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Yes, so i assume because it came 4th they wouldnt consider it a late scratching?

On one hand it is good…. and i see how they gave $1m to charity and partners…. But  i can see everywhere in the world big issues with problem gamblers.    I am 60yrs old, as a 18yr you spent what you had, hardly heard of credit cards or personal loans…TABs were hidden down alleyways with little advertising, no casinos, no lotto or pokies.   Compare it with today, easy to get credit, online Entain and casino gambling or oncourse, lotto jackpots and pokies…. and huge offers and promotions targeting mainly young punters both on social media and TV, and lets not forget Betcha was introduced for youngsters to get hooked.  Going to be some very sad stories coming out over the next few years…. 

I think you will find, that very high percentage of the younger generation, do not watch mainstream media.  

Haras de Beaumont has announced a reduction in fee for its unbeaten Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Ace Impact, who will stand at €30,000 next season, down from €40,000 in his first two years. En route to his victory in the Arc, Ace Impact set a new record when winning the Prix du Jockey Club – a race won in recent years by the likes of Shamardal, Lope De Vega, Le Havre, New Bay and Study Of Man. “Ace Impact was the highest rated three-year-old in 2023 and his ability to quicken was extraordinary. He has been very popular since retiring with us, covering more than 200 black-type mares or black-type producers in his first two seasons, and we are looking forward to his first foals selling soon,” said Mathieu Alex, manager of Haras de Beaumont. “Feedback from French and international breeders has been unanimously positive.” As he embarks on his fourth covering season, Sealiway, too, has been trimmed, to €10,000 from €12,000. He will be represented by more than 100 first-crop two-year-olds next season. Alex continued, “We eagerly await 2026, which will mark Sealiway's first two-year-olds on the track. He was an impressive winner of the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère at two, and there is every reason to believe that his progeny will be capable of excelling from the age of two. Next year will mark the arrival of the first foals of G1 Prix Jean Prat winner Puchkine. The son of Starspangledbanner remains at his opening fee of €8,500, while Intello, the sire of Group 1 winners Junko, Adhamo and Intellogent, has had his fee reduced slightly to €7,000. All stallions are advertised on Live Foal terms. “Puchkine, undefeated at two, won the G1 Prix Jean Prat in the second-fastest time ever. His sire Starspangledbanner has had a great season with his two-year-olds in 2025 and we're delighted to offer this sire-line, source of speed and precocity, to breeders, Alex added. “With Intello, we are delighted to offer breeders the opportunity to entrust their mares to a proven stallion. Winner of the G1 Prix du Jockey Club and boasting a remarkable pedigree, Intello is the sire of more than 50 stakes performers worldwide.” The team at Haras de Beaumont has recently been boosted by the arrival of Sylvain Vidal in the role of nominations and client relations.  The post Ace Impact at €30,000 as Beaumont Fees Released appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The four-day Irish Equine Veterinary Association (IEVA) held their 2025 IEVA Conference last week. Besides pre-conference wetlabs, workshops, presentations and talks, there was also a dedicated series of nutritional workshops, kindly sponsored by Connolly's RED MILLS. The curated programme provided plenty of time for engagement between veterinary students, recent graduates, established vet and nurses with delegates, exhibitors, speakers and industry stakeholders alike. During the conference's social gathering, namely the Gala Dinner on Friday night, the raffle raised €1,750. This figure was matched by IEVA and as a result, €3,500 was raised for the for the Irish Veterinary Benevolent Fund and Irish Veterinary Professions for Palestine. For more information on the conference, please visit the IEVA website. The post IEVA Conference 2025 Held In Co Kilkenny appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) will for the first time be included in the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series: Win and You're In, Breeders' Cup and 1/ST Racing announced Nov. 13.View the full article

