. Top Decile, coming off a runner-up effort behind Take Charge Brandi (Giant’s Causeway) in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, went four furlongs in :49.60 for trainer Al Stall,...
TDN Rising Star’ Dortmund (Big Brown) looked to be doing well in his barn the morning after his win in Santa Anita’s GIII Robert B. Lewis S., according to conditioner Bob Baffert. “Dortmund looked really good at the barn afterwards,” Baffert said Sunday morning. “I was surprised, because after [his win in the GI Los Alamitos Futurity...
Goffs kicks off its 2015 sale season today with its two-day February mixed sale of flat and National Hunt horses. Among the flat-bred short yearlings on offer today are the progeny of some exciting young sires and accomplished sires, including lot 3, a filly by Helmet (Aus) who is a half to G2 Superlative S. winner...
by Michele MacDonald After rebuilding Spendthrift Farm into a top American stallion station that has become renowned for industry-transforming breeder reward programs, B. Wayne Hughes is looking across the globe to make his next big move. Hughes and his Spendthrift team are poised to set up a stallion shuttle base and, eventually, a broodmare band...
Yesterday’s Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale saw a close relation to recent Tasmanian star The Cleaner (Aus) (Savoire Vivre {GB}) sell for a Tasmanian record price of A$100,000. Offered by Armidale Stud, the colt is by Savoire Vivre, the sire of The Cleaner, and out of Private Nip (Aus) (El Moxie), a half-sister to that...
Arrowfield resident Smart Missile (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) has been one of the most sought after first-season sires at the Australian yearling sales this year, and that trend continued yesterday when his colt from Goldin Farms topped the opening session of the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale when selling to trainer Tony McEvoy for A$220,000. While that...