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by Dean Hoffman The 41st Global Symposium on Racing & Gaming got underway Tuesday at the Westin La Paloma in Tucson, AZ with a full day of sessions covering a wide variety of topics. The impact of small fields in races was the subject of the first two panel discussions and speakers detailed how a...
Monday marked the first appearance of a pair of Todd Pletcher-trained sale-topping juvenile colts on the worktab at Palm Beach Downs. While the Malibu Moon–Lizzy’s Bluff colt, a $1.2-million Fasig-Tipton Florida purchase (:10 flatbreeze); and the Giant’s Causeway–Dixie Dreamer colt who topped Barretts March at $1.15 million (:9 4/5 breeze) are still developing, Pletcher says his initial...
ORTIZ TO FACE THE WORLD IN HONG KONG Irad Ortiz Jr. has been a star on the rise ever since his arrival on the American racing scene in the summer of 2011, just six months after riding his first career winner at Hiprodromo Camarero in Puerto Rico. Tonight, at the tight-turning and tricky Happy Valley...
Top Australian sprinter Buffering (Aus) (Mossman {Aus}) did not appear for morning trackwork Tuesday morning, and news later emerged that the G1 Moir S. winner was nursing a foot abscess, casting at least some doubt on his participation in Sunday’s G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint. However, trainer Robert Heathcote tried to allay fears when addressing the media...
Farraaj (Ire) (Dubai Destination) may ring a bell for American racegoers, as the 2013 G3 Winter Derby winner made the trip over to the U.S. for last year’s GI Pacific Classic, finishing 11th of 12 behind Game On Dude (Awesome Again) after taking some action at 7-1. Owned by Sheikh Ahmed al Maktoum, the 5-year-old has...
At home in Singapore, Spalato (NZ) (Elusive City) was an unstoppable force, and between May and July of 2014, went from being unraced to winning his maiden by nearly 10 lengths going 1000 meters over the Kranji Polytrack to proving imperious in adding the Singapore Derby by better than four lengths going 10 furlongs on the turf. ...
Trainer Jim Bolger is no stranger to the Hong Kong International Races winner’s circle. In 2004, the successful conditioner sent across the 3-year-old filly Alexander Goldrun (Ire) (Gold Away {Ire}) for the Hong Kong Cup, and–with stable rider Kevin Manning along for the ride–outgamed local hero Bullish Luck (Royal Academy) for a 21-1 upset to...
Led by reigning Hong Kong Horse of the Year Designs on Rome (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), three of the more prominent chances for Sunday’s Longines Hong Kong International Races got in their final serious pieces of work over the Sha Tin turf course Tuesday morning. A leading contender for the G1 Longines Hong Kong Cup, Designs...
Irad Ortiz Jr. has been a star on the rise ever since his arrival on the American racing scene in the summer of 2011, just six months after riding his first career winner at Hiprodromo Camarero in Puerto Rico. Tonight, at the tight-turning and tricky Happy Valley Racecourse on Hong Kong Island, the 22-year-old will...
by T.D. Thornton Santa Anita Park will be charging a premium to sit in the track’s most coveted areas adjacent to the finish line and winner’s circle this season, and the notification has rankled longtime clubhouse box holders who feel slighted at both the price increase and the way the changes have been announced and implemented. ...
Woodbine track announcer Dan Loiselle will call his last race at that track May 31, 2015 after 29 years as a Thoroughbred race caller. A Scarborough, Ontario native, Loiselle started as an assistant race secretary in the Standardbred division and backup announcer back when Woodbine was called the Ontario Jockey Club Aug. 1, 1967. After...
In 1984, when I was eight, my parents made a trip to Macau to visit a harness racing friend who had gone there to train. They left my brother, sister and me in Seattle with my aunt and uncle. I remember a lot about that trip. I listened to the Footloose soundtrack on a pseudo...