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Racing Victoria’s investigations into positive cobalt swabs returned from four Victorian training stables will not be completed this month as originally anticipated, according to Racing and Sports. Under investigation are Victorian-based trainers Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh, Danny O’Brien, and the partnership of Lee and Shannon Hope. “There is a significant volume of work that has...
It’s hard to believe that there is any graded event in California that Hall of Famer Bob Baffert has not won, but the GI Santa Margarita S. has managed to elude him. The conditioner seeks his first win in that 1 1/8-mile event at Santa Anita today with Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman’s Tiz...
A trio of Group 1 winners at two–Coolmore’s Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Qatar Racing’s Elm Park (GB) (Phoenix Reach {Ire}) and Khalid Abdullah’s Epicuris (GB) (Rail Link {GB})–headline 12 second entries for the G1 Investec Derby, to be held at Epsom Downs June 6.The cost to make a second entry to Britain’s richest race was £8,000 and the additions mean there...
Ryan Moore will be the first-call rider for the Ballydoyle/Coolmore operation in 2015, trainer Aidan O’Brien confirmed late Thursday. “Ryan will be riding our main horses this year and Joseph [O’Brien] will be riding other horses when the weights allow him to,” O’Brien, speaking at Tipperary, told Racing Post. “Seamie Heffernan and Colm O’Donoghue will...
Britain’s most popular jumps race, the G3 Grand National handicap run at Aintree over 7100 meters, went the way of Leighton Aspell for the second year running as the 39-year-old journeyman jockey steered 25-1 chance Many Clouds (Ire)(Cloudings {Ire}) to a rousing victory. The 8-year-old gelding, who ran sixth in the Cheltenham Gold Cup on his...
Nine years after the Barbaro (Dynaformer) heartbreak, Gretchen and Roy Jackson are returning to Pimlico for the 140th GI Preakness S. May 16 with another homebred colt–Divining Rod (Tapit)–who will run in the colors of their Lael Stables. Divining Rod, winner of the GIII Coolmore Lexington S. at Keeneland Apr. 11, will be the 27th Lael...
The top three finishers from Santa Anita’s Apr. 12 San Pedro S., Yiannis (Midshipman), Serbian Syclone (Wildcat Heir) and Kentuckian (Tiznow), will face off once again in that venue’s GIII Lazaro Barrera S. Sunday. Hronis Racing’s undefeated Yiannis was a debut winner in Arcadia Jan. 31 prior to his score in the San Pedro for trainer John Sadler. Rockingham Ranch’s Serbian...
Seth Hancock, whose family owns Claiborne Farm, released a statement Monday announcing he has added his support of the Water Hay Oats Alliance and its call for the passage of federal legislation to ban race-day drugs. Hancock’s statement reads: I’ve never trained a race horse in my life and I don’t pretend to know how....
Much like in America, in Australia as children we were captivated by the heroes we saw daily on both the small and big screens. Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Happy Days, I Love Lucy, John Wayne films and the iconic M.A.S.H, just to name a few. These breakfast delights would again be served up as soon as we...
Riding plans are coming together for next week’s Royal meeting, and Kevin Ryan, trainer of G1 Prince of Wales’s S. contender The Grey Gatsby (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), revealed on At The Races Wednesday that champion rider Ryan Moore is likely to pilot that dual Group 1 winner. “We’re nearly sure Ryan is going to ride him; it’s...
Curragh trainer Michael Halford intends to send a team of five to Royal Ascot next week headed by last years Listed Chesham S. runner up Toscanini (Ire) (Shamardal).The Godolphin-owned 3-year-old colt, who was also Group 1 placed when finishing second in the National S. as a juvenile, was last seen finishing third to leading G1 Commonwealth Cup...
A handful of Chilean-bred horses have left a mark on racing in this country down the years–runners such as Lido Palace and Malek come immediately to mind–and Il Campione (Chi) (Scat Daddy) will try to join that group when he makes his U.S. debut in a loaded renewal of the GIII Poker S. at Belmont Park. Past...