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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Fifty days since his last mount, when he was suspended by HISA for striking a horse in a malicious manner following a race at Parx, Paco Lopez will return Saturday at Laurel, where he will have three rides. They include the mount on Hawkstone (Catalina Cruiser) in the Spectacular Bid Stakes. “I'm feeling good and I've been working very hard to be ready for my comeback,” he said. Lopez was aboard National Law (Constitution) in a maiden special weight race at Parx for trainer Jorge Duarte Jr. The horse bore out so severely that he was just a few feet from the outer rail as he crossed the wire first. But that was not when Lopez hit the horse. He did so after he had pulled up and everything appeared to be under control. He took his whip and slashed the horse across the neck and face, and his actions were caught on camera. Lopez was then given an indefinite suspension, which came with some conditions. He was ordered to participate in therapy sessions and make sizeable donations to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund and Second Call Thoroughbred Adoption and Placement. He said that even though the suspension has been lifted he will remain in therapy. Lopez said one of the hardest parts of his suspension was that he was not permitted to work or gallop horses, even if they were at a training center or at a farm. “I wasn't allowed to gallop horses,” he said. “They told me I couldn't touch one horse. I've been doing a lot of running in my house so I should be fit enough.” As has been the case since the incident, Lopez has said all the right things and again expressed remorse for his actions. “I have learned something,” he said. “I know now you can't do that and that I made a mistake. I've tried to do the right things since. I have taken my days, apologized to everyone and am still in therapy. I have tried to learn and move on.” He said he was not surprised by the length of the suspension. This was far from the first time that Lopez was involved in a controversy. In one example, he was giving a 30-day suspension by the stewards at Parx for failing to ride out Ridin With Biden (Constitution) in the 2023 GIII Greenwood Cup Stakes. Ridin With Biden was third. After Laurel, he will head to Parx on Monday and Tuesday, where he often rides on days when Monmouth and/or Gulfstream is dark. So far, he has not accepted any mounts at the Florida track, but said he will do so soon. He said he wanted to be 100% fit when ready to ride again at Gulfstream, which has one of the toughest jockey colonies in the U.S. The post Paco Lopez Returns At Laurel 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
Great British Racing (GBR)'s National Racehorse Week has been confirmed to return for the fifth consecutive year in 2025, with different dates set to be trialled in an attempt to give the event a new focus. This year National Racehorse Week is scheduled for August 23-31, which means it will fall squarely in the school and university holiday period and will include the August Bank Holiday weekend. The decision to move the dates was reached after statistics showed that just under a fifth of open day attendees last year were under the age of 18, with events across the two weekends booking up well in advance. It is hoped that shifting the entire event to August, from its traditional slot during the second week in September, will open up all nine days of National Racehorse Week to families and a younger age demographic. Gabi Whitfield, head of welfare communications at GBR, said, “For the past four years racing has provided an incredible opportunity for people to get close to, and be inspired by, the Thoroughbred at the heart of the sport. And we see first-hand the positive impact this has on people's opinion of welfare in racing. No other top-tier sport throws open its doors to the public for free the way we do. “But it's time to evolve the concept and to see how we can use National Racehorse Week to attract more families and younger people to take their first steps into our world. We've had great feedback from across the sport around the opportunities this move of date will create.” Originally the brainchild of trainer Richard Phillips, National Racehorse Week has seen 120 training yards, studs and retraining centres take part every year. Since its inception in 2021, it has created over 50,000 free places for people to experience the lives of racehorses, get closer to the Thoroughbred, and meet the people who dedicate their lives to their care and welfare. The post New Dates for National Racehorse Week in 2025 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
