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Yeah, easy to drive something like this to the unthinking..horses evolved as grazing, herd animals. True enough. But for as long as humans have used horses for anything other than food, they have been confined, in some way or other, out of necessity. Archeological digs have found the remains of horses chained to walls in Pompeii....I can just hear Alexander the Great saying, righto, lads, the Hittites are coming, go and catch your horses. I can see them now, tearing round a paddock in the dark to round up the war horses. Just, no. At the least they'd have been tied to picket lines or hobbled. Any performance horse, not just a racehorse, esp in and around large cities, has to spend most of its active life stabled. NZ is one of the few places which has the scope to allow such horses space. There are some magnificent equine establishments all over the world, but such property is not available to all. Even the French and UK/ Irish regimes, very different from here, certainly, with the scope of the training grounds, still stable their horses. -
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The Flightline half-brother (hip 10) to dual Breeders' Cup winner and young sire Golden Pal (Uncle Mo) brought $1,500,000 from John Stewart's Resolute Racing. Consigned by VanMeter Sales as agent and bred by Randall E. Lowe, the colt named Stock Rising was the first Flightline yearling through the ring at Keeneland September's opening session Monday. Stewart made a strong winning bid, jumping the price from $1.25m straight to $1.5m to secure the son of MSW/GISP Lady Shipman (Midshipman). The post Resolute Racing Goes To $1.5m For Flightline Half To Golden Pal 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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Tattersalls Online is set to stage its inaugural Yearling Session as part of the Tattersalls Online November Sale on November 18-19. Open to all yearlings, the session has been designed to provide an affordable and accessible route for vendors looking to sell their yearlings. It will also be available to any lot which goes unsold or is withdrawn from any Tattersalls yearling sale held this autumn. All yearlings offered in the session will be sold with a pre-sale five-stage veterinary certificate and the online repository will be available to vendors wishing to upload additional information. Tattersalls Online sales manager Katherine Sheridan said, “The introduction of a dedicated yearling session to the Tattersalls Online November Sale is a natural progression of the continued development of our online sales. We are committed to providing accessible and affordable opportunities to vendors to showcase their yearlings to a truly global audience. “Our proven and trusted platform has already demonstrated its capacity to deliver significant results and we are confident the inaugural yearling session will build on these successes whilst further enhancing the breadth and depth of the Tattersalls sales portfolio.” Entries for the Tattersalls Online Yearling Sale Session are now open and will close on Friday, October 31, ahead of the initial entries being published online on Wednesday, November 5. An enhanced entry fee package of £300 + VAT will be available for this session, including professional photos and videos, whilst the standard entry fee of £160 + VAT is also available. The post Tattersalls Online Launch Inaugural Yearling Session appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
Book'em Danno Owners Value Top Sprinter's Every Start Book'em Danno won three straight graded stakes at Saratoga Race Course this year. https://bitofayarn.com By Tom Pedulla/America's Best Racing Today, 9:19 AM Atlantic Six Racing received an offer for Book'em Danno last season when he was a 3-year-old, a proposition so substantial it led each partner to take a deep breath and assess priorities. While partner Jim Scappi did not reveal the amount, he made it clear it was massive. "We got offered so much money," he said, "we'll never make it back." As tempting as the potential payday was, Scappi made a point to other members of the modest partnership that ruled the day. "Guys," he said, "there's nothing in life you can do that is this much fun." Little did they know when they decided to retain all of the New Jersey-bred gelding that the fun was just beginning. Their reported $30,000 private purchase of the son of Bucchero out of the mare Adorabella has emerged as a speedster who may be without equal. Book'em Danno became a summer sensation in sweeping three salty races at Saratoga Race Course: the grade 3 True North Stakes June 7, the grade 2 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes July 19 and the grade 1 Forego Stakes Aug. 23. When trainer Derek Ryan was asked if he thinks he has the nation's premier sprinter in his Monmouth Park barn, he replied, "Why wouldn't I? What's better than the three races at Saratoga?" Book'em Danno took the 6 1/2-furlong True North by a length and a quarter when he blew past Mullikin with a late rush on a sloppy track. He overcame a bobble and bump at the start to control the six-furlong Vanderbilt by 2 1/2 lengths. He withstood Scotland 's furious charge to capture the Forego by a length at seven furlongs. According to Scappi, three partners approached him after the Forego to shake his hand and deliver the same message. "Thank you for talking us into not selling."https://bitofayarn.com Few anticipated that Book'em Danno—named by partner Mark Rubenstein for the signature line in the old crime-fighting television show Hawaii Five-O—would ever be so fast. "Just to make those three races is hard enough," Ryan said, "let alone winning those three." Jay Briscione, Atlantic Six's managing partner, finds himself constantly in awe of a burner that blew