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Stormy Lucy (Stormy Atlantic), a 65-1 longshot, upset the GI Matriarch at Del Mar Sunday in thrilling fashion, giving her trainer Ed Moger, Jr., the first Grade I win of his career. The 6-year-old bay mare was away well from the stalls, as MGISW Hard Not To Like (Hard Spun) stumbled badly and was essentially...
Dressed in Hermes was ready for his close up in Sunday’s GIII Cecil B. DeMille S. at Del Mar with his fashionable win. Sydney Belzberg’s Budget Stable homebred began his career on dirt where he finished fourth here July 25. He was third when trying the turf Aug. 12 behind subsequent Del Mar Juvenile Turf...
This is a new wrinkle in our market analysis this year. We know that the yearling sales are a better barometer of the overall auction marketplace than the mixed sales, because the pedigrees of over nearly 10,000 yearlings sold (see the Weekly Sales Ticker from Nov. 15–click here) are more stable, whereas the composition of...
Up against it behind the lone speed of American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) when fifth for the second straight year in the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic Oct. 31, Tonalist (Tapit) did not look to be going especially well on the turn in Saturday’s GI Cigar Mile H., but, guided to the middle of the track...
Chiropractor, off at 14-1, completed a 518-1 double for owner Glen Hill Farm, swooping late and holding off a determined late bid from New York invader March in the GI Hollywood Derby. The victory made it a clean sweep of the day’s turf stakes following on the success of 37-1 Family Calling (Sky Mesa) in...
Only twice in the history of Tattersalls have more foals been offered at the December Sale and this was reflected in a new record for Europe’s leading weanling auction, at which 33,565,600gns changed hands for 803 foals. Mutterings of over production have grown ever louder in Europe since the yearling sales season began and there...
Tri-Bone Stables’ Effinex (Mineshaft), coming off a runner-up effort in the Oct. 31 GI Breeders’ Cup Classic, outbattled Hoppertunity (Any Given Saturday) to earn a 3/4-length victory in the GI Clark H. at Churchill Downs Friday. The 4-year-old, who has produced a break-out year on the racetrack, was earning the first Grade I race of...
By Emma Berry “He’s been a sensational stallion.” That’s John Ferguson’s view of Dubawi (Ire) (Dubai Millenium) and though the Darley chief can hardly be considered an impartial observer, it’s hard to disagree with him, particularly after three daughters of Dubawi filled the trifecta at Tattersalls’ December Foal Sale. The trio – sold for 800,000gns,...
A pair of accomplished veterans with opposite running styles headline Saturday’s GI Cigar Mile H. at Aqueduct. The speedy Private Zone (Macho Uno), who won this race by five lengths last year while under the care of Alfredo Velazquez, makes his first start since being transferred from Jorge Navarro to Brian Lynch. The 6-year-old ran...
Closing with a wide rush, Midwest Thoroughbreds’s The Pizza Man (English Channel) blew by a full field at Del Mar to annex Thursday’s GII Hollywood Turf Cup by two emphatic lengths. Big John B (Hard Spun) and Power Foot (Powerscourt {GB}) finished second and third, respectively. “That’s some stride on that horse, I’ll tell you,”...
A banner day at the Tattersalls Foal Sale for John McEnery’s Rossenara Stud saw two members of the farm’s five-strong consignment bring two of the top three prices of the day within minutes of each other when a Shamardal colt was hammered down at 240,000gns, directly followed by a son of Dark Angel (Ire) at...
When American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) won this year’s Triple Crown, he was snapping a streak of 37 years of futility. A similar stretch of time has passed since Bob’s Dusty (1977-1978) won back-to-back runnings of the GI Clark H., the centerpiece of the fall meeting at Churchill Downs, but Hoppertunity (Any Given Saturday) has...