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By Michael Sharkie With a quartet of Australian raiders–considered the strongest Royal Ascot squad dispatched from the nation since 2007–settling in ahead of next week’s meeting, interest in how the latest batch of Aussie contestants will stack up against Europe’s best is again sky-high. G1 Oakleigh Plate-winning mare Shamal Wind (Aus) (Dubawi {Ire}); the stunning, near-black G1...
By Emma Berry On the perhaps fittingly dark and wet morning of Oct. 19, 2012, Frankel made his final appearance on Newmarket Heath. One steady canter up Warren Hill in company, as ever, with his brother Bullet Train was followed by a walk back through the woods at the top for home. Before he reached...
Territories (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) will not get the opportunity to gain revenge on his G1 2000 Guineas conqueror Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) next Tuesday as the Godolphin owned 3yo has been ruled out of the G1 St James’s Palace S. due to a suspected stone bruise. Sheikh Mohammed’s bloodstock advisor John Ferguson announced on www.godolphin.com “Unfortunately Territories was not...
by Jessica Martini A filly by Broken Vow turned in the fastest quarter-mile breeze during Friday’s fifth session of the under-tack preview ahead of next week’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age Sale. Hip 925, consigned by Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables, covered the distance in :20 3/5. She was the third juvenile...
by Mike Kane It’s safe to say that one of these years, trainer Chad Brown will not surpass his personal purse earnings record from the previous season. You can’t climb forever. At this point, though, he is perfect: 7-for-7. Brown, 37, took another step forward in 2014 with purse earnings to $15,383,930 to jump from...
Parranda (English Channel) took the first step toward’s repaying her new owner’s $800,000 investment with a win in Gulfstream’s GIII Marshua River S. yesterday. After a series of victories in the Sunshine State early in her career, the 6-year-old was picked up by a partnership that included trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, G. Campbell, D. Clark, G. Skoda...
Pandora Stud’s French Classic winner Lucayan (Fr) (Turtle Bowl {Ire}–La Vltava {Ire}, by Grand Lodge) will stand at Yeguada Torre Duero in Valladolid, Spain according to Racing Post. A winner at first asking as a juvenile, the Francois Rohaut trainee scored in the 2012 G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains. Transferred to Neil Drysdale for a stint in America,...
The Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book continued its strong performance during its second of three sessions in Sydney yesterday. While the average and median dipped slightly from opening day, significant gains were posted nonetheless, with the average now standing at A$44,356, up 27.7% from last year, and the median at A$35,000, up 34.6%. Despite...
NOW TO SPECULATE It was great to see Steve Sherack and Brian DiDonato dead-heat for the win on Far From Over in their Bet America Derby Prep Showdown, and it reminded me that, after a month of talking about APEX sires, which by definition have disclosed form as stallions, it’s about time we turned our...
Fasig-Tipton has entered a partnership with Gulfstream Park to sponsor the GII Swale S. Feb. 28. The Fasig-Tipton Swale S. will kick off a week of festivities leading up to the Fasig-Tipton 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale Mar. 4 in Hallandale. “We are looking forward to kicking off our 2-year-old sale at Gulfstream Park by being...
By T.D. Thornton Three weeks ago, there was considerable anxiety among United States breeders and consignors over how new British Horse Racing Authority zero-tolerance rules for anabolic steroids would affect the marketplace for exported Thoroughbreds. But when the BHA released expanded rules clarification guidelines six days before the anti-doping code took effect on Mar. 2,...
Tomorrow’s G1 Australian Cup, one of the top weight-for-age contests in the country, sees the rematch of last year’s G1 Melbourne Cup one-two, Protectionist (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) and Red Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}). Protectionist made up some ground after at last finding daylight when sixth in the too-short 1800 meter G2 Peter Young S. on seasonal debut two...