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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 out of contention from the start. Stormy Lucy rated one off the inside in midpack in the strung out field of 14 around the clubhouse turn and down the backside as Curlin's Fox (Curlin) rattled...

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 winner Hollywood Don (Tapit) and graduated when favored in the Zuma Beach S. at Santa Anita Oct. 10. Dressed in Hermes tracked the pace in second during the early stages of the GI Breeders' Cup...

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 mares, especially top mares, offered in the mixed sales can vary quite a bit from year to year. This year we have isolated the foals out of the mixed sale market, because 2,500 foals can...

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 entering the stretch, the 'TDN Rising Star' found another couple of gears late and outfinished stablemate Red Vine (Candy Ride {Arg}) to land the year's final Grade I on the East Coast. Accorded his Rising...

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 the GIII Jimmy Durante S. (ex Miesque S.). A maiden winner at second asking at Delaware Park June 17, Chiropractor made a pair of allowance starts against his peers during this track's traditional summer meeting,...

 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 were justifiable fears that the foal market would struggle with almost 400 more horses catalogued in Britain and Ireland than this time last year. What has become abundantly clear from the last two weeks of...

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 his career. "He ran so well last time and it looked like he never missed a beat with his training and everything else afterwards so that's why we decided to come," commented winning trainer Jimmy...

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, 720,000gns and 655,000gns respectively – became the third, fourth and fifth most expensive filly foals ever sold at Tattersalls after two of Urban Sea's daughters, My Tyhoon (Ire) and All Too Beautiful (Ire), who fetched...

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 away with the July 4 GIII Belmont Sprint S., and aired in Saratoga's GI Forego S. Aug. 29. He was a typically game second in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint at Keeneland Oct. 31, one...

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," said Mike Smith, who piloted the 11-10 chalk. "They told me about his turn of foot, but it was sure good to feel it. We had a big field and that kept things honest. Everyone...

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 160,000gns. In each case the name on the buyers' sheet was the same--John Ferguson, on behalf of Darley, which stands Shamardal and this year bought a significant share in Dark Angel. "They were healthy and...

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 a chance to make some history Friday afternoon. Runner-up to subsequent dual Classic winner California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) in last year's GI Santa Anita Derby, the bay colt missed the summer season, but made up...