away their expectations. The initial aim of the New Jersey-based partnership of friends and business acquaintances was to capitalize on thin state-bred ranks with a runner capable of going through his allowance conditions against that competition. Briscione asks Ryan all the time what separates Danno from the swift company he keeps. His answer: "Heart and mind." That has been a lethal combination, leading to 10 victories in 16 starts with three seconds and a third for earnings of $1,855,425. Wins have come at Monmouth, Aqueduct, Tampa Bay Downs, Colonial Downs, and Saratoga. Danno failed to hit the board twice. He wound up fifth in the Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) last December at Aqueduct. He missed by a neck for the whole thing in taking fourth behind Mindframe , Banishing , and Nysos in the grade 1 Churchill Downs Stakes as part of the Kentucky Derby Day card. Those who wish to see Danno's immense heart need only watch him compete. If he can will himself to the finish line first; he will. As for his mind, Ryan said, "He knows what to do and when to do it." Photo: Coglianese Photos/Walter Wlodarczyk Book'em Danno As special as Danno is, so is the handling of him. Despite his odd way of going, the gelding has thrived under Ryan's care. The trainer thinks long and hard before selecting each race.https://bitofayarn.com "There are trainers and there are horsemen. Today, not every trainer is a horseman," Briscione said. "Derek is a horseman and he's a trainer and he's done an absolutely fantastic job with this horse. You look at the consistency this horse has had since his 2-year-old year and it's phenomenal." The addition of jockey Paco Lopez to the team has been huge. It was important to Ryan that he have a jockey willing to work Danno to get to know him as much as possible and someone who would commit to riding him whenever and wherever he started. They have not looked back since Lopez signed on. Danno is to be given one more start this season. Ryan, after initially ruling out the Nov. 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Del Mar as he eyes a long career for the gelding, put that race back on the table as one of several options. Wherever and however Danno's memorable season ends, his emergence reminds everyone that there is room in the Sport of Kings for those neither rich nor famous. "If you are going to get out of the game, you should stay in because of a horse like Book'em Danno," Briscione said. "And if you're going to get in the game, you get in because of a horse like Danno. You don't need to spend a million dollars." Get together a group of friends, spend $30,000 or so on a horse that may not look the part, and the experience can be priceless. https://bitofayarn.com https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/287113/bookem-danno-owners-value-top-sprinters-every-start -
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Chris Hayes is poised to ride Anmaat in Saturday's G1 Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown. The son of Awtaad has been ridden by Jim Crowley in each of his last nine starts, with the highlight of their association coming in October last year when springing a 40/1 surprise in the G1 Champion Stakes at Ascot. More recently, Crowley has partnered the seven-year-old to finish second in both the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and G1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes in two starts this season. However, Shadwell's number one rider now faces an indefinite spell on the sidelines after he was injured in a heavy fall at York on Sunday, with Angus Gold, Shadwell's racing manager, reporting that Crowley was in surgery on Monday after suffering a broken leg and a suspected broken pelvis. That has left Anmaat in need of a new jockey when he attempts to get off the mark for the campaign in the Irish Champion, with trainer Owen Burrows confirming that Hayes is likely to be the man tasked with trying to thwart ante-post favourite Delacroix (Dubawi) and Japanese challenger Shin Emperor (Siyouni), among others. “It's a shame what's happened to Jim as he obviously knows the horse very well,” said Burrows. “He'll have a new jockey on and I think Chris Hayes is going to ride him. Chris has obviously ridden big winners for Shadwell in Ireland, he won a City of York Stakes for me a good few years ago [in 2017 on Talaayeb], and we felt someone with plenty of experience of Leopardstown was vital.” Since chasing home Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder) at Royal Ascot, Anmaat has missed potential engagements in the G1 Coral-Eclipse and G1 Juddmonte International due to unsuitable ground, but Burrows is optimistic that conditions will be in favour of his stable star on Saturday. He added, “It looks like the rain is coming over there and I'm looking forward to getting him out again as he seems in really good nick. I think the ground is good to yielding at the minute, which should be fine, and I think there's another drop of rain forecast for tomorrow, so it should be suitable. “The horse has done nothing wrong this season. I know he hasn't won yet, but he hasn't done a lot wrong. If the ground comes more in his favour, I'd like to think he can run a big race.” Meanwhile, Trevor Whelan revealed on Monday that he too requires surgery after being injured in the same incident at York which saw his mount, Tiger Bay, brought down by Crowley's Almeraq. Providing an update on his condition, Whelan posted on social media, “Thanks for all the get well messages, much appreciated. I've broken my leg in three places and due for an operation on it as well.” The post Chris Hayes to Partner Anmaat in Irish Champion as Jim Crowley Undergoes Surgery 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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