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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Shisospicy is set to begin her 2026 season in Saudi Arabia, competing in the 1351 Turf Sprint (G2T) on Saudi Cup (G1) night Feb. 14.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
By Michael Guerin Champion trainer Barry Purdon is adamant Meant To Be (pictured above) has the motor of a good open class trotter. But tonight’s $40,000 Trotters Flying Stakes (7.01pm) at Cambridge could be a little too soon to see that motor pay dividends. Meant To Be is a trotting rarity having looked like an open class horse even when winning as a two-year-old, an age when most young trotters are still trying to work out where their legs are supposed to go. After a luckless back end to his three-year-old season he has just turned four and Barry, who trains him with Scott Phelan, knows there is nowhere to hide. “He has to step up to open class at some stage and I have no doubt he is good enough,” Purdon says. “Whether he can win this week, first time against race fit, hardened open class trotters I am not sure but he will get there for sure.” Tonight Meant To Be is a victim of his own impressive record of nine wins from 16 starts as he comes into open class as a Rating 84 horse, so under tonight’s preferential draw conditions he starts from the outside of the front line. He will probably enjoy having some room to move early in his first start off the unruly but it is incredible to think the youngster is rated 14 points higher than Hillbilly Blues, who has won just one less race but the Group 1 National Trot at Alexandra Park last week. While Hillbilly Blues has raced only sparingly left-handed he has shown good gate speed and if he rolls to the front from barrier 3 tonight it is hard to see how Meant To Be, or any of his rivals, will catch him. Belle Neige, who has been a consistent improver and was huge in the National Trot, and the wonderful old statesman of New Zealand trotting Oscar Bonavena are the obvious dangers. Oscar Bonavena has won this race twice but has been beaten, usually with merit, in his last seven starts as he is finding it harder to give away the starts he often does with his usual sit-and-swoop racing style. If they burn early tonight Oscar could win and look stunning doing it but the days of him being sub $3 in most open class races, even one of as mixed quality as tonight, must surely be coming to an end. The early burn for positions could also determine tonight’s Pacers Flying Stakes (7.37pm) which only has four starters but may not be as straight forward as it looks. Akuta has barrier 3 and Merlin barrier 4 and the market suggests Akuta will use that advantage to lead, which would make it extremely hard for Merlin to beat him. But the two pacers drawn inside the favourites, Little Spike (1) and Jolimont (2) are Arna Donnelly stablemates and the Cambridge trainer is rarely scared to give her horses their chance in front, especially with aggressive reinsmen Andre Poutama and David Butcher aboard. If Akuta leads he should win but if the Donnelly stablemates fancy the lead-trail scenario that makes Akuta the horse who will have to come sit parked at some stage with Merlin almost certainly on his back, the latter then becoming the horse to beat. “It is going to be very interesting,” says Purdon, who also trains Merlin. “He can obviously win but so much is going to depend on what they all do early.” View the full article -
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Breeders' Cup has announced that 14 countries on five continents will host 'Win and You're In' qualifiers in 2026 as the Challenge Series enters its 20th year. A selection of the premier contests in Argentina, Canada, Chile, England, France, Ireland, Japan, Peru, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Uruguay feature as part of the 2026 Challenge Series. The 45-race international schedule is available to view here, with the North American portion of the Challenge Series, including races in Canada, set to be announced in the spring when racing schedules have been finalised. In addition, Breeders' Cup has allocated a record $6.5 million in free entry fees to this year's 'Win and You're In' qualifiers, with all winners guaranteed a starting position in a corresponding race at the 43rd Breeders' Cup World Championships, which take place at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky on October 30-31. “Global participation is a cornerstone of the Breeders' Cup, and the Challenge Series remains the premier pathway for horsemen worldwide to secure automatic qualification for the World Championships,” said Dora Delgado, Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Officer of Breeders' Cup Limited. “We are grateful to the racing authorities and partner organizations spanning five continents for their continued commitment, which is essential to the strength of the Challenge Series, and we anticipate another outstanding edition of the World Championships at Keeneland this fall.” Last year, 46 Challenge Series winners competed at the Breeders' Cup at Del Mar and three won their respective divisional races: Forever Young in the $7 