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by Alan Carasso Yes. I voted for Shared Belief for Horse of the Year. I know–blasphemy. Well, before you scream and shout or flip the page, hear me out. As an Eclipse Award voter (by the way, where and who are the 15 who didn’t return theirs?), I see it as my duty to formulate...
With just a few hips left to sell Monday, Justin Casse went to $270,000 to secure the highest-priced short yearling of the KEEJAN session in hip 391, a Lemon Drop Kid colt. Casse was acting on behalf of Joe Minor’s JSM Equine. Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency consigned the May 10 foal, who is a half...
The top three finishers from Saturday’s GIII Withers S.–Far From Over (Blame), El Kabeir (Scat Daddy) and Classy Class (Discretely Mine) have exited the race in fine form, according to their conditioners. “[Far From Over came out in good shape, ate everything up today,” said Byron Hughes, assistant to trainer Todd Pletcher. “I talked to Todd this morning and there...
Ralph M. Evans’ Upstart (Flatter), recent winner of the GII Lambholm South Holy Bull S. at Gulfstream Park, has been training strongly in preparation for a potential start in the GII Besilu Fountain of Youth S. at that venue Feb. 21., according to trainer Rick Violette Jr. The conditioner noted that his charge put in a strong...
Like last week’s fillies’ equivalent, today’s G3 UAE 2000 Guineas sets up as a re-match between the top three of the UAE 2000 Guineas trial going a furlong shorter Jan. 15. Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa silkbearers Mubtaahij (Ire)(Dubawi {Ire}) and Ajwad (Arg) (Not For Sale {Arg}) finished one-two on that occasion for trainer Mike de Kock, with the...
A farewell ceremony for pioneer pre-trainer Yann Poirier, who died Tuesday after sustaining a kick in the head at his Haras du Chene, will be held Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at Le Lion d’Angers racecourse, a place that was particularly dear to his heart. Poirier was born in 1970 near Angers. His parents Joel and...
Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}), who annihilated the field in Saturday’s GI Santa Anita H., will likely make his next start in the Apr. 11 GII Oaklawn H., trainer Jerry Hollendorfer revealed during a radio interview on Mike Willman’s “Thoroughbred Los Angeles” Sunday morning on AM 830, KLAA. “He came out of the race very good,”...
Racing Victoria’s investigations into positive cobalt swabs returned from four Victorian training stables will not be completed this month as originally anticipated, according to Racing and Sports. Under investigation are Victorian-based trainers Peter Moody, Mark Kavanagh, Danny O’Brien, and the partnership of Lee and Shannon Hope. “There is a significant volume of work that has...
It’s hard to believe that there is any graded event in California that Hall of Famer Bob Baffert has not won, but the GI Santa Margarita S. has managed to elude him. The conditioner seeks his first win in that 1 1/8-mile event at Santa Anita today with Mike Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman’s Tiz...
A trio of Group 1 winners at two–Coolmore’s Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Qatar Racing’s Elm Park (GB) (Phoenix Reach {Ire}) and Khalid Abdullah’s Epicuris (GB) (Rail Link {GB})–headline 12 second entries for the G1 Investec Derby, to be held at Epsom Downs June 6.The cost to make a second entry to Britain’s richest race was £8,000 and the additions mean there...
Ryan Moore will be the first-call rider for the Ballydoyle/Coolmore operation in 2015, trainer Aidan O’Brien confirmed late Thursday. “Ryan will be riding our main horses this year and Joseph [O’Brien] will be riding other horses when the weights allow him to,” O’Brien, speaking at Tipperary, told Racing Post. “Seamie Heffernan and Colm O’Donoghue will...
Britain’s most popular jumps race, the G3 Grand National handicap run at Aintree over 7100 meters, went the way of Leighton Aspell for the second year running as the 39-year-old journeyman jockey steered 25-1 chance Many Clouds (Ire)(Cloudings {Ire}) to a rousing victory. The 8-year-old gelding, who ran sixth in the Cheltenham Gold Cup on his...