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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The track announcer at Parx Racing outside of Philadelphia, Jessica Paquette, has a new equestrian podcast she has launched named “Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette,” the voice of Parx said via a Monday afternoon tweet on X. The first pair of episodes have been released on Apple Music and on Spotify. Episode 1: Client/Trainer Relationships; Guests: Cellar Door Farm's Kelly Jennings, circuit trainer Archie Cox of Brookway Stables and Kentucky-based eventer Natasia Linnd. Episode 2: Social License to Operate in Horse Sports; Guests: David O'Connor, the Head of the USEF and HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus. The “Amateur Hour with Jessica Paquette” will drop fresh episodes every Monday. The post Track Announcer And Horsewoman Paquette Unveils New Equestrian Podcast 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
CHELTENHAM, UK — Four times a Cheltenham Festival winner and still only seven years old. From the Triumph to two Mares' Hurdles and now the Sky Bet Champion Hurdle itself, Lossiemouth's love affair with Prestbury Park, the most hallowed ground in National Hunt racing, continued unbroken on Tuesday as the mare landed her 14th win in a career spanning 18 starts – and counting. The roars of more than 57,000 racegoers carried her home, but in the end it was easy, as Lossiemouth's main danger Brighterdaysahead capitulated between the final two flights to leave her unchallenged to the line, giving trainer Willie Mullins his sixth Champion Hurdle victory. Notably, since Mullins and owners Rich and Susannah Ricci won this race ten years ago with Annie Power, another five runnings of the Champion Hurdle have gone to mares. For those who have campaigned so vigorously for the expansion of the National Hunt mares' programme to encourage more owners to get behind them, the sight of three mares approaching the second-last flight of the Champion Hurdle at the head of the pack must have been a sight to behold. Ultimately, it was a one-two for the females, thanks to the two dominant mares of the pack in Lossiemouth (Great Pretender), who relished the quicker ground to finish six and a half lengths clear of Brighterdaysahead (Kapgarde), who had run freely in the early stages. Last year's winner Golden Ace (Golden Horn) was not disgraced when battling home for fifth after finding herself short of room when The New Lion (Kayf Tara) and Alexei (Tai Chi) moved up to make their challenge heading towards the final flight. “She's a star mare,” Mullins said of the grey Lossiemouth, and he knows a thing or two about those, having trained Quevega to win the Mares' Hurdle a record six times in a row. “Just to come back four years on the trot, never mind win, puts her in a league of her own, I think. She's nearly getting into Quevega territory. It was an open race and when I put cheekpieces on her the other morning I thought, 'Wow, that's the old Lossiemouth'.” Winning jockey Paul Townend agreed that the application of cheekpieces in her work had helped them to make the decision to go for the Champion Hurdle over a third crack at the Mares' Hurdle. He said, “When we worked her in cheekpieces, she just came alive. I was on the fence about the Champion Hurdle, but I thought she needed to find that little bit of spark that we thought she had before, but Willie has trained her differently as well, and he's forgotten more about training racehorses than I've ever known. I thought I was happy and when I saw him smiling, that was it.” “You probably couldn't ride her to go any better than it did. She was much more like herself today than the last day [when beaten by Brighterdaysahead in the Irish Champion Hurdle]. “I think she's so honest and genuine, that on her back you know whether it is happening or not. I don't think it is the make-up of the race, I think it's physically, mentally or emotionally – whatever it is that she's got in her head – that matters, but she was on song today. “I was just happy to land running at the back of the last hurdle this year – not like last year – and she's got us on the board again. She's brilliant.” On a day for the mares, the Singer Arkle Challenge Trophy also went the way of Mullins when Kargese (Jeu St Eloi), running in the colours made famous on this turf by the great Honeysuckle (Sulamani), prevailed over stable-mate Kopek Des Bordes (No Risk At All) and Lulamba (Nirvana Du Berlais). Kenny Alexander's mare is another whose Cheltenham form bears close scrutiny. Second on her debut here to the classy Majborough in the JCB Triumph Hurdle, she won last year's County Hurdle and was last seen running just a neck behind the similarly smart Romeo Coolio in the Goffs Irish Arkle at the Dublin Racing Festival. “She's a proper one,” said Alexander, whose breeding operation is based at New Hall Stud in his native Scotland. “That was a tremendous performance. She got the job done, and those two behind her are very special horses. She's beaten them fair and square I think, so an amazing training performance by Willie and a great ride by Danny [Mullins]. He added, “I sell the geldings now and just race the fillies and mares. I've been very, very fortunate, and they've all been fantastically trained.” Nicky Henderson, who bookended the card with victory in the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle for Old Park Star (Well Chosen), trained the third triumphant mare of the day when the Victor Connolly-bred Holloway Queen (Jukebox Jury) brought the curtain down in the National Hunt Challenge Cup. Williamson back in front at Cheltenham It has been 23 years since 'Stormin' Norman' Williamson charged up the hill at Cheltenham to win the Supreme Novices' Hurdle aboard Back In Front for the late Edward O'Grady. It was the jockey's sole win in the traditional Festival opener, in what would transpire to be his final appearance at Cheltenham in 2003 before retirement, and never has the word retirement been such a misnomer. In the intervening decades, Williamson, whose finest hours at Prestbury Park came in 1995 when securing a Champion Hurdle-Gold Cup double aboard Alderbrook and Master Oats, has reinvented himself with just as much success as a pinhooker and producer of some repute. From the Classics to his old stomping ground at Cheltenham, his fingerprints are all over major winners of the moment, with the most recent addition to his CV being this year's Supreme Novices' Hurdle winner Old Park Star. Williamson, who can still recall the horse