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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
High-class filly Barnavara, last seen winning the G1 Prix de l'Opera at ParisLongchamp, is set to go under the hammer at the Tattersalls December Mares Sale. She will be consigned by Baroda Stud and will feature as part of the fourth edition of the Sceptre Sessions, which take place on Monday, December 1 and Tuesday, December 2. Trained by Jessica Harrington for Alpha Racing, Barnavara has gone from strength to strength since gaining her first black-type victory in June's Listed Kooyonga Stakes at Navan. The daughter of Calyx has been beaten just once in four subsequent starts, notably winning the G3 Jannah Rose Stakes at Naas and G2 Blandford Stakes at the Curragh, before beating See The Fire by a short neck to make the breakthrough at the top level on Arc weekend. Altogether Barnavara will be offered at Park Paddocks as the winner of five of her 13 starts, having also made a successful debut at the Curragh in May last year. She went on to finish placed in three Group races as a two-year-old, including when returning to the Curragh to take third in the G2 Debutante Stakes. “The rules of the syndicate are that the horses are sold no later than the end of their three-year-old careers,” said Patrick Cooper of BBA Ireland, who bought Barnavara for €70,000 at Book 1 of the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale. “She is a big filly, standing a good 16.2HH, so what she has achieved this early in her career is remarkable. She won her maiden in May of her two-year-old year and has run another dozen times since. She has a great constitution and an attitude to die for. She just doesn't lie down.” He continued, “Barnavara is named after the farm where Mum grew up in Cork. She is one of two nonagenarians in the syndicate, most of whom are intending to come to the sales. The genteel rabble that are the owners had the day of their racing lives at Longchamp. This is a great group of people. “Alpha Racing has been going for eight years now and we have pretty much given everyone back the share price every year. Hopefully, this year's group might do a little better than that. We have a core that has been in since the beginning and others come and go depending on circumstances. We will be sorry to see her go, but we are stocking up for next year and the bills need paying. The sale will be her last race for us and we are expecting a large turnout.” Bred by Andriy Milovanov and Viktor Tymoshenko, Barnavara is one of three winners from as many runners out of the Kentucky Dynamite mare Alfea who, in turn, is out of a half-sister to the G1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis – Bayerisches Zuchtrennen hero Danceteria (Redoute's Choice). The third dam, the G3 Grand Prix des Provinces scorer Bal De La Rose, is a half-sister to the dual Classic-winning sire Lope De Vega. Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony added, “Barnavara is a filly of exceptional talent and looks to be a filly who is only going to get better and she will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of the Sceptre Sessions at this year's Tattersalls December Mares Sale. She joins a growing list of stellar fillies that will be offered at Europe's leading breeding stock sale and it is a privilege to be asked to offer her at one of the most eargerly anticipated events of the global bloodstock sales calendar this year.” The post Prix de l’Opera Heroine Barnavara Joins A-List Cast for the Tattersalls December Mares Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
The inner sanctum of the Avondale Jockey Club appear to have been working to bring about the demise of the Racecourse and the Club. Everything is now conveniently in place for its consignment to oblivion. All tenancies gone bar two. Horse training closed down. Overtures from Avondale RSA not embraced after the $10m windfall sale of its property in 2015. No money spent upgrading facilities after the club became debt free in 2015. Part of the course proper and 800m chute fenced off for subdivision and sale in 2017. Membership applications declined in 2017. No representations made to the Select Committee when hearings were held in Auckland in 2020 by any officeholder. Members' meeting held at a venue in Henderson (2024) to gain approval for non-adversarial transfer of club's property assets to NZTR. -
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Champion Citizen Bull (Into Mischief–No Joke, by Distorted Humor) will join the stallion roster at Coolmore America's Ashford Stud in 2026 following his final start in the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, the farm said in a press release early on Sunday morning. As a juvenile, Citizen Bull won on debut at Del Mar for trainer Bob Baffert who pitched him straight into the GI Del Mar Futurity–a race he finished third. Subsequent starts at the Grade I level yieled victories in the American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita and in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Del Mar. For his efforts, the colt was voted the country's top 2-year-old colt, which made him his sire's ninth champion. Citizen Bull's 3-year-old campaign included a score in the GIII Robert B. Lewis Stakes in Arcadia and a 5 1/2-length