GISW Unbridled Mo Headlines Latest Supplemental Entries To Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Fasig-Tipton has catalogued an additional 28 entries, which includes GISW Unbridled Mo (Uncle Mo), to its upcoming Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale, to be held on Monday, Feb. 3 in Lexington, Kentucky, according to an auction company press release on Thursday. These newest entries to the sale are catalogued as hips 376-403. Unbridled Mo (Hip 401), winner of the GI Apple Blossom Handicap and a multiple graded stakes winning millionaire on the racetrack, is a half-sister to GSW Unbridled Essence (Essence of Dubai). She is offered as part of the dispersal of Red Oak Stable, a group of five entries that are being consigned by Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa, agent. Other entries associated with the Red Oak dispersal include Unbridled Mo's yearling colt by Curlin (Hip 395); a yearling filly by Munnings (Hip 396) that's out of a half-sister to MGISW Mind Control; and mares in foal to Authentic and City of Light. Also to be offered in this latest group of supplemental entries are mares in foal to Shancelot, Street Sense, and Forte; as well as yearlings by Charlatan, Cyberknife, Game Winner, Greatest Honour, Highly Motivated, Olympiad, Vekoma, and Yaupon. The entries may now be viewed online and in the Equineline sales catalogue app. Print copies will be available on the sales grounds. The post GISW Unbridled Mo Headlines Latest Supplemental Entries To Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale 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
by Heather Anderson & Alan Carasso Something of an unknown commodity when he arrived from Kazakhstan into the Dubai yard of Chief Stipe Watson a little over a year ago, Kabirkhan (California Chrome) announced his arrival on the world racing scene with a barnstorming victory in the 2024 G1 Al Maktoum Challenge (1900m) at Meydan. The flashy chestnut, who bears a striking resemblance to his G1 Dubai World Cup-winning sire, returns for the first time since disappointing in last year's $12-million feature and squares off against an internationally flavoured group. Sent to America for a possible summer/fall campaign with Brad Cox, Kabirkhan never made it to the races and goes fresh-up back in Watson's hands on Friday. “The team at WinStar Farm did a really good job with him over the summer,” the conditioner told the Dubai Racing Club. “He seems a bit stronger this year, coming into his 5-year-old year. We're looking forward to him.” The chestnut faces a strong international challenge headed up by Team Valor International and Gary Barber's reigning G1 Dubai Turf hero Facteur Cheval (Ire) (Ribchester {Ire}), who tries the dirt for the first time in his career for trainer Jerome Reynier en route to a possible appearance in Riyadh next month. “The plan was to send him to Dubai for the winter and try him on dirt before the big race [Saudi Cup],” Reynier said. “He's training really well on the surface, but it will be a very different scenario with the rhythm and the kickback and everything. If he copes with conditions, he will go for the Saudi Cup and the Dubai World Cup, but if he's not in the first three he'll go for the Singspiel Stakes on Super Saturday and then the Dubai Turf.” Dolkong (Afleet Alex) struck at the 2019 Carnival for Korea with a listed win and Group 1 placing, and 2024 Horse of the Year and champion older horse Global Hit (Kor) (To Honor and Serve) flies the flag for the nation on Friday, having most recently won the valuable Grand Prix at home over 2300 metres on Dec. 1. Head and shoulders above his turf contemporaries on Friday's card on paper is the 125-rated Hong Kong Horse of the Year Romantic Warrior (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}), who is using the G1 Jebel Hatta presented by Longines as a springboard to the $20-million G1 Saudi Cup. Yes, he'll have to handle a different surface in that King Abdulaziz Racetrack affair next month, but he's well proven on turf in one of the toughest jurisdictions on the planet. Riding a seven-race winning streak all at either Group 1 or Group 2 level, the world's richest racehorse–with $22.82 million in the bank–landed the Longines Hong Kong Cup at Sha Tin on Dec. 8 for an unprecedented third straight time last out. “I believe he's at 80-90% of his best condition,” trainer Danny Shum said. “He doesn't need to be in top form right now, because our main goals are the following two races. For his next race on Friday, we don't need to push him too hard.” Opposing the Peter Lau Pak Fai-owned Hong Kong wunderkind does not appear an easy task, with Godolphin's 2024 victor Measured Time (GB) (Frankel {GB}) the closest on ratings at 118 and carrying a course record-setting win in the G2 Al Rashidiya on Festive Friday, Dec. 20 into this test. Appleby, who has won this race four times, said, “We are following the same route we took with Measured Time last year and he was an impressive winner of the Al Rashidiya on his comeback run. He goes into this in great order.” The Supporting Cast Last year's G1 Dubai World Cup hero and the joint Longines World's Best Race Horse at 128, Laurel River (Into Mischief) holds pride of place in Friday's G3 Firebreak Stakes over 1600 metres. Bound for the G1 Saudi Cup in February and one of two in the race for Juddmonte alongside stakes winner and G2 Al Maktoum Mile third and 'TDN Rising Star' Artorius (Arrogate), he leaves from stall four in the 10-horse field. Wathan Racing's newly acquired listed winner and multiple graded-placed Cagliostro (Upstart) will start from stall nine. “Our goal is the Saudi Cup and the Dubai World Cup, so this is just a prep,” said Laurel River's trainer Bhupat Seemar. “He's ready for it, he's doing very, very well. He's as fit as he can be without having had a race.” RRR Racing homebred Rafid (Into Mischief), a homebred son of 2018 G3 UAE Oaks heroine Rayya (Tiz Wonderful) placed three times from four starts in the states for Antonio Sano and takes in Friday's G3 UAE 2000 Guineas against the likes of Golden Vekoma (Vekoma), who defeated Russian raider Nimble Boy (Upstart) by 2 1/4 lengths in the Guineas Trial over 1400 metres Jan. 3. Bhupat Seemar has always worked wonders with older sprinters, and the outstanding Tuz (Oxbow) is no exception. The 8-year-old, imperious in taking out last year's G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen, looks impossible to oppose in the G3 Al Shindagha Sprint. The ride of champion jockey Tadhg O'Shea, Tuz enters off easy victories in the Listed Al Garhoud Sprint and G3 Dubawi Stakes, where he had stablemate Colour Up (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) well behind in second on both occasions. Godolphin's Mysterious Night (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) looks to make it back-to-back wins in the G2 Al Fahidi Fort (1400m) against 2023 G1 Al Quoz Sprint upsetter Danyah (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), third in this longer test last term. Multiple group winner Ponntos (Ire) (Power {GB}) aims for redemption in the G2 Blue Point Sprint presented by Longines after a runner-up performance in 2024. Meydan's Friday card is completed by the G3 Al Khail Trophy presented by Longines with Godolphin's two-time listed winner King Of Conquest (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) clear on ratings. The post Kabirkhan Faces Eclectic Group In Defence Of Al Maktoum Challenge 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
GISW Finnegans Wake (Powerscout {GB}) will shift from stud duty in Northern California to stand the 2025 breeding season at Wolfpaw Stables in Bear River, Wyoming, according to a press release from the farm on Thursday. The move to Wyoming comes at a time when racing in the northern part of California has undergone drastic changes over the past year. Finnegans Wake heads to a state where historical horse racing as a funding source for the sport is on the rise. A stallion with currently four crops to his credit, last year the sire's owners Eddie Rich and Hunter Stallion Station offered complimentary seasons in an effort to assist distressed California breeders. “My decision is to move my stallion Finnegans Wake from Northern California to Wolfpaw Stables in the state of Wyoming is due to the recent developments and the end of racing in the region,” owner Eddie Rich said via an email. “While this decision was not made lightly, it reflects the changing landscape in our industry. That being said, I remain confident in Finnegans Wake as a stallion and believe he'll be a very positive addition for the Wyoming Thoroughbred breeding program.” Campaigned by Donegal Racing and Rockingham Ranch, Finnegans Wake's racing career included scores in the GI Woodford Reserve Turf Classic, the GII Hollywood Turf Cup and the GIII Arlington Handicap. With earnings in excess of $1.5 million, he is a half-brother to Puca, the dam of classic winning full-brothers Mage and Dornoch. “We are thrilled to welcome a stallion of Finnegans Wake's caliber to Wolfpaw Stables”, said Samantha Scheffler, Wolfpaw owner. “His blend of elite racing ability, proven bloodlines and direct connections to recent Triple Crown race winners makes him an exciting addition for serious breeders looking to produce top-tier runners.” According to Wolfpaw, Finnegans Wake will be available for inspection by appointment starting Jan. 31. His stud fee terms are under private agreement. The post GISW Finnegans Wake To Stand At Wolfpaw Stables In Wyoming 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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