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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...
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...