-
Available Subscriptions
RIU
1,717 topics in this forum
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 116 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 235 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 346 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 194 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 210 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 274 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 196 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 375 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 192 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 211 views
-
-
- Journalists
Neville Harris reappointed as RIB Chairperson
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 287 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 290 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 241 views
-
-
- Journalists
Racing Taupo @ Taupo, Sunday 17 August 2025
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 338 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 238 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 284 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 209 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 220 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 247 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 274 views
-
-
- Journalists
Bred 4 Champions – Dr Eliot Forbes discusses his work with Chrissy Fox on the Bred 4 Champions podcast
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 275 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 247 views
-
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 309 views
-
-
- Journalists
Racing Te Aroha @ Te Aroha, Sunday 27 July 2025
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 249 views
-
-
- Journalists
- 0 replies
- 250 views
-
Announcements
-
Posts
-
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The New York Racing Association announces revisions to the stakes schedule and a plan for additional race days to account for weather-related cancellations at Aqueduct Racetrack. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The likely fields for the rich G1 Saudi Cup card are taking shape, with American champion and Japanese Horse of the Year Forever Young (Real Steel) set to defend his crown. Other Japanese entrants are Luxor Café (American Pharoah) and Sunrise Zipangu (Kizuna). Hall of Famer Bob Baffert sends GI Breeders' Cup Mile winner Nysos (Nyquist) and GI Goodwood Stakes winner Nevada Beach (Omaha Beach). GII Clark Stakes winner Magnitude (Not This Time) represents Steve Asmussen, while Rattle N Roll (Connect) flies the flag for Kenny McPeek. Other American hopes are Banishing (Ghostzapper) and the Brad Cox-trained GII Cigar Mile victor Bishops Bay (Uncle Mo), who now races for King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Sons. In the night's other Group 1, the newly elevated $3-million Neom Turf Cup, sees runners from seven nations compete, led by Japanese trainer Yoshito Yahagi's Shin Emperor (Siyouni), who won the 2025 edition. Group winner Royal Champion (Shamardal) will compete, as will Survie (Churchill), who is now trained by George Boughey and owned by Doreen Tabor. Group 1 winner Facteur Cheval (Ribchester) returns to the turf for Jerome Reynier. The $2.5-million G2 Red Sea Turf Handicap is dominated by Joseph O'Brien runners in Group 2 scorer Tennessee Stud (Wootton Bassett), G1 Melbourne Cup second Goodie Two Shoes (Fastnet Rock) and Sons And Lovers (Study Of Man). Willie Mullins, who won the 2021 Neom Turf Cup, has entered Absurde (Fastnet Rock). The 2024 runner-up, Epic Poet (Lope De Vega), is back for Davie O'Meara, and Japan sends the duo of Struve (King Kamehameha) and Vermicelles (Gold Ship). G2 1351 Turf Sprint winner Annaf (Muhaarar) is back for another crack at the $2-million race. he faces Royal Ascot winner Lazzat (Territories), Donnacha O'Brien's Comanche Brave (Wootton Bassett) and Americans Time To Dazzle (Not This Time), Reef Runner (The Big Beast) and Zio Jo (Nyquist). In the $2-million G2 Riyadh Dirt Sprint, Bob Baffert's GI Breeders' Cup Sprint second Imagination (Into Mischief) anchors a trio of U.S. hopes. Japan fields five, among them G3 Saudi Derby runner-up Shin Forever (Complexity) and Hong Kong's Self Improvement (Deep Field). The $1.5-million Saudi Derby features a trio of American-trained entries in My World (Essential Quality), Acknowledgemeplz (Bucchero) and Obliteration (Violence) all gunning for the 30 GI Kentucky Derby points on offer for Brad Cox, Kenny McPeek and Steve Asmussen, respectively. A cluster of internationals oppose, with Saudi 2000 Guineas hero Al Haram (Iffraaj) entered. For more information on the Saudi Cup night entries, please visit the Saudi Cup website. The post Forever Young Leads Saudi Cup Card Entries appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Darley's Sam Bullard and Watership Down Stud manager Simon Marsh have paid Too Darn Hot the ultimate compliment by drawing parallels between the young stallion and last year's European champion sire Night Of Thunder. Both sons of Dubawi operate under the same Darley roof and Too Darn Hot, the sire of multiple Group 1 winners in both hemispheres, is charting a similar path towards elite stallion status, according to Bullard and Marsh. Buallard said, “Dubawi was what we set out to achieve in the early days of the Darley stallions and he has done so much more than that. Now, to have one of his sons [Night Of Thunder] in Ireland at Kildangan Stud and for him to be the European champion sire last year was wonderful. Incredible, really.” He added, “But when you see what is coming through [for Too Darn Hot] and when you realise the support coming through, the support that he is getting from leading breeders