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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Edited Press Release The morning after Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) won the GI Kentucky Oaks, trainer Ken McPeek is mulling over a chance for his filly to run in the fast-approaching GI Preakness S. Outside his barn, he also reported that the 3-year-old who splashed home a convincing winner on Friday in the Oaks came out of the race in fine shape. “She left a little bit of grain last night, about half a scoop, but it's nothing to be worried about,” McPeek said. “It's something we watch regularly, and she typically eats up every night. She's tired. She ran hard.” The Kentucky-based conditioner is weighing Thorpedo Anna's options. One avenue would be to take on the boys at Pimlico, but he indicated that's probably not likely, at least as of the morning after the Oaks. McPeek did saddle 2020 Preakness winner Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil). “We're gonna look at the Preakness, but she's gonna have to show us in the next three or four days,” he said. “We'll get some clarity. There are some fees ($150,000) involved. Probably, at this point, it's less than 50 percent.” He added that he is looking forward to some stakes possibilities in New York. “I'll see what the calendar says for 3-year-old fillies,” McPeek said. “You don't want to run her back in the Black Eyed Susan. Where do you find Grade I races for 3-year-old fillies? I definitely want to get her in the Coaching Club Oaks, Alabama, the Acorn, races like that. The Acorn is a 1 1/8 at Saratoga, so that seems like an ideal spot. There's a lot of math to do.” Trainer Bill Mott reported that all appeared to be good with reigning juvenile filly champion Just F Y I (Justify) following her runner-up effort in the Kentucky Oaks. “We haven't had her out this morning but initially she looks good,” said Mott. “I thought everything looked fine. She'll go to Saratoga next, I don't know what we're going to run her in next, but that's where she's going. She was in position to win (in the Oaks) and didn't win.” The post Thorpedo Anna Comes Out Of Oaks Fine, McPeek Weighs Preakness Shot 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
A running-on second to Alva Starr (Lord Nelson) when making her seasonal return in Keeneland's GI Madison S. Apr. 6, VAHVA (f, 4, Gun Runner–Holiday Soiree, by Harlan's Holiday) was the 8-5 favorite to reverse form with that rival in Saturday's GI Derby City Distaff S. at Churchill Downs and clawed past late for her first win at the elite level. Quickest into stride from an outside barrier, the $280,000 Keeneland September graduate came back nicely into the hands of Irad Ortiz, Jr. and was content to stalk the pace from third as Alva Starr hounded the pacesetting Spirit Wind (Bahamian Squall). Alva Starr, looking to continue a productive weekend for Louisiana-breds, appeared to be going best of all, as she struck to the lead a furlong and a half out while Vahva was up and down for a stride or two. Alva Starr was clinging on grimly as they entered the final furlong, but Vahva found her second wind, overtook her rival at the sixteenth pole and edged clear to become the ninth Grade I winnner for Gun Runner. Flying Connection (Nyquist) won a photo for third with Chi Town Lady (Verrazano). Sales history: $280,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. O-Belladonna Racing, LLC, Hudson, Jr., Edward J., West Point Thoroughbreds, LBD Stable LLC, Nice Guys Stables, Manganaro Bloodstock, Runnels Racing, Hornstock, Steve and Twin Brook Stables; B-Woodford Thoroughbreds LLC (KY); T-Cherie DeVaux. The post Gun Runner’s Vahva Gets Her Grade I In the Derby City Distaff 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
NEWMARKET, UK — They came for a coronation and perhaps, when we look back at the end of the season, that's what those packed into the stands and around Newmarket's vast parade ring will have seen. The crown now just rests on a different head to the one we were expecting. Those who don't appreciate the blustery open swathes of the Rowley Mile are quick to knock the course, but over that same strip last October there had been a truly stellar performance in the Dewhurst by City Of Troy (Justify), who duly hogged the top of the betting market all winter. His reappearance, up until the second he was visibly struggling at around halfway, undoubtedly added to the numbers through the gates and a vibrancy on course for the most anticipated running of the 2,000 Guineas since Frankel's year. The buzz abounded, though City Of Troy himself was apparently unfazed as he wandered quietly, first one in, round and round the pre-parade ring as gradually his rivals arrived to be saddled. There were days when the all-weather racing through the winter was for the lesser Flat runners and a diversion for those fans who don't love the jumps, while the more exalted horses 'wintered well' in anticipation of the Classic trials. Fifteen years ago Ghanaati (Giant's Causeway) poured scorn on the idea that Guineas winners must have had a prep run on turf, but her two prior wins, both at Kempton on the Polytrack, had come during her two-year-old season. Notable Speech (GB), who ripped through the field to give his sire Dubawi (Ire) a fourth winner of the 2,000 Guineas, had done all his winning before Saturday at Kempton too, but he hadn't even been seen in public until January 27, then again a month later, before completing his all-weather hat-trick in early April. Primed to the minute with recent match practice under his belt, including a crucial racecourse gallop at Newmarket, he is a colt for whom the two-year-old races came too early. Now having very much filled his frame, the burly chestnut colt has not just caught up with his contemporaries but has left them wondering which way he went. Once the horses had filed into the parade ring, Aisling Appleby, wife of the soon-to-be winning trainer, positioned herself just outside with their four children. The smallest, Sean, had to be propped up on the rail to see the runners filing past and loyally proclaimed that 'Jockey William' was his favourite rider. William Buick is indeed the reigning champion but he wasn't on the favourite. Notable Speech, at 16/1, had not figured in many conversations coming into the race beyond the walls of Godolphin. While Sean wriggled and turned his attention towards a visit to the on-course sweet shop, Aisling said that she had been planning to bring the children racing on Sunday. “Bring them today,” her husband Charlie had insisted. The sweets would have to wait: there were family photos on the winner's podium to be taken first. Who knows what private mental turmoil trainers endure when things aren't going quite to plan, but Appleby's breezy demeanour seems never to falter. He was champion trainer in Britain in 2021 and 2022 but there followed, by his standards, a more lacklustre season last year. As the sun finally deigned to shine on Newmarket Heath this, then, was just the kind of reboot he was seeking, following Group 1 success in Dubai with Rebel's Romance (Ire) and two trial victories courtesy of Derby hopeful Arabian Crown (Fr) and Romantic Style (Ire). “I'm very lucky to be in the position I am. I have no pressure,” he said as he was engulfed by the press before his second winner of the 2,000 Guineas had even returned to the enclosure. “We're just asked to do the best we can and sometimes you can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse, but with the horses we've got now we've got a great chance of getting back to the top table.” Of his colt, the sole locally-trained representative in the 11-strong field, he continued, “You don't very often see Classic winners come off the all-weather. I recall back in August one of the lads sat on him and said he was a nice horse but then he went weak and he wasn't ready to pull out and run. Thankfully he's done what he was supposed to do through the course of the winter and we brought him out in the new year and he hasn't looked back since.” Recalling a recent gallop for Notable Speech under 60-year-old former jockey Paul Eddery, Appleby added, “He got off him and said, 'He stays a mile and the favourite will have to be good to beat him.' From that moment on, I've just been trying to keep a lid on it.” He's been sprung now, and Appleby will doubtless spend must of the rest of the season answering queries about his latest Classic winner, who brings his tally in Britain to five. He has a long way to go to catch the man who earlier in the afternoon had been inducted into the British Champions Series Hall of Fame. Aidan O'Brien had said in an interview last week in TDN that he stays up late on the good days and heads to bed early on the bad ones. This is one result he will want to forget, and he doubtless felt similar on this day last year after Auguste Rodin (Ire) posted a disappointing return in the Guineas. Twenty-eight days later that same horse won the Derby. Saturday belonged to Godolphin, Charlie Appleby and Jockey William, but don't bet against there being plenty of late nights this season for the master of Ballydoyle. The post No Pressure for Appleby on a Notable Return to the Top 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
LOUISVILLE, KY-Sharp as a razor exiting the far gate, Clark Brewster and William and Corinne Heiligbrodt's Cogburn (Not This Time) wasted not time dusting off the cobwebs, coming home a 2 1/4-length winner in the GII Twin Spires Turf Sprint early on Saturday's Derby Day card. Given an 8-1 chance will making his 2024 debut, the 5-year-old broke in front but allowed Coppola (Into Mischief) and Mo Stash (Mo Town) to show the way through a :22.61 opening quarter over a course labeled 'good'. Taking a slight edge from the outside coming out of the far turn, Cogburn lost some ground as Coppola cut the corner in front turning for home, but the Steve Asmussen trainee was clearly best on the day, drawing clear to score comfortably over Filo Di Arianna (Brz) (Drosselmeyer). Mischief Magic (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) closed to grab third. “He was sharp, [Asmussen] had him ready today,” said winning rider Irad Ortiz Jr. “The way he broke, Steve told me he was ready. He was running so good, there was no stopping him.” Graded placed on the dirt, Cogburn took four of seven starts last season, highlighted by three consecutive wins when switching to the turf in Lone Star's Chamberlain Bridge S., Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint and the GIII Troy S. in Saratoga. Making one more start at four, he finished fifth in the GII Turf Sprint at Kentucky Downs Sept. 9 and was packed away for the remainder of the season. “He has [found a home on turf],” said Asmussen. “Obviously, his turf races are beyond excellent and we're very fortunate to have him. That is typical of him [to break that well]. I was so concerned about the outside draw and he took care of that in one jump.” When asked if there were any concerns coming off a seven-month respite, the Hall of Fame trainer said, “We thought he was doing extremely well coming into the race, this was a very big race coming off the layoff. We were concerned when he drew the 14 hole, that's a lot to overcome. But his break cleared that problem. That's what he's capable of and that's what we'll be getting to campaign the rest of the year.” Pedigree Notes: Cogburn is one of three foals out of In a Jif to race, and all three have found the winner's circle. He also has a 3-year-old sister by Classic Empire named Empire of My Own. The post Not This Time’s Cogburn Defies Layoff, Post In TwinSpires Turf Sprint 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
NBC Sports will continue to present the Kentucky Derby on NBC and Peacock through 2032, Churchill Downs and NBC Sports announced Saturday. The extension of the NBC Sports-Churchill Downs relationship–which began with the 2001 Kentucky Derby–makes NBC the longest-running home of the Derby, and NBCUniversal the first media company to present the Kentucky Derby over three decades. “As we celebrate the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs is proud to extend the relationship with NBC Sports,” said Churchill Downs CEO Bill Carstanjen. “As our media partner for the last 23 years, NBC has artfully captured the most exciting two minutes in sports and the spectacle of the senses that surrounds it.” “Telling the rich stories surrounding the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May is part of the fabric of NBC Sports, and we are thrilled to continue that tradition with Churchill Downs,” said Rick Cordella, President, NBC Sports. “We look forward to surrounding the Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby with wall-to-wall coverage and extensive promotion on the platforms of NBCUniversal.” The extension includes multiplatform rights to the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Oaks, and Derby and Oaks Day programming, which will be presented on NBC, Peacock, USA Network and additional NBCU platforms. The Kentucky Derby is America's oldest continuously held major sporting event, with the 150th running in 2024. The post Kentucky Derby on NBC Through 2032 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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