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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The fourth of a five-week series recognizing Woodbine's most iconic stakes races, the latest "Woodbine Week" shines the spotlight on the Woodbine Mile (G1T), Natalma (G1T), and Summer (G1T) stakes which are among five graded stakes Sept. 13.View the full article -
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I'm not sure that in NZ and OZ they do. Our trainers realise the importance of paddock/yard time and the benefits of spelling on good grass for decent periods of time. They focus on two active stable/racing periods with spells in between. So most horses get at least 2 to 3 months of grass paddock time a year and often with other horses as a group. That works for fillies, mares and geldings. The expensive colts not so much. But then naturally a stallion is somewhat of a loner and a fighter in the natural herd. There is also the factor of line breeding of thoroughbreds and the nature vs nuture aspect. From what I've seen many racehorses favour human contact over other horses. In fact I've seen a pattern where the really good ones have a total disdain for their peers. Those types actually seem to be bored in a paddock. I know one in particular that just slopes around eating as much as it can. 200 years of line breeding and they have adapted. Modern stables are large and allow horses to see and hear each other. Some will just pace up and down. Good trainers know that a happy horse is a horse that will perform and they spend a lot of time making sure the horse has variation and time away from the stable. For example a trip to the beach is often on the agenda. cranbourne beach.mp4 One of the advantages we have in NZ is we still have access to large areas of good parture on rolling land. Most top stables after purchasing yearlings let them down and they destress in large paddocks in groups. I've seen a $1m+ yearling in a large paddock with 3 other yearlings and no cover on, covered in mud and just being a horse. These spelling paddocks often become part of the horses regime for its life as a racehorse. -
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. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
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 -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
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
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