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    • Trainer Danny Shum will welcome G1 Irish Derby second Serious Contender to his stable once the Hong Kong season begins. Formerly trained by Aidan O'Brien for the Coolmore partners, the son of Wootton Bassett has two wins on his ledger and was also second in the King George V Handicap at Royal Ascot in June. Other horses bound for Hong Kong include Boniface Ho Ka Kui's Listed Burradon Stakes winner and G3 Hampton Court Stakes third Glittering Legend (Too Darn Hot) from the yard of James Fanshawe, former Ralph Beckett trainee Seraph Gabriel (Saxon Warrior), and Jack Davison's 2024 maiden winner Glenderry (Mohaather). The trio are all heading to David Eustace. The King's Falcon (Dubawi), who has a win and two placings for William Haggas will join John Size. Listed Churchill Stakes second Beckman (Beckford) from the yard of Ger Lyons, and John Joseph Murphy trainee and Gowran debut winner Maestro Mark (Tamayuz) are both also bound for Hong Kong. The first day of the Hong Kong 2025/2026 season begins at Sha Tin on September 7. The post Irish Derby Second To Continue Career In Hong Kong appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
    • Grass Wonder (Silver Hawk) has died at the age of 30, Japan's Big Red Farm announced on Friday. The 1997 Japanese champion juvenile colt, the paternal grandsire of 2015 Japanese Horse of the Year Maurice, was diagnosed with multiple organ failure on Thursday and died August 8. A statement from the farm read, “Grass Wonder passed away today, August 8, 2025. He was undefeated from his debut, winning the Asahi Hai in record time and had a brilliant career as a racehorse, including three consecutive Grand Prix victories. “As a stallion, he produced multiple Group 1 winners, and his son, Screen Hero, has produced a successor in Maurice. “He turned 30 this year and was in good health, but his condition worsened yesterday evening. He passed away this evening [Friday]. Our deepest condolences to a distinguished horse who left a significant achievement in Japanese horse racing. Rest in peace, Grass Wonder.” Bred by Phillips Racing Partnership and John Phillips in Kentucky, the second foal out of Ameriflora (Danzig) was offered at the 1996 Keeneland September Yearling Sale by Phillips's Darby Dan Farm. Grass Wonder sold for $250,000 to Nobuo Tsunoda. Raced by the Hanzawa family, the full-brother to two-time Grade I winner Wonder Again was trained by Mitsuhiro Ogata and was undefeated en route to his championship. He added his first Arima Kinen at three, and the Takarazuka Kinen and another Arima Kinen at four. Of his nine lifetime victories, four of them were elevated to international Group 1 status in subsequent years–the Asahi Hai Sansai Stakes, the Arima Kinen (1998/1999) and the Takarazuka Kinen (1999). Retired after his 5-year-old season in 2000, he began his stallion career at the Breeders Stallion Station and would later move to Big Red Farm where he would stay until being pensioned in 2021. At stud, he sired 736 winners from 1327 foals (55%). Just 15 of those were stakes winners, with the Takarazuka Kinen hero Earnestly and G1 Japan Cup hero Screen Hero his only top-level scorers. Maurice, who stands at Shadai Stallion Station and Arrowfield Stud in Japan and Australia, respectively, is the sire of 32 stakes winners, with 22 at group level anchored by six top-flight winners. The post Champion Grass Wonder, The Grandsire Of Maurice, Dies At 30 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
    • 6th-SAR, $100k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, post time: 3:19 p.m. ET SASSMASTER (Curlin) was purchased by Alistair Roden on behalf of his client Mark Breen for a sales-topping $550,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October Sale and the early April foal has drawn widest in a field of eight for this first visit to the races. Bred by Stonestreet, the bay is kin to a pair of winners, including 2019 GII Prioress Stakes and GIII Victory Ride Stakes heroine Royal Charlotte (Cairo Prince), who is in turn the dam of the 3-year-old Medicine Dog (Constitution), third in last year's Clever Trevor Stakes. Senior Lender (Volatile) has gate seven and the $450,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Klaravich Stable is out of a half-sister to the fleet stakes-winning track-record setting Mundaye Call (Into Mischief) and Bullard (Gun Runner), winner of the GIII Bob Hope Stakes at two in 2024. Golden Tornado (McKinzie), a half-brother to undefeated stakes-winning 'TDN Rising Star' and GI H. Allen Jerkens-bound Verifire (Authentic), was knocked down to Reeves Thoroughbred Racing for $475,000 at KEESEP last fall. The colt's stakes-placed dam is a daughter of Grade III winner Queen ofthe Catsle (Tale of the Cat). TJCIS PPs       2nd-DMR, $100k, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 5:31 p.m. ET BAD MANNERS (Into Mischief), purchased by Spendthrift for $700,000 at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga a year ago, is the current 2-year-old out of three-time Grade I winner I'm A Chatterbox (Munnings), whose yearling full-brother to this filly was hammered down for $2.6 million at this week's Saratoga Sale to Spendthrift, who was buying out their partners Fletcher and Carolyn Gray. A daughter of MSP Chit Chatter (Lost Soldier), the $2.35-million earning I'm A Chatterbox is also the dam of Juniper's Moon (Galileo {Ire}), third in the 2023 GIII Florida Oaks and sold on for $625,000 at the 2024 Keeneland January Sale. Bobby Flay purchased Brooklyn Blonde (Gun Runner) for $510,000 at KEESEP last year and she debuts here for trainer Michael McCarthy. A daughter of two-time stakes winner and Grade I-placed Shenandoah Queen (Henny Hughes), the chestnut worked a half-mile from the gate in :46 4/5 (1/105) in the company of her recent maiden-winning stablemate La Ville Lumiere (City of Light) on Aug. 2. TJCIS PPs The post Saturday Insights: Fasig October Topper Sassmaster Drawn Wide For Debut appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
    • Be Your Best leads a trio of stakes starters for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. Aug. 9 at Colonial Downs.View the full article
    • Jockey Katie Davis has promised not to just make up the numbers in the Aug. 9 Shergar Cup and will be calling upon a certain Frankie Dettori for last-minute instructions before her Ascot debut.View the full article
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