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By Perry Lefko Madefromlucky (Lookin At Lucky) has lived up to his name for Mac Nichol, a Canadian-based horseman who has started to dabble seriously in the Thoroughbred game after a multitude of successes in the Standardbred industry, and he’s hoping his star horse will make it to the Belmont S. The three-year-old colt is entered...
Gold-Fun (Ire) (Le Vie dei Colori {GB}) will undergo surgery to remove chips in his right fore ankle and has therefore been removed from consideration for a trip to Royal Ascot next month, South China Morning Post reports. A two-time runner-up in the G1 Hong Kong Mile, the flashy chestnut has proved equally proficient over shorter...
Godolphin has purchased the Richard Hannon-trained 2-year-old Log Out Island (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), a 4 1/2-length debut winner at Ascot Apr. 29. A £95,000 purchase by Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock at Doncaster last year, Log Out Island was previously campaigned by Potensis Bloodstock and Chris Giles. “Log Out Island won really well at Ascot,” said...
Editorial & Photos by Steve Sherack With not much going on yet back at Pimlico’s stakes barn as the GI Preakness S. field continues to assemble, what better way to spend an afternoon than in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor? It didn’t take long for me to feel like I was back at home. “What do you...
G1 Queen Anne S. contender Able Friend (Aus) (Shamardal) is adjusting well to his settings in Newmarket after traveling from trainer John Moore’s base in Hong Kong over the weekend. The 5-year-old, a four-time Group 1 winner in his native country since December and currently the world’s highest-rated horse on the Longines rankings, is being stabled with...
When Coolmore did the deal to buy the breeding rights to American Pharoah in January, before the Eclipse Awards, they were just hoping they were buying their fifth champion 2-year-old colt in six years to stand at their Kentucky arm, Ashford Stud. They couldn’t have bought the sixth anyway; that was the gelding Shared Belief, in 2013....
By T.D. Thornton Canterbury Park in Minnesota has emerged as the latest track to take a stab at wooing Triple Crown champion American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile). According to Eric Halstrom, Canterbury’s vice president of racing operations, track management is considering completely overhauling and raising the purse of an existing non-graded stakes race by a factor of...
By Geoffrey Riddle Thanks to Wesley Ward’s troop of ten horses that have arrived in Britain, Royal Ascot next week is set to be the most international that there has ever been. After a numerically strong challenge in Dubai on World Cup night in March, American trainers have embraced the five-day Royal meeting, which starts...
Klaravich Stable and William H. Lawrence’s Leave the Light On (Horse Greeley), last year’s GII Remsen S. winner, is nearing a return to the worktab and is being pointed for the Feb. 21 GII Fountain of Youth S. for his seasonal debut, trainer Chad Brown reported Thursday. “We gave him a little breather after the Remsen, and now...
This week’s sales action on the Gold Coast has certainly reinforced the fact that owners are willing to dig deep into their pockets for a chance at big pots on the racetrack; However, Kennewell Racing, which campaigns yesterday’s Magic Millions 3YO Guineas winner Deiheros (Aus) (Bon Hoffa {Aus}), had to part with just A$6,500 at the 2013...
Blind Luck (Pollard’s Vision) (hip 207), 2010’s champion 3-year-old filly and the highest-profile entrant in the Keeneland January Sale, failed to meet her reserve Monday when bidding stalled at $1.4 million. The six-time Grade I winner, who earned nearly $3.28 million on the track, brought $2.5 million at the 2011 Keeneland November sale when majority owner...
The Todd Pletcher stable had a successful weekend in both Florida and New York, with Constitution (Tapit) capturing the GI Donn H., Mshawish (Medaglia d’Oro) taking the GI Gulfstream Park Turf H., Sandiva (Footstepsinthesand {GB}) annexing the GIII Suwannee River S., and Far From Over (Blame) pulling a minor upset in Aqueduct’s GIII Withers S. “We were hopeful that we could have a...