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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Woodbine Entertainment has cancelled the scheduled race card for Sunday, Nov. 10, as a precautionary measure to prioritize the safety and well-being of the horses and jockeys, the track said in a release early on Sunday morning. The decision was made after consulting with key industry partners, including the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA), the Jockeys' Guild, and the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. This follows the cancellation of the final two races of Saturday's card due to safety concerns with the all-weather main track. Additionally, training on that surrface was suspended Sunday morning. Woodbine is currently performing track maintenance and closely reviewing conditions which includes meeting with its consultants. These efforts will continue throughout the day, with racing and training activities set to resume only when it is deemed safe to do so. “The safety of our horses and jockeys is always our highest priority,” said Bill Ford, executive vice president of racing at Woodbine.” In consultation with our industry partners, we have decided to take these precautionary steps to ensure that the track conditions meet the highest safety standards. Woodbine has long been recognized as one of the safest racetracks in North America, and we are committed to maintaining that reputation by thoroughly assessing and addressing any issues.” Woodbine will continue to provide updates as efforts progress and decisions regarding the resumption of training and racing are made. The post Woodbine Cancels Sunday Card As Precautionary Measure 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
In scoring her fourth group 1 of the spring, and her sixth overall, Via Sistina showed again she might just be the most astute of the hundreds of purchases brought to Zhang Yuesheng's Yulong in its explosion to life in recent years.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Eckhard Sauren's ultra consistent Assistent (Ger) (Sea The Moon {Ger}–Anna Kalla {Ger}, by Kallisto {Ger}), who finished in the top four in five prior Group 1 contests, gained compensation for his second in last year's G1 Grosser Allianz Preis von Bayern with a late surge for glory in this year's renewal at Munich. The Henk Grewe trainee, who tuned up for this with a 3 1/4-length tally in last month's G3 Herbst-Trophy at Baden-Baden, employed patient tactics and was anchored in rear until well beyond halfway. Coming under pressure on the turn for home, the 62-5 chance went fifth approaching the quarter-mile marker and stayed on in relentless fashion to deny the Sir Mark Prescott-trained Tiffany (Ire) (Farhh {GB}) by a neck in the dying strides. Last year's G1 Futurity Trophy hero Ancient Wisdom (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}), making his first start since annexing July's G3 Bahrain Trophy, held every chance inside the final quarter-mile and kept on well to finish 1 1/2 lengths adrift in third. “This horse is so close to my heart and to win is great,” said winning rider Thore Hammer-Hansen after snagging a career first Group 1 win. “I am so very happy for my boss Eckard Sauren, who has invested so much into his horses over the years and now finally gets his first Group 1 winner. At first I didn't think Assitent would make it from where he came from, but he gave his all and delivered beautifully.” Owner Eckhard Sauren added, “I am lost for words, what a race and what a fight. I never thought we could win such a strongly contested race, and it was so close, but this horse has got such a big heart. He was awesome.” Retirement now beckons for the winner, according to trainer Henk Grewe, who commented. “This is so emotional. It was his last race and, now a Group 1 winner, he will retire to stud.” Pedigree Notes Assistent, who becomes the fifth Group 1 winner for his sire (by Sea The Stars {Ire}), is the third of eight foals and lone stakes performer produced by an unraced full-sister to G3 Hamburger Stutenpreis victrix Anna Katharina (Ger) (Kallisto {Ger}), herself the dam of Listed Weidenpescher Steher Cup victrix Ankunft (GB) (New Approach {Ire}). The March-foaled dark bay's dam is also kin to G3 Furstenberg-Rennen victor Adrian (Ger) (Reliable