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Eclipsing record overall results from the past two years, the Japan Racing Horse Association select sale soared into new territory during the opening yearling session July 13, raising the bars for gross and average. Kenny Troutt’s WinStar Farm helped contribute to the records, buying three colts in a historic first for an American-based stable since...
Flaxman Holdings’ Main Sequence (Aldebaran), 2014 champion turf horse and older male, has been retired from racing after a tendon tear was discovered in the aftermath of his seventh-place run in the GI United Nations S. July 5, Flaxman Holdings racing manager Alan Cooper said Monday. “Following Main Sequence’s poor performance in the United Nations...
Sheep Pond Partners’ undefeated sophomore filly Lady Eli (Divine Park) has contracted laminitis in her front feet, trainer Chad Brown said in a statement Monday. “We have some unfortunate news to report from our barn,” the statement read. “Following Lady Eli’s impressive victory in the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks on July 4, she sadly stepped...
Champagne glasses were lifted in exuberant toasts as buyers and consignors gathered at the Northern Horse Park on the evening of July 12 to share good luck wishes for the Japan Racing Horse Association’s two-day select sale of yearlings and foals set to begin the following morning. “Thank you for coming from all over the...
Kept away from Royal Ascot due to a setback, Godolphin’s Territories (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) made up for lost time to notch a first top-level success in Sunday’s G1 Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly. Detached in last throughout the early stages with Mickael Barzalona not always looking happy, the May 2 G1 2000 Guineas runner-up...
Meeting the older generation of sprinters for the first time in Newmarket’s G1 Darley July Cup, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s Muhaarar (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) left his supporters sweating until the last possible moment but ultimately showed all his class to prevail from the valiant veteran Tropics (Speightstown) in a thriller. Sent off...
With new buyers and observers on the scene, including WinStar Farm President Elliott Walden, Airdrie Stud’s Bret Jones and Australian trainer Gai Waterhouse, Japan Racing Horse Association officials are excitedly awaiting the annual select sale that begins on July 13 at the Northern Horse Park on the island of Hokkaido. While last year’s auction set...
In the last handful of years, winners of the GI Kentucky Oaks such as Proud Spell (Proud Citizen) and Blind Luck (Pollard’s Vision) were able to tack on a victory in the valuable GIII Delaware Oaks. Lovely Maria (Majesticperfection) was hammered into 1-5 favoritism to follow suit, but George and Lori Hall’s Calamity Kate (Yes...
Brereton C. Jones’s GI Kentucy Oaks victress Lovely Maria (Majesticperfection) makes her highly anticipated return from a brief freshening in Saturday’s GIII Delaware Oaks. Her conditioner, Larry Jones, seeks his second win in this event, having scored the first with 2008 Kentucky Oaks winner and fellow Brereton Jones homebred Proud Spell (Proud Citizen), who was...
Twelve years ago, Juddmonte’s subsequent sire sensation Oasis Dream (GB) downed the Antipodean god Choisir (Aus) on the gradients of Newmarket’s July Course in an ultimate clash of the sprinting generations and since then Australian interest has been scant and unrewarded in the meeting’s feature G1 Darley July Cup. The country’s celebrity Takeover Target (Aus)...
Back on song in Royal Ascot’s G2 Duke of Cambridge S. last month, Amazing Maria (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) continued her renaissance with a career high in a stellar renewal of Friday’s G1 Falmouth S. at Newmarket. Mirroring Ascot tactics by settling in the rear for much of the straight mile, the 17-2 chance eased into...
by Emma Berry The common feature of the horses-in-training sales at Tattersalls in July and October is the diversity of destinations of the horses sold through the ring. The same was true for the middle session of the three-day auction, as broodmares gave way to form horses. A late flurry of activity just a handful...