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The opening session of the Goffs February Sale featuring short yearlings yesterday posted gains across the board. With just three more horses offered than 12 months ago and 14 more sold, the gross rose by €760,200 to €2,474,900 for 148 sold. The buyback rate dropped six points from last year to 20.8%, while the average...
By Christie DeBernardis Originally purchased as a pinhooking prospect, Harmonic (Congrats) looks to validate his owners’ decision to race him themselves in Saturday’s GIII El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate. Consigned by John Phillips’ Darby Dan Farm on behalf of his breeder Mike Abraham at the 2013 Keeneland January sale, Harmonic was purchased by Darby Dan...
‘TDN Rising Star’ Khozan (Distorted Humor) underwent surgery Monday morning at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington to remove a fracture of his right hind sesamoid, Al Shaqab U.S. Racing Manager Bradley Weisbord reported. Dr. Larry Bramlage performed the surgery and told the Al Shaqab team that he was optimistic that the $1-million FTFMAR 2-year-old...
Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens remains in guarded condition in the intensive care unit of a south Florida hospital, his son, Jimmy, said Wednesday afternoon. Jerkens, 85, was admitted to Aventura Hospital and Medical Center Feb. 28 with a severe infection. He showed some improvement after being treated with antibiotics, but his condition has...
Connections of Integral (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}) are weighing up the prospect of starting her off in the G1 Al Shaqab Lockinge S. at Newbury next month. The Group 1 May 16 is under consideration as a potential starting point for the 5-year-old, winner of both the G1 QIPCO Falmouth S. and the G1 Sun Chariot S....
Officials at the Hong Kong Jockey Club have released a list of 13 invitees for the G1 Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup at Sha Tin Racecourse Apr. 26, a group that includes defending race champion and reigning Horse of the YearDesigns on Rome (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), but not Luger (Aus) (Choisir {Aus}), recent winner of...
Leopardstown stages the first Irish Derby trial of 2015 Sunday, with the often-informative G3 P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax S. dominated by the presence of the much-vaunted current Epsom ante-post favorite John F Kennedy (Ire)(Galileo {Ire}). Earning ‘TDN Rising Star’ status when opening his account in authoritative fashion over a mile at The Curragh in August,...
Zayat homebred American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) has exited his romp in Saturday’s GI Arkansas Derby in fine form, according to his connections. The Bob Baffert trainee walked the shedrow Sunday and is scheduled to ship to Churchill Downs, where he’ll be among the favorites for the GI Kentucky Derby May 2. “I was ecstatic,” Baffert said...
It just wouldn’t be a Grade I turf marathon without the presence of Phipps Stable’s Imagining (Giant’s Causeway) and West Point Thoroughbreds’s Twilight Eclipse (Purim), and the millionaire veterans will both line up for Saturday’s GI Man o’ War S. at Belmont. The former won this race 12 months ago, and was beaten just a head by eventual champion...
Stoneway Farm homebred Ahh Chocolate (Candy Ride {Arg}), unbeaten in two career starts, prepped for her stakes debut in Friday’s GII Black-Eyed Susan S. with a half-mile work in :49.20 at Churchill Downs Saturday. “I was very pleased,” trainer Neil Howard said afer the work. “It’s cliche to say this, but it’s what we were looking for....
Maisons-Laffitte stage their upgraded G3 Prix Texanita on Monday, with Andre Fabre putting the unexposed Sallal (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) to the test with Royal Ascot’s new 3-year-old sprint looming on the horizon. Raced entirely at this track so far, Al Shaqab’s promising bay has already been successful twice over six furlongs in conditions events staged...
Saint-Cloud’s G3 Prix Cleopatre is recognized as a trial for the G1 Prix de Diane, but it is 39 years since Pawneese (Ire) (Carvin II {Fr}) completed the double in both contests. This year’s edition boasts a small-but-select field and conditioner Andre Fabre is represented by a pair of Al Shaqab Racing colorbearers in a...