Man {GB}) and Listed Henkel Stutenpreis winner Attica (GB) (Tai Chi {Ger}). Assistent's younger siblings include a yearling colt and weanling colt by Best Solution (Ire). Descendants of his G3 Hamburger Stutenpreis-winning third dam Anna Thea (Ire) (Turfkonig {Ger}) include G2 Derby Italiano hero Ardakan (GB) (Reliable Man {GB}) and multiple Group-winning G2 German 2000 Guineas runner-up Aspectus (Ire) (Spectrum {Ire}). Anna Thea is the leading performer for Anstandige (Ger) (Star Appeal {Ire}), herself a half-sister to G2 Preis der Diana (German Oaks) heroine and blue hen Anna Paola (Ger) (Prince Ippi {Ger}), whose Group 1-winning descendants include G1 Derby hero Adayar (Ire) (Frankel {GB}). Sunday, Munich, Germany GROSSER ALLIANZ PREIS VON BAYERN-G1, €155,000, Munich, 11-10, 3yo/up, 12fT, 2:37.46, sf. 1–ASSISTENT (GER), 132, h, 5, by Sea The Moon (Ger) 1st Dam: Anna Kalla (Ger), by Kallisto (Ger) 2nd Dam: Anna Desta (Ger), by Desert Style (Ire) 3rd Dam: Anna Thea (Ire), by Turfkonig (Ger) 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (€58,000 Ylg '20 BBAGS). O-Eckhard Sauren; B-Gestut Rottgen (GER); T-Henk Grewe; J-Thore Hammer-Hansen. €100,000. Lifetime Record: GSP-Ity & SP-Fr, 23-7-5-3, €434,900. Werk Nick Rating: D+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. 2–Tiffany (Ire), 129, f, 4, Farhh (GB)–Affinity (GB), by Sadler's Wells. O/B-Elite Racing Club (IRE); T-Sir Mark Prescott. €30,000. 3–Ancient Wisdom (Fr), 128, c, 3, Dubawi (Ire)–Golden Valentine (Fr), by Dalakhani (Ire). TDN Rising Star. (€2,000,000 Ylg '22 ARAUG). O-Godolphin; B-Ecurie des Monceaux & LNJ Foxwoods SC (FR); T-Charlie Appleby. €15,000. Margins: NK, 1HF, 1. Odds: 12.40, 5.20, 3.50. Also Ran: Lordano (Ger), Marquisat (Ire), Atoso (Ger), Quantanamera (Ger), Augustus (Ger), Panthera (Fr), Straight (Ger), War Chimes (Fr). The post Sea The Moon’s Assistent Swoops Late for Grosser Preis von Bayern Glory 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
Twilight Son (GB) will stand for a fee of €5,000 at Annshoon Stud in County Kilkenny next season, having relocated from Cheveley Park Stud, the Racing Post reported on Sunday. The 12-year-old Twilight Son was an absentee when Cheveley Park recently announced their roster and fees for 2025, having spent eight seasons in Newmarket since he retired there as the winner of six of his 10 career starts for Henry Candy, including the G1 Sprint Cup at Haydock as a three-year-old and G1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot the following year. The son of Kyllachy (GB) is perhaps best known at stud as the sire of the G1 King's Stand Stakes and G2 Temple Stakes runner-up Twilight Calls (GB), in addition to three Group winners, headed by the G3 Cornwallis Stakes and G3 Lacken Stakes scorer Twilight Jet (Ire). The post Twilight Son to Stand for €5,000 after Relocating to Annshoon Stud 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
At the start of each season the late Sir Henry Cecil would buy a large notebook and divide its final pages into squares, “like a crossword puzzle,” to be filled in, one by one, when he trained a winner. Group wins were inked-in in colour. Each victory would send him to the trainers' championship table in the Racing Post, to see whether he had moved up, or further “in front of Michael Stoute, or any nearer to John Gosden.” With Sir Michael Stoute's last turf runner, at Nottingham last week, a golden age of racehorse trainers approached its end. Stoute, Gosden and Andre Fabre in France are all septuagenarians. Cecil, who was the Seb Coe to Stoute's Steve Ovett, the Barcelona to his Real Madrid, died in June 2013. Stoute's longevity was a thing of wonder. When he started out in 1972 Richard Nixon swept aside George McGovern in the US Presidential election – 52 years before the return of Donald Trump. In the years in-between Stoute's first runner and Wanderlust trailing home last at Nottingham to bring down the curtain, he was champion trainer 10 times and won more than 4,000 races, including the Derby, six times, the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Japan Cup, Dubai World Cup, eight Breeders' Cup races and the Champion Hurdle with Kribensis. It's a truism of watching sport that we only realise what we had when it's gone. The long Cecil-Stoute duel was cloaked in Flat racing's