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Not infrequently, leading trainer John Moore saddles up three or four or sometimes even five runners in feature races in Hong Kong. And no one will be busier this weekend than the 64-year-old, who will be represented by no fewer than seven horses in the Longines Hong Kong International Races. Moore has seen it all...
By Kelsey Riley and Alix Choppin Arqana’s December Breeding Stock Sale continued its upward trend during the third session Monday. The aggregate reached €2,196,500, a 20% hike from 2013 despite a lower number of horses sold, a fact that reflected on the average price, which at €11,440 was up 32.8%. The median increased 14.3% to...
by Lucas Marquardt The magic number at Keeneland November Saturday? $230,000. That was the high-water mark achieved by not one but four co-session toppers during the opening of the marathon sale’s Book 3. The quartet included a weanling colt from the first crop of GISW Bodemeister (Empire Maker), as well as mares by Cherokee Run, Touch Gold...
This past summer, the principals at WinStar Farm traveled around and inspected weanlings from the first crop of their Empire Maker stallion Bodemeister. Farm CEO Elliott Walden and his team were rightly impressed, but noted that most breeders of Bodemeister’s best representatives were waiting to sell at next year’s yearling sales. “I’d said of the top...
Fed Biz (Giant’s Causeway–Spunoutacontrol, by Wild Again), a runaway winner of this term’s GII San Diego H. at Del Mar and a game runner-up behind champion Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg}) in Santa Anita’s GI Awesome Again S. Sept. 27, has been retired and will stand the 2015 breeding season at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky....
KINGMAN TO COVER TAGHROODA This year’s four-time Group 1-winning miler Kingman (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) has been chosen as the first mate for Sheikh Hamdan’s Taghrooda (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), heroine of this year’s G1 Investec Oaks and G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S., according to Racing Post. Both 3-year-olds, Kingman and Taghrooda were stablemates at...
HUGHES, HANNON CROWNED CHAMPIONS Jockey Richard Hughes was officially crowned Britain’s champion jockey for the third successive year yesterday at Doncaster, while his retainer, Richard Hannon, earned a first champion trainer title in his debut year as head trainer. Hughes endured a delayed start to his European campaign this year after being injured in Dubai...
Frank Calabrese homebred Fast Anna (Medaglia d’Oro) will head to Santa Anita for the Nov. 1 GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint as long as all goes well during his breeze scheduled for Saturday morning at Gulfstream. “So far, all the right things are happening,” said conditioner Kathy Ritvo, who became the first female trainer to win the GI...
Yearlings by Unusual Heat were in high demand accounting for three of the five top lots at Tuesday’s Barretts October Sale, which posted across-the-board gains. For the session, 163 yearlings grossed $3,684,700, good for an average of $22,606 (+14.8%) and a median of $15,000 (+15.3%). “Things went very well,” Barretts Sales General Manager Kim Lloyd...
Stonestreet Stables’ “TDN Rising Star” Atreides (Medaglia d’Oro) will aim for Aqueduct’s GI Cigar Mile Nov. 29 after a dissappointing sixth as the even-money favorite in the GII Indiana Derby Oct. 4. “It was the lights and the two turns,” trainer Marty Wolfson said about Atreides suprisingly poor performance at Indiana. “The lights really seemed to bother him....
Ferguson Hails ‘Vintage’ Crop… John Ferguson was back in action four lots later to secure lot 241, a Dubawi colt out of the stakes-winning Cosmodrome (Bahri), from the draft of Highclere Stud, for 725,000gns. A further four lots later, Ferguson was forced to cross the 1 million guineas threshold again for yet another Dubawi, this time...
by Sue Finley In the summer of 1994, my mother, a non-smoker and an inveterate racing fan, was diagnosed with lung cancer. The early diagnoses were dire–six months from one doctor, one year from another–but she finally made her way to Sloan-Kettering, where she was treated by a fellow racing fan, Dr. Vincent Miller, who...