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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...
Group 1 February S. winner Copano Rickey (Jpn) (Gold Allure {Jpn}) heads today’s G1 Champions Cup at Chukyo as the 3-1 morning-line favorite and has yet to be worse than second in a four-race 2014 campaign. After his February S. score Feb. 23, he added a win in the G1 Kashiwa Kinen at Funabashi in May before...
ALTERITE STARS AT ARQANA By Kelsey Riley and Alix Choppin Last year’s GI Garden City H. winner Alterite (Fr) (Literato {Fr}) (lot 188) was billed as one of the stars of the show of the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale and she didn’t disappoint, fetching €1.1 million from Emmanuel de Seroux of Narvick International on behalf of...
Oasis Dream Filly Leads Foals… The progeny of Oasis Dream (GB) have been highly sought after at this year’s yearling and foal sales, and that trend continued yesterday when Philipp Stauffenberg parted with €290,000 for lot 65, a filly by the Banstead Manor resident out of the dual French group winner and Group 1-placed Ana Marie...
Stakes Winners Prove Popular… Black-type fillies off the track are always coveted commodities, and there are particularly few of them on the market this year. It was therefore no surprise to see Abys (Fr) (Montjeu {Ire}) (lot 171), who was placed twice at listed level for Pia Brandt, be the center of some spirited bidding up to...
“Remember lads. It’s chin up and chest out. Because in here, we’re the big boys.” Harry Sweeney, the indomitable head of Japan’s Paca Paca Farm, had just offered this advice as we stood huddled, about to enter a public bathhouse, holding nothing but washcloth-sized towels. I wasn’t sure what to say, so I nodded, as...
Zotilla (Ire) (Zamindar) (lot 175) failed to find the winner’s circle in one attempt at the races in April, but the presence of a handful of standout relatives in her pedigree made her one of the choice lots of the sale. As such, she sparked a fierce bidding war that ended in the hands of...
Gotta Havre Her… The China Horse Club signaled its love affair with leading French sire Le Havre (Ire) when signing for the top three lots–all by the sire–at Arqana’s Arc Sale in October, and the club’s bloodstock agent Michael Wallace was back in the fray for another pricey lot by the sire of dual Classic...
Badgers Bags A Belle… Australian interests are out in force in Deauville and made their presence felt early in the sale when Badgers Bloodstock signed at €230,000 for the unraced Aqua Bella (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) (lot 69). From the draft of the Wildenstein family’s Haras du Bois Roussel, the 3-year-old is out of the...
Cheriearch Sweet For Capucines Partners… Like Alerite and Xcellence, Cheriearch (Arch) (lot 94) is another talented French-based filly to have gone the way of Chad Brown after winning a stakes race in France, but unlike the latter pair luck was not on her side in America. Cheriearch was injured before she made it to the races in...
ICE WINE PARTNERS ACTIVE IN FIRST VISIT TO DEAUVILLE by Sue Finley Among the American interests in Deauville this week are the group newly standing No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) in conjunction with Coolmore at Coolmore Ireland, Ice Wine Stables. And while their most famous runner took the G1 Prix Morny just across the street...
Forty years on from the Rumble in the Jungle, racing has its own titanic tussle that will have fans in multiple time zones setting alarm clocks or staying up late. The clash of the flying horses is on as Slade Power (Ire) (Dutch Art {GB}) has been given the go ahead for a heavyweight sprinting contest against Lankan...