outward civility. Other sports would have told you to pick your side: Cecil or Stoute – 'you can't be both' – in the way the great American sports columnist Rick Reilly wrote that you were either a 'Tiger [Woods] or a Phil [Mickelson] guy.' The rivalry between Cecil and Stoute was real but mutually respectful. When I interviewed Cecil at Warren Place in 2011 for The Observer he had just been knighted, which brought him upsides Stoute (knighted in 1998) in the social stakes. “We've always been very competitive together,” Cecil said in his study. “Then he moved in front, things deteriorated for me, I didn't have the horses, he was top of the list and I was right down. I went down to 149th, I think. He hated me winning when we were fighting to see who was going to be champion trainer. We're great friends now. We get on very well. I don't know whether he likes me more because I'm not such a nuisance.” The reason for revisiting one of the great Newmarket struggles is to honour an age in which the brilliance and charisma of individual trainers helped promote the sport. It was certainly a gilded age for punters. Stoute and Cecil had legions of disciples who would support them as if they were football teams. You knew what you were getting with a bet on a Cecil or Stoute horse. It bought you not only a betting slip but entry to the ride they were on. “At the height of their powers, Henry Cecil and he were formidable adversaries and lit up the British racing season year on year,” John Gosden affirmed when Stoute retired. There are gifted and magnetic trainers still, of course. Gosden, 73, continues to bear the torch for his generation, with son Thady. Aidan O'Brien is a mercurial genius. Each leading trainer is a 'story', simply by virtue of their success. But the corporatisation of sport, together with the ravages of social media, have obscured the human element. Flair and personality are still there, just better hidden. Sir Mark Prescott – another half-centurion – is arguably the last 'character' standing from those who set down roots in the 1970s. Stoute hated being interviewed and had no wish to be a celebrity. The turmoil of Cecil's personal life forced him into the public eye. He was a gossip columnist's dream. For Stoute, Shergar's brilliance and subsequent kidnapping at stud by the IRA guaranteed him immortality in the annals of huge and shocking news stories. Cecil meanwhile bequeathed a late-life masterpiece in Frankel, a story that would have stretched Hollywood's imagination. 'Trainer in his last months with cancer is lent the will to endure by best-ever horse who retires undefeated.' Try pitching that one. They are still at it, the old devils. Andre Fabre, born in the year World War II ended, sent out this year's Arc favourite, Sosie. Fabre, who has been champion trainer in France 30 times, will be 80 next month. Sosie, who finished fourth, would have been his ninth Arc winner. Gosden first took out a licence in America in 1979 and can reflect on 45 years of conquest. Only success can buy the kind of authority these trainers accumulated. Bruce Raymond, the former jockey and racing manager to Saeed Suhail among others, says: “When my owners talk about telling Sir Michael to do something, I say 'listen, Sir Michael Stoute has trained every winner in the world twice, I'm not going to tell him anything' – and he quite rightly probably wouldn't take any notice anyway.” The top trainers manage upwards (to owners), sideways (to staff, vets, jockeys, the media and bloodstock agents) and 'downwards' to the horses, who are fragile and unpredictable. It's a maelstrom of stress few of us could deal with. On my visit to Warren Place. Cecil showed me his collection of miniature knights and soldiers (pipe bands, mostly), which honoured his grandfather, who was commander in chief of the Gordon Highlanders. He recalled the late Queen marvelling at his array of knights, and him telling her: “The only one I haven't got is Michael Stoute.” Rivals outlast one another. Stoute trained for another 11 years after Cecil's death. But in so much as they need each other to define their careers, they leave the stage as one. The post Stoute, Cecil and the Dwindling Golden Age of Trainers 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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