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic; Notable Speech in the $2 million FanDuel Breeders' Cup Mile; and Ted Noffey in the $2 million FanDuel Breeders' Cup Juvenile. The 2026 Challenge Series launched in December last year, with Obataye winning an entry to the $5 million Longines Breeders' Cup Turf through the G1 Gran Premio International Carlos Pellegrini Stakes in Argentina. On January 6, the international action continued with Herr Kitten securing a berth in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile via the G3 Gran Premio Pedro Pineyrua in Uruguay. Obataye and Herr Kitten, along with every other Challenge Series winner based outside of North America, will be offered a $40,000 travel allowance by Breeders' Cup. In order to receive the reward, each winner must be nominated to the Breeders' Cup programme by the pre-entry deadline of Monday, October 19. The post Fourteen Countries to Host ‘Win and You’re In’ Qualifiers for 2026 Breeders’ Cup 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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The already struggling racing and breeding industries in New Jersey were hit by potentially devastating news on Wednesday when it was reported that there are bills afloat in the state capital in Trenton that could eventually allow Monmouth Park to reduce its meet to 25 days a year. Is this the beginning of the end for one of the sport's most iconic and picturesque tracks? Not necessarily. (I'll get to that later). But it's hard not to be pessimistic about Monmouth's future. As with so many things that have become the real wheels that now make this sport churn, this is all about alternative sources of revenue from gaming. Monmouth is to the East Coast what Santa Anita is to the West Coast. The first casino opened in Atlantic City, New Jersey way back in 1978. Over the next 48 years, Monmouth, along with the Meadowlands, has fought the good fight. Those in charge have done everything imaginable to try to get casinos or at least slot machines to call their own or to get the Atlantic City casinos to do something to help the horse racing game. But the casinos have immense political power, particularly in the southern half of the state, and their many cronies won't budge. They have protected Atlantic City at all costs. Horse racing be damned. A band-aid was offered in 2019 when then-Governor Phil Murphy approved a $20 million package from the state to supplement purses. Half went to Monmouth and half went to the Standardbred industry. With that money, Monmouth was able to hold a 50-day meet, which didn't include nine extra days of all-turf Thoroughbred racing at the Meadowlands. By today's standards, the purses weren't anything special and the meet was way shorter than it needed to be. But, with the $10 million, Monmouth Park got by. But there have been strings attached. The purse subsidies were often guaranteed for only one year at a time and that left the Monmouth team to return each year to Trenton to all but beg for more help. The other problem is that on Jan. 20, Murphy will no longer be the governor. This is the day that new governor, Mikie Sherrill, will be sworn in. She seems like a reasonable person and, as a fellow Democrat, has never seemed to have issues with Murphy or anything that he has done. She has given no indication that she will be an Atlantic City sycophant. But no one has any idea how Sherrill feels about horse racing and its place in the future of her state. If Sherrill does continue with the purse subsidies, then Monmouth's future will be safe, at least in the short term. The other hope is that, finally, some form of casino gaming will come to the state's racetracks. Legislation that approved casinos in the New York City metropolitan area is now in effect and three casinos are set to open within the five boroughs. The timeline is anywhere from this spring to 2030. One will be at the site of Aqueduct, which will cease being a racetrack later this year and will become a full-fledged casino rather than a “racino” with limited gaming options. Jeff Gural, the owner of the Meadowlands, is as perceptive as they come and has a lot of friends in political circles. He has expressed optimism that, with the new New York casinos just a short drive from the New York-New Jersey borders, politicians in the Garden State will finally wake up and put a stop to the exodus of New Jersey casino gamblers heading to New York and Pennsylvania, contributing nothing to the state they live in. Picnics at Monmouth Park | Sarah Andrew Barring the unforeseen, Monmouth is not going to get a casino. It is too far away from New York City and too close to Atlantic City. But should the Meadowlands get a casino, the conventional wisdom is that it will be required to split the revenue with the Thoroughbred game. The Meadowlands sits in the middle of one of the most densely populated areas in the country, and a casino there would surely be among the most successful on the planet. There's that, but there's also the harsh reality of a possibly dire situation. Dennis Drazin, who heads the management team that runs the racetrack, has said that he does not want to cut dates but has to keep that option open if the purse