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They young brigade maybe there for the big occasions, but how many will flock to a mid week meeting at reefton or riccarton or timbuktu, not many id imagine, so I'll fall into the ole stale generation, that supported local meetings for all my life, even fronted for some of the big occasions, so this article to me a little bit misleading, next time I'm at at quiet mid week meeting I'll report back to get a number on all those new generation of punters, or will there be more of the old stale generation, that kept the game going for many generations. -
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Former jockey Rachael Blackmore and Jack, Owen and Ivor Anthony will be inducted into the Jump Racing Hall of Fame at Cheltenham this week. The quartet will be formally inducted into the Hall of Fame on day one of the November Meeting on Friday, November 14. Blackmore, who retired in May, was the first female to ride a Grand National winner with Minella Times at Aintree. She is also a current ambassador for Cheltenham Racecourse and, with the assist of trainer Henry de Bromhead, was leading rider at the Cheltenham Festival in 2021. Her record at Cheltenham stands at 18 winners with successes in all five of the championship contests. Honeysuckle landed the Champion Hurdle in both 2021 and 2022, with A Plus Tard recording a historic Cheltenham Gold Cup success in 2022. There was also victory in the Ryanair Chase courtesy of Envoi Allen (2023), Queen Mother Champion Chase with Captain Guinness (2024) and Stayers' Hurdle with Bob Olinger (2025). Blackmore won the World Sports Star at the 2021 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. Blackmore said, “Cheltenham is an incredibly special place, it's where I've been lucky enough to experience some of the best days of my life and career. It's a place that holds so many amazing memories for me, from my very first Festival winner, to unforgettable moments with phenomenal horses like Honeysuckle and A Plus Tard. “To be inducted into the Hall of Fame here is a huge honour, being recognised alongside so many of the greats of our sport is something that still feels surreal.” The Anthony brothers won seven Cheltenham Gold Cups between them from 1927-1941. Owen Anthony trained Thrown In (1927), Golden Miller (1936), and Roman Hackle (1940). Jack Anthony struck with Easter Hero in 1929 and 1930. The third Anthony brother, Ivor, trained Morse Code to win in 1938 and Poet Prince landed the prize in 1941. The trio of brothers were also responsible for each training a Champion Hurdle winner – Jack with Brown Tony (1930), Ivor with Chenango (1934) and Owen with Solford (1940). Guy Lavender, CEO at Cheltenham Racecourse, said, “The Hall of Fame celebrates the very best in jump racing and Rachael Blackmore's achievements are on such another level I think it is totally right that she is inducted into it at the first possible opportunity. “The Anthony brothers dominated the Cheltenham Gold Cup's early years as trainers and their seven winners included two of the greatest ever in Easter Hero and Golden Miller. The way in which the contest's stature and prestige grew is in no small part due to their tremendous success.” The post Blackmore And Anthony Brothers Inducted Into Jump Racing Hall Of Fame 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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Graded stakes winners Disarm (Gun Runner–Easy Tap, by Tapit) and Confidence Game (Candy Ride {Arg}–Eblouissante, by Bernardini) will take up stud duty at Hidden Lake Farm in Stillwater, New York in 2026, according to Hidden Lake's Chris Bernhard Thursday. The acquisition was brokered by The Stallion Company. Disarm's stud fee is set at $7,500. Confidence Game will stand for $5,000. Both stallions will stand as property of a syndicate, LFSN terms apply. “We are very excited to jump back into the New York Stallion arena with graded stakes-winning millionaire by Gun Runner Disarm and Grade II-winning son of Candy Ride Confidence Game,” Bernhard commented. “Both beautiful colts offer valuable opportunity for breeders in the Empire State. Disarm is the first Gun Runner to stand in New York and to date, his other sons are off to a great start in the sales ring including Gunite, Early Voting, Taiba and Cyberknife. Confidence Game is by Candy Ride, perhaps the most prolific sire of sire in the last decade, siring Gun Runner, Twirling Candy and Vekoma. Confidence Game is the Grade II Derby prep winner of the Rebel Stakes, out of a Bernardini half-sister to [Horse of the Year] Zenyatta. Both horses are graded stakes winners from deep families and poised to enhance the New York-bred program.” Disarm, fourth behind Mage in the 2023 GI Kentucky Derby, is an earner of nearly $1.7 million in a 19-race career during which he has posted five triple digit Beyer numbers. He broke his maiden by 6 1/4 lengths going seven furlongs at Saratoga, won the GIII Matt Winn at Ellis Park, finished second in the GI Travers at Saratoga and GII Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds. He was third in two Grade I's at Saratoga, the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Whitney, and third in the GIII Lexington at Keeneland. In his latest effort on Sept. 25, the 5-year-old finished second in the GII Lukas Classic at Churchill Downs. On the racetrack, Confidence Game won the GII Rebel and finished third in the GIII Lecomte at Fair Grounds and the Iowa Sprint. The 5-year-old retired with earnings of $823,962. Candy Ride is the sire of nine Champions, 116 black-type winners and earners of more than $160 million. Confidence Game's second dam, Vertigineux, was Broodmare of the Year and dam of Zenyatta, track record-setter and 19-time winner (14 Grade I's). For information, contact Chris Bernhard, Voice/Text: (914) 850-9769 or email at cjbern@hitmail.com. The post Disarm, Confidence Game to Hidden Lake Farm in 2026 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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David Menuisier says that he is convinced his star mare Tamfana, who is one of the prize lots in the upcoming Sceptre Sessions of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale, is as good as ever. Tamfana landed a memorable Group 1 triumph in the Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket last year and, ahead of the Sceptre Sessions, her trainer recalled how he realised she was something out of the ordinary from a very early stage in her career. He said, “The way she won her maiden at Kempton followed by her Group 3 in France [as a two-year-old], we had our Christmas party shortly afterwards and I put my neck on the line by saying that she was the best filly that I have ever trained. Obviously, I was drunk, but I wasn't far off being right on that one!” Reflecting on Tamfana's glittering career is bittersweet for Menuisier. For all that she has created some spellbinding memories for her owners Quantum Leap Racing, there was an unlucky fourth in the 1,000 Guineas, where Tamfana was beaten just a length behind Elmalka when denied a clear passage. Menuisier said, “Honestly, the 1,000 Guineas, I was extremely confident because she went to that race off the back of a really good prep. I was really confident. It's a shame she didn't have a clear run because I am sure that she would have won. That was bittersweet because it makes all the difference. Had she won the 1,000 Guineas, it would have been fantastic for the owners and myself, as it would have been my first Classic in the UK. It's still a bit sore when we talk about it. You never really get over those things until you win one I suppose! If there was one positive to take from that fine effort in defeat it was the fact that Tamfana proved herself as a bona fide Group 1 horse in the making. She confirmed that when storming to Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes glory at Newmarket later that season. “She always showed a lot of class – she was third in the Prix de Diane and fourth in the Grand Prix de Paris,” Menuisier said. “Going to the Sun Chariot, we were pretty confident that she would win but she had been quite unlucky throughout the season. It was just a massive relief when she won. It was like watching the race in slow motion, really. Just sheer elation.” On plans for the future, Menuisier has little doubt in his mind that the four-year-old can be as good if not better than ever next year. He said, “I do believe she is as good as ever. Her first run of the season was absolutely fantastic, running second in the Sandown Mile, which is always a strong race. We beat some of the best milers in Europe that day. In the Lockinge, nothing went right and she actually got struck into that day. She lost her stride and I felt the ground was a little bit too quick for her that day. Because the ground was so quick during the summer, we decided to give her a break during the summer and bring her back in the autumn on what I thought would be good ground. The softish ground did not come until October and we were forced to run in the Prix de l'Opera straight away. That was a hard thing to do but she nearly pulled it off. She then produced a massive run in the QEII at Ascot as well.” Menuisier added, “I know the filly really well and she ran well from a mile to a-mile-and-a-half and from good-to-firm to heavy ground because she's a real racehorse. She doesn't know what defeat means and gives her best all the time. And I know that she is as good as ever.” The post Group 1 Winner Tamfana ‘As Good As Ever’ And Set To Star At Sceptre Sessions 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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Buyers from Hong Kong and mainland China were an unstoppable force on the second day of the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka on Thursday. Picking up where they left off at the end of Wednesday’s opening session, Hong Kong and Chinese buyers combined to purchase 57 horses on Thursday for a total of more than $13 million. That haul included all of Thursday’s four highest-priced lots, including a sale-topping colt by Zoustar out of the stakes-winning Hussonet mare Hijack Hussy. Offered by Kit Brooks’ KB Bloodstock as Lot 374, the colt was bought by prolific purchaser Kin Man Yeung for $825,000. “Mr Yeung has a very nice Zoustar in Hong Kong (Patch Of Theta) who’s placed at Group level, so he was looking for another Zoustar and he loved this one,” bloodstock agent Willie Leung said. “He looks big and strong and is an early type, so it is likely that we’ll bring him to Hong Kong early.” The sale-topping colt was one of 16 purchases for Yeung, who took leading buyer honours at the Ready to Run Sale for the third year in a row. He spent a total of $3.57 million across Wednesday and Thursday. Mr & Mrs Wong Kwun Keong, Mr & Mrs Yeung Kin Man and Mr & Mrs Manfred Man at Karaka this week Photo: Angelique Bridson “Mr Yeung enjoys the sale very much, because the first year we got two winners and they have won nine races, which was a good result,” Leung said. “And last year we bought more and we already are about to bring 10 new horses to Hong Kong. He wanted to stock up a little bit more and then pick the quality ones to go to Hong Kong for racing.” Yeung’s first leading buyer title came in 2023, when he bought 12 horses for a total of $2.46 million. He followed that up with 24 purchases last year for $4.99 million. James Cummings paid $775,000 on Thursday for Lot 371, a Written Tycoon colt from the Prima Park draft. The colt is a half-brother to My Whisper, the winner of the Gr.3 Tesio Stakes (1600m), Gr.3 Summoned Stakes (1600m) and Gr.3 Auraria Stakes (1800m) and placegetter in the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks (2000m). Lot 371, a colt by Written Tycoon purchased by James Cummings for $775,000 Photo: Angelique Bridson This week marked the first visit to Karaka in close to a decade for Cummings, who is building ammunition as he prepares to join Hong Kong’s training ranks for the 2026-27 season. Cummings came away from the sale with three purchases for a total of $1.43 million. As well as his $775,000 Written Tycoon colt, he also bought a Bivouac gelding for $425,000 and an Exceedance gelding for $230,000. “I haven’t been here since early 2017, so it’s good to be back and seeing some familiar faces,” said Cummings, who won over 50 Group One races during an eight-year tenure as Godolphin’s head trainer in Australia. “This is a very good sale. It’s a good set-up and there’s lots of clients here from Hong Kong. It’s definitely a hunting ground, and a happy one at that, for good quality Hong Kong gallopers.” Shijiazhuang Hongtao Horse Breeding went to $700,000 to secure Trelawney Stud’s Per Incanto colt that was catalogued as Lot 398, while Hongwei Chen paid the same price for Lot 283, BMD Bloodstock’s colt by Hello Youmzain out of Cool Tart. That strong Hong Kong and Chinese market underpinned an enormously successful sale, which achieved an aggregate of over $41 million for the first time in the Ready to Run Sale’s history. Hong Kong buyers alone accounted for more than $17 million of that amount. View the full article
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