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Private Zone (Macho Uno), a leading contender for the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint, worked a half mile in :48.60 under Carlos Marquez Jr. at Keeneland Saturday just before the track closed for morning renovation at 8 a.m. Going from the three-eighths pole to the seven-eighths in a light drizzle, the GI Forego S. winner produced...
Two days after Taris (Flatter) goes postward in the Oct. 31 GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Sprint, her dam Comedy (Theatrical {Ire}) will go through the sales ring at Keeneland during the first session of the November Breeding Stock Sale. Rooting for both will be West Virginia breeder Mike Di Cola. Di Cola purchased Comedy, carrying...
Trainer Chris Waller described his 4-year-old filly Winx (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) as a potential superstar leading into Saturday’s G1 Cox Plate, and the dark bay more than delivered on that promise, annihilating the males to win by nearly five lengths–a remarkable margin down the short Moonee Valley straight–while smashing the track record in the...
Lady Sheila Stable’s La Verdad (Yes It’s True), who was pre-entered in both the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint and GI Breeders’ Cup F/M Sprint, will skip the championships in favor of defending her title in Belmont’s New York-bred Iroquois S. Saturday. “It would be very unlikely that [La Verdad] would go [to the Breeders’ Cup],”...
Reddam Racing’s GI Hopeful S. winner Ralis (Square Eddie) was the first of four GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile contenders to work at Keeneland Friday morning when covering five furlongs in 1:00.80 (5/17). Working alone under Kieren Fallon, the Doug O’Neill pupil ticked off splits of :12.40, :24.40, :36.60, 1:00.80 and galloped out six panels in...
Doncaster’s G1 Racing Post Trophy on Saturday sees the unbeaten Foundation (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) bid to continue his streak and bring a perfect conclusion to his juvenile career with next year’s Classics firmly in sight. After winning the Listed Ascendant S. on raw ability alone over this mile trip at Haydock Sept. 5, the Highclere...
GI Breeders’ Cup Classic contender Beholder (Henny Hughes), who came down with a slight fever Tuesday morning after shipping from California Monday, appeared no worse for wear in her first gallop at Keeneland Thursday. Sporting her Classic saddle towel, B. Wayne Hughes’s dual champion went once around the mile track before walking the shedrow by...
Antony Beck’s Gainesway Farm has purchased an interest in defending GI Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Karakontie (Jpn) (Bernstein–Sun Is Up {Jpn}, by Sunday Silence) from the Niarchos family, and will stand him in Kentucky upon his retirement from racing. Conditioned by Jonathan Pease, the bay annexed the G3 Prix La Rochette and G1 Prix Jean-Luc...
Sir Owen Glenn’s Criterion (NZ) (Sebring {Aus}), already a dual Group 1 winner heading into the G1 Queen Elizabeth S. at The Championships in April, proved himself a standout in his country in that A$4 million event, and the 5-year-old has a chance to become a global star in a truly international renewal of the...
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile), GI Pacific Classic heroine Beholder (Henny Hughes) and G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe victor Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) headline a group of 200 Thoroughbreds pre-entered for the 2015 Breeders’ Cup World Championships to be held at Keeneland Oct. 30-31. A record 44 horses qualified...
Spendthrift Farm’s Beholder (Henny Hughes) is back to normal Wednesday after spiking a slight fever Tuesday morning caused by the stress of shipping from California to Kentucky Monday. The two-time champion did not go to the track Tuesday or Wednesday morning, but will exercise over the Keeneland surface for the first time Thursday morning when...
There used to be a job called turf writer. Maybe you’ve heard of it. It thrived before anyone ever heard of Twitter, the Internet or blogs or television stations that broadcast sports around the clock, and virtually every major newspaper in a city that had a racetrack had one. These were men and, yes, women,...