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Triple Crown winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) breezed six furlongs in 1:10.80 (1/8) at Santa Anita Tuesday morning in preparation for his career finale in the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland Oct. 31. (Video) “This was the last serious drill of his life,” said conditioner Bob Baffert, who had American Pharoah galloping out seven...
Two-time champion Beholder (Henny Hughes) was forced to miss her first day of training at Keeneland Tuesday due to a slight fever believed to be the result of shipping from California to Kentucky Monday, according to Spendthift’s General Manager Ned Toffey. “The blood work came back pretty good, basically right on the border of high...
According to calculations by TDN’s Heather Anderson, a total of 197 different sires are represented by 1,791 weanlings catalogued in the upcoming Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland November sales. Forty-two sires have 15 or more catalogued, and you will not be surprised to hear that fully one-third of them (14) are sires whose first foals arrived this...
The Fasig-Tipton October Fall Yearling Sale kicked off its four-day run at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington on Monday. In all, 204 offerings fetched at total of $6,694,300, but due to a change in format, direct comparisons to its 2014 are difficult. “We don’t have comparable stats, considering we have four days this year compared to...
GI Champagne S. winner Greenpointcrusader (Bernardini) had his first work over the Keeneland oval Monday, going five furlongs in 1:01.80 (video) in advance of a tilt at the Oct. 31 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. The dark bay colt produced fractions of :13.40, :25.60 and :38 before galloping out six furlongs in 1:15.40 with jockey Joe...
One of the contradictions of horse racing is that, although there needs to be a degree of certainty, simply to keep the betting public happy, it is often the sport’s sheer unpredictability which makes it so fascinating. Both facets were in evidence at a very enjoyable Qipco British Champions Day three days ago. With the...
Rabbah Bloodstock’s Cannock Chase (Lemon Drop Kid) burst to the lead in the final sixteenth to secure a 1 1/2-length victory in the GI Pattison Canadian International S., giving Ryan Moore a record-breaking third straight win in the $1-million race. Moore swept the duo of Grade I events on Woodbine’s Sunday card after the Irishman...
Pretty N Cool (Scat Daddy), second behind the unbeaten Songbird (Medaglia d’Oro) in the Sept. 5 GI Del Mar Debutante, bypassed another match-up with that divisional leader and shipped east for a hard-fought victory in Sunday’s GII Matron S. at Belmont Park. The gray filly, favored at 4-5, broke alertly and was soon on the...
The Fasig-Tipton October Fall Yearling Sale will begin its four-day run Monday at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, with a catalogue boasting 1485 horses. The sale has grown over the last few editions, and will expand to the four-day format for the first time this year. The yearling auctions have produced steady results all season and...
Godolphin’s Annual Report looked to have some work to do on paper, but, let go as the 7-1 second-longest price in the field in Saturday’s GII Futurity S. at Belmont Park, outfinished favored King Kranz for the upset. The Futurity field was off in a straight line, but Annual Report looked to be going awkwardly...
Sunday’s GI Pattison Canadian International S., one of two seven-figure events on the local racing calendar, has truly lived up to its name recently, as European shippers have proved too classy for their North American counterparts. In fact, the late Montjeu (Ire) provided four straight winners, including three-time champion Joshua Tree (Ire) (2010, 2012-13) and...
Handed the opportunity to take part in Saturday’s G1 Qipco Champion S. after a confidence-boosting win on Irish Champions weekend, Newtown Anner Stud Farm’s Fascinating Rock (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) grasped it with relish to provide Dermot Weld with a first victory in the showcase race that is now firmly established at Ascot. Held up...