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By Lucas MArquarda Pete Bradley is good for a few pinhooking homeruns each spring, and the Lexington-based bloodstock agent came away with yet another yesterday care of the $770,000 Medaglia d’Oro–Victory Ride colt. Bradley purchased the youngster last fall at Keeneland September for $140,000 before sending him to Eddie Woods in Florida for his early...
By Lucas Marquardt Robert LaPenta, who partnered on the sale topper, came back to secure the day’s second-highest-priced horse, too, a striking son of Medaglia d’Oro out of Grade I winner Victory Ride (Seeking the Gold) who was hammered down for $770,000. Eddie Woods consigned the Feb. 3-foaled colt as Hip 61. LaPenta’s racing manager,...
Bear Stables’ Asserting Bear (Bear’s Kid) worked a half-mile in company in :48 at Keeneland yesterday morning with jockey Emme-Jayne Wilson in the irons. “I was very happy with that,” Wilson said. “I think he enjoys the change of scenery up here.” Wilson will be aboard the bay Saturday in the GI Toyota Blue Grass...
By Andrew Caulfield Saturday, Aqueduct TWINSPIRES.COM WOOD MEMORIAL S.-GI, $1,000,000, AQU, 4-5, 3yo, 1 1/8m, 1:49 1/5, ft. 1–s#@WICKED STRONG, 123, c, 3, by Hard Spun 1st Dam: Moyne Abbey, by Charismatic 2nd Dam: Classic Approval, by With Approval 3rd Dam: Classic Value, by Copelan ($375,000 yrl ’12 KEESEP). O-Centennial Farms; B-William Flynn (KY); T-James A...
Fiorente (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}–Desert Bloom {Ire}, by Pilsudski {Ire}), who provided trainer Gai Waterhouse with a storybook first victory in last year’s G1 Melbourne Cup, has been retired from racing after suffering a tendon injury. Bred by Ballymacoll Stud and trained by Sir Michael Stoute during the European portion of his career for Lord Weinstock’s operation,...
By Steve Sherack The OBS March Sale of Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training has been rescheduled and the entire auction will now be held in one session Tuesday, March 11, beginning at 10:00 a.m., it was announced following the conclusion of Friday’s breeze show. The sale was originally slated to be held during two sessions...
By Joe Applebaum Almost a year ago, the National Basketball Association (NBA) unveiled a new website, stats.nba.com, where they did something novel to improve their sport. They released a vast statistical trove, powered by a flexible and useful database allowing fans, researchers, fantasy gamers and even team executives to investigate and study all forms of...
Four Thoroughbreds, four jockeys and two trainers make up the 2014 finalists for induction into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame. The horse candidates are Ashado (Saint Ballado), Curlin (Smart Strike), Kona Gold (Java Gold) and Xtra Heat (Dixieland Heat); riders Chris Antley, Garrett Gomez, Craig Perret and Alex Solis; and trainers Steve Asmussen and Gary Jones. Curlin, his trainer Steve Asmussen and Kona Gold are first-time nominees. ...
By Steve Sherack No fewer than 22 freshman sires are represented in the OBS March Selected Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training catalogue–responsible for a remarkable 28.2% of the 411 cumulative offerings on display during Tuesday’s auction. Six juveniles from the first crop of the 2010 GI Breeders’ Cup Classic hero and champion older male Blame (Arch; Claiborne Farm)...
CHRISELLIAM EUTHANIZED Chriselliam (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}–Danielli {Ire}, by Danehill), winner of last year’s G1 Fillies Mile and GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, has been euthanized due to complications from a hoof infection. Trained by Charlie Hills for a partnership that included music mogul Chris Wright, former champion jockey Willie Carson and Emily Asprey, the 3-year-old...
Making the final start of a glorious career, Eighttofasttocatch (Not for Love) won the Jennings H. for the fourth consecutive season, pushing him over the $1-million mark in career earnings. Of his 17 career victories, 15 of those came at Laurel Park, with 11 of his 12 black-type successes over the surface. A six-length winner of the...
Leading French jockey Olivier Peslier is in line to partner Cursory Glance (Distorted Humor) in the G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas at Newmarket next May. Roger Varian’s filly won three of her four starts as a juvenile, including the G3 Albany S. at Royal Ascot and the G1 Moyglare Stud S. at The Curragh. Andrea Atzeni has been...