Wandering Eyes

Final Accord parlayed a dominating Woodbine debut victory into her first black-type score in the $175,000 Matron Stakes (G3T) Oct. 2 at Aqueduct Racetrack.View the full article

An eye-popping winner of the Glens Falls Stakes (G2T) two starts back, La Mehana looms a worthy favorite in the Oct. 5 $175,000 Waya Stakes (G3T) at Aqueduct Racetrack. View the full article

Gary Barber and Peter Deutsch's Final Accord (War of Will), a very sharp debut winner sprinting over the Woodbine lawn Sept. 11, stayed perfect in Thursday's GIII Matron S. at the Belmont at the Big A meeting. Sixth through a half mile in :44.60, Junior Alvarado tipped Final Accord out off the turn for home and the 5-1 chance came rolling down the center while racing greenly to win by a length. Favored Royal Testament (Midshipman) nosed out unlucky pacesetter Should've (Not This Time) for second. The latter was rushed up to set the pace after stumbling at the start. “We expected there was going to be a big pace duel up front and Junior was patient. When he asked her to go, she had it in the tank. I'm excited she was able to rate and finish strong,” Deutsch said. “I've got the great Mark Casse and his incredible team behind us, and he's got a good eye for horses. This horse has been training great, and he's been patient with her as well. I think there's a lot of upside and I'm really excited with where we are.” Alvarado added, “Even though Joel's (Rosario) horse (Should've) broke a little slow, I guess it kind of helped because then he rushed up the rail, and I just tried to ride my filly, whatever we get, that's good and she ended up getting the whole pie. She finished up very well.” Pedigree Notes: Final Accord, a $75,000 KEESEP yearling, becomes the second graded winner for sophomore sire War of Will and 19th graded winner for broodmare sire Blame. Final Accord's dam Closing Statement (Blame), a winning homebred for Phipps stable, brought $95,000 from breeder Bob Hoeweler at the 2019 KEENOV sale. She is also responsible for a yearling colt by Violence and was bred to Omaha Beach for 2026. Final Accord's third dam is the brilliant MGISW Educated Risk. FINAL ACCORD is now 2-for-2 after winning the Grade 3 Matron Stakes with @JuniorandKellyA aboard for trainer @markecasse. pic.twitter.com/Sngba0XaAg — NYRA () (@TheNYRA) October 2, 2025 Thursday, Belmont The Big A MATRON S.-GIII, $175,000, Belmont The Big A, 10-2, 2yo, f, 6fT, 1:08.47, fm. 1–FINAL ACCORD, 120, f, 2, by War of Will 1st Dam: Closing Statement, by Blame 2nd Dam: Consequence, by El Prado (Ire) 3rd Dam: Educated Risk, by Mr. Prospector 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($75,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP). O-Gary Barber and Peter Deutsch; B-Robert Hoeweler (KY); T-Mark E. Casse; J-Junior Alvarado. $96,250. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $128,406. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus* Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. 2–Royal Testament, 122, f, 2, Midshipman–True Testament, by Hansen. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. O-Mathiesen Racing LLC; B-Killora Stud, LLC (KY); T-George Weaver. $35,000. 3–Should've, 120, f, 2, Not This Time–More'n Likely, by Blame. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. O-Lael Stables; B-M. Roy Jackson (KY); T-Wesley A. Ward. $21,000. Margins: 1, NO, 1. Odds: 5.88, 1.93, 3.71. Also Ran: Catalonia, Just Philtored, Bella Knows, Snappy Comeback, Y'allreadyforthis. Scratched: Believe in Magic, Oscar's Encore, Snow Face Princess, Valala. Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. The post War of Will’s Final Accord Gets Up in Matron appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Carrie Brogden of highly successful Machmer Hall fame is a self-described horse addict and she is not shy when it comes to admitting it. Still, the straight shooter with the commercial breeding business outside of Paris, Kentucky, to make some decisions every fall when it comes to reducing the farm's stock. It is just the way it goes as October rolls around. “I am the ultimate horse sale junkie, just ask my husband Craig, who would be thrilled if we had 30 elite mares on a 250-acre farm,” said Brogden. “But we can't survive like that. I am a horse trader at heart, and in order to buy, you have to sell.” The Brogdens are once again selling this fall, which is an annual event where they take a select group who are already in foal and send them to the marketplace. Brogden used to use Facebook for her open mares, then send the pregnant ones through a brick-and-mortar sale. Everything has changed with the advent of Fasig-Tipton's Digital platform, which opened bidding on Thursday, Oct. 2 and will close the auction in stages by Wednesday, Oct. 8. “With the brick-and-mortar sales, everything costs so much and they have to be sales prepped,” Brogden said. “They have to be stressed when they ship to the sale and back. With these less expensive mares the digital sales make sense. “I love the idea of a pregnant mare going from her herd group to her new herd group,” she said. “Seeing a horse on a video, the mares can be appraised by their page. If they are carrying their ninth foal, even if she's a half to American Pharoah or Justify, it's about her production or lack thereof, and that makes it easier to buy and sell.” The Brogdens have 116 mares at Machmer and roughly 16 runners who are on the track. For the Fasig-Tipton Digital sale this time around they are offering 11 mares who are all pregnant except for one–Lady Bellamy (Maclean's Music) (Hip 384). “She [Lady Bellamy] foaled late and was not in foal on our June cover, but there's nothing wrong with her,” Brogden said. “She throws big, strong foals. Anyone can look at her sales history. So it's just one of those things where she's the only open horse we have.” According to Brogden, Machmer likes to support the stallions that they own shares in, so anytime the opportunity arises to sell a mare who is in foal to say Upstart, Tacitus or Seize the Grey, then they will make the move. “Bashful [Hip 231] by Orb is in foal to Seize the Grey and we bought her privately off of Fox Hill Farm,” she said. “She doesn't owe us a penny since we've already sold a Nyquist out of her for $380,000 last year.” Picking the next great commercially viable stallion is a challenge though, but Brogden says she is pretty interested in Aloha West and how everything will turn out for him. “We have a share in Aloha West,” she said. “I should've listened when they told me to take a share in Oscar Performance like 15 times. That's the way it goes.” Brogden also does not mince words when she says how tough it can be to sell pregnant mares. It continues to be a roll of the dice for her and those who take them home. Singsong (Unbridled's Song)–entered as hip 284–is a case in point. “She is in foal to Tiz the Law and carrying a full-sibling to the yearling colt that we just sold to Marette Farrell's client for $130,000 in September,” said Brodgen. “If that horse becomes a graded stakes winner, then did we lose? The way I look at it is that I am happy for the people that buy our mares and sell them. They will come back.” Now that Machmer Hall is upping its racing game more and more, Carrie Brogden says trading takes on an even more prominent role. “It's part of this terrible addiction that I personally have,” she said. “I can completely admit to it now that we're 25 years in. Luckily, it's been a very successful operation and these Fasig-Tipton Digital sales make it incredibly easy when it's time for a reduction like this one.” Click here for the October digital sale catalogue. The post Brogden’s Machmer Hall Offers Annual Mare Reduction During Fasig-Tipton Digital Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Variety is the key word for the Woodford Stakes (G2T) Oct. 4 at Keeneland, with runners aged 3 to 9 arriving from all directions.View the full article

