Amo Racing

Robson Aguiar will send out his first runners as a licenced trainer in Ireland at Dundalk on Friday night but poured cold water on any prospects of a dream debut double under the lights with Square Necker and Bryant, both of whom are owned by Amo Racing. The Brazilian native has taken over officially from Adrian Murray, who has sent out a number of Amo's most important winners from the same Mullingar-based stable, and stresses that 'nothing has changed only whose name the horses are running under'.  His first runner,...

Group 1-winning sprinter Arizona Blaze (Sergei Prokofiev) has been retired by Amo Racing and will stand at the Irish National Stud next year. His fee has been set at €12,500.    An impressive winner of the first two-year-old maiden of the season in March 2024, Arizona Blaze quickly established himself with a defeat of the subsequent Classic winner Camille Pissarro in the Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes at the Curragh in May.   Over the remainder of his juvenile career, he continued to match the best two-year-olds around with a succession of...

World-class rider Frankie Dettori announced that his last ever mounts in the U.S. would be in the Breeders' Cup, so it came as somewhat of a shock when he was named on Lagynos (Kantharos) in Saturday's GIII River City Stakes at Churchill Downs. Lagynos, trained by Steve Asmusssen, is among the top contenders in the race. But his U.S. agent Ron Anderson said Dettori will not be riding Saturday at Churchill or anywhere else in the U.S. in the future. "I have no idea why he was named on that...

by Christina Bossinakis, Alan Carasso & Jessica Martini LEXINGTON, KY - The Fasig-Tipton November Sale, led by the $6.2-million Streak of Luck (Old Fashioned), produced strong results with increases in average and median over its 2024 renewal during its single session Monday in Lexington. "The market was very, very good, but it's still rational," Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning said. "I think that's one of the things that we've seen in recent years during the November sale that there is still a sense of rationality to it. The buyers are demanding....

Streak of Luck (Old Fashioned), dam of Friday's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Ted Noffey (Into Mischief), sold for $6.2 million Monday night at Fasig-Tipton's 'Night of the Stars' November Sale to a final bid from Amo Racing. The 10-year-old mare was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for Aaron and Marie Jones, as Hip 220. In addition to Ted Noffey, a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' who is unbeaten in four starts and also captured the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity and GI Hopeful Stakes, the gray Streak...

News needs to be special if it is going to knock the horses off the top spot, even for a short while, during Breeders' Cup week. The story which was able to do that was the announcement of Frankie Dettori's imminent retirement and his plans for the future. That is understandable because Frankie has been big news throughout his fabulous career. Arriving in Newmarket aged 14 in 1985 to join the stable of his compatriot Luca Cumani, Frankie was already an experienced and race-winning rider in Italy by the time...

Frankie Dettori has joined Amo Racing as a global brand ambassador to usher in the next phase of his career, following the news that the legendary jockey will retire from American racing after the Breeders' Cup meeting. Dettori will be in action at Del Mar aboard the likes of Wimbledon Hawkeye and Aspect Island for James Owen and the Gredley Family, before the 54-year-old takes a "few rides" in South America to bring the curtain down on a career in the saddle spanning more than three decades. Describing the opportunity...

Amo Racing won the inaugural Star Sports Brighton Owners Series and will donate £5,000 to equine charity Parkfield Equine Solutions. The charity deliver intensive equine interventions for children, young people and adults to develop confidence, build life skills and improve their well-being. In addition, the ownership group will take home a £10,000 first prize, presented to winning connections at Brighton's Season Finale fixture on October 16. Amy Drummond, racing operations manager for Amo Racing, said, "We're thrilled to win the first Star Sports Brighton Owners Series. It's a brilliant incentive...

TATTERSALLS, ENGLAND - After spending close to 14 million gns at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Amo Racing picked up from where it left off at Park Paddocks on Monday, spending 525,000gns on a Starman filly, which led the opening session of Book 2 and prompted Kevin Philippart De Foy to share his excitement about the prospects of training next year's batch of two-year-olds. Philippart De Foy, who took over at Freemason Lodge this year, has been a key cog in Kia Joorabchian's travelling posse at all...

2nd-KEE, $110k, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, post time: 1:32 p.m. ET Kia Joorabchian's AMO Racing USA splashed out $900,000 for THAILAND (Not This Time) at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, and the chestnut colt is a candidate to offer only a fraction of his 3-1 morning line at post time. The chestnut is a son of dual Grade III winner Queen Bee to You (Old Topper), making him a half-brother to Princess Madison (Speightstown), third in the 2024 GII Charles Town Oaks for Rigney Racing. Queen Bee to You is...

By Brian Sheerin and Emma Berry NEWMARKET, UK -- The millionaire lots kept coming almost to the end and, after a fairly flat start to the day, trade picked up significantly by mid-afternoon to the degree that, by the time the curtain fell on Book 1, a total of 16 seven-figure lots had passed through the ring. That equalled the number sold last year, while 70 in total sold for at least 500,000gns.  What was different this time around, however, was a larger catalogue and vendors pointing to some frailty...

By Brian Sheerin and Emma Berry NEWMARKET, UK -- Day two of the Book 1 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale followed a familiar script on Wednesday when Godolphin and Amo Racing fought it out for the most sought-after bloodlines.  Amo secured two colts by Wootton Bassett - one from Marlhill House Stud and the other from Newsells Park Stud - for 2,200,000gns while Godolphin paid that exact sum for a Frankel colt from Fittocks Stud.  All told, there were six different seven-figure lots on Wednesday, where the total turnover reached 47,258,000gns...