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Champion sprinter Bradsell has sired his first reported foal, a filly out of the Iffraaj mare Lady Eleanor. The dam is a daughter of stakes producer Firenze (Efisio). “We are delighted with Lady Eleanor's first foal by Bradsell,” said breeder Jan Hopper. “She is a quality filly with plenty of strength and size, and as good a foal as the mare has produced.” A three-time Group 1-winning sprinter, the son of Tasleet stands for £10,000 at The National Stud (TNS) in Newmarket. Anna Kerr, CEO of TNS, said, “Bradsell's temperament and tenacity are second to none. He had an excellent first book of mares with a high percentage of stakes performers and producers, along with multiple dams of 2yo winners. It is fantastic to see the quality coming through in his foals, the future looks very bright for him.” The post Bradsell Sires First Reported Foal, A Filly appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

AMERICAN SUMMER (f, 3, Constitution–Speaktomeofsummer {GSW, $266,185}, by Summer Front) was bumped by her competition heading out of the gates, and had to settle near the rear of the field as they went into the bend behind an opening quarter in :22.46. On the move after a half in :46.34, she was rallying between runners at the head of affairs but had real estate to make up in the lane. Shifting inside and relentlessly closing the distance, American Summer struck the front with enough time to put 1 1/4 lengths on American Tapit (American Pharoah) by the time they hit the line. The first foal to the races for GII Lake Placid victress Speaktomeofsummer (Summer Front), the victress has two other half-siblings in the wings–a 2024 juvenile filly by Munnings who RNA'd last year at the Keeneland September sale at $235,000 and a 2025 colt by Golden Pal. Their dam, a half-sister to a fleet of black-type performers, is due to Cairo Prince for 2026. A winning half-sister to the mare who did not achieve stakes success on track turned her fortunes around in the breeding shed as Lifetime Memory (Istan)'s claim to fame is through her son, GISW Antiquarian (Preservationist). This is the female family of multiple Group 1-placed Lucayan Prince.   9th-Turfway, $99,825, Msw, 1-15, 3yo, f, 6f (AWT), 1:12.57, ft, 1 1/4 lengths. AMERICAN SUMMER (f, 3, Constitution–Speaktomeofsummer {GSW, $266,185}, by Summer Front) Sales history: $190,000 RNA Ylg '24 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $58,842. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. O-Estate of Brereton C. Jones; B-Brereton C. Jones (KY); T-Kelsey Danner.   The post Constitution’s American Summer Strikes at First Asking Under the Turfway Lights appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

A new two-year partnership between Racecourse Media Group (RMG) and the National Trainers Federation (NTF) was agreed upon to support trainers and help further grow the sport of horse racing. The deal sees RMG commit to a range of support and integration with the NTF, from helping produce content for play-out on Racing TV's (RTV) broadcast and digital channels, to an annual contribution to cover the NTF's legal expenses insurance. There is a specific commitment to help raise the profile of smaller yards through increased TV exposure, while NTF members can access footage for use on their own channels. For more information on the deal, please visit the NTF website. Nick Mills, CEO of RMG, said, “It's great to be building a closer working relationship with the NTF. We share several common goals, and this new two-year-deal will be mutually beneficial as well as good for racing as a whole. We look forward to working closely with Paul [Johnson] and would welcome NTF members from across the UK to get in touch with their thoughts and ideas for content to broadcast across our platforms.” Nick Alexander, NTF president, said, “This is brilliant news for the sport and for NTF members. We have seen this year that we can achieve more as a sport when we are able to work collectively and I hope that this will be another example of this.  The NTF will be communicating more to members on the specific broadcasting initiatives that will come out of this collaboration in the coming days, and I would encourage trainers to get behind them when we do.” The post Two-Year Deal Inked Between RMG And NTF appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The 2025 Longines World Racing Awards will be held on Tuesday, January 20, and will be available via live stream. Organised by Longines and the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA), the ceremony will honour the Longines World's Best Racehorse (WBR) and the Longines World's Best Horse Race (WBHR) of the 2025 season. Winners will be announced beginning at 1:40 p.m. GMT at The Savoy in London. The IFHA website will also stream the ceremony. The IFHA will also be releasing the world's top 100 Group/Grade 1 races, as well as the rankings for all horses rated 115 or higher worldwide. The post Longines World Racing Awards To Be Streamed Live appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Three Chimneys Farm sire Newgate (by Into Mischief) has his first foal on the ground, a filly born at Jody and Michelle Huckabay's Elm Tree Farm in Paris, Kentucky Jan. 4, the stallion operation said via a Friday release. The brand new chestnut filly is out of GSP Pakhet (Cairo Prince), who is also the dam of recent SW Spirit Doll (Tiz the Law). “Newgate is a tremendous