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With plenty of help from his table-setting stablemate Shining Copper (Aragorn {Ire}) Saturday, Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Big Blue Kitten (Kitten’s Joy) scurried home in course record time of 2:23.39 to take Belmont’s GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, a “Win and You’re In” qualifier for the GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Oct. 31. Slumber (GB) (Cacique...
Very few horses can run up a sequence of wins in the G2 July S., G2 Richmond S. and G1 Prix Morny and still win a G1 Juddmonte Middle Park S. with relative ease, but Al Shaqab’s Shalaa (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) was able to do just that in a strong renewal at Newmarket on...
There is no such thing as a sure thing in horse racing, but Fox Hill Farm’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Songbird (Medaglia d’Oro) looks to have eight of her peers squarely over the barrel in Saturday’s GI Chandelier S. at Santa Anita, the California prep for the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Oct. 30. The dark...
With 10 wins and a second from 11 starts over the local strip and with a 114 Beyer Speed Figure from her last-out success in the GI TVG Pacific Classic that equals Liam’s Map (Unbridled’s Song)’s Woodward for highest of the year, Spendthrift Farm’s Beholder (Henny Hughes) warms up for a likely appearance in the GI...
The usual suspects among the East Coast turf division square off Saturday in Belmont’s GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic S., a “Win and You’re In” qualifier for the GI Breeders’ Cup Turf. Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Big Blue Kitten (Kitten’s Joy) leads a trio of Chad Brown trainees. The now 7-year-old, who was beaten a...
Business remained strong during the 10th day of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale with a Colonel John colt bringing a session-high $170,000 from trainer Ken McPeek. Keeneland sold 283 yearlings for $6,513,000 Thursday, nearly equal to the corresponding session in 2014 when 289 horses brought $6,626,500. The average of $23,014 was up slightly from last...
Undefeated in two career starts by a combined total of 12 lengths, ‘TDN Rising Star’ Songbird (Medaglia d’Oro), is the 3-5 morning-line favorite to win Saturday’s GI Chandelier S. at 1 1/16 miles on the Opening Day program at Santa Anita Park. The 2-year-old filly’s owner, Rick Porter of Fox Hill Farms, Inc., said he...
Each October, Tattersalls assembles a catalogue of some of the best-bred yearlings in the world for the three days that comprise Book 1 of its October Yearling Sale. Book 1 has risen to the top of the global yearling sale tree, having recorded the highest average of any yearling sale the last two years–converted to...
Bridlewood Farm stretched to $330,000 Wednesday to secure a filly by Blame and top the final session of Book 4 during the Keeneland September Sale. Hip 3056 is the second foal out of Seeking Gabrielle (Forestry), who is out of graded winner Seeking Regina (Seeking the Gold) from the family of Grade I winner Sahara...
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas is recovering from heart procedures in a Philadelphia hospital and is expected to be released later this week. In a text to TDN and the Louisville Courier-Journal Wednesday afternoon, Lukas’s wife, Laurie, said he had received four stents and a pacemaker at the Aria Health- Torresdale hospital. She...
At the end of a three-hour hearing at the British Horseracing Authority headquarters Wednesday, the connections of Simple Verse (Ire) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) won their appeal of the disqualification of the 3-year-old filly from victory in the G1 St Leger Sept. 12, making her Qatar Racing’s first British Classic winner. Simple Verse crossed the...
Book 4 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale got off to a good start Tuesday with increases in gross, average and median from last year. Hip 2625, an Astrology colt bred by Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm and consigned by Mr. and Mrs. T. Wayne Sweezey’s Timber Town, caused mid-day fireworks when sold to Stonestreet...