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By Mike Kane A fourth Maryland trainer, Jerry Thurston, has been suspended for a post-race positive for anabolic steroids. Thurston received a 30-day suspension and was fined $1,000 for a positive for stanozolol in the horse Home of America on Dec. 12, 2014 at Laurel Park. The suspension is scheduled to run from Feb. 7...
Swift Warrior (First Samurai–Afleet Summer, by Afleet), a multiple graded stakes winner, has been retired to David Spears Racing in Hartshorne, Oklahoma. The 7-year-old retires with a lifetime record of 29-7-3-9 with $651,953 in earnings. The deal to send Swift Warrior to Oklahoma was brokered by New Jersey-based bloodstock agent Michael Slezak. “I would argue...
Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum’s Vercingetorix (SAf) (Silvano {Ger}), who disappointed in the G1 Jebel Hatta at Meydan Saturday when checking home sixth, has emerged from the race with a pulled sesamoidal ligament and will not race again. Trainer Mike de Kock reported on his website that Christophe Soumillon felt something was amiss with the 5-year-old...
By Emma Berry Cheltenham’s gladiatorial bowl of a racecourse may give England the right to call itself the spiritual home of jump racing, but the opening bout of the sport’s four-day spectacular proved to be an Irish benefit. Trainer Willie Mullins has brought a raiding party of some 50 horses to the Cotswolds from his...
At 37, Prospect Point may be oldest living thoroughbred By Bill Finley, special to ESPN Editor’s note: March 4, we had a call from Gail Earle in South Carolina who told us that her ex-racehorse, Prospect Point, had celebrated his 37th birthday. We ran his photos and a brief story in the TDN and on...
Zayat Stables’s champion juvenile American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) drew post six of eight yesterday for Saturday’s GI Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn. The bay was installed a prohibitive 1-2 favorite on the morning line. “We didn’t want to be the one-hole so I was happy with the draw,” said Bob Baffert, who sent out fellow Zayat representative...
Sheikh Hamdan’s Tamarkuz (Speightstown), whose four-race winning streak at the recently concluded Dubai International Racing Carnival was capped by a trouble-filled victory in the G2 Godolphin Mile Mar. 28, has been repatriated and will be pointed by trainer Kiaran McLaughlin for a start in the GI Metropolitan H. at Belmont Park June 6, according to published reports. ...
West coast invader Fantastic Style (Harlan’s Holiday) headlines a loaded renewal of Keeneland’s seven-furlong GII Beaumont S. Sunday. A decisive winner at second asking in Arcadia Jan. 19, the Kaleem Shah colorbearer followed suit with a front-running score in a 6 1/2-furlong optional claimer over that strip Feb. 26. The Bob Baffert pupil boasts several speedy workouts...
Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani was elected President of the Olympic Committee of Qatar (QOC) in Doha, Thursday. Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani will be the sixth president of the AOC since it was created in 1979 and his focus will be on the next Olympic Games, to be held in the summer...
As last week’s 1000 Guineas showed, the Classic division is open to an improver at the very top and there is none that fits that bill better in Sunday’s G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches than Khalid Abdullah’s Mexican Gold (Medaglia d’Oro). Already proven over Longchamp’s mile, the Apr. 12 G3 Prix de la Grotte winner is ridden...
Qatari superstar Dubday (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is set to make his British debut for Al Shaqab Racing and trainer Jassim Al Ghazali in Saturday’s Listed Al Rayyan S. (formerly known as the Aston Park S.) over 12 furlongs at Newbury. The 5-year-old, who was Group 3-placed as a sophomore in Germany before his expatriation to Qatar, was...
Sweden joins Ireland, Germany and France as countries who are exempt from having their runners in Britain 10 days before a race as part of the British Horseracing Authority’s new anti-doping policy first announced last June. The policy requires foreign runners to be in Britain 10 days prior to an intended start to facilitate testing,...