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Belle Gallantey (After Market–Revealed, by Old Trieste), former claimer turned multiple Grade I-winning millionaire, has been retired following her second-place effort in yesterday’s Ladies H. and will be bred to Pioneer of the Nile (Empire Maker), said co-owner Michael Dubb. “It was time,” explained Dubb. “She gave us thrills of a lifetime. But the experience of...
The State of Texas’ criminal case against jockey Roman Chapa for unlawful influence on racing has been reset to Mar. 18. Chapa, 43, appeared in Harris County District Court in Houston on Friday to face charges that he illegally used an electrical device on a horse in a race on Jan. 17 at Sam Houston...
Champion American Pharoah (Pioneerof The Nile), sidelined since annexing the GI FrontRunner S. Sept. 27, is under consideration to return in either the GII San Felipe S. at Santa Anita Mar. 7 or the GII Rebel S. at Oaklawn Mar. 14. The Zayat Stables homebred returned to the worktab with a three-furlong breeze in :36 1/5 at...
The catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2015 March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training is now available via the OBS website at obssales.com. The iPad version of the catalog is also available via the equineline Sales Catalog App. A total of 610 juveniles have been cataloged for the two-day expanded format sale, set for...
Steve Sherack & Brian DiDonato will make $100 win/place bets on 20 Kentucky Derby preps. The handicapper with the highest total at the end wins. (To sign up for the BetAmerica sign-up bonus, click here. ) GIII Withers S.: SS: El Kabeir is a very deserving favorite and will be awfully tough to beat with a repeat...
Unbeaten Dortmund (Big Brown) kicks off his sophomore campaign against five rivals–including a very familiar face–in today’s GIII Robert B. Lewis S. at Santa Anita. A runaway debut winner at Santa Anita a day after the Breeders’ Cup, the chestnut earned “TDN Rising Star” honors with a jaw-dropping optional claiming win going a one-turn mile on Churchill’s Nov. 29...
Zayat Stables’ streaking “TDN Rising Star” El Kabeir (Scat Daddy) shoots for his third straight tally against six maiden winners in today’s GIII Withers S. at Aqueduct. The gray–a well-beaten second behind unbeaten Blofeld (Quality Road) over a muddy going in the GII Nashua S. Nov. 2–held on to secure a narrow victory in the GII Kentucky Jockey...
Australian Racing Board’s chief executive Peter McGauran has announced the launch of a review into the series of decisions that led to a colt from the Magic Millions Gold Coast sale being declared positive to an anabolic steroid only for the incriminated substance, altrenogest, to be eventually ruled as not belonging to this category. Alternogest...
The S$3.05-million (US$2.25 million) CECF Singapore Cup, the richest race ever to be staged in the country, has attracted 11 entries from four countries for the 1800-meter contest at Kranji Racecourse Sunday, Feb. 22. Eight internationally based runners–three from the United States and Australia and two from France–will join a trio of horses conditioned locally...
Al Shaqab Racing’s supermare Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) has returned from her holiday at Haras du Quesnay and resumed training at Criquette Head-Maarek’s stable in Chantilly. The 5-year-old was out on Les Aigles on Thursday morning for the first time since October under regular rider Maurine Beusnel and in front of many cameras. Head-Maarek commented:...
Friday’s scratching of top galloper Military Attack (Ire) (Oratorio {Ire}) has stripped Saturday’s Centenary Vase H. of some of its intrigue and luster, but an eclectic group of 11 remains for this event contested over a distance that is ideal for almost none of its contestants. Designs On Rome (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) is left...
The first foal out of Wertheimer et Frere’s champion racemare Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa), the winner of 14 Group/Grade 1 races including three consecutive renewals of the Breeders’ Cup Mile, has followed in his dam’s footsteps and is now in training with Freddy Head in Chantilly. Goldikovic (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who will celebrate his second birthday Feb. 3,...