walking out of his box as a weanling at the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale, gave €50,000 for the young son of the unheralded stallion Well Chosen, but he had several good reasons to do so. Earlier that year, Old Park Star's full-brother Chosen Mate had won the G3 Johnny Henderson Grand Annual Challenge Cup for trainer Gordon Elliott, putting Matthew Fogarty into elite company as a multiple Cheltenham Festival-winning breeder. “I had some good times here,” Williamson admitted in the parade ring as Old Park Star's connections collected their prize. “I remember him as a foal and I loved him when I first saw him. But I've often thought that about a lot of horses, and they've ended up useless. But this fellow, I did. And I rang Tim Hyde Jr, and I said, I found a beautiful horse by Well Chosen, and he said, 'Norm, I'm not so sure.” And I said, 'He's a full-brother to a good horse. I'm going to buy him no matter what.' And that was him.” He added, “And I know that they all say it, but he is going to make some chaser. You know, he's bred to be a chaser. He's gorgeous. All is well, and I'm delighted for Tom Malone.” It was Malone who signed the docket for Old Park Star when he pitched up as a three-year-old in Williamson's Oak Tree Farm draft at the Goffs Arkle Sale of 2023. After changing hands for €120,000, the youngster initially went to Paul Nicholls but owners Gordon and Su Hall transferred him to the stable of Nicky Henderson at the start of this National Hunt season. Williamson is of course also responsible for having sold last year's 2,000 Guineas winner Ruling Court (Justify) and the 2022 Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Native Trail (Oasis Dream) through the Flat side of his business, and it wasn't long before Anthony Stroud, the buyer of both of those colts for Godolphin, came bowling over to congratulate him on his latest achievement. Of his batch of horses heading for this year's breeze-up sales, Williamson said, “They're all well so far. We're going home tomorrow night just to mind them.” It was on this equivalent day four years ago that Constitution Hill first lit up the National Hunt scene with his electrifying win in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle before going on to glory in the Champion Hurdle 12 months later. He returned to Cheltenham for what is likely to be the final time to parade before his fans on Tuesday. A door has closed for sure, but he has already pushed another wide open with his wide-margin novice win on the Flat at Southwell. It is an unusual career change for this unusually gifted horse, but don't be surprised to see him reinventing himself every bit as successfully as Norman Williamson has done. And in the meantime, Henderson has another young jumping star on his hands. Saratoga special Bred to win the Derby, Saratoga looked the class act that he is throughout the McCoy Contractors Juvenile Hurdle. The grey son of Camelot brought up a notable double for his dam Dialafara (Anabaa), breeders Lynch Bages Ltd and Camas Park Stud, and trainer Padraig Roche by winning the race better known as the Fred Winter four years after his half-brother Brazil (Galileo) pulled off that same feat. Brazil, too, ran in the colours of Cheltenham's winningmost owner JP McManus, who now has 86 Festival victories to his name, and was also ridden by Mark Walsh. A day for the greys: Mark Walsh salutes aboard Saratoga | Racingfotos For Flat fans, Saratoga's most notable half-sibling is the St Leger winner Capri (Galileo), who now stands in England at Willow Wood Farm and will be represented at Cheltenham on Wednesday by Boycetown in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper. McManus, who later celebrated a double on his 75th birthday when Johnnywho (Califet) won the Ultima Handicap Chase for Jonjo O'Neill, said, “I met Michael O'Leary today, he wished me a happy birthday and said, 'Only the good die young!' “Every winner at Cheltenham is very, very special. With that one [Saratoga] I go back a long way with Padraig's father Christy. They were praying that the ground would be fast, as he bounces off it. “We've had a lot of fun. We've had some great days here. Everybody leans towards coming to Cheltenham and it means so much to so many. I'm delighted that one has won for Padraig.” The post ‘In a League of Her Own’: Lossiemouth Claims Champion Hurdle in Fourth Festival Success 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
After burning up the track all last week during the under-tack shows, a colt by first-crop stallion Drain the Clock (hip 132) was the first for his sire to breach the seven-figure mark Tuesday at OBS March, selling to Pedro Lanz for $1.1-million. Bred in New York by Saratoga Glen Farm, LLC and Dean Purdom, the chestnut son of Making a Point worked a furlong in :9 4/5 for consignor de Meric Sales. He'd been through the ring twice before, first selling as a weanling at the Fasig-Tipton New York Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale in 2024 for $120,000, then realizing $145,000 when de Meric picked him up at the Fasig-Tipton New York Saratoga Preferred New York Bred Yearling Sale last season. The post Pedro Lanz Acquires Drain The Clock Colt For $1.1-Million 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
A colt from the first crop of champion juvenile Corniche (hip 95) quickly established a new high-water mark, selling to Legion Bloodstock for $1.35-million at OBS March Tuesday. Out of Canadian champion 3-year-old filly Leigh Court, the colt worked a quarter mile in :21. Bred in Kentucky by Speedway Stables, LLC, he was consigned by Pick View LLC who purchased him as a yearling at Keeneland September last year for $250,000. The post Corniche Colt To Legion Bloodstock For $1.35-Million 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
A colt by Nyquist (hip 88) out of Argentinian champion older mare La Extrana Dama (Arg) was the first horse to cross the seven-figure threshold at the OBS March Sale's opening session Tuesday, bringing a final bid of $1.2-million from a partnership that includes Marquee Bloodstock And Morplay Racing. Consigned by Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stables, the Kentucky-bred colt worked his furlong in a sharp :9 4/5. Bred by De La Pomme Kentucky Inc, he was initially purchased as a yearling out of the Keeneland September Sale last year for $170,000 by Ange Bloodstock. The post Nyquist Colt First To Seven Figures At OBS March 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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