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The even-money morning line about Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Just Wicked (Tapit) looks to be perhaps five times what the starting price figures as she looks to punch her ticket to the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies in Saturday’s GII Pocahontas S. at Churchill Downs. Campaigned by the connections of 2013 victix Untapable (Tapit), the homebred daughter...
After lowering Saratoga’s Mellon turf course record to 1:00.46 for 5 1/2 furlongs in the $100,000 Smart N Fancy S. Aug. 30 (video), streaking sophomore filly Lady Shipman (Midshipman) will set her sights on the upcoming GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. Tabbed as a ‘TDN Rising Star’ following her sensational grass debut at Gulfstream West...
Over the past three years, Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm has gone on a much-publicized broodmare buying spree, most notably with the high-profile purchases of Havre de Grace and Plum Pretty just hours apart in November 2012, and sprint champion Groupie Doll in 2013. Pope’s stellar broodmare band will undergo its first commercial test with...
Leopardstown officials were on Thursday intent on ensuring that the keenly anticipated stand-off between Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Golden Horn (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}) goes ahead, with the G1 QIPCO Irish Champion S. moved to 65 minutes earlier on the card due to concerns about the effects of forecast heavy rain. Following the shift...
Donegal Racing’s Jerry Crawford, who admitted Wednesday that he is still decompressing from Keen Ice (Curlin)’s stunning victory over American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) in the Aug. 29 GI Travers S., is busy strategizing for his assault on this year’s Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Crawford will be buying his eighth crop of yearlings for Donegal,...
Off the mark in style on debut over this trip at Deauville Aug. 22, Cloth of Stars dealt with this potentially tricky encounter with aplomb to double his tally and provide Andre Fabre with an eighth renewal. Settled in second early by Mickael Barzalona provided with the ideal pace scenario by the English raider Sixth...
Group 1 winner and influential sire Green Desert (Danzig–Foreign Courier, by Sir Ivor) has died at age 32. The G1 July Cup winner and sire of leading sires Cape Cross (Ire), Oasis Dream (GB) and Invincible Spirit (Ire) was euthanized at Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud due to the infirmities of old age. Shadwell Stud Director Richard...
The 147th Saratoga racing meet came to a close Monday with a record handle of $648,272,805, which is a 13.5% increase from last year’s all-source wagering. This marked a significant jump from the previous record of $590,187,876 set in 2012. On-track handle also set a new racord of $157,547,599, compared to the 2012 record of...
Del Mar closed its 76th summer meet Monday on a positive note with total handle up, fields sizes holding steady despite an increase in racing and a good response to their new dirt track. The track extended its summer session to eight weeks for the first time, which added four more racing days compared to...
Bolstered by the subsequent wins of the vanquished in a debut performance which oozed class and attracted a ‘TDN Rising Star’ tag going 7 1/2 panels in a newcomers’ test at Deauville in her only prior start Aug. 7, Antonoe (First Defence) was just as impressive as that 6 1/2-length debut romp to set a...
A mere three hours after winning the GI Hopeful S. at Saratoga, the colors of J. Paul Reddam were in the winner’s circle for another juvenile Grade I event Monday, this time after Nyquist (Uncle Mo)’s victory in the GI Del Mar Futurity. “After the Hopeful, I was more excited than anything,” said Reddam, who...
Reddam Racing’s homebred Ralis (Square Eddie), coming off a runner-up effort versus fellow California-breds in Del Mar’s Graduation S., made short work of the East Coast competition with an authoritative 5 3/4-length victory in Monday’s GI Hopeful S. at Saratoga. The bay colt, whose lone previous victory came in a state-bred maiden at Santa Anita...