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Trainer Dale Romans discusses Bobrovsky's training plans, which will not include any breezes, ahead of the Oct. 31 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1T).View the full article -
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by TTR AusNZ The Herald Sun has reported that Racing Victoria's most senior veterinary officer, Dr Grace Forbes, has lodged a formal “Application for an order to stop bullying” with the Fair Work Commission, alleging she was “pressured and coerced” into clearing international horses considered at “high risk of catastrophic injury” to race. According to the Herald Sun, Dr Forbes, Racing Victoria's general manager of veterinary services since 2014 – alleges that senior executives, including chief executive Aaron Morrison and integrity boss Jamie Stier, urged her to be “flexible” in her application of the state's veterinary safety protocols. In her submission, seen by the publication, she claims the repeated requests to be “flexible” amounted to a demand that she act unethically and at odds with her commitment to equine welfare. “The repeated request of me to be flexible suggests that I should be unethical, which is at odds with my commitment to advocate for the horse,” Dr Forbes was quoted as saying. It reports that Dr Forbes raised concerns that permitting high-risk horses to race could lead to serious or fatal injuries and that her stance caused tension with senior management. She alleges she was later removed from her role overseeing international veterinary assessments and took personal leave citing “psychological and emotional exhaustion.” Dr Forbes also reportedly accused prominent international figures, including Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien and Melbourne Cup-winning owner Nick Williams, of applying direct pressure to Racing Victoria leadership to “soften” veterinary standards to allow more leniency for overseas runners. “I have no doubt that Mr Aidan O'Brien applied direct pressure to Racing Victoria leadership to soften the standards… to make the Veterinary Safety Protocols 'flexible', even if that meant risking catastrophic injury to horses,” Dr Forbes stated in her submission, according to the Herald Sun. It reports that Racing Victoria “strongly refutes” the allegations, describing them as inaccurate and disparaging. A spokesperson for the governing body told the publication: “Equine welfare is of the highest priority to Racing Victoria, which is why we've spent A$45 million on equine welfare programs, initiatives and resources since 2017… The protocols continue to set a global standard and we will not compromise these.” The veterinary protocols were introduced in 2021 following the death of Anthony Van Dyck in the 2020 Melbourne Cup – the seventh fatality in eight years, six of which involved European-trained horses. The new measures include compulsory pre-travel and pre-race CT or PET scans for all international entrants. Since those protocols came into effect, no fatalities have occurred during the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The recent removal of Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup favourite Sir Delius – after scans indicated a “heightened risk of injury” – indicate that the rules continue to be applied without regard to a horse's profile or connections. A Fair Work Commission hearing on Dr Forbes's application is expected to be held later this year. The post Racing Victoria’s Chief Vet Alleges Pressure To Clear High-Risk Horses 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
Group 1 winner No Half Measures (Cable Bay) has been retired according to trainer Richard Hughes. The R. P. Gallagher runner's biggest claim to fame was her victory in the G1 July Cup Stakes. She also won the G3 Trophy Stakes and Listed Prix Moonlight Cloud in 2024. Bred by Bumble Bloodstock and Mrs. S. Nicholls, she retires the winner of seven of her 16 starts with $735,634 in earnings. “We were thrilled with the run, we might have been a little bit unfortunate that it didn't come up soft like other years because she will go on soft ground,” said Hughes. “She still ran very well and proved that it was no fluke at Newmarket, it justified her. “We were really pleased with the run, that's her last run and she'll go off to the breeding sheds now so she's gone out on a high. She's a filly we'll never forget, that's for sure.” Bought for a mere snip at £34,000 by Richard Hughes from Marwell Park at the Goffs UK Premier & Silver Yearling Sale in 2022, No Half Measures is the second foal and winner out of the placed mare Fascinator (Helmet). This is the same family as G3 Molecomb Stakes hero and dual Group 1-placed Kachy (Kyllachy), as well as multiple group winner Beat The Bank (Paco Boy) and G3 Chipchase Stakes heroine Chil Chil (Exceed And Excel), third in the G1 Sprint Cup. The post July Cup Heroine No Half Measures Retired 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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DEAUVILLE, France — In TDN Europe we have banned the use of the word fireworks in relation to action in the sales ring but as it is almost officially fireworks season let's just say that it would be no surprise to see a few whizz-bangers in Deauville on Tuesday. The Arqana October Sale gets underway at 10am, with the first two days devoted to Part 1, graded each day, and the 810-lot sale continuing through to Saturday. Some enticing lots on paper include lot 103, Haras de l'Aumonerie's Kameko half-brother to last year's Prix de Jockey Club winner Look De Vega (Lope De Vega), who is now happily ensconced at Ballylinch Stud, and nine lots later (112) from the same draft there comes another half-sibling to a French Classic winner in the Wootton Bassett brother to Coeursamba (The Wow Signal). Haras de Saint Pair's select draft includes the Frankel first foal – a