Godolphin's globetrotting Nations Pride returns to Woodbine to defend his title in the CA$750,000 Canadian International (G1T) Oct. 4. View the full article

In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Kyoto Racecourse: Saturday, October 4, 2025 3rd-KYO, ¥14,250,000 ($97k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400m ASK KENTUCKY (c, 2, Good Magic–Entirely, by Point of Entry), was a $200,000 Keeneland November purchase in 2023 and changed hands for $350,000 at last year's Keeneland September Sale. The chestnut's dam, a stakes winner and third in the GIII Matron Stakes for Augustin Stables at two in 2018, was offered with this colt in utero at Keeneland November in 2022, but was led out unsold on a bid of $47,000. O-Hirosaki Toshihiro HD Co Ltd; B-Bedouin Bloodstock LLC; T-Hideyaki Fujiwara JUNE SECRETA (c, 2, Maclean's Music–Bazinga Baby, by Afleet Alex) fetched $235,000 at the 2023 Keeneland November Sale and showed enough improvement over the course of the next 10 months to sell for $450,000 at last year's Keeneland September Sale. The Apr. 16 foal is a full-brother to Estilo Talentoso, a seven-furlong specialist who won the GIII Bed o' Roses Stakes and was placed in the GI Madison Stakes and GI Derby City Distaff Stakes. Herself exported to Japan, Estilo Talentoso is the dam of the 2-year-old colt Finger (Jpn) (Gun Runner), a good second on Nakayama debut Sept. 27. This is the deeper female family of G1 Japan Cup hero Tap Dance City (Pleasant Tap). O-Jun Yoshikawa; B-Town & Country Horse Farms LLC (KY); T-Hidenori Take Sunday, October 5, 2025 3rd-KYO, ¥14,250,000 ($97k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m JUSTIN DALLAS (JPN) (c, 2, Gun Runner–Pink Sands, by Tapit) is the second produce for his dam, winner of the GII Inside Information Stakes and GIII Rampart Stakes for Shug McGaughey and later sold for $2.3 million in foal to Into Mischief at the 2021 Keeneland November Sale. That first foal, the 3-year-old colt Justin Trueno, is a five-start maiden in Japan. A daughter of Grade I winner Her Smile (Include), Pink Sands is a full-sister to Timing Now, a $750,000 purchase by Shadai Farm at KEESEP in 2017, who banked better than a half-million in Japan. The cross of Gun Runner over Tapit is responsible for a half-dozen winners at the graