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Ellerslie is set to host two World Pool meetings in early 2025. Photo: Nicole Troost World Pool coming to New Zealand LOVERACING.NZ News Desk 19 November 2024 In a coup for the New Zealand racing industry, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) have announced the arrival of World Pool to two New Zealand thoroughbred meetings in early 2025. In an unprecedented development for the New Zealand racing industry, the TAB Karaka Millions meeting at Ellerslie in Auckland on January 25 will be the first of the two World Pool meetings in New Zealand, with the second taking place on the newly created Champions Day on March 8, also at Ellerslie. Champions Day is home to four Group One races, including the Trackside New Zealand Derby (2400m), Bonecrusher Stakes (2000m), NZ Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) and Sistema Stakes (1200m), as well as the inaugural running of the $3.5 million NZB Kiwi (1500m), the richest race for three-year-olds in the Southern Hemisphere. The presence of World Pool leads to increased international viewership as well as providing much larger pools for New Zealand’s TAB customers to bet into. Lachlan Fitt, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Entain Australia and New Zealand, the operators of New Zealand’s TAB, said the announcement reflects the progress made in New Zealand racing in the past 18 months. “World Pool is an exciting opportunity to share the very best of New Zealand racing internationally,” Fitt said. “The benefits of having the thoroughbred racing world firmly focused on New Zealand for these two meetings cannot be underestimated. As well as the advantages that our TAB customers will see, World Pool meetings are a confirmation that New Zealand racing is making its mark on the global stage.” Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the hosts of World Pool, was delighted to welcome New Zealand as a World Pool partner. “New Zealand has a long and rich horseracing history with an outstanding record of producing champion horses, jockeys and trainers on the international stage,” he said. “Not only is New Zealand a proven nursery in terms of equine and human racing talents, but it also boasts a vibrant and respected domestic racing structure crowned by world-class Group One races.” New Zealand-bred thoroughbreds hold a great record in Hong Kong, with the likes of Sunline, Beauty Generation, Vengeance Of Rain, Aerovelocity, Lucky Sweynesse and Werther performing to the highest level in the leading racing jurisdiction. New Zealand-sourced gelding Golden Sixty has been crowned Hong Kong Horse of the Year for the last three seasons, while Kiwi-bred sprinting sensation Ka Ying Rising is proving to be one of the most exciting prospects in Hong Kong ahead of the renowned Hong Kong International Races next month. New Zealand horsemen have also made their mark in Hong Kong, with leading jockey James McDonald currently plying his trade there on a short-term contract following a standout spring in Australia. “New Zealanders James McDonald, Shane Dye, Paul O’Sullivan and Jamie Richards are synonymous with racing excellence and also strongly linked to Hong Kong and it is upon this foundation our World Pool partnership is founded,” Engelbrecht-Bresges said. “New Zealand becomes the ninth racing jurisdiction to have its elite Group One races included in the World Pool operation and, from a personal viewpoint, it is wonderful reflect on the close racing ties shared between New Zealand and Hong Kong. “New Zealand occupies a special place in the international racing ecosystem due to its excellence in breeding and, as a like-minded partner, the New Zealand TAB has been a strong supporter of international commingling, joining the HKJC pools for local races and other international World Pool events since 2019. We very much looked forward to a continuation of this collaboration.” Auckland Thoroughbred Racing Chief Executive Paul Wilcox is excited by the extra international attention the World Pool will bring to two of the Auckland track’s feature meetings. “We can’t wait to host these two meetings, and all the attention that World Pool brings,” he said. “With the addition of World Pool, we’ll be building on the hard work that delivered a game-changing TAB Karaka Millions in 2024 and producing a stunning new raceday on Champions Day.” New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing chairman Russell Warwick has welcomed the announcement and said it will be a great addition to the local industry. "To have World Pool operating on not one but two meetings in New Zealand is a great boost for the industry,” he said. “These meetings were already promising to be world-class affairs, and the arrival of World Pool takes them to another level.” -
