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by Lucas Marquardt Up-and-coming owner Chip McEwen has an exciting Kentucky Derby prospect on his hands in the form of the New York-bred Uncle Sigh (Indian Charlie), but yesterday, his business partner Danzel Brendemuehl was busy adding prospects to his juvenile-pinhooking operation. Brendemuehl, on behalf of McEwen’s Wounded Warrior Stable, paid $200,000 for a Hidden Brook-consigned Bernardini...
by Lucas Marquardt As expected, the undefeated Grade II winner Cluster of Stars (Greeley’s Galaxy–Babyurthegreatest, by Honour and Glory) was one of the bright lights of yesterday’s opener, bringing a bid of $300,000 from Town and Country Farm. That was the second-highest price on the session. Taylor Made Sales’ Shannon Potter, who advises Town and Country principals...
by Lucas Marquardt Last summer, TK Stable LLC’s Kevin Hulse got a huge thrill when Devious Intent (Dixie Union–Hafifah, by Machiavellian) handed dual champion Groupie Doll a rare defeat in the GIII Gardenia S. at Ellis Park. It was the first graded win for Hulse’s relatively upstart operation, and the first for Devious Intent, who Hulse purchased...
by Lucas Marquardt The first session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale got off to a strong start yesterday in Lexington with a dozen six-figure horses and lively activity at all levels of the market. In total, 122 horses sold for $4,475,100, an average of $36,681 and a median of $16,000. The RNA rate,...
The second of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager pools closed Saturday afternoon, a little more than an hour prior to the start of the GII Robert B. Lewis S. at Santa Anita. C R K Stable homebred Candy Boy (Candy Ride {Arg}), exiting a runner-up effort behind Eclipse Award winner Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) in...
by T.D. Thornton The simulcast contract dispute that is keeping the signals from Gulfstream Park, Tampa Bay Downs and Laurel Park from a cooperative representing 23 racetracks and simulcast centers nationwide entered its second week on Monday with no resolution in the immediate pipeline. The bone of contention between the simulcast provider (Monarch Content Management,...
Sabrina Power’s Sole Power (GB) was honored with the coveted Horse of the Year crown at the 12th Horse Racing Ireland Awards staged at Leopardstown Monday evening. Trained by Eddie Lynam–who won the Flat award–the crack sprinter lifted the G1 King’s Stand S. at Royal Ascot for the second successive year and also the G1 Nunthorpe at...
Americans have a reputation–and well deserved–of being somewhat provincial. We like what we know, and we’re not a particularly adventuresome lot. In promoting the Arqana sales to American interests, Tony Lacy’s job is to fight that complacency by making Americans feel right at home at Deauville. It must be working, because they were out in...
By Lucas Marquardt I’m not saying I haven’t heard better versions of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.” In fact, every other version I’ve ever heard was, from a technical standpoint, much better. But the rendition this Japanese bartender was unleashing would, no doubt, go down as my favorite. It was shortly after midnight, and I was...
BAYAKOA S.-GII, $200,250, LRC, 12-6, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:41 3/5 (NTR), ft. 1–#@TIZ MIDNIGHT, 117, f, 4, by Midnight Lute 1st Dam: Tough Tiz’s Sis (MGISW, $903,792), by Tiznow 2nd Dam: Leaseholder, by Taylor’s Falls 3rd Dam: Leasehold, by Stevedore O-Karl Watson, Michael E Pegram & Paul Weitman; B-Karl Watson & Paul Weitman (KY); T-Bob...
Jockey Zac Purton made history in the 2013-2014 racing season, taking down the colors of perennial leading rider Douglas Whyte to win the local jockeys’ premiership–no small task. The season included a victory aboard Dominant (Ire) (Cacique {Ire}) in the G1 Hong Kong Vase, and Purton will have solid claims for a return to the...
Perhaps owing to the rousing back-to-back success of Lord Kanaloa in the Hong Kong Sprint, Japanese horses comprise better than 20% of the entrants for this year’s Hong Kong International Races, with three in the Sprint, four in the Mile and sneaky chances in the Vase and the Cup. Lord Kanaloa used a victory in...