subsidy goes away. “We have no intention of ever cutting days unless we're forced do so because we don't have revenue,” Drazin told the TDN. “If we don't have revenue, then our choice is do we close down the operation or do we go to the horsemen and ask them to reduce days?” The problem with his logic is that a 25-day meet will never work. The first blow would be to the state's breeding industry, which is already hanging on by a thread. With a guarantee of only 25 days of racing, no one is going to breed a horse in the state. The larger issue is that finding horsemen to stable and race at Monmouth with only 25 days of racing available to them will prove to be an impossibility. What trainer is going to come to Monmouth when there will be so many better options in the Mid-Atlantic region? All they have to do is look some 70 miles to the west at Parx, where there is year-round racing, fat purses and the state's breeding program is thriving. For someone who has lived most of his life within a short distance of Monmouth Park, I find this highly upsetting. It is where my father used to take me to the track almost every Saturday and taught me to love the sport. (You still had to wear a jacket and a tie to get into the clubhouse in those days). It was where I had my first “real job” as a horse racing journalist, covering what was then a robust Garden State-Monmouth- Meadowlands circuit for the Daily Racing Form. It is a beautiful place with an atmosphere not unlike that at Del Mar. It is nestled next to the Atlantic Ocean and an afternoon spent there on a beautiful summer day at the Jersey Shore is an afternoon spent in heaven. If you've ever been there, you know exactly what I mean. But times have dramatically changed, and the sport has lost way too many racetracks in recent years, and there are legitimate fears about the future of racing in California and Florida. Will Monmouth Park be the next to be given its last rites? I hope not. But I fear that it will. The post A Sobering Day For Monmouth Park: An Analysis 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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Unbeaten in five career starts, Juddmonte homebred Disco Time (Not This Time) will put his perfect record on the line in the $3-million GI Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park Jan. 24. “At the moment, he's got a lot of unknown about him,” Juddmonte USA General Manager Garrett O'Rourke said. “He's coming off two impressive performances, he's unbeaten and he's by the hottest stallion out there. Those are all the positives. I suppose the negatives are, well, what has he beaten yet? He's out of a sprinter, does he want to go 1 1/8 miles? We're gonna find out if he's up to that level, we hope he is. At some stage or another, you've got to step up.” O'Rourke continued, “If we didn't have to give him so much time off, you'd like to have answered those questions last year, but that's just the way it happened.” After beginning his career with a pair of victories in the fall of his 2-year-old season at Churchill Downs, Disco Time aced his two-turn debut with a visually impressive, come-from-behind win in the GIII Lecomte S. going 1 1/16 miles in the slop at Fair Grounds last January. Bone bruising, however, subsequently knocked Disco Time off the 2025 Triple Crown trail. “He had a rough race when he won the Lecomte, but we were still moving forward,” O'Rourke said. “You get out a few weeks and you're planning on taking the next step and wondering, 'Which one do we go for?' But then he's not quite the same. Nothing major, but he's got bone bruising. At that stage, you've lost all hopes for the Triple Crown. It's just a bad time of the year for it to happen. He took a little bit longer and we had to give him extra time. When the horse came right, all of sudden (trainer) Brad (Cox) was like, 'Ok, he's turned the corner.'” Disco Time resurfaced with a dominating wire-to-wire tally in the St. Louis Derby at Fairmount Park Sept. 19, then put on a show versus three overmatched rivals in the Dwyer S. at Aqueduct Nov. 8, good for a career-high 107 Beyer Speed Figure. Disco Time has won his last two starts by a combined 15 1/4 lengths. He has been favored in all five of his career starts. Others pointing for the Pegasus include: Disco Time's stablemate and GI Curlin Florida Derby winner Tappan Street (Into Mischief); Pegasus defending winner White Abarrio (Race Day); GI Malibu S. winner Goal Oriented (Not This Time); 2024 GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Full Serrano (Arg) (Full Mast); and Louisiana sensation Touchuponastar (Star Guitar). “He's got a lot of questions to answer, but we're sure looking forward to it,” O'Rourke said. Disco Time is one of 33 graded winners for leading young sire Not This Time. He was produced by the Jump Start mare Disco Chick, a four-time stakes winner of $735,250. She brought just $35,000 from RPM Thoroughbreds at the 2022 Keeneland November sale. The 15-year-old had a filly by Yaupon last year and was bred back to Justify. The post Pegasus World Cup Up Next for Unbeaten Disco Time 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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