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AN UPWARD ‘ARQ’ By Kelsey Riley With names like Toronado (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}), Chicquita (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) and Flotilla (Fr) (Mizzen Mast) on its honor roll and statistics that show a steady rise over the last four years, the Arqana August Sale has certainly earned a place amongst the leaders on the global yearling...
EVERYTHING’S COMING UP COULONCES By Sue Finley The 2013 Arqana August Yearling Sale marked a breakout year for the Coulonces Consignment, the commercial sales operation run by Anna and Etienne Drion. The couple sold the sales-topping yearling, a filly by Dubawi (Ire), to the Australian-based James Harron Bloodstock for €1.5 million. It was the first...
By Christie DeBernardis With the sun shining and temperatures in the high 60’s, Belmont Park was buzzing with activity yesterday as the countdown to race day dwindled down to about 36 hours. News trucks from half a dozen different stages were stacked up behind the fence, while horsemen and members of the media lined...
By Christie DeBernardis Centennial Farms president Don Little Jr. and his horse Wicked Strong (Hard Spun) both have big shoes to fill in today’s GI Belmont S. For Little, the shoes belong to his father Don Little Sr., who founded Centennial Farms in 1982 in an effort to give more people an opportunity to own quality...
THE TAG TEAM Yesterday’s G1 Investec Oaks, which was run in memory of Sir Henry Cecil, proved a watershed moment in the careers of John Gosden, Paul Hanagan and also Sea the Stars (Ire), as Shadwell’s Taghrooda (GB) dominated proceedings to lead home a one-two for the Stud and provide her trainer with a first renewal and...
FIRST AMONG EQUALS Five years ago her sire stormed down the hill at Epsom to add the G1 Investec Derby to his G1 2000 Guineas victory, and now Taghrooda (GB) has claimed the honor of becoming Sea The Stars’ first Classic winner by remaining unbeaten with an impressive 3 3/4-length victory in the G1 Investec...
THE VIEW FROM THE TOP Since he annexed the G1 Racing Post Trophy at a gloomy Doncaster in late October, Paul Smith’s Kingston Hill (GB) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) has had Epsom’s G1 Investec Derby as his ultimate goal, and now that it is in close range it seems more than achievable as he heads to post the main...
Christopher Dunn and Loooch Racing Stable’s Ria Antonia (Rockport Harbor), winner of the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies via DQ, was added to the list of GI Preakness S. candidates yesterday. Under the care of trainer Jeremiah Englehart at the time of her Breeders’ Cup win, the bay was moved to the barn of Hall of...
‘BETTING’ ON RACING’S FUTURE By Michele MacDonald Racing must reconnect and re-examine its relationship with betting as the sport moves to keep up in an increasingly competitive world environment, several speakers told delegates to the Asian Racing Conference. Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, chief executive of the Hong Kong Jockey Club as well as vice chairman of both...
Bill Opprnheim In last weekend’s two English Guineas Classics, the winners were by Europe’s number two and three sires: Dubawi (Ire) (Dubai Millennium {GB}) is the sire of the shock (note the pun) 40-1 winner of the G1 English 2000 Guineas, Night of Thunder (Ire), while Dansili (GB) is the sire of Miss France (Ire), winner of the G1 English 1000 Guineas....
The Keeneland April 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale gets underway Monday afternoon at 4 p.m. The boutique sale’s already slim catalogue of 125 juveniles had been whittled down nearly in half by 62 outs as of Sunday afternoon. “The catalogue’s never been very large; it’s a boutique sale, and it’s set to a higher standard,” said...
YARRAMAN PARK by Rob Burnet Every so often a freshman sire creates a wave of excitement through the auction ring as his first progeny are paraded for buyers, a sire not from the cream of the retiring colts and entires with classic victories to their names, not standing at a heavy-weight stud, but one...