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By Chief Stipe · Posted
Looks like Kinnaird is another cheap colt going places. Purchased for $340k at Karaka 2025 by Te Akau. Look at the breeding - NZ and OZ's best sires on both sides of the pedigree, his dam has already left an Australian Derby winner and his 3rd dam was the mighty Soveig. -
By Chief Stipe · Posted
Looks like Kinnaird is another cheap colt going places. Purchased for $340k at Karaka 2025 by Te Akau. Look at the breeding - NZ and OZ's best sires on both sides of the pedigree, his dam has already left an Australian Derby winner and his 3rd dam was the mighty Soveig. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Manny Franco paced all riders to secure top honors as the leading jockey at the New York Racing Association with 206 wins across the circuit's six race meets in 2025. Linda Rice was the top trainer and owner.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Despite a few downgrades due to weather and a cancellation here and there, the U.S. and Canada still combined to run 446 graded races in 2025. What stands out after another full year of North American graded racing is in the books? All 98 scheduled Grade I races were run, with just three horses scoring a trio of successes at the elite level: Journalism, Sovereignty, and Ted Noffey. Another nine horses doubled up with two Grade I wins on the year. In addition to the 98 Grade I events, there were 136 North American Grade II races and 212 Grade III races. Sovereignty and Nitrogen tied for the most graded wins in 2025 with five. Hot on their heels were Bishops Bay, Fionn, Journalism, and Thorpedo Anna, who each had four graded wins. One sire notched five individual Grade I winners in North America in 2025: Into Mischief. Gun Runner, Not This Time, and Nyquist were right on his heels with four individual GISWs, while Dubawi (Ire), Liam's Map, Medaglia d'Oro, Ten Sovereigns (Ire), and Twirling Candy each had three. Another nine sires scored with two coveted Grade I winners apiece. Into Mischief also led the individual graded stakes winner tally with 17 on the year in North America, while Not This Time (15), Gun Runner (14), and Nyquist (11) also breached double digits. 24 of North America's graded races were won by runners out of Bernardini mares, making the late stallion far and away the leading broodmare sire by graded wins in 2025. Uncle Mo had 17 graded wins as a damsire, while Street Sense and Tapit each ended the year with 16. In the Grade I category, Bernardini, Distorted Humor, and Uncle Mo tied with six Grade I wins apiece, but it was Distorted Humor in front with five individual GISWs while Bernardini and Uncle Mo had three each. 58 of the Grade I races were contested on dirt, with the remaining 40 on grass. Overall, 224 of the 446 graded races ran on the main track, with another 195 on the lawn and 27 on all-weather surfaces. 37 of the 98 Grade I races were won by homebreds, whether raced by their breeders outright or with additional partners. At least 142 of the 446 graded races in 2025–or nearly a third–were won by homebreds. Godolphin bred four individual Grade I winners in North America, Juddmonte bred three, and Don Alberto Corporation and Spendthrift Farm each bred two. While a number of programs bred multiple graded winners, one stands especially tall: Godolphin bred the winners of 25 North American graded races in 2025. Those represented 15 individual graded winners, 12 of which were campaigned as homebreds when they visited the graded winner's circle in 2025. 231 of the 446 graded races were won by graduates of Fasig-Tipton, Keeneland, or OBS. The priciest were Barnes ($3,200,000 Ylg '23 FTSAUG), Brant ($3,000,000 2yo '25 OBSMAR), and Lush Lips (GB) ($3,700,000 3yo '25 KEENOV). On the flip side, Argos, Chunk of Gold, Nobals, Regaled, Sultana, The Queens M G, and White Abarrio all sold for $10,000 or less at domestic sales. There's a three-way tie for most Grade I wins among trainers. Bob Baffert, Chad Brown, and Todd Pletcher each won 10 in 2025. Baffert (35), Brown (28), and Brad Cox (26) led the year by graded wins. Fun facts: Not This Time sired the trifecta in the GII Jessamine Stakes on opening day of Keeneland's fall meet and the superfecta in the GIII Bryan Station Stakes on closing day of the same meet… The First Defence mare Antonoe produced two new Grade I winners in 24 hours at the end of November when Salamis won the Hollywood Derby and Segesta won the Matriarch Stakes; both race as homebreds for Juddmonte… Four specific crosses resulted in two 2025 Grade I winners each: Gun Runner over Malibu Moon, Into Mischief over Distorted Humor, and Liam's Map over Scat Daddy. The post 446 Graded Races in 2025: What Did We Learn? appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Junior driver Kate Coppins finds herself in an unusual position at the Wairarapa Harness Racing Club’s short and sharp dual code meeting at Tauherenikau on Friday. All four of her drives on the four-race programme are on heavily-favoured runners for Michael House. “I am very excited for it,” she says, “Micky always has all his horses on point.” Her drives will be Koko Kaboom (R1), Big Gee (R2), Million Dollar Chic (R3) and Goorambat Art (R4). Both Koko Kaboom and Million Dollar Chic back up after unplaced efforts at Alexandra Park on New Year’s Eve. “Koko Kaboom, I’ve had a good combination with him, and had a win and third with him, he’s a lovely horse.” “The 50 metre mark is a bit of a push over 2000 but if I step and get handy he’ll be there at the finish.” Million Dollar Chic is the shortest priced favourite of her four drives at $1.85. “Going onto the grass will be a big help and she’s racing pretty consistently.” Big Gee is a newcomer to the House stable, with a career record of no placings from 12 starts but Coppins is confident he can turn that around. “I’ve watched some of his videos and he has ability and some potential.” Her final drive will be Goorambat Art, who’s drawn one the second row. “He’s a good boy, he’s been racing very consistent.” In 2025 Coppins had four of her 19 wins for the House stable. She has 22 wins overall. She started driving for the stable after first getting to know the Houses through Kidz Kartz. “Wilson and I represented New Zealand in Australia,” Coppins says. And Coppins was delighted to see Wilson cap off a brilliant 2025 by winning the Junior Drivers premiership for the first time. “I was bloody happy for him – he’s a great guy.” While Coppins is driving at Tauherenikau, Wilson House will have six drives at Friday’s Central Otago Trotting Club’s meeting at Omakau. Employed full-time at Arna Donnelly’s Cambridge stables Coppins has a target for 2026. “I’d like to get to 50 career wins by the end of the year.” Judging from her book of drives on Friday she could get off to a cracking start. To see the Tauherenikau fields click here View the full article
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