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Senor Buscador (Mineshaft), whose career was highlighted by a win in this year's $20-million G1 Saudi Cup, will join the stallion ranks in 2025, but, first the owners plan to race him twice more before he heads to stud. He is slated to run in the Dec. 7 GII Cigar Mile H. at Aqueduct and then the Jan. 25 GI Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream before beginning his stallion career. The story was first reported by Horse Racing Nation. “The horse is training really well,” breeder and majority owner Joey Peacock said. “We thought he ran a creditable race in the Breeders' Cup Classic. He beat nine very talented horses. He just couldn't catch the other four. The Beyer figures came back pretty nice, at a 103 for him. He's been training really well and these races are coming up pretty fast. We thought it would be worthwhile to give him the opportunity to keep going forward and get in a couple more nice races. Things can always change with a horse. If we wake up one morning and say this doesn't feel right then we won't push things. We never have with him. This is the same path he took last year. He ran in the Breeders' Cup and then the Cigar and then the Pegasus. He just seemed to be getting better at this time of year. The horse is doing great. We'd just like to give him two more chances to go out and run in two big races.” Wins in the Cigar Mile and Pegasus will not mean that Senor Buscador will remain in training. “He's going to be seven and although he was fairly lightly raced for a 7-year-old because he missed so much of his 3- and 4-year-old years,” Peacock said. “I just feel that after Pegasus there's not anything immediately in front of us other than going to the Middle East again. To do that again would be asking too much of the horse at this stage in his career.” Peacock said he has not yet reached an agreement with a stud farm, but believes he is getting close. “We've already started buying mares for him,” Peacock said. “We're excited about his next career and looking forward to seeing what his babies can do for us. I think we're getting pretty close and are in discussions with some farms but nothing we can announce at this point.” During the recently concluded Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, an entity called Senor Buscador Mares purchased eight horses for $477,000, with a top price of $95,000. Senor Buscador, who is trained by Todd Fincher, has been a modern day Silky Sullivan. He has no early speed, usually drops back several lengths behind the leaders and then makes a run. Sometimes it got him to wire first and sometimes it did not. “This horse has taken us all over the U.S. and then halfway around the world to compete on the world stage with the best horses on the planet,” Peacock said. “It doesn't get any better than that. It's been a phenomenal ride. He's the type of horse who always put a solid effort in. His running style is a heart attack for the owners. But it's a lot of fun to watch when it works. It's always thrilling, it's always dramatic, it's always fun. But we know he makes things hard for himself because of his running style.” To this point in his career, Senor Buscador sports a record of 7-2-3 from 22 starts and earnings of $12,941,427. His other graded wins came in the GII San Diego H. and the GIII Ack Ack S. He was also third in this year's G1 Dubai World Cup. The post Senor Buscador To Have Two More Starts Before Being Retired appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
They call it progress, it'll take 2 years of abandonements to get it right at any rate. -
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Dual-surface Grade I winner War of Will (War Front–Visions of Clarity {Ire}, by Sadler's Wells), the sire of 14 individual winners from his first crop to the races in 2024, will stand the 2025 breeding season for $20,000 LFSN, officials at Claiborne Farm announced Monday. Victorious in the GI Preakness Stakes on the dirt and the GI Maker's Mark Mile on the grass, War of Will is the second-leading freshman sire by turf winner and earnings and has been represented to date by three stakes horses She's Got Will, My Emmy and Garden of War. War of Will is the sire of seven juveniles that sold in excess of $100,000 during this season's breeze-up sales, including a colt out of Sunday Sonnet (Any Given Saturday) that was hammered down for $400,000 at OBS April. Members of his second crop include a daughter of Star Silver (Aldebaran) who was purchased by Ken McPeek for $230,000 at Fasig-Tipton October. The post War of Will To Stand for $20,000 In 2025 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
Same situation occurs here but obviously on a smaller scale. Strike rate trainers with huge teams(owners and the public misinterpreting the correlation between training, culling and winning) , expensive yearlings winning 1 or 2 races , money floating upwards with a few scraps thrown to the bottom (of which the big guys go and get anyway) . Fan boys thinking this is good for the sport.
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