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Wesley Ward will arrive in Ascot armed with as big a team he has ever brought to the Royal Meeting. Ward will saddle ten horses throughout the week when he bids to improve on his already impressive strike rate at the meeting. He became the first American-based trainer in history to saddle a winner at the Royal...
American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) returned to the track Friday morning for the first time since becoming the first horse in 37 years to complete the Triple Crown, jogging over the Churchill main track with Jorge Alvarez in the saddle. “He went great,” Alvarez said. “He still feels the same. It’s amazing how this horse...
Mike de Kock, the leading foreign trainer by total number of wins at the Dubai World Cup Carnival, has announced that he will thoroughly revise plans for his 2015 runners, following below-par performances from all his seven starters on the new dirt track at the opening meeting Jan 8. De Kock, who also trained Mushreq...
Team Valor International and Southern Equine Stable’s Savoy Stomp (Medaglia d’Oro), the top-priced colt at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale, will look to get his sophomore campaign off to a good start in Saturday’s GIII Lecomte S. at Fair Grounds. The $875,000 yearling debuted a winner over seven furlongs at Belmont last September before running fifth behind...
GIII LeComte S. winner International Star (Fusaichi Pegasus) covered five panels in 1:01.56 at Gulfstream Park Saturday in his first work back since that victory Jan. 17. “This was his first work back and he worked great,” trainer Mike Maker said. “All is well.” International Star is slated for a start in the GII Risen Star S....
Trainer Chad Brown sent a host of stakes horses, including GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Lady Eli (Divine Park) and GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Turf runner-up Stephanie’s Kitten (Kitten’s Joy), out to work Monday at Palm Meadows. Sheep Pond Partners’ Lady Eli, who worked three furlongs over the turf in :38.75, was returning to the work tab for...
Trainer Peter Moody has won four of the last five runnings of the G1 C F Orr S.–the first Australian Group 1 of the year–and the leading Victorian trainer has a good shot to extend his record with early favorite Dissident (Aus) (Sebring {Aus}) in tomorrow’s edition. Dissident rose to prominence when taking the G2 Hobartville S....
Yesterday’s Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale saw a close relation to recent Tasmanian star The Cleaner (Aus) (Savoire Vivre {GB}) sell for a Tasmanian record price of A$100,000. Offered by Armidale Stud, the colt is by Savoire Vivre, the sire of The Cleaner, and out of Private Nip (Aus) (El Moxie), a half-sister to that...
Arrowfield resident Smart Missile (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) has been one of the most sought after first-season sires at the Australian yearling sales this year, and that trend continued yesterday when his colt from Goldin Farms topped the opening session of the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale when selling to trainer Tony McEvoy for A$220,000. While that...
Economic issues, along with Internet gaming, immigration and racehorse drug and therapeutic medication regulation and testing are the issues of highest priority in the federal legislative agenda for the National Thoroughbred Racing Association for the 114th Congress, which convened in January. In the previous Congress, the NTRA was able to secure passage of three bills...
G1 Carlos Pellegrini hero Idolo Porteno (Arg) (Jump Start) heads a strong Argentine delegation and an international field of 13 bidding for glory in the G1 Longines Gran Premio Asociacion Latinoamericano de Jockey Clubes e Hipodromos, South America’s most prominent weight-for-age event, Saturday. This year’s 31st renewal of the Latinoamericano, which will be run at 2100 meters...
Godolphin’s Contributer (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) is widely expected to record a fourth consecutive victory and third at the highest level when he faces the starter in Saturday’s G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. The handsome bay, who was a dual Listed winner in the UK, has magnificently adapted to his new surroundings and was most impressive when...