filly – out of Andreas Putsch's homebred Group 1 winner Pearls Galore (Invincible Spirit) as lot 137, while late in Tuesday's session is Haras de Magouet's The Grey Gatsby colt (lot 211) whose half-brother Woodshauna (Wooded) is both an October graduate himself, having been sold at €70,000 two years ago, and one of the stars of the season as the winner of the G1 Prix Jean Prat. Potential buyers who start their viewing rounds in the far corner of Yard A at Arqana will alight first at the draft of Benoit Jeffroy's Haras de Castillon which has been in the news in the last week with the announcement that the Normandy farm will be standing six stallions from 2026. They include the newcomers Tribalist (Farhh) and Classic winner Marhaba Ya Sanafi (Muhaarar). Jeffroy, whose family has a long history of breeding cattle and horses in Brittany, has previously worked for Darley in Newmarket and ran Al Shaqab's Haras de Bouquetot on his return to France, during which time he and his wife Annabelle Aime bought Castillon. “My grandfather started the family farm in Brittany in the 70s and then we took over in 2009 with my brother,” he says. “Castillon was bought with my wife in 2015. She's a vet and so we were really trying to find a place for us and a place near the clinic where she works. So we bought Castillon, which was 30 hectares, and now we're pretty much up to 250 hectares.” He continues, “At the beginning with Castillon it was really just for us and for the horses that came from Brittany for the season, and then it grew with people asking to board mares. We started to consign at the sales but we really only consign for people who are boarding with us all year long, or for partners we have horses with.” The stud's new departure into stallions includes the young sires Thunder Moon, Romanised, and the Jeffroy family homebred Texas, who was second to Modern Games in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains, beating Godolphin's Tribalist into third. “I've always been interested in stallions since I was very little,” Jeffroy says. “When I was a teenager, I was trading nominations of my dad's shares, and then I worked for Darley for five years in nominations and then setting up the operation at [Haras de] Bouquetot for Al Shaqab. We know how it works and I think now it's time to do it for ourselves. It's great to have partners like Godolphin, Jaber Abdullah and all the other partners who are following us with Thunder Moon, and Robert Ng with Romanised. It's great support to start out with. “Since the news came out a lot of French people have come to me to say that they are so happy that Tribalist is standing in France. I think he will be popular. He won seven Group races and he's very well known. And the same for Marhaba: he's tough, he won the French Guineas, so he's well known as well. Both new stallions, I'd say, will be well received judging by the first impressions we have had from people.” Both Tribalist and Marhaba Ya Sanafi will be available for breeders to view at Clairefontaine racecourse during Arqana's Breeding Stock Sale in December, but this week the focus is still on yearlings and Haras de Castillon has a draft of 31 spread throughout the week. “In August we sold well. It was very selective. You have to be able to place your horses right,” Jeffroy says. “We've had a lot of shows in the last two days here. A lot of people, a lot of action, so I hope now the action will be in the sales ring. “Every year we sell 25, 30 horses in October and I think we have a good draft all week through.” And just to prove that it is worth sticking around until the final session of a long sale, last year's Castillon draft included Czajkowski (Flintshire), who was sold on the Saturday for €16,000 to his trainer Alicja Karkosa and earlier this month took second in the G3 Prix de Conde at Saint-Cloud. Following Tuesday's early-bird start of 10am local time, the following three sessions will begin at 2pm, while Saturday's action gets underway at 11am. The post From Sales Drafts to Stallions: Haras de Castillon Expands 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 Aga Khan Studs' Calandagan, fresh off a victory in the G1 Champion Stakes, has been ranked 133 by Timeform, second only to Hong Kong Horse of the Year and recent G1 The Everest winner Ka Ying Rising (Shamexpress), who is at 135. The ranking is the highest for a European horse this year. The Hong Kong invader received a mark of 128 for his Australian heroics. The son of Gleneagles surpassed the mark of 131 given to Daryz (Sea The Stars), who also races in the iconic green with red epaulettes, in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe two weeks ago. In the Ascot contest, Calandagan defeated the 130-ranked Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder), who ran second. A trio of horses sit at 129–Romantic Warrior (Acclamation), Delacroix (Dubawi), fourth in the Champion Stakes, and Sovereignty (Into Mischief), who has won the GI Kentucky Derby, GI Belmont Stakes, and the GI Travers Stakes this year. Timeform handicapper Rory King said, “The Champion Stakes looked the race of the season on paper, Ombudsman and Delacroix – both having a victory over the other this summer – joined by King George winner Calandagan in a heavyweight clash, the like of which is rarely seen in Europe. “In many ways Calandagan's the perfect middle-distance horse. He had the speed to put himself in a winning position through the first half of the straight and the mile-and-a-half stamina to fend off Ombudsman once that one had got within half a length, the mettle he showed in pulling clear putting to bed any remaining doubts over his attitude that crept in following defeat to Jan Brueghel in the Coronation Cup.” The post Calandagan Ranked Second Only To Ka Ying Rising By Timeform 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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