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True: the last time Archimedes (Jpn) (Admire Moon {Jpn}) faced the starter was over nine months. Also true: the last time Sheikh Mohammed’s homebred 5-year-old raced, he was beaten into second in the G2 Nakayama Kinen by Just a Way (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}), who used that 1800-meter heat as a springboard to a massive victory in...
Juddmonte Farms’ Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}), expected to be a solid favorite for Sunday’s G1 Longines Hong Kong Vase, did very little to tarnish his reputation Wednesday morning in his final serious piece of work ahead of the 2400-meter test. With exercise rider Annelie Ackerman in the saddle, the 4-year-old two-minute-licked for the opening 800 meters of...
By Bill Oppenheim When stallion managers set their prices they are trying to appeal to two constituencies: owner-breeders and commercial breeders. Maybe there aren’t as many owner-breeders as there used to be, but they can still have a significant impact on stallion prices and availability. Dubawi, now Darley’s kingpin stallion, is a good, dramatic example of...
Photos & Editorial by Lucas Marquardt When traveling, I’ve found there are a few things that help me get a good feel of a city. Taking public transportation. Going for a jog around town. Eating lunch where the locals do. Getting a haircut. I’m not sure how the last one made the list. It was...
Japanese rider Yuichi Fukunaga, who earlier this year rode Just a Way (Jpn) (Heart’s Cry {Jpn}) to a barnstorming victory in the G1 Dubai Duty Free S. at Meydan, landed the middle two legs of Wednesday’s Longines International Jockeys’ Championship at Happy Valley Racecourse and outpointed local star Joao Moreira by a count of 24-20...
Yesterday’s session-topping weanling, a colt by Haynesfield–Cape North who made $130,000 to the bid of Unicorn Racing, rewarded the faith and patience of the men who bred her, the father-and-son team of Don and Ferran Robinson. Don Robinson owns the Lexington-based Winter Quarter Farm, and the 38-year-old Ferran, now its manager, grew up on a...
Saturday, Saint-Cloud, France CRITERIUM DE SAINT-CLOUD-G1, €250,000, STC, 11-8, 2yo, c/f, 10fT, 2:17.41, hy. 1–EPICURIS (GB), 126, c, 2, by Rail Link (GB) 1st Dam: Argumentative (GB) (MSP-Fr), by Observatory 2nd Dam: Discuss, by Danzig 3rd Dam: Private Line, by Private Account O-Khalid Abdullah; B-Juddmonte Farms Ltd (GB); T-Criquette Head-Maarek; J-Thierry Thulliez. €142,850. Lifetime Record: 3...
Doug O’Neill and his lawyers played the California Horse Racing Board. Either that, or the members of the Board took a few weeks off and clowns Krusty, Ronald and Bozo sat in in their absence. Either way, what transpired over the last couple of days with O’Neill’s various drug and suspension problems and how they...
Bluegrass Cat (Storm Cat–She’s A Winner, by A.P. Indy), winner of the 2006 GI Haskell Invitational S. and the sire of 22 black-type winners to date, will be relocated to Donald L. and Karen Cohn’s Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona, California, for the 2015 breeding season. He will command a fee of $6,500, stands-and-nurses terms. Racing...
As things turned out, the difference between Tuesday’s opening session of this week’s Tattersalls October 1 yearling sale and the subsequent two sessions could be summarized by the following statistic: Galileo and Dubawi, between them, had 42 yearlings catalogued to the sale. On Tuesday, only six of those 42 were catalogued; the remaining 36 were catalogued on Wednesday...
Newmarket stages the latest of several important juvenile staging posts today, with the G3 Autumn S. playing to next year’s Derby hopefuls headed by a pair of Godolphin representatives including Future Empire (GB) (New Approach {Ire}). Beaten just a short head by Aktabantay (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) in the G3 Solario S. over seven furlongs at Sandown...
Shadwell’s Mukhadram (GB) (Shamardal–Magic Tree {UAE}, by Timber Country) will stand for £7,000 with special live foal terms for the 2015 breeding season. The William Haggas trainee scooped up wins in the G1 Coral-Eclipse S. at Sandown July 5 as well as the G2 York S. in July of 2013 to go with a score in the...