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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Do Deuce's classy international race victory Nov. 24 in a Japan Cup (G1) that included nine other previous grade 1/group 1 winners provided vindication after struggles in overseas races.View the full article -
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Multiple Grade I winner 'TDN Rising Star' Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) will be paraded at Churchill Downs Friday, Nov. 29 in the paddock during the ninth race, the race track announced Sunday afternoon. One of the candidates for Horse of the Year honors, the presumed champion 3-year-old filly will join the field during the walkover to the paddock and will remain there through the race, from approximately 4:30 to 4:50 p.m. Thorpedo Anna has won five races at the elite level this season, namely the GI Longines Kentucky Oaks, DK Horse Acorn Stakes, Coaching Club American Oaks, Cotillion Stakes, and Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff against older mares. She came a dwindling head short of winning the GI Draftking Travers Stakes back in August as well. The post Thorpedo Anna to be Paraded Between Races on Black Friday at Churchill appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/racing/mick-on-monday-savaglee-owners-turn-down-big-australian-offer/WVWGTFQA7ZCHXLMCGP7LFS62K4/ Mick on Monday: Savaglee owners turn down big Australian offer By Michael Guerin NZ Herald· 25 Nov, 2024 06:00 AM4 mins to read Save Savaglee winning the 2000 Guineas. Savaglee is now New Zealand’s most valuable racehorse after his connections turned down a huge offer from Australia for the 2000 Guineas winner. But while the 3-year-old colt isn’t going anywhere just yet, that doesn’t mean he is going to start either of our two richest races this summer. Elite thoroughbred colts become mini-businesses in their own right these days, as major studs attempt to buy them, with the ultimate goal of a Group 1 win in Australia to thrust them into the A$15 million-plus value bracket. Savaglee isn’t there yet, but a major Australian stud made his owners The Oaks Stud a multi-million dollar offer for Savaglee after his Guineas win at Riccarton but it was turned down. “We are going to roll the dice on him at least through until the autumn,” says Oaks Stud general manager Rick Williams. “It was a lot of money but our ultimate goal is to try and win an Australian Group 1, the most likely target being the Australian Guineas. “The form and ratings guys we’ve spoken to suggest he is up to winning a race like that, and if he was able to pull that off, we think he’d double in value from the offer we just had. “So that’s our plan, if of course he comes back as well as we hope, so we’ll start planning backwards from the [Australian] Guineas and go from there.” The Australian Guineas is at Flemington on March 1, and if Savaglee heads there, it will rule him out of the inaugural running of the $3.5m NZB Kiwi slot race at Ellerslie on March 8. “We love the NZB Kiwi concept and what Entain are doing for New Zealand racing, and if he was a gelding, he’d be heading there for sure,” says Williams. “But being a colt, an Australian Group 1 has to be the major aim for his future stallion value, so we’ve already turned down a couple of NZB Kiwi slot holders who were keen to negotiate. We wanted to be fair and tell them upfront what our aim was.” Williams says if Savaglee suffered a minor setback, even one missed race, that caused him to miss the Australian Guineas, they could re-route to the NZB Kiwi a week later. “If something like that happened, then of course the Kiwi could become an option, if there was a slot that hadn’t be filled, as I imagine we would still be in demand.” While racing plans are rarely set in stone, Williams’ transparency is likely to see Savaglee drop out of his $6 equal favouritism for the NZB Kiwi and punters should also avoid backing him in New Zealand’s second richest race, the $1.5m Karaka Million Three-Year-old at Ellerslie on January 25. It is possible to race over 1600m in the Karaka Million in January and win the Australian Guineas five weeks later, as Legarto proved last year, but Williams says that is almost certainly not the path Savaglee will take. “Obviously everything will depend on how he comes back, but so far, he looks great. “He was 481kg when we put him in the paddock after Riccarton but has come back in weighing 500kg and is only getting stronger. “So one target could be the Telegraph [Trentham, January 