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Hong Kong's reigning Horse of the Year Ka Ying Rising (Shamexpress) won a barrier trial at Sha Tin on Tuesday morning. The gelding clocked a trial-best :57.62 for the 1000-metre trial over the Sha Tin lawn, a neck to the good of Beauty Waves (Starspangledbanner). The eight-time Group 1 winner, who currently holds the successive wins record at 18 for a Hong Kong-trained horse, is pointing toward the April 6 G2 Sprint Cup back at 1200 metres. Said pilot Zac Purton, "He's going really well. It's good to be back...
With more heavy rain in the forecast for southern California, Del Mar has canceled their Friday race card according to a social media post from the track. Additionally, Del Mar has carded an extra race day to be held Monday, Nov. 24. The shift will allow the main track additional time to dry while also enabling the use of the turf course on Sunday and Monday. Friday's cancellation marks the second day in as many weeks as the track also was forced to cancel the Nov. 15 card due to...
In a wide-open edition of the GII Bank of America Valley View Stakes, it was Claiborne Farm's homebred filly Admit (Blame) who stepped up to the mark Friday, capturing her first graded stakes race under John Velazquez. After breaking her maiden in her third career start on the Tapeta at Turfway last December, the Thomas Drury trainee tried the Road to the Kentucky Oaks, earning placings in both the Cincinnati Trophy Stakes and the Bourbonette Oaks on the synthetic surface before switching to the dirt to contest the GI Central...
2nd-Kentucky Downs, $176,800, Msw, 8-28, 2yo, f, 6 1/2fT, 1:15.10, fm, 3/4 length. SHOULD'VE (f, 2, Not This Time--More'n Likely, by Blame) drew in off the also-eligible list and shot to the front from the widest gate to show the way ahead of Chrysalism (Liam's Map). Opening at will around the far turn, she had a host of challengers coming down the stretch who ate into the advantage through the final sixteenth with Petronella (Not This Time) charging at her late but coming up three-quarters of a length short to...
He nearly ran out of time but Klaravich Stable runner Capital Partner (GB) (Kingman {GB}) put in a furious rally down the middle of the Saratoga turf course Saturday to become a new 'TDN Rising Star'. The debuting colt, purchased for 360,000gns out of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 last season, left himself with plenty of work to do early after getting squeezed back in a tight spot on the run into the first turn. Racing at the back of the second flight under Flavien Prat, the 9-5...
Despite drifting out to the center of the Saratoga turf course, Intricate Spirit (Complexity) was clearly the class of this field as he aired by open lengths to become a new 'TDN Rising Star' Friday in New York. A $185,000 Keeneland September buy for the late Christophe Clement, the 4-1 shot had shown plenty of morning ability for Christophe's son Miguel indicated by a best-of-42 bullet on the Oklahoma track when going four furlongs in :49 flat July 19 and repeating the time over the same distance July 26 (4/55)....
4th-Saratoga, $100,000, Msw, 8-1, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:45.83, fm, 1 1/4 lengths. SCRATCH IT (f, 2, Tapit--Carolyn's Cat {MGSW, $307,415}, by Forestry), nearly the longest shot on the board at 12-1, was sharp from the middle of the gate and led the field into the first turn dogged throughout by Miss Picky (Uncle Mo). The two held a narrow advantage over a three-wide wall of challengers just behind as the opening half went in :51.04. Hugging the rail around the far turn, Scratch It got first jump into the...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - In the first race of her career Friday, Time to Dream (Not This Time) showed that she could very well have been given a fitting name. After overcoming trouble under jockey Jose Ortiz, the Repole Stable bay stormed from off the pace in the stretch to win the seventh race, a $100,000 maiden special weight for 2-year-olds by 2 1/4 lengths over pacesetter Maiora (Speightstown). Time to Dream completed the one mile on the inner turf course in 1:36.58 and paid $9.90 to win. Pan Pan...
2nd-Saratoga, $100,000, (S), Alw (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($45,000), 7-18, 3yo/up, f/m, 5 1/2fT, 1:02.12, fm, 3 lengths. SHOOT IT TRUE (f, 3, Munnings--To the Moon Alice, by Malibu Moon) became a 'TDN Rising Star' when she debuted at Keeneland on the main track for Wesley Ward last April. Fourth against the boys at Churchill in the Kentucky Juvenile Stakes last May, she took some time off before returning in New York to win the state-bred Notebook Stakes in her final start as a juvenile. Off again for several months, Ward brought...
Taking the waters proved a fairly literal recreation through opening week at the Spa. Despite short fields and soggy turf, however, there were one or two sunbeams for those who relish a pedigree. 'TDN Rising Star' Far Bridge (English Channel) was scarcely a revelation in outclassing three rivals for the GII Bowling Green Stakes, his fifth graded success in his last seven starts. But his overall body of work and deeper family together demand the opportunity, someday, to extend his sire's legacy at stud. Admittedly Far Bridge's page features little...
2nd-Saratoga, $100,000, Msw, 6-5, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:42.25, fm, 4 lengths. CURLIN'S ANGEL (f, 4, Curlin--Sabrina's Angel, by Scat Daddy), dismissed at 15-1 in this belated debut, was away slowly from her outside post, but recovered quickly and rushed up to midpack before being taken in hand to settle near the back of the field through pedestrian splits. Tipped out three wide approaching the stretch, she exploded down the lane and soared home four lengths in front. Favored Time Stone (American Pharoah) got a head in front of Key...
Longines will continue as the Official Time Partner and Official Watch of the Breeders' Cup World Championships for a renewed multi-year partnership, Breeders' Cup Limited announced Friday. As the presenting sponsor for the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic, GI Longines Breeders' Cup Turf and GI Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff, Longines will continue to award watches to the winning owner, breeder, trainer, and jockey for each of the three centerpiece races on "Championships Saturday" at the World Championships. Longines has been an official Breeders' Cup partner since 2014. "Breeders' Cup is...