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Wesley Ward was no shrinking violet in the build-up to Wednesday’s G2 Queen Mary S. at Royal Ascot, and stressed just how well Acapulco (Scat Daddy) had prepared for her date with destiny. Having surprised her trainer by fading into third after attempting to make all tackling 4 1/2 furlongs on the Churchill Downs main...
Following his completion of the Triple Crown in the GI Belmont S. Saturday, Zayat Stable’s American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) has taken over the top spot on the most recent Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings, which were released Thursday. His current rating is 128–three points above Hong Kong’s Royal Ascot-bound Able Friend (Aus) (Shamardal), GI...
Emma Berry has all the details of how the international entrants are preparing for next week’s Royal Ascot. Each year Nick Smith of Ascot Racecourse treks far and wide across the globe to lure international runners to the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting, with previous visitors including the much-loved rags-to-riches gelding Takeover Target (Aus), the queen...
In advance of new, restrictive whip rules that will go into effect in California July 1, jockeys statewide are having their inventories of riding crops inspected to see if they meet size and cushioning standards. They are also receiving courtesy calls from safety stewards to make them aware if their actions in current races would...
Canterbury Park in Minnesota has emerged as the latest track to take a stab at wooing Triple Crown champion American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile). According to Eric Halstrom, Canterbury’s vice president of racing operations, track management is considering completely overhauling and raising the purse of an existing non-graded stakes race by a factor of 10...
Champion Take Charge Brandi (Giant’s Causeway)–forced to miss a showdown with American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) in the Mar. 14 GII Rebel S. due to a non-displaced chip in her right knee–is being aimed at a return for Saratoga’s seven-furlong GI Test S. Aug. 8. “We’ve had her galloping for 30 days [at Churchill Downs...
The $2.1 million Jane Lyon spent to purchase Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman), who was in foal to young sire Pioneerof the Nile, at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton November sale may have seemed a little steep at the time. However, it proved to be a steal at 6:53 p.m. June 6 when her son American Pharoah (Pioneerof the...
Richard Hannon will no doubt be busy opening day of Royal Ascot next Tuesday, but having to saddle runners in three races on one of the world’s most important cards is surely a problem no trainer would mind having. Hannon will be on his feet from the word go, with last month’s G1 Lockinge S....
In the swirling, indefinite haze of which races might be next for Triple Crown champion American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile), the Aug. 2 GI Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park and the Oct. 31 GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland Race Course loom as the most logical, according to tentative plans put forth by the colt’s...
When Coolmore did the deal to buy the breeding rights to American Pharoah in January, before the Eclipse Awards, they were just hoping they were buying their fifth champion 2-year-old colt in six years to stand at their Kentucky arm, Ashford Stud. They couldn’t have bought the sixth anyway; that was the gelding Shared Belief,...
The 40-plus committee charged with organizing a festival week leading up to the Breeders’ Cup championships in Lexington has revealed a calendar of events from Oct. 24-31.
by Andrew Caulfield Saturday’s racing surely came extremely close to perfection for any lover of the Thoroughbred. The highlight, inevitably, had to be American Pharoah’s majestic display at Belmont, which finally quenched America’s thirst for a Triple Crown winner. However, there were no grounds for complaint earlier in the day at Epsom, when the exciting...