Arqana Online's November Pop-Up Sale featured an 100% clearance rate, as eight lots sold for a gross of €782,000. The lone Thoroughbred offering was listed-winning jumper Nador (Gemix) (lot 1), who sold for €200,000 to Nicolas de Watrigant of Mandore International Agency. Successful in the Listed Prix Noirot over fences at Auteuil, the Noel George and Amanda Zetterholm offering sold with an entry in the G2 Prix Congress that takes place on Saturday, November 15. He is from the family of N'Avoue Jamais (Marignan), No Risk At All and Nickname. For the complete results, please visit the Arqana Online website. The post Listed Winner Nador Sells For €200k At Arqana November Pop-Up Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Those American prospectors sufficiently resourceful–in every sense of that word–to mine some genetic gold at the European breeding stock sales generally fall into two camps. For some, an expanding and ever more lucrative grass (and synthetic) schedule in North America will offset the commercial distrust of turf bloodlines in their homeland. But others may also recognise that Thoroughbreds are more versatile than we typically allow them to be, hoping to emulate the impact on dirt of bloodlines imported from Europe by outstanding breeders of the last century. Both agendas have been repeatedly satisfied in the forthcoming auctions at Goffs, Tattersalls and Arqana. “The Tattersalls December Mares Sale has for decades been a focal point for North American buyers looking to source the very best of European bloodlines and find their foundation mares for generations to come,” says Jason Singh, head of marketing at Tattersalls. “Many transatlantic buyers are also looking to buy top-class race fillies, something that has become more prevalent in the last few years: recent Stateside successes include the GI Beverly D. winner Fev Rover (Ire) (Gutaifan {Ire}), the multiple graded stakes winner Pipsy (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) and the exciting Village Voice (GB) (Zarak {Fr}), winner of the GIII Waya Stakes on her U.S. debut for Chad Brown and Resolute Racing. “This year's catalogue for Europe's premier breeding stock sale looks an outstanding collection of top-class race fillies and broodmares and it's a great privilege to be asked to offer four fillies of the calibre of Porta Fortuna (Ire) (Caravaggio), Barnavara (Ire) (Calyx {GB}), Tamfana (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) and Choisya (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) in the Sceptre Sessions-four fillies that any stable or stud farm would love to have. They are among 82 lots offered in the fourth year of the Sceptre Sessions, and are sure to be in great demand; as are the drafts from ever popular owner-breeders such as Juddmonte Farms and Godolphin.” But Singh stresses that vale can be found at all levels of the market. “This sale offers something for everyone,” he says. “This is illustrated perfectly by the Group 1 winners Ombudsman (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), Via Sistina (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and Wise Approach (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}), whose dams were purchased for 25,000gns, 36,000gns and 42,000gns respectively. Those are just three of the 25 individual Group 1 winners worldwide this year out of fillies and mares purchased at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale.” Typically, then, an American shortlist of mares with “paper” potential might be little different from that compiled by a domestic shopper. But there does remain one further opportunity, marginal but potentially rewarding: the American pedigree that slips through the cracks. Via Sistina (pictured) winning the G1 Champions Stakes. Her dam sold for 36,000 gns at Tattersalls December Sale | Bronwen Healy Photography On the one hand, for most Americans it would defeat the object of the exercise to import blood already widely available on their home market. They are instead devoting a lot of time and expense to the hope of introducing something different to their programs. European shoppers, equally, tend only to risk American pedigrees at the 2-year-old sales, where nerveless pinhookers have demonstrated a horse's functionality before their very eyes. Both sides, then, may overlook some mares of blatant American potential catalogued in Europe over the coming weeks. Those at Tattersalls (December 1-3) tend unsurprisingly to reflect the work of one European program, in particular. Because when their own broodmare band became saturated with the blood of Galileo (Ire), John Magnier and his partners at Coolmore taught a culpably parochial generation of Europeans to respect such names as War Front, Scat Daddy and now Justify. If anything, the latter has been too sensationally successful in Europe for his own good, when it comes to the American yearling market. It's a paradoxical state of affairs, when Justify appears a dirt paragon in physique. But the Triple Crown winner's six daughters in this catalogue could not offer a more cosmopolitan blend, divided as they are between American, Irish, British and even Australian backgrounds. You could hardly seek a better example of the