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Still 3 years to go.  Your best and only solution offered so far is a used paint brush.

Where are you seeing these Green Shoots appear after the 5 years?

A guy forgets to buy you a Xmas present once and all of a sudden he is the grinch .. well I never!

Apart from the obvious promo this provides for the sport , it would be interesting to know how many go on from here into real ownership opportunities/activities in the sport.  Most of these Frac ownership models have about as much ownership as having a punt on a horse every time it starts.

At a time when 2-year-olds are focusing on the preps for the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1), the 5-year-old Bishops Bay is facing a prep of his own. View the full article

The Grant and Alana Williams stable are confident they'll go into the Dec. 6 Northerly Stakes (G1) with two undeniably strong chances in Western Empire and Watch Me Rock, as well as longshot Hemlock Stone.View the full article

With the inaugural Abu Dhabi Gold Cup on the horizon, the 33rd UAE President Cup Dec. 6 is a glimpse at Abu Dhabi Turf Club's growth on the international scene.View the full article

I just find it amazing, that people with no expertise in financial analysis, have done their own evaluation and come to the conclusion that after 5 years of being underwritten by Entain, racing in NZ will be doomed because the payout will fall substantially. By taking such a negative stance, they are contributing to it

Trainer Andy Simoff, who has been training Thoroughbreds since 1987, has won over 360 races while finding stakes success with horses like stakes winners Howgreatisnate (Speightster) and Alta Velocita (Il Postino). On Saturday, the Delaware-based trainer will saddle Jumping the Gun (Gun Runner), who will look to provide her conditioner with his first graded stakes victory in Aqueduct's GII Demoiselle, a nine-furlong test for juvenile fillies. “She's doing really well, and everything has gone perfect,” Simoff said. “She hasn't missed a work and the track's been good at Delaware, so that's a plus. She's training good, eating good, looks and feels good, so we're excited.” “I went to Aqueduct when I was eight or nine with my father and the first time I went, I was hooked on racing. It's kind of a full-circle moment and it would be unbelievable to win a race like [the Demoiselle].” A Kentucky homebred for John Guarnere's Imaginary Stables, the bay took a 5 1/2-furlong Delaware maiden by 1 1/2 lengths on debut in July before stretching out to six furlongs for a pair of stakes wins this summer at the Wilmington oval. She pounced from fifth-of-six to post a strong 4 1/4-length victory in the Blue Hen Stakes in August and raced more prominently to capture the restricted Small Wonder Stakes by 3 3/4 lengths in September. “She's really been amazing with no hiccups along the way, which is really difficult to do,” Simoff said. “Good shins, has trained forwardly, good in the gate–she does everything right. We liked her the first time out and she ran like we thought she would. The next two times, she won pretty easy. She's a real kind horse and will do whatever you want–sit, go to the front, so it will be interesting to see what happens.” Last out, the filly was a 1 1/2-length second to Dazzling Dame (Girvin) in the two-turn mile White Clay Creek Stakes on Oct. 11. “She drew the outside and got caught in a wide trip, but she still ran well,” Simoff said. “At the head of the lane, it looked like she was going to go by that horse, but she maybe got a little tired the last sixteenth. Her Ragozin number was higher than the winner, so that was encouraging. This race is obviously going to be a test for her, but it's time to find out what she's all about. The field looks tough, but not impossible.” Jumping the Gun is out of the stakes-winning Quality Road mare Breaking Bread, and she hails from the family of dual graded stakes-winner Pacific Gale. “I know when they're in the paddock and people get to see her, she'll be as good-looking as any horse there,” Simoff said. “I would get nervous in the other stakes and then when I'd get to the paddock, I'd be so confident. Saturday is probably going to be a little different because there will be horses that look as good as her, but probably none will look better.” Julio Hernandez returns to the irons from the inside post in the field of six. She is 6-1 on the morning line. The Demoiselle offers the top-five finishers with 10-5-3-2-1 qualifying points towards the GI Kentucky Oaks and is one of six stakes races on Saturday's 11-race card, which is headlined by the GII Cigar Mile Handicap. The card also features the GII Remsen Stakes and the GIII $250,000 Elite Power Stakes in addition to a pair of $500,000 New York Stallion Stakes Series events at seven furlongs for eligible state-sired juveniles in the Great White Way Stakes and Fifth Avenue Stakes for fillies. First post is 11:20 a.m. Eastern.     The post Andy Simoff Aims for First Graded Win in Demoiselle appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article