and leading trainers, I suspect come the yearling sales of 2028, Night Of Thunder will be struggling! We'll have to work hard to stay at the top anyway. So it's really exciting and we're very lucky to have two great sons of Dubawi.” Too Darn Hot may be sitting pretty as the sire of multiple Group 1 winner Fallen Angel in Europe along with Australia's champion two-year-old turned stallion Broadsiding. But there is a deep appreciation here for the fact that the chapters within this story could have read very differently had Too Darn Hot made his initial target at the yearling sales. Bullard explained, “What a story Too Darn Hot is. He was bred by Watership Down Stud and the Lloyd Webbers intended to sell him as a yearling but he went lame before the sales. So, unluckily at the time, they were forced to withdraw him and decided to put the pink colours on. He went to John Gosden and was a brilliant two-year-old. We were lucky enough, with the support of our patron [Sheikh Mohammed], that we were able to buy into him so he was destined to stand at Dalham Hall Stud at the end of his racing career.” He added, “At that time, we sort of knew that Dubawi looked like being an exciting sire of sires and with the pedigree that Too Darn Hot has, being out of Dar Re Mi, who was a champion herself, that it was incredibly strong. He was a horse we were hugely keen to get hold of and the breeders have supported him enormously the whole way through.” That support has seen Too Darn Hot sky-rocket to a career-high fee of £100,000 for 2026. Meanwhile, what he has achieved in Australia, where he was crowned the 2024 Champion first-season sire with a record-breaking A$4.16 million in earnings, is adding to his growing reputation as an international force to be reckoned with. The glowing terms in which Marsh and Bullard speak about Too Darn Hot would suggest that the share price in the young stallion is only going to go one way. Commenting on Too Darn Hot's success Down Under, Marsh said, “It's something that many stallions have tried to achieve – the likes of Galileo, Dubawi, Lope De Vega and Night Of Thunder have gone down there. A lot of stallions have tried to be dual-hemisphere stallions but, really, since Danehill, there have been very few who have been able to make a mark in both hemispheres, which he is doing.” He added, “But he's not a two-trick pony. It's remarkable what he is doing and, knowing that he has his best crops to come, you'd have to think he still has a long way to go. He's sired stakes winners in Japan and America, he's having winners in Hong Kong and he's had Group 1 winners in Germany, France, England, Ireland and Australia. He's a worldwide phenomenon right now. I am sure that the best is still to come and he is very similar to Night Of Thunder in that Night Of Thunder's best progeny and the best mares that he covered are only coming through now. Too Darn Hot is a few years behind Night Of Thunder, yet he is achieving some remarkable things from his early crops. To have a horse who is doing it in both hemispheres is pretty unique and obviously very exciting.” The post ‘Too Darn Hot Is A Worldwide Phenomenon Right Now’ appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
French Guineas hero Metropolitan sired his first reported foals over the past several days. A bay filly out of Couleur Café (Rock Of Gibraltar) and a bay colt out of Sand Rose (Aussie Rules) were both foaled at Haras de Montaigu. Haras d'Ombreville welcomed a chestnut filly out of Kiss Love (Kendargent), while a bay filly out of Marmelet (Kingman) arrived at Haras des Marais. In Ireland, a bay filly out of Vadsariya (Exceed And Excel) was born at Manister House Stud, pleasing Luke Barry. Nicolas de Chambure, director of Haras d'Etreham, said, “These first foals fully reflect what we hoped Metropolitan would transmit. They show presence, size and lot of quality.” The son of Zarak covered almost 130 mares in 2025, and stands for €12,000 at Haras d'Etreham this year. The post First Reported Foals Arrive For Metropolitan appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The two-day Arqana February Mixed Sale features 400 lots, including Sign And Seal (Hurricane Run), the dam of Group 1 winner Beaute Cachee (Literato), on February 17-18. The catalogue includes 152 mares and 81 fillies, as well as 50 short yearlings, and the complete dispersal of Al Shahania's thoroughbreds, and four stallion shares set to go under the hammer during the first session. The second session will consist of the second breeding stock portion, following on from the dispersal of Franck Leblanc, a selection of two- and three-year-old stores, 14 two-year-olds, and 75 horses-in-training. Sign And Seal, sold as lot 229, is joined by broodmares of the quality of: Imperatrice (Kitten's Joy) (lot 71), a stakes producer and in foal to Ace Impact; Mary Gold (Penny's Picnic) (lot 210) in foal to Dark Angel; and Prairie Blossom (Dalakhani) (lot 200) in foal to Charyn. Of the fillies-out-of-training, Hosaka (Lord Kanaloa) (lot 212) is one to note, as she is out of the Group 1-placed Rjwa (Muhtathir); as well as Suzette Defoye (Sea The Moon) (lot 252), who is a half-sister to Group 1 winner Simca Mille (Tamayuz). Sires represented by short yearlings include Siyouni with a half-brother to Group 1 winner Aspetar (lot 32); a daughter of Ace Impact out of group winner Qabala (Scat Daddy); and a half-sister to Group 1 winner Sajir (lot 239) by Earthlight. Apaniiwa (Cloth Of Stars) (lot 9), a listed winner in the National Hunt sphere will be offered, as will fellow jumps stakes winners Ginagold (Authorized) (lot 90) and Elektrix (Gemix) (lot 113). The post Dam Of Beaute Cachee Headlines Arqana February Mixed Sale Catalogue appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
-
-
Topics
-