kind of outcross just discussed than Mayfair (Ire) [1732], a 4-year-old by Justify out of Clemmie (Ire)–especially because the latter herself represents another trademark Coolmore strategy. For as it became clear that Galileo was putting a ton of staying power into his stock, he was increasingly paired with mares that had exhibited exceptional speed on the racetrack. Clemmie proved the ultimate vindication, as the first among Galileo's countless Group 1 scorers over just six furlongs, in the G1 Cheveley Park Stakes. That was consistent with her own breeding: her dam Meow (Storm Cat) just missed in the G2 Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot, while granddam Airwave (GB) (Kyllachy {GB}) was herself an earlier winner of the Cheveley Park. Clemmie is sibling to serial group performers and/or producers, notably champion juvenile and Classic winner Churchill (Ire) (Galileo). One of three starters to date for Clemmie, and full-sister to listed winner Unless, Mayfair showed enough when second in maidens this spring to start just 4-1 for the G3 Musidora Stakes. Whatever her problem was that day, it saw her promptly dispatched for a cover that now serves as icing on the cake, by none other than Wootton Bassett (GB)–whose tragic loss has made collectors' items of all his remaining stock. One way or another, this Coolmore cull looks like a precious opportunity to tap into that operation's very best work. Justify -filly-out-of-Clemmie-1_Coolmore_072425_Sara-Gordon-1.jpg" alt="" width="632" height="459" /> Clemmie and her 2025 Justify filly | Sara Gordon A second Justify whose page makes you drool is the stakes-winning 4-year-old Miss Justice (GB) [1450], who failed by just a neck to add a group prize at Newmarket last month and is duly offered as a horse-in-training. She's out of an unraced sister to G1 Falmouth winner Timepiece (GB) (Zamindar), whose Group 1-winning half-sister Passage Of Time (GB) (Dansili {GB}) takes us into Juddmonte gold, with many elite performers clustering around and below her. Another 4-year-old, Foolish Love (Ire) [1290], managed only a single start but she's out of a sister to Classic-placed So Wonderful (War Front) out of Classic-placed Wonder Of Wonders (Kingmambo). The next dam All Too Beautiful (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), also Classic-placed, was sibling to a horse called Galileo-and his half-brother Sea The Stars (Ire)! Foolish Love arrives with a cover by rookie Auguste Rodin (Ire). Justify's sire Scat Daddy has three daughters in the catalogue, notably the Classic-placed Group winner Qabala [1730]. Her first two starters both won at a decent level, stimulating demand for her Wootton Bassett yearling, who made 2.2 million guineas in this ring last month. Qabala, out of a daughter of Empire Maker and GI Kentucky Oaks winner Flute (Seattle Slew), arrives with another prestigious cover in Too Darn Hot (GB). Another outcross given a good name in Europe through the enterprise of Coolmore, War Front, has half a dozen daughters going under the hammer here. Along The Beach [1289] is an 11-year-old with a patchy production record, but arrives in foal to Paddington (GB) and her third dam is Urban Sea herself. Surely somebody will roll the dice: she's a half-sister to G1 Criterium International winner Twain (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) and G2 Rockfel winner Just Wonderful (Dansili {Ire}), so this is a flourishing corner of one of the great families. Seven-year-old Elizabethan is sister to two of War Front's top performers in Europe, triple Group 1 winner Roly Poly and champion juvenile U S Navy Flag, their dam being Classic winner Misty For Me (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). She comes with the bonus of a cover by Camelot (GB) and, while she did not herself build on a maiden success, the page has been newly decorated this fall by two Group 1 juvenile scores for Puerto Rico (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who is out of a sister to Misty For Me. Solo Solitaire (Ire) was an undistinguished performer but surfaces in the Sceptre Sessions [1757] as a Violence half-sister to Brooch (Empire Maker), the dual Group winner in Europe best known in the U.S. as dam of GI Kentucky Derby winner Mandaloun (Into Mischief). Brooch, remember, is out of a stakes-winning sister to Emulous (GB) (Dansili {GB}), a Group 1 winner herself and meanwhile the dam of G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}) and shock G1 Sussex Stakes winner Qirat (GB) (Showcasing {GB}). Other familiar broodmare sires represented in the catalogue include Bernardini, Blame, Giant's Causeway, Medaglia d'Oro, More Than Ready and Street Cry (Ire); while many families are also represented that could be profitably restored to Kentucky. The Listed-placed 4-year-old Where I Wanna Be (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), for instance, arrives as Hip 1736 with a maiden cover by Night Of Thunder (Ire): her dam is a Street Cry (Ire) half-sister to Eight Belles (Unbridled's Song).   …And Goffs Also Worth a Browse En route to Tattersalls, American prospectors can take in the November Breeding Stock Sale at Goffs (November 21-22). But they should get there promptly, with the opening session featuring the 7-year-old Cleopatra's Gift (American Pharoah) [1030]. Herself unraced, she's out of an unraced half-sister to none other than Uncle Mo, and had a timely update the other day when her first foal Needle Match (GB) (Night Of Thunder {GB}) won on debut at Newbury. Unfortunately, she missed to his sire this time round, but had meanwhile delivered colts by Palace Pier (GB) and Cracksman (GB), so is just getting started. Several mares in this catalogue are by American sires who tapped into seriously classy families, albeit some may require a degree of courage in terms of age and/or production records. But there are also several younger mares that would offer plenty of domestic traction on “repatriation.” The 4-year-old Melodiam (Ire) (No Nay Never) [1078], for instance, showed nothing in a light track career but represents Juddmonte royalty: her dam is sister to Filimbi (Mizzen Mast), the Grade II winner who ran Tepin (Bernstein) to half-a-length in the GI Just A Game Stakes. Filimbi's son Dragoon Guard (Arrogate) emerged as a leading sophomore last year, suggesting that next dam Flute (Seattle Slew) is successfully recycling the genes that won the GI Kentucky Oaks. (This is duly the same family as Qabala, noted above at Tattersalls.) Similarly the limited racetrack profile of the 7-year-old Mystical Beauty (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) [1097] does not alter the fact that she is a half-sister to Rising Tornado (Storm Cat), dam of one of the most important females in Juddmonte's American division in Close Hatches (First Defence): a champion herself and meanwhile responsible for the Tapit trio Tacitus, Batten Down and now Scylla. This young mare's first starter Turty Tree (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) shaped extremely well on debut at Newmarket last month. First and foremost, however, both these sales are a goldmine of European bloodlines. The same will apply at Arqana next month, of course-and we'll be examining that catalogue in due course, too. For anyone whose Turf education was in the Old World, browsing these sales is tremendously evocative: page after page renews the memory of great racehorses, great families; and, for any overseas investor of due enterprise, great opportunities to change things up. “The Goffs November Sale is unmissable for quality and value,” argues Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby. “It is the source of many of the best and deepest Irish bloodlines each year, all conducted from the most user-friendly sales complex in the world. “The Breeding Stock Sale features stunning drafts from some of the world's leading breeders. It has proved the starting point for many major performers with the dams of Group 1 winners Precise (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), Romantic Warrior (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), Excellent Truth (Ire) (Cotai Glory {GB}), Lush Lips (GB) (Ten Sovereigns {GB}) and so many more all bought at the sale for less than €100,000. Goffs November is truly unmissable, and U.S. visitors will experience a welcome that only be found in Ireland-mighty craic-and a sale that delivers.” The post European Mares Tempt Various American Agendas appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

It’s Show Day and that means four Group 1s and two $500,000 slot races at Addington Raceway. Can Merlin win the New Zealand Pacing Free For All again against Leap To Fame and co and who will prevail in the battle of the three-year-olds – will be it Marketplace or Got The Chocolates? Butcher with key Show Day drives   By Michael Guerin Leading New Zealand driver Zachary Butcher says the hard edge the Australians are bringing to Cup week at Addington could actually help him today. Today’s Show Day twilight meeting features six black type races including the superstars of pacing and trotting backing up from the New Zealand Cup and Dominion on Tuesday into their respective Free-For-Alls. But the meeting also boasts the two $500,000 slot races and two major juvenile events and Butcher will find himself starting on the back foot in a few of them. He partners defending champion Merlin (R12, No.10) in the $200,000 Allied Security Pacing Free-For-All, in which he is the only horse drawn on the second line, while favourite Meant To Be starts on the unruly, the outside of the second line, in the $500,000 Majestic Horsefloats THE ASCENT.  