win in the Shared Belief Stakes at the seaside oval Aug. 31. “The only Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old male by Into Mischief, Citizen Bull will make a fantastic addition to our roster,” said Ashford Stud's Dermot Ryan. “He is from that very potent Into Mischief-Distorted Humor cross that has already given us the proven Grade I sire Practical Joke, and hails from the family of up-and-coming young Ashford sire Tiz The Law.” Following his Shared Belief Stakes success, trainer Bob Baffert said that, “He was back to a distance he really loves. The Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile is where we will be pointing… You saw the champion Citizen Bull today.” A stud fee for Citizen Bull will be announced in due course. The post Champion Citizen Bull To Stud At Coolmore America For 2026 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Darius Racing and Michael Motschmann's G3 Zufunfts-Rennen victor Gostam (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}), Germany's highest-rated juvenile, lined up as the 2-5 favourite for Sunday's G3 Wettstar Preis des Winterfavoriten at Cologne and justified cramped odds with a scintillating five-length triumph in the one-mile contest. He becomes the third winner of Germany's premier juvenile event for conditioner Andreas Wohler, who struck with Darius Racing's subsequent G1 Deutsches Derby hero Isfahan (Lord Of England) in 2015 and with the Gestut Fahrhof-bred Langtang (Campanologist) in 2016. Gostam was slick from the gates and held an early advantage, before being headed by Nitaro (Oasis Dream) approaching the halfway mark. Regaining control with 500 metres remaining, he rolled around in front as the pack threatened and thundered clear once engaging turbo to easily overpower Lommi (Churchill) by daylight. Pedigree Notes Gostam, one of his sire's eight pattern-race winners, is one of two black-type scorers out of the stakes-winning Goiania (Oasis Dream), herself kin to the stakes-winning Geminiano (Wootton Bassett), Wolf Country (Dubawi) and Gualana (Pivotal) as well as Listed Bayerischer Fliegerpreis third Guavia (Invincible Spirit). Guavia, in turn, is the dam of multiple Group-placed G2 German 2000 Guineas and G3 Premio Parioli (Italian 2000 Guineas) third Ghorgan (Study Of Man) and the stakes-placed Goin' (Nathaniel). The January-foaled bay, whose second dam is G3 Frankfurter Stutenpreis victrix Goathemala (Black Sam Bellamy), is a half-brother to the stakes-winning GIII Regret Stakes third Gavea (Gleneagles) and a yearling colt by Blackbeard. Sunday, Cologne, Germany WETTSTAR.DE – PREIS DES WINTERFAVORITEN-G3, €155,000, Cologne, 10-12, 2yo, 8fT, 1:38.38, sf. 1–GOSTAM (GER), 128, c, 2, by Saxon Warrior (Jpn) 1st Dam: Goiania (GB) (SW-Ger), by Oasis Dream (GB) 2nd Dam: Goathemala (Ger), by Black Sam Bellamy (Ire) 3rd Dam: Global World (Ger), by Big Shuffle (€58,000 Ylg '24 BBAGS). O-Darius Racing & Michael Motschmann; B-Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof; T-Andreas Wohler; J-Eduardo Pedroza. €85,000. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, €126,000. *1/2 to Gavea (Ger) (Gleneagles {Ire}), SW & GSP-US, $224,632. Werk Nick Rating: C+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigreex. 2–Lommi (Ire), 128, c, 2, Churchill (Ire)–La Sabara (GB), by Sabiango (Ger). 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (€78,000 Ylg '24 ARQOCT). O-Eckhard Sauren; B-Randolph Peters; T-Henk Grewe. €31,000. 3–Dalyan (Fr), 128, c, 2, Romanised (Ire)–Dalakania (Ire), by Dalakhani (Ire). 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (€42,000 Ylg '24 ARQOCT). O-Denis Cengiz; B-SAS Haute Vallee & Mme Charlotte Hutchinson; T-Henk Grewe. €20,500. Margins: 5, 2, 3/4. Odds: 0.40, 5.70, 30.10. Also Ran: Somi (Ire), Spezialist (Ger), Next Emerald (Ger), Guevara (Ger), Nitaro (GB). The post Saxon Warrior’s Gostam Goes Three For Three With Scintillating Winterfavoriten Triumph appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
GI Preakness Stakes winner War of Will (War Front) will relocate from Claiborne Farm to New York's Rockridge Stud for 2026, the farm announced Sunday. “We are honored to have this opportunity with Gary [Barber] on another stallion and thrilled to have Claiborne dipping a toe into the NY market,” said President of Rockridge Lere Visagie. Barber added, “I am very much looking forward to supporting War of Will in the lucrative New York breeding program. With the new Belmont facility coming online with three surfaces, I know War of Will can provide many opportunities for my mares and stable to become a large part of the New York Program.” Claiborne Farm will continue to be a shareholder in the stallion's new syndicate at Rockridge, as will many of the original shareholders from Kentucky. Walker Hancock, president of Claiborne Farm is optimistic that War of Will can continue to provide results in New York. “War of Will is a classic winner on dirt and a Grade I winner on turf,” Hancock said. “The new facility at Belmont will provide a continuation of the success we have already seen on all three surfaces, and we are very excited to be a part of this new chapter.” The post War Of Will To Stand At New York’s Rockridge Stud In 2026 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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