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Exaggerator (Curlin), ridden and trained respectively by Louisiana-born brothers Kent and Keith Desormeaux, gave the pair quite the welcome home present Saturday as he came through at 4-5 odds in the $1-million GIII Delta Downs Jackpot. GI Champagne S. runner-up Sunny Ridge (Holy Bull) was a game second, beaten just a neck, while longshot Harlan...
By Emma Berry and Daithi Harvey The headline session of the two-day Goffs November Breeding Stock Sale was once again a showcase for the Aga Khan bloodlines, with an in-foal mare and a filly in training filling Saturday’s top two slots. Ebeyina (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}) (lot 1368), a winner last year on debut at...
The bettors had virtually handed Saturday’s GIII Delta Downs Princess S. to local My Trusty Cat S. romper La Appassionata (Bernardini), but Jet Black Magic (Hold Me Back)–third in that same heat–had other ideas. Let go at 9-1, the Carl Moore Management colorbearer catapulted past the heavy chalk in the lane en route to a...
Red Cadeaux (GB) (Cadeaux Genereux {GB}–Artisia {Ire}, by Peintre Celebre), who gained legions of fans the world over with a remarkable three runner-up efforts in the G1 Melbourne Cup, has succumbed to complications from his injuries suffered in this year’s running of the race that stops a nation. After first announcing that they would attempt...
Unbeaten WinStar Farm homebred Speightster (Speightstown–Dance Swiftly, by Danzig), sidelined since having an ankle chip removed this summer, is expected to re-join Hall of Famer Bill Mott’s Florida string at Payson Park Dec. 1. The chestnut, tabbed as a ‘TDN Rising Star’ following a sparkling seven-length graduation at first asking at Keeneland Apr. 17, followed...
Exaggerator (Curlin) headlines a field of 10 sophomores set to line up in Saturday’s lucrative $1-million GIII Delta Jackpot. A second-out Del Mar maiden winner in July, he overcame some traffic trouble to annex the GII Saratoga Special S. the following month before a brief freshening. The Keith Desormeaux pupil returned to complete the exacta...
The elimination of Hollywood Park from the southern California racing circuit has resulted in the shifting of some noteworthy stakes races over the past two years, but the most important change for 2016 may imperil a pair of Grade I races for 2-year-olds that have been run for decades in late December. Brad McKinzie, the...
After sitting out the major summer events for 3-year-olds, ‘TDN Rising Star’ and MGISW Dortmund (Big Brown) is locked and loaded to close out the season with an exclamation point. The handsome chestnut, a facile winner over four rivals in his return to action in Santa Anita’s Big Bear S. Oct. 24 (video), will line...
Even before he had runners there was a sales-ring buzz about Zoffany (Ire), and those early hopes proved justified with the young son of Dansili (GB) holding an unassailable lead at the head of the European first-crop sires’ table with 30 winners to his name. Two of his sons held top-five places at Goffs Thursday,...
While many of the top horses and barns are beginning to wind down a bit in preparation for the Championship meet at Gulfstream, the Kiaran McLaughlin barn, which is enjoying one of its most successful seasons, continues to charge full steam ahead. Undefeated “TDN Rising Star” Marking (Bernardini), a son of MGISW Seventh Street (Street...
Brian Lynch has taken over training duties on popular four-time Grade I winner Private Zone (Macho Uno). The Good Friends Stable LLC colorbearer was previously campaigned by conditioner Jorge Navarro in 2015, highlighted by a powerful win in the GI Forego S. at Saratoga this summer and a game runner-up finish behind Runhappy (Super Saver)...
As the Goffs November Foal Sale cranked up another gear on Wednesday, the six-figure barrier was breached for the first time when a son of Lope De Vega (Ire) (lot 551) found favor at €105,000. Manister House Stud’s Luke Barry was the bold bidder for the May foal out of the proven producer Charmgoer (Nureyev),...