Which is where Butcher hopes the aggression the Australians have shown dominating this week so far actually plays into his hands. “They have really made Cup week, even though I’d like to see the Kiwis winning a few more races,” says Butcher. “It has made the racing harder to predict and rather than sometimes here when you think you know your opposition or what the driver may do, it has been more unpredictable. “I reckon for a horse like Meant To Be that could be a real factor and maybe even a positive. “In a lot of his races here he has been able to work and get parked or lead and still be too good but that might not be the case this time. “But that could work in his favour. We have had to be really aggressive on him sometimes but I think he could be potent driven for one run. “If a couple of those horses up front get rolling like the Aussies can I think he could sit off then, get into a nice rhythm and show some real speed at the end.” Meant To Be has the motor to overpower his local rivals but the two Australians in the three-year-old trot, Gatesys Gem and Tracy The Jet, are both high class fillies. On their recent Victorian form Tracy The Jet is going to be awfully hard to run down if she leads. Merlin bounced out of the New Zealand Cup to win the Free-For-All sitting parked last year but Butcher says that won’t be happening from one on the second line tonight. “I was stoked with him in the Cup and we know he loves the short course racing but from one on the second line I will have a decision to make,” says Butcher. “There is a lot of gate speed from the really good horses out wide and if they come straight across one of them will likely lead and I am not sure we can run them down from three or four back on the markers. “But if they go hard then we might get a shot at them late.” Leap To Fame is favourite even from barrier 8 as he was enormous in Tuesday’s Cup even after sitting parked and of course his conqueror then Kingman isn’t in today’s field. Much like in the Cup, Leap To Fame’s chances could be determined by what Republican Party does inside him. If Republican Party leads again and stays there Leap To Fame can still win but becomes vulnerable again whereas is Leap To Fame rolls to the front early it is hard to imagine him being attacked and he should win. Butcher partners Greased Lightnin in the $500,000 Velocity for three-year-old pacers as he tries to defend the title trainers Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan, with Butcher in the sulky, won with Better Knuckle Up last season. “I have a good horse with an okay draw but we all know how well Got The Chocolates and Marketplace have been racing,” says Butcher. “The race shape will come down to whether Marketplace wants to stay in front or hand to Got The Chocolates but I think rather than burning early and undoing my horse I am better floating across to parked, hopefully taking a sit on Got The Chocolates and getting the last shot at them.” Butcher has his own mare Mantra Blue (R8, No.8) in the Bob McArdle Classic, a race he’d love to win because of a close family connection while he finally gets a good draw with the talented War Cry (R9, No.2) in the Dunstan Sires’ Stakes Final. It’s Marketplace vs Got The Chocolates again in THE VELOCITY  By Michael Guerin Marketplace has been woken up for the richest race of his career at Addington tonight. The glamour boy of our classic pacing crop has a few dents in his crown after arch rival Got The Chocolates has beaten him in their last two clashes, once when Marketplace trailed him but more painfully when Got The Chocolates sat parked outside him at Ashburton last start. “Got The Chocolates was awesome last start and I didn’t think he could do that,” says Marketplace’s trainer Regan Todd. “I don’t think our horse is going any worse but Got The Chocolates has improved and the gap has closed.” So Todd has reached for the turbo buttons by applying blinkers to Marketplace for today’s $500,000 slot race the Hill, Lee and Scott THE VELOCITY as well as removing his usual earplugs. “We think that will get him keener and we think he can handle that because he is such a laid-back horse. “I’d like to think it will have him up and running early and keep him keen.” While that could raise concerns for some horses about them over-racing the reality is today’s sprint trip is likely to be run hard anyway so Marketplace will be close enough to his top end of his cruising speed for much of the race. “It is all about the next two weeks now,” says Todd. “This race and the Derby next week are what he has been set for and I think we have him peaking.” As talented as Marketplace is, Got The Chocolates has gone to another level and he can still win even though he is likely to have to sit parked. One way or the other we should know who New Zealand’s best three-year-old pacer is by 7.45pm tonight.     View the full article