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DONCASTER PREPARES FOR SNOW With the doubts about the effectiveness of favored Kingston Hill (GB) (Mastercraftsman {Ire})–who was midday yesterday confirmed a definite runner by trainer Roger Varian–in today’s G1 Ladbrokes St Leger due to Doncaster’s quickening ground, the way could be open to one of the steady risers and Snow Sky (GB) (Nayef) fits that bill. Since his...
GOFFS SALE KICKS OFF CHAMPS WEEKEND By Kelsey Riley The much-anticipated inaugural Irish Champions Weekend–a festival of 16 races, including 10 Group 1s, worth more than €3 million at Leopardstown Racecourse and The Curragh–gets underway today at Leopardstown in Dublin. Today’s action is highlighted by the €1 million G1 Irish Champion S., which features dual...
by Mike Kane There were many more questions posed than answers during the program “NYRA Re-Organization: Rounding the Far Turn” during Tuesday morning’s session of the Saratoga Institute on Racing and Game Law in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Panel moderator Chris Wittstruck said that New York Racing Association President Chris Kay declined an invitation to take...
Conditioner Wayne Catalano is recovering well from a case of acute pneumonia and was released from Saint Alexius Medical Center in Illinois yesterday, where he had been since July 22. “I spoke to him yesterday afternoon and it was the best I have heard him since he got sick,” said Anna Seitz, whose ownership...
Dale Romans captured the GI Arlington Million in 2012 with Little Mike (Spanish Steps) and hopes to repeat on Saturday with Jerry Crawford homebred Finnegan’s Wake (Powerscourt {GB}). This is not the hard-knocking bay’s first trip to Arlington’s biggest weekend of racing. He was second in the 2012 GI Secretariat S. and fourth in last year’s...
Graham Motion has been red hot this summer, especially at Saratoga where he has a record of 41-7-6-6 so far this meet. The conditioner hopes to keep that going with three runners signed on for three of the weekend’s biggest Grade I events. He will be represented at his summer base at the Spa...
Besides Street Sense, as Andrew Caulfield detailed yesterday, we have to go back nearly 25 years to find the last GI Kentucky Derby winners to make successful sires, and in fact there were two major sires: Sunday Silence won the 1989 Derby, and Unbridled was the winner in 1990. With I’ve Spent It’s game win...
by Barry Irwin Ten years ago in an Op/Ed written for The Blood-Horse, I suggested that only an independent agency like USADA (United States Anti-Doping Association) was capable of bringing order to our sport by cleaning it up, as it had done with Track & Field and subsequently with Cycling. Last Sunday, The Jockey Club...
Shakin It Up (Midnight Lute–Silver Bullet Moon, by Vindication), hero of the 2013 GI Malibu S., has been retired and will stand the 2015 breeding season at B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. The 2014 GII Strub S. winner will command a fee of $10,000 stands and nurses and will participate in Spendthrift’s Share...
By Steve Sherack When Randy L. Morse dropped a $40,000 claiming slip on Moonshine Mullin (Albert the Great) out of a runner-up effort at Remington last November, it’s pretty safe to say that Saturday’s GI Stephen Foster H. at Churchill Downs wasn’t on the 52-year-old trainer’s radar. “He’s a nice-looking horse and I thought he...
A GYPSY GRAVE AND THE EPSOM DERBY By Liesl King It is that time of the year again, when I happily pack my bags and head for Newmarket, a town that truly lives for racing. From the High Street to the nooks and crannies, horses rule, and in the birthplace of racing, there is a...
HANA KICKS A GOAL FOR AUSSIE OWNER By Kelsey Riley It is a fact of life that sometimes, even the best laid plans will fail to come to fruition. It is also true, however, that something just as sweet may be waiting right around the corner. On Apr. 26 at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Japanese-based...