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During a frenetic few hours of selling Sunday evening in Lexington, Grade I winner Angela Renee (Bernardini) (hip 152) led a parade of 14 mares selling for seven figures when she attracted a final bid of $3 million during the Fasig-Tipton November sale. The 3-year-old racing or broodmare prospect, a full-sister to multiple Grade I...
A brief one day removed from hosting its first Breeders’ Cup championships, action returns to Keeneland Monday with the first session of the November Breeding Stock Sale. The first of two Book 1 sessions of the 12-day auction begins at 11 a.m. “We are very pleased with our catalogue,” commented Keeneland’s Director of Sales Geoffrey...
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) is doing very well following his romp in Saturday’s GI Breeders’ Cup Classic, according to conditioner Bob Baffert. “He came back in great shape,” Baffert commented. “He’s ready to go around again. He really put on a show yesterday. I knew at the half-mile pole [that he...
In the afterglow of Lexington’s first-ever Breeders’ Cup weekend, the Fasig-Tipton November Sale gets underway Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m. and features a sparkling catalogue of 200 weanlings, racing, broodmare and stallion prospects. “We’ve got a great group of horses assembled for the sale and at the end of the day, that’s the only ingredient...
In what proved little more than a final victory lap, Zayat Stable’s Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) wrapped up his career on the track the easiest of GI Breeders’ Cup Classic winners, galloping home to score by a record-tying 6 1/2 lengths in 2:00.07. Longshot Effinex (Mineshaft) traveled in second from start...
Making her fifth start at her fifth different venue in the span of 69 days, her third start in the month of October and her second in two weeks, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and Mrs. John Magnier’s Found (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) rallied outside of G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero and 4-5 favorite Golden...
In the immediate aftermath of his 3/4-length defeat at the hands of Keen Ice (Curlin) in the GI Travers S. at Saratoga, owner Ahmed Zayat stated publicly that racing fans could well have seen the last of Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile). But within the next 48 hours, cooler heads prevailed and...
Town and Country Farms’ Stopchargingmaria (Tale of the Cat) overcame a very wide trip and a stewards’ inquiry to defeat California raider Stellar Wind (Curlin) in the $2-million GI Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff, the main event on Ladies’ Day Friday at Keeneland. Curalina (Curlin) made a middle move into contention on the backstretch and stayed...
This year’s two-day lineup of Breeders’ Cup races projected to be strong in terms of equine talent and deep in engaging storylines. But Friday’s card, traditionally pegged as the appetizer to Saturday’s main course, served up its own satisfying spread of intrigue. Overcoming on-track adversity with meticulous race-riding tactics seemed to be the overall theme....
After spending three years in California, the Breeders’ Cup returns to the Bluegrass State for the first time since 2011 when it was hosted by Churchill Downs. This year, however, Keeneland gets its first shot at hosting the Championships and the Lexington-based venue switched its main track from synthetic to conventional dirt last fall just...
One owner will be represented by nine runners at this weekend’s Breeders’ Cup, and there’s a very good chance that you won’t be able to correctly guess who it is. After celebrating a victory at the Championships courtesy of the brilliant Lady Eli (Divine Park) in the Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita during his...
Multiple champion Beholder (Henny Hughes), who would have likely been second choice behind American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) for Saturday’s GI Breeders’ Cup Classic, will miss the race after a scope Thursday morning revealed the presence of blood. Beholder had come down with a shipping fever earlier this week, but had reportedly bounced back and...