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While the foreign challenge looks less than formidable in the day’s main event, at least four of the overseas raiders for Saturday’s GI Beverly D. S. appear classy enough to have a say in the outcome. The ‘d’iscussion must begin with Team Valor International’s Euro Charline (GB) (Myboycharlie {Ire}), who made history last August when...
After Teleprompter (GB) won the GI Arlington Million–the so-called ‘Miracle Million’ following the fire that destroyed the grandstand in 1985–American-trained horses were successful in 10 of the next 12 runnings, a streak capped by Chester House (Mr. Prospector) in 2000. There was a dramatic shift in the course of the next 11 years, as horses...
Last year, Ecurie des Monceaux sold 27 yearlings at Arqana’s August Sale for a princely €8,727,000, putting the Normandy-based farm on the top spot for the third year running, just six years after making a consigning debut at France’s premier sale. It would be folly to bet against Monceaux retaining that title this week in...
A competitive field of five is slated to line up in Friday’s GII Lake Placid S. at Saratoga, including Allen Rosemblum, Sagamore Farm and The Club’s Miss Temple City (Temple City). The Graham Motion trainee annexed her first two career starts and finished third behind Consumer Credit (More Than Ready) in theGIII Sweetest Chant S....
Remembrances and condolences poured in from all corners of the racing world on Thursday in the wake of news that the sport lost one of its oldest living legends: John A. Nerud, 102, died from heart failure at his home Old Brookville, N.Y., in the early hours of Aug. 13. Nerud’s death was confirmed by...
One of last season’s leading juvenile fillies, Cursory Glance (Distorted Humor) has been retired from racing. The Roger Varian-trained filly has not been seen on the track this season, having met with a training setback in the spring. Another flare up of the same injury has led connections to call time on her short racing...
The bettors pounded Pegram, Watson and Weitman’s Pretty N Cool (Scat Daddy) into 2-5 favoritism for Wednesday’s GII Sorrento S. at Del Mar on the strength of a powerful, 4 1/2-length debut success over a sloppy Del Mar strip July 19, and the gray made it two on the bounce here with a facile success....
Fasig-Tipton took a risk this year by cataloguing 26% more yearlings between their Fasig July and Saratoga yearling sales, since the usual pattern when catalogues are increased so much is for the not-sold percentage to rise, the gross to stay about the same, and the average to drop. But it was all smiles at Saratoga Tuesday...
The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale concluded its two-day run at the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion with double-digit increases that left Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. nearly speechless Tuesday night. During two sessions, Fasig-Tipton sold 145 yearlings for $46,755,000. Last year’s sale saw 114 head gross $33,284,000. The average of $322,448 was up 10.4% from...
There was another Battle of Saratoga Tuesday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. It involved verbal salvos from both sides over proposed legislation in the U.S. Congress to form a national authority to develop, regulate and enforce uniform medication policy for Thoroughbred racing in America. The Albany Law School’s annual Saratoga Institute on Equine Racing and Gaming...
Pegram, Watson and Weitman’s Pretty N Cool (Scat Daddy) looks to add to conditioner Bob Baffert’s already record six wins in the GII Sorrento S. Wednesday evening at Del Mar. The $160,000 KEESEP yearling splashed home by 4 1/2 lengths in the slop here July 19, good for a stand-out 95 Beyer Speed Figure. Baffert’s...
Drive 80 minutes due south of Deauville to the department of Orne to visit one of the perennial leading consignors at the Deauville sales, and you won’t find a magnificent 18th century chateau, or be blown away by the gardens. What you’ll find is not a showplace, say its owners, but a working farm, with...