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COPPER REVEALS PLANS FOR NIARCHOS PAIR GI Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Karakontie (Jpn) (Bernstein) will remain in training as a 4-year-old next year while GI Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Main Sequence (Aldebaran) is destined for Dubai, according to Alan Cooper, racing manager to the Niarchos family. Winner of the G1 Jean-Luc Lagardere as a juvenile, Karakontie also won this...
The Thoroughbred Corporation’s 2003 GI Breeders’ Cup Turf hero Johar (Gone West–Windsharp, by Lear Fan) died yesterday at the age of 15 after being injured in his paddock, Mill Ridge Farm announced. The first foal out of champion Windsharp, the homebred made history when he dead heated with High Chaparral (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells) to win the the...
Stonebridge LLC’s Robert Courtney Jr. got some advice from his now-retired father that still sticks with him. “He told me that if you have to give up race record when you buy a mare, get something from a good family of fillies who are still producing. That’s the way to go,” explained Courtney, whose father...
FRANKEL FEVER TO CONTINUE AT GOFFS By Kelsey Riley Goffs became the first auction house to offer a foal by the unbeaten superstar Frankel (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) when selling the stakes-producing Crystal Gaze (Ire) (Rainbow Quest), with her Frankel colt by her side, to MV Magnier for £1.15 million at is inaugural Goffs London Sale...
KENTUCKY HOMECOMING FOR MR. SIDNEY By Kelsey Riley Grade I winner Mr. Sidney (Storm Cat–Tomisue’s Delight, by A.P. Indy) has relocated to Walmac Farm in Kentucky for the 2015 breeding season after standing his first five seasons at Alec Head’s Haras du Quesnay in France, and Head was yesterday on hand at Walmac to introduce breeders to...
· GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) covered five furlongs in :59.60 (3/20) under regular pilot Victor Espinoza at his Los Alamitos base yesterday morning as he eyes the Nov. 1 GI Breeders’ Cup Classic. “He worked great,” said Alan Sherman, assistant to his father Art. “We’re real happy with him....
Victorious in last year’s G1 Caulfield Cup and a commendable sixth in the G1 Melbourne Cup, Fawkner came through here to stamp himself as one of the favorites for the G1 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley two weeks from yesterday. The grey gelding made an interim appearance in the G1 William Reid S. at the...
Trust In a Gust returned from a 4 1/2-month absence to take a Moonee Valley handicap Aug. 23, then just missed in that track’s Listed Golf S. Sept. 6. He shifted to this track for a facile victory going 1400 meters two weeks later and earned favoritism for this prestigious affair by holding off G1...
I have been applauding the work of WHOA from the sidelines, but now I would like to add my voice to those who are advocating the banning of race-day medication in North American racing. I must leave the scientific debate to the scientists, but as a lay person it seems to me the science is pretty straightforward. There is no doubt...
Spurred by a half-dozen seven-figure horses, including two that each made $2.2 million, the fourth and final session of Keeneland September’s Book 1 concluded with across-the-board gains. All week, there was the feeling that September was in the midst of a very strong sale, with a lot of action in the $400,000 to $800,000 range,...
The $1.35 million Tiznow–Dream Supreme transaction was another big success for Lane’s End at September. The Farish family operation also bred and sold Wednesday’s topper, the $1.45 million Dubawi (Ire)–Casual Look filly. Through Book 1, the operation offered a total of eight yearlings who eclipsed the $600,000 mark. One interesting aspect of the Lane’s End...
KEENELAND SEPTEMBER – THURSDAY NOTHING BUT NET, brought to you by Muirfield Insurance Hip Sex Sire Dam Price ($) 611 c Gio Ponti Eltimaas 450,000 B-Frederick M. Allor, Michael T. Barnett & Anothony M. Warrender (KY) Consigned by Woods Edge Farm (Peter O’Callaghan), agent Purchased by Tanma Corp. Purchased by Woods Edge Farm for $200,000 as a Keeneland...