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The Board of Horse Racing Ireland met Dec. 4 in a special meeting to consider the issue of drug testing in the Irish Thoroughbred racing and breeding industry. In cooperation with the Turf Club and INHS Committee they issued the following joint statement: “The Board noted with concern recent high profile cases involving licensed individuals....
A reciprocal arrangement was reached yesterday between the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) and Racing Victoria (RV) that will allow the chief stewards from each organization to travel and participate in the stewards’ panel for major race meetings. The reciprocal arrangement begins next week when Terry Bailey, RV’s Chairman of Stewards will be a member...
WHAT’S NOT FOR SALE With Arqana running today through Tuesday, and Fasig Maryland’s mixed sale on Monday, those sales will wrap up the 2014 North American and European commercial auction marketplace. Whereas last year saw gains in the neighborhood of 30%, this year has been more about consolidation; in most respects, the market is more...
Jockey Martin Harley will ride as a freelancer next season, relinquishing his role as stable jockey to trainer Marco Botti. While Botti has pledged to continue using the Irishman, who left a similar role with conditioner Mick Channon to join the Italian, there will be no official connection. Harley recovered from a serious injury early...
REDOUTE’S THE CHOICE THE WORLD OVER By Alix Choppin Over the last 15 years, reverse shuttlers have become, if not a frequent sight, no longer an oddity on stallion rosters in the Northern Hemisphere. Octagonal (NZ) and Commands (Aus) blazed the trail when standing temporarily at Haras du Quesnay in the early 2000s, yet without...
ARQANA CLOSES OUT SALES SEASON By Kelsey Riley The European breeding stock sales circuit makes its third and final stop at the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale, which begins today in Deauville and runs through Dec. 9. There are a total of 976 lots catalogued, including mares, fillies in and out of training, foals, stallions...
International Equities’ Oussama Aboughazale made headlines at Fasig-Tipton’s October Sale when signing for the session-topping Super Saver colt for $370,000 on that sale’s opening day, at which time Brookdale Farms’ Freddy Seitz revealed the Chilean resident’s desire to build a stable of high-quality runners with the aim of winning the GI Kentucky Derby. Aboughazale added...
John Sikura had hinted he would be leading a special weanling into the Keeneland sales ring Wednesday afternoon and the Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm owner delivered in a big way when hip 402, a daughter of Tapit, caused a bidding frenzy which ended with Bridlewood Farm’s George Isaacs’ $3-million bid. The final price tag set a...
Led by a $3.9 million mare and a North American- record $3 million weanling, Book 1 closed at Keeneland November yesterday with continued evidence of a vibrant market for high-end Thoroughbreds. “It was a heck of a session today,” Keeneland Director of Sales Geoffrey Russell said succinctly when the curtain fell. Building on the first...
Jim Crupi’s New Castle Farm has been the starting point for such Grade I winners as Uncle Mo, Stay Thirsty, Trinniberg, Little Mike and Zensational, and Crupi will be hoping those good fortunes can rub off on hip 316, a Tapit weanling filly he will be taking back to his Florida base, after spending $750,000 on...
After the dust had settled on the first of several well-bred Hill ‘n’ Dale weanlings to go through the Keeneland sales ring Wednesday, Dick O’Gorman, bidding on behalf of Darley, was signing the ticket at $850,000 for hip 232. The filly, by Medaglia d’Oro, is out of Violent Beauty (Gone West) and is a full-sister to...
Fiftyshadesofhay (Pulpit), winner of this year’s GII Ruffian S., will be joining the broodmare band at Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm after selling for $1.3 million at Keeneland Wednesday. “We liked the mare–we’ve seen her race,” Banke said. “She is beautiful. Pulpit is a great broodmare sire and she has the looks and the frame to be...