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Drakenstein homebred Inara (SAf) (Trippi) was let go at overlaid odds while facing her elders in the co-featured Paddock S., but got the job done in a blanket finish and earned a berth in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf in the process.  A maiden winner at this track at second asking at this track last June, Inara, a half-sister to the dam of the good stayer Joshua Tree (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) was second at Durbanville Oct. 11 and a respectable fourth in the G2 Choice Carriers Championship here Nov. 8....

There is no stopping Teo Ah Khing's China Horse Club. Hot on the heels of a massive spending spree at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale and Parranda (English Channel)'s three-length win in the GIII Marshua's River S. at Gulfstream Park last Saturday, the international venture secured a share in triple Group 1 winner Dissident (Aus) (Sebring {Aus}) according to ANZ Bloodstock News. Trained by Peter Moody, Dissident won the G1 Royal Randwick Guineas, G1 Memsie S. and G1 Makybe Diva S., before incurring a three-month suspension for bleeding when sixth in...

The Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book got off to a strong start in Sydney yesterday, with the average and median both rising by more than 30%. A total of 136 horses changed hands from 162 offered for a buyback rate of 16%, which was up slightly more than three points from the corresponding session last year. The average jumped 32.6% to A$45,169, while the median was up 35.7% to A$38,000. The gross was down A$496,000 to A$6,143,000, but with 63 fewer offered on the day.  “The team here at...

Last year's G1 Blue Diamond S. heroine Earthquake (Aus) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) prepared for a return in the Feb. 28 G1 Oakleigh Plate with an eye-catching trial victory at Cranbourne yesterday. Racing prominently early in the 800-meter heat, Earthquake took a clear lead on the inside rounding the bend and lengthened her advantage to 3 1/2 lengths on the wire under mild hang urging from Chad Schofield. She clocked the 800 meters in :45.79.  Earthquake also won last autumn's G3 Blue Diamond Prelude and G2 Reisling S. prior to finishing second...

A total of 12 Kentucky-based horsemen and horsewomen are 'catalogued' and set to go 'under the hammer' this coming Friday at the Race for Education's eighth Horsemen of All Ages Bachelor Auction, to be held at the Red Mile in Lexington. Among the 'lots' is the TDN's own International Editor Kelsey Riley, who is being sponsored and 'consigned' to the event by the TDN. Other consignors of the dozen bachelors, split evenly among the sexes, include Overbrook Farm, Four Star Sales, WinStar Farm, Casner Racing, Bowling Bloodstock & Vinery Sales,...

Double Diamond Farm's J S Bach (Tale of the Cat) is aiming for a start in Monday's GIII Southwest S. at Oaklwan Park, according to conditioner Todd Pletcher. The colt graduated by 8 1/2 lengths at Gulfstream Park Jan. 17. "He did look good in his last race, and he also ran well his first time, but 5 1/2 furlongs was just a little short for him going out for his first time," said Pletcher. "He definitely found his groove going two turns. He's trained well and we're looking forward to it."

The Meydan Group has announced that it will this year again team up with the Municipal Government of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in South West China, to stage the second running of the Chengdu Dubai International Cup race day. The race meeting, to be held Apr. 3 at Jinma racecourse, in China's Wenjiang District, will be organized under the Emirates Racing Authority's rules of racing--a signatory to the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities. Race fields will consist of horses transported from the UAE to Chengdu and shipped back...

Sydney, Australia-based trainer Sam Kavanagh has been informed by Racing NSW that an inquiry will take place after caffeine and cobalt were found in a urine sample taken from the 4-year-old gelding Midsummer Sun (GB) (Monsun {Ger}) after his win in the Gosford Gold Cup Jan. 9. A report issued by Racing NSW stated the cobalt was found “at a mass concentration in excess of 200 micrograms per litre.”  The inquiry will be held once stewards have the result of analysis products taken from Kavanagh's Rosehill stables as well as further stable...

Australian jockey James McDonald has signed as a contracted rider to Godolphin. McDonald has long been the number one rider to Godolphin trainer John O'Shea, who has been in his post for nearly a year, but Godolphin will now have first call for McDonald's services internationally.  "We felt the time was right to formalize our arrangement with James," John Ferguson, bloodstock advisor to Sheikh Mohammed, said. "He is a first-class jockey, as we all know, but having him under retainer gives us the opportunity to use him not just in...

Mine that Bird (Birdstone--Mining My Own, by Smart Strike), winner of the 2009 GI Kentucky Derby, is among the 2015 inductees into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. Bred in Kentucky by Canadian breeder Peter Lamantia and partners, the bay began his career at Woodbine for conditioner David Cotey and Dominion Bloodstock, annexing the 2008 GIII Grey S. and two other added-money events en route to a Sovereign Award for champion 3-year-old. Purchased privately by Mark Allen's Double Eagle Ranch and Leonard Blach's Buena Suerte Equine, Mine That Bird pulled...

Hard Not to Like (Hard Spun) looks to successfully defend her title in Keeneland's GI Jenny Wiley S. Saturday in just her second start since that victory. It is also the gray's second start since being purchased by Speedway Stable for $1.5 million at the Keeneland November sale and transferred to Christophe Clement. Previously campaigned by Hillsbrook Farm and trainer Michael Matz, the 6-year-old kicked off last term with an optional claimer victory on the Gulfstream lawn in February prior to her 13-1 upset of GISW Discreet Marq (Discreet Cat) six...

One shy of the record of nine successes set by Etienne Pollet in today's G3 Prix de Fontainebleau at Longchamp, Andre Fabre fields a solid contender in Godolphin's Territories (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) as he seeks to share the mantle of that former luminary. Third, before being promoted to second, in a controversially stewarded renewal of the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere over seven furlongs here on Arc day, the bay is the clear form pick on that evidence as he is prepared for a tilt at the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains...