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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Jim Reilly, a master farrier, has retired after 52 years in the position. From Clonsilla in Dublin, he followed his father's career path. Reilly has been shoeing horses for trainer Jim Bolger since 1972. In 2015, he was awarded the Ancillary Services Award at the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards. Bolger said, “Jim Reilly shod the first horse for me in 1972 and since then had shod 56 Group 1 winners and 12 Classic winners including two world champions–St Jovite and New Approach (Ire). He also shod two champion hurdle winners and two Epsom and Irish Derby winners. In all he has shod 2,860 winners for us. “He has now decided to take things a little easier and let some rust gather on his anvil. I am delighted to see him retire in good health, never having been injured while shoeing 5,000-plus horses and I wish him a very long and happy retirement. “Jim is a thorough gentleman and a great friend to Jackie, me, my family and staff. I don't think there has ever been a better farrier anywhere in the world. He never missed a day in 52 years and I am sure Willie Mullins, Aidan O'Brien and many others have learned much from Jim.” The post Master Farrier Jim Reilly Retires After 52-Year Career 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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Reigning Hong Kong Horse of the Year Romantic Warrior (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), winner of five elite-level events in Australia, Hong Kong and Japan in 2023-2024, kicks off what promises to be an audacious season in Sunday's G2 BOCHK Jockey Club Cup over his pet distance of 2000 metres at Sha Tin Racecourse. A history-making winner of the G1 W S Cox Plate at Moonee Valley a little over a year ago, the Tattersalls October and Hong Kong International Sale graduate defended his title in the Longines Hong Kong Cup and added the Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup and a third FWD QE II Cup before finishing the campaign with a breathtaking score in the Yasuda Kinen in Tokyo. He'll be an unfinished article come Sunday, with the international races three weeks away, but he towers over the competition and should make light work of the task at hand. James McDonald jets up from Australia to renew acquaintances. “He is good and he's had a lot of preparation. (Jockey) Hugh (Bowman) rode him for his trials and we had very positive reports,” said trainer Danny Shum of the 6-year-old, who carries a five-pound penalty. “Of course he's not (100%). But, to be honest, his condition is much better than when he went to Melbourne in the early part of last season. The horse is happy, the jockey is on top form and there's not a really strong field, so I'm confident he can run a good race.” Tentative plans call for Romantic Warrior to focus dirt races in early 2025, with the G1 Saudi Cup and G1 Dubai World Cup potentially on the dance card. “We've got the plan to send him to Dubai and Saudi, so I wanted to trial him on the dirt with the pacifiers and see if it helps,” Shum told South China Morning Post. “Romantic Warrior is very special and the Saudi Cup is the most important race for him. Maybe he cannot win, but if he runs in the first four, it will be a huge achievement.” Romantic Warrior is within shouting distance of Golden Sixty (Aus) (Medaglia d'Oro)'s world-record earnings, and with that treble HOTY enjoying retirement, Galaxy Patch (Aus) (Wandjina {Aus}) looms the heir apparent in that division and should take all the beating in the G2 BOCHK Private Wealth Jockey Club Mile. Group 1-placed behind California Spangle (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) over 1400 metres last March, he was aggressively spotted just two weeks later in the 2000-metre BMW Hong Kong Derby and came with a late burst to just miss behind Massive Sovereign (Ire) (No Nay Never). Since struggling with the wet ground in the G1 FWD Champions Mile in April, he has rattled off three straight at group level, including a 1 1/2-length defeat of the classy Voyage Bubble (Aus) (Deep Field {Aus}) and Chancheng Glory (Mor Spirit) in the G2 Sha Tin Trophy Handicap Oct. 13. The aforementioned California Spangle, winner of last year's G1 Al Quoz Sprint, makes an appearance in Sunday's G2 BOCHK Private Banking Jockey Club Sprint, where he will once again have Ka Ying Rising (NZ) (Shamexpress {NZ}) to deal with. Seven-from-nine in his career, the 4-year-old was a Group 3 winner at the tail end of last season and has picked up where he left off this term, with an easy Class 1 score opening day followed by a smooth success at long odds-on in the Oct. 20 G2 Premier Bowl Handicap. Behind him that day were the re-opposing Helios Express (Aus) (Toronado {Ire}) and California Spangle and it will take something unexpected to see him beaten on Sunday. The post Romantic Warrior, Emerging Stars On Trial For Longines HKIR 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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Baptiste Henry has been appointed to join the nominations team at Darley in Europe and will be responsible for looking after the stud's French clients. Baptiste, who began his career in racing at Jebel Ali and has race-ridden over jumps in France, has also worked for leading trainer Jerome Reynier and with Sebastien Desmontils of Chauvigny Global Equine at bloodstock sales. He said, “I am delighted to be joining the Darley nominations team and look forward to getting to know the French clients and contributing to their continued success with the Darley stallions.” The post Baptiste Henry Joins Darley Nominations Team 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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Time Test (GB) has been sold by the National Stud to continue his stud career in Turkey. A statement released by the Turkish Jockey Club on Friday read, “Another successful name, purchased by the Turkish Jockey Club, is coming to our country to serve our breeders starting from the 2025 breeding season. Time Test, whose import operations are ongoing, will stand in our country in 2025.” A dual Group 2 winner in Britain for his owner-breeder Juddmonte Farms and trainer Roger Charlton, Time Test, by Dubawi (Ire) out of the Group 1 winner Passage Of Time (GB) (Dansili {GB}), has been based in Newmarket throughout his European stud career, which began in 2018. He has also shuttled to Little Avondale Stud in New Zealand and is the sire of four group winners: Crypto Force (GB), Rocchigiani (GB), Okeechobee (GB) and Romantic Time (GB). Time Test's juvenile half-brother Cosmic Year (GB) (Kingman {GB}) won his sole start at Sandown by six-and-a-half lengths for Harry Charlton in September and is currently quoted as 20/1 for next year's 2,000 Guineas. Earlier this year the National Stud sold Mutasaabeq (GB) to stand at stud in India after he covered mares for just one season in England. The champion sprinter-elect Bradsell (GB) has recently been welcomed to the stallion wing of the National Stud, where he will stand alongside Stradivarius (Ire), Lope Y Fernandez (Ire) and Rajasinghe (Ire). The post Time Test Sold to Turkish Jockey Club 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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Trainer George Boughey has described Group 2 winner Believing (Ire) Mehmas {Ire}) as the “perfect outcross” for breeders ahead of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. The Highclere Racing-owned four-year-old, who has danced every dance this season and reached a career-high rating of 112, is one of the star attractions of the Sceptre Sessions at that sale and Boughey says that his stable star would be a no-brainer for potential buyers. He said, “With her being a Group 1 filly by Mehmas, who has had a record-breaking season and has become that sexy sire, I've no doubt he's going to become that broodmare sire that everyone wants to be a part of. Graduates of this sale are already winning Breeders' Cups, as we saw with Quiet Reflection (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) [dam of Juvenile Fillies' Turf winner Lake Victoria (Ire)] this year and a number of others going to the highest level. She is the perfect outcross for any of those modern day stallions.” There are few fillies as battle-hardened as Believing. Having started her campaign in Hong Kong, she went on to race eight times — mostly at the highest level — throughout an exhilarating campaign. Of course, there would have been another Group 1 contested had she not been deemed a late non-runner after getting upset in the stalls ahead of the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, for which Believing was a leading fancy for at Del Mar. Reflecting on that mishap, Boughey said, “It was one of those things that you couldn't foresee happening, really. We did loads of gate work with her to try and get her to jump that bit faster. She stood in there and had a little bit of a fright. One of them a few gates down from her reared and it just set her off. The guys at Highclere were super about the whole thing. She's been a star for them. It's just sad that at the end of the story, with the pace collapse [in the actual race], that it wasn't her in front. But she came back safe and sound and that's the main thing.” Nobody can take away the fact that Believing is a Group 2 winner who hit the frame in no less than three Group 1s this season. Reflecting on that stellar campaign, Boughey said, “It's always a bit of a punt keeping a Stakes-winning filly in training from three to four but she'd shown us the signs, certainly in the winter and into the spring — I must say, I wish I had her in the Al Quoz [Sprint in Dubai] as she was absolutely flying at that stage. She just really thrived through the spring. Her Listed win [at Haydock] was really impressive and set the tone for the season, beating a Group 1 winner. She went to Royal Ascot and what a filly to run well there twice within the week. She's a Group 2 winner and has danced every dance. In jest, I said to Harry [Herbert] at the start of the season that we'd start in Hong Kong and finish in Del Mar. The constitution of the filly allowed me to do that. And also, the belief of the owners to allow me to campaign her so positively.” Asked to sum up the physical attributes that make Believing such a hot commodity, Boughey added, “For me, she's as good a sprinting type as you'll see. She has a deep girth and is a good-moving type for a sprinter. She's not overly big but she has become a more compact individual as time has gone on. We had her on a Guineas preparation after her two-year-old career. She immediately came back to sprinting trips and looks a fast, precocious type, one I'm sure will breed nice stock.” The post Sceptre Sessions-Bound Believing ‘A Perfect Outcross For Breeders’ 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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