4] because it’s weight-for-age but more likely would be a race like the Almanzor Trophy on Karaka Millions night, then into possibly a BCD Sprint at Te Rapa [February 8].” That would give Savaglee races at 1200m, then 1400m into the 1600m of the Guineas, which most trainers favour as a natural progression, so while he is not being ruled out of the Karaka Million Three-Year-Old, it looks unlikely and punters should steer clear until they hear otherwise. Whether Savaglee eventually joins an Australian stud or stays in New Zealand could depend not only on whether he wins that Australian Group 1 but also on whether The Oaks Stud is sold. The 200ha property on the outskirts of Cambridge has been placed on the market, as Australian-based owner Dick Karreman looks to free up some cash, and Williams says they would love to see the land stay in the racing industry. But if The Oaks property is not sold, they would have the option of retaining Savaglee to stand at stud there when his career ends. -
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After White Abarrio (Race Day) trounced his competition in an allowance race Friday, his connections started plotting his upcoming schedule, with the GI Pegasus World Cup as the main goal. Normally, the Dec. 21 GIII Harlan's Holiday S. is the main prep for the Pegasus, but co-owner Mark Cornett said he is leaning toward running the soon-to-be 6-year-old instead in the Dec. 28 GIII Prospector S. at Gulfstream. The Mr. Prospector is run at seven furlongs while the Harlan's Holiday is a mile-and-a-sixteenth race. “We will look at the two races, the Harlan's Holiday and the Mr. Prospector,” said Cornett who operates C-2 Racing Stable along with his brother Clint. “We had such success when we ran him in two one-turn races in New York. He ran in a seven-furlong race and we ran him the Met Mile, a one-turn mile race. It was only after that we stretched him out in the Whitney, which was, arguably, his best race of his career. So I'm tempted to go in the Mr. Prospector going seven furlongs, to give him one more-one turn race and then stretch him out for the Pegasus. We're looking at both spots, but I'm leaning toward giving him one more race at the seven-eighths around one turn until we stretch him out for the Pegasus.” Prior to Friday's allowance, Cornett admitted that he wanted to see a big performance from White Abarrio, which would put to rest concerns that he was no longer on top of his game. He has had just two starts this year, finishing 10th in the G1 Saudi Cup and fifth in the GI Metropolitan H., but a powerful 10 1/4-length victory Friday signaled that White Abarrio is back. “He showed us what we wanted to see, “Cornett said. “Irad [Ortiz, Jr.] did a great job. We had talked to him before the race and said that if he got the opportunity around the eighth-pole to squeeze on him a little bit. We wanted to see a good final furlong and then a really good gallop out, which he did. The horse just kind of ranged up and cruised up to the eighth-pole and when he got to the eighth-pole, Irad did squeeze on him a bit. He quickened and dropped down like we wanted to see and galloped out very good.” Cornett said a return trip to the Saudi Cup will be considered, but that they have made no plans beyond the Pegasus. Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia is among the ownership group. One C-2 Racing Stable star that is definitely being pointed to the Saudi Cup is the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint winner Soul of an Angel (Atreides). “Soul of An Angel is doing really good” Cornett said. “I saw her Saturday morning. She's at Gulfstream now with Saffie [Joseph, Jr.]. We kind of backed off on her to let her get over the travel back and forth from California. She'll go back to training Monday and she will be pointed to an 11-26, one-turn, one mile race here. That will be her prep. Our ultimata goal with her is the Saudi Cup. We think she's a one-turn specialist and best at seven furlongs to a mile-and-an-eighth.” When asked if he had any reservations about running a mare against males, he said he did not. “I'm not worried about fillies versus boys,” he said. “The purse structure is so big that even if she runs second, third or fourth you're looking at anywhere from $1 million to $5 million. It's hard to make that kind of money in stakes in the U.S.” The post Connections Reveal Plans for White Abarrio, Soul of An Angel 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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