physical and covered a high-quality book of 180 mares in his first year at stud,” said Director of Stallion Nominations Rebecca Nicholson. “He has all of the qualities breeders look for in a young stallion, being by a proven sire of sires and combining an exceptional physical with superior talent and brilliance on the racetrack. We're very excited to have his first foals hit the ground.” A $850,000 2021 Keeneland September yearling, Newgate was sent to trainer Bob Baffert and the bay's debut win at Del Mar yielded a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard'. The future sire's career highlight came when he captured the GI 'Big Cap' at Santa Anita in 2024. Newgate's dam Majestic Presence was third in her own debut in 2014 behind Baffert-trained 'Rising Star' Luminance (Tale of the Cat) and graduated on the stretch out at second asking. She was fourth in a pair of Grade I events that season and contested the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, but had her best black-type finish when third in the GIII Delta Downs Princess behind champion Take Charge Brandi (Giant's Causeway). Newgate stands at Three Chimneys for a 2026 fee of $17,500 LFSN. The post Three Chimneys Sire Newgate Gets A Filly As First Foal appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Trainer Jim Goldie was awarded the Timeform Special Recognition Award at the Timeform Flat Awards. He won his first Group 1 with American Affair (Washington DC) in the King Charles III Stakes at Royal Ascot last June. Goldie also became the first Scottish-based trainer to break 100 winners in the calendar year. “I think we got lucky with American Affair, because the Sunday Series [in 2024] was the making of him,” Goldie told Timeform's Dan Barger. “Although we didn't do it [win the bonus] we came close and it gave him plenty of time to mature between his races, and then he went on to win the Portland. I always felt after winning the King Charles III at Ascot it was job done.” The likeable gelding is on the recovery trail, according to Goldie. A trip to America was also scuppered after his injury. He said, “He's back on the gallop. Because of what he was and where he was, we took no chances – he came out of winning at Ascot and he wasn't particularly sore, but he was due his annual flu vaccination and after we gave him it, he went lame behind the next day. It might have been his immune system reacting to the vaccine, but we decided to bone scan him and while the results were unremarkable, there was a hotspot in his hind fetlock. So, we MRI-ed him and that told more of a story – there were changes going on in the bone. “We gave him eight weeks and started to train him and then MRI-ed him again, and it was actually going the wrong way. We've got a programme to stress the bone and rebuild it, and hopefully when we MRI him again it's going the right way, and he comes back 100 percent.” Goldie's 100th winner was Krissy (Calyx) at Wolverhampton after Christmas. Overall, the 70-year-old has saddled over 1,000 winners on the Flat and over jumps. “It's a great team effort and a lot of horses have done brilliantly this year. I always spot where there's prize-money and then make a plan.” The post Jim Goldie Recognised With Timeform Special Recognition Award 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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The first reported foal by Claiborne Farm's GISW Prince of Monaco (by Speightstown)–a healthy filly out of the Justify mare Itgetsgreaterlater–was born at Serendipity Springs in Lexington, Kentucky Jan. 12, according to a press release from the sire's home base on Friday morning. This is the third foal out of Itgetsgreaterlater, whose second foal by Gunite brought $160,000 at last year's Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, topping the session among that day's weanlings. The Kuegler family's Wasabi Ventures Stables bought Itgetsgreaterlater for $80,000 at the 2023 Keeneland November Sale. The extended family includes GISW Cupid (by Tapit) and MGSW Hostess (Chester House). “She's a beast of a filly,” said George Adams, director of stallions and breeding for Wasabi Ventures Stables. “She has tons of substance, and is very correct. The stallion really stamped her. If they all look like her, Prince of Monaco is going to be a star.” Prince of Monaco filly | courtesy of Caliborne Farm A $950,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select yearling, Prince of Monaco won on debut as a 2-year-old by eight lengths at Los Alamitos, which garnered him a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard'. The Bob Baffert trainee took the GIII Best Pal Stakes at Del Mar where he earned a 103 Beyer. From there, Prince of Monaco earned his first top level score in the GI Del Mar Futurity. As a 3-year-old, Prince of Monaco ran a half-length short of MGISW Book'em Danno (Bucchero) in the GI Woody Stephens Stakes before finishing as the runner-up in the GI H. Allen Jerkens Stakes–both at Saratoga. Bred by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, the young Claiborne stallion is out of the Medaglia d'Oro mare Rainier, from the family of Grade I winner Adieu (El Corredor). Covering 176 mares during his inaugural season with 25% who claimed black-type on their sheets, Prince of Monaco will stand for an advertised fee of $30,000 for 2026. The post Claiborne Farm’s Prince Of Monaco Claims First Foal appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article