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Yes you get this crap in every single race. You just could not make it up! Whoever or whatever writes the comments are just hopeless and Entain are telling us that they Trust this outfit for 20+ years? You can tell that they do not care a rats about harness punters! -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Four-time group 1 winner Designs On Rome has died following a bout of colic at the age of 15.View the full article -
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The owner of Culworth Grounds Farm, home of young stallion El Caballo (GB), takes time out to face the TDN question master. You made the trip over for the Irish Stallion Trail. Where did you visit and what were your main takeouts from the trip? It was actually the first time that I had done the stallion trail, but I happened to be going home to visit my parents and thought I could double up. It was a great experience overall and a great opportunity to be able to see the stallions and the studs. I didn't only get to see stallions but also a few tours of stallion paddocks, covering sheds and stallion boxes. Always good to get ideas to take home to Culworth Grounds! Was there a surprise package of a stallion for you? The standout from the new horses that I saw was Look De Vega (Fr) for me. I thought he was a classy looking horse with great movement, and it will be very interesting to see his stock. How is your own boy, El Caballo, getting on? We are delighted with how El Caballo has got on. He got a solid book of mares last season covering 100 mares. We were very excited to welcome our first foal by him this week. He has matured into a lovely looking stallion, and we got some great feedback from breeders that saw him parading during the December Sales. He's the first stallion you have stood at Culworth Grounds. How have you enjoyed that experience? It has been a great experience standing a stallion. El Caballo himself is great in the covering shed so that has made things easy. I enjoy talking and meeting new people, so it has been fun talking to breeders and hearing about their mares. I also have a great team of partners in the horse who bring their different skills and opinions to the table so overall we hope that will all help on the journey to giving him the best chance of being a success. What were your highlights from 2024 and how did you find trade on the whole? It might be boring to say but El Caballo was definitely a highlight of 2024. It is one thing thinking that you would like to stand a stallion 'one day' but it was a great thing actually making it happen. We also had the first year with our homebred racing syndicate 'No Fun Winning Alone'. We had some first-time-out syndicate members who enjoyed experiencing racehorse ownership and the experience of owning a winning racehorse. What did you make of trade last year on the whole? Trade this year at the top end of the market was very strong and the bottom was very tricky. In days gone by a nice model of a horse could still sell well but fashion has really taken over with sire power being very important. It is a shame really because good horses can come from anywhere. It was a good year in terms of winners produced by the stud. Who are you looking forward to seeing most this year? We have had lots of winners on the track this year but the horse I am most looking forward to next year is Paborus (GB) (Recoletos {Fr}), trained by Ed Bethell. It looks like he will be targeted at black-type races. Hopes and ambitions for the year ahead? In terms of hopes and ambitions for 2025, it is always to produce and breed nice horses and hopefully one day a champion. We are lucky to have a great team of people at Culworth Grounds and we will continue to invest in the farm and the team. The post In the Hot Seat: Sophie Buckley 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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Barry Irwin is the first person to admit that he wasn't a fan of digital sales when they first came on the scene about a decade ago. “I make my living buying and selling in the private marketplace, and when the digital sales first came around in Europe, I was very upset,” he said, adding that he thought that at the time, sales companies were promising owners unreasonable prices on their horses which made it harder to buy privately for an appropriate price. “I didn't like the fact that I had compete for horses,” he said. But 10 years on, he has become a fan, and is offering two racing or broodmare prospects at the Fasig-Tipton January digital sale, which runs until January 21. Hip number 6, Toeris (Tourist-Sutil {Brz}, by Redattore {Brz}), is bred and owned by Irwin in conjunction with Gary Barber. An earner of over $166,000, she was a winner at two and went on to be third in the GIII Jimmy Durante Stakes at Del Mar. Her dam, Sutil, was a Group 1 winner in Brazil going a mile and a quarter on the turf. “She hasn't had a top horse yet, but she's had three runners for us and they've all won, and earned well over $150,000 each. We have a five year-old named Juniperro Serra (Noble Mission {GB}) and he I think he will earn Black Type eventually. We have another half-sister named Jungle Cat (Animal Kingdom) who has won over $150,000. Toeris was given a break, but she's back in training so she's she can be a race horse or a broodmare.” Hip 12, By Any Other Name (Aus), Mendelssohn-Alexandra Rose {SAf}, by Caesour (SAf), is a half-sister to Grade I winner Oleksandra (Aus), who Irwin said is the only Australian-bred to come to America and win a Grade I race, which she did when defeating males in the Jaipur Stakes at Belmont. She also won two other graded stakes in America. By Any Other Name is a winner herself in Australia at three. “We started her off in Australia, let her break her maiden and then brought her here,” said Irwin. “She's had nothing but bad luck. We own the whole family, we have several sisters, and this filly doesn't really fit in our program right now. I think we're better off letting somebody else take a shot with her, and seeing if they could do better with us. She's sound, and Bill Mott likes her. We think she's got value as a broodmare. She probably can still run, but here it is the start of the breeding season. We don't want to breed her, but if somebody wants to buy her as a racehorse or breed her, here she is.” Despite his early misgivings, Irwin is now an active user of the digital sales. He sold Nadette (Fr) for $420,000 last summer at the Fasig-Tipton July Digital Sale. “I think Fasig Tipton does the best job (among the digital sales companies),” he said. “They're responsible. They treat both buyer and seller in the same equitable manner. The $420,000 for Nadette was a fair price for us, and a fair price for the buyer. From the perspective of my operation alone, (brick-and-mortar) sales are fixed dates and they're few and far between. If you have a horse who blossoms at a particular time of year, you want to put it in the best possible light. Having a digital sale every month is a fantastic opportunity, because you can take advantage of the form right then and there.” Team Valor has used digital sales as a way of reducing their overall numbers to fit with a somewhat revised model for their operation. At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, he said, they had 165 horses, and they are now down to 75. He hired former attorney Fred Heyman, who previously managed Peter Angelos's racing operations, to one day take over the business. “About three or four years ago, we decided that we were only going to buy horses that we thought could be a graded stakes horse,” he said. “Once we had improved it and had our fun, we want to sell it and move on. Most of our horses are sourced in Europe, and not the United States. We buy them with the idea of starting them off there. If we think they'll do well here we will bring them here if not, we'll keep them there.” Irwin's daughter lives in Wales, and said his goal is to spend three to five months in Europe every year looking at horses. “When I'm trying to source horses, just trying to do it by video or digital or photographs or relying on somebody else's opinion is not what I want to do. I think I can do better if I'm there myself.” “I have become disenchanted with too many aspects of racing in America,” he said. “Fred loves it here, and he's more enthusiastic about the domestic scene that I am, so my answer to him is `God bless you.' You can run the American division. I'll run the European division. I'll find the horses, you can find some here but we'll still get most of them over there and that's that's the plan for the future.” The post Embracing Digital Sales, Team Valor Has Two On Offer at Fasig-Tipton January Digital 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 2025 California Thoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA) Winter Mixed Sale, which includes a special 22-horse dispersal from the farm of Donald Valpredo, will be held Tuesday, Jan. 21, at Noon PT in the Hines Pavilion at Fairplex, the organization said in a release on Friday. Valpredo, a California industry leader and former President of the CTBA, passed away in November. Handling the consignment will be Checkmate Thoroughbreds. Including the dispersal, there are 143 cataloged and supplemented broodmares, racing prospects, yearlings and 2-year-olds available in a sale that previously produced stakes winners like Bodacious (Smokem), Lord Prancealot (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) and Grade I-producing broodmares like Expo Gold (Johnannesburg), the dam of GI Preakness Stakes heroine Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil). For further information and to obtain credit, contact Loretta@ctba.com or call (626) 445-7800, ext: 227. The post CTBA Winter Mixed Sale Includes Valpredo Dispersal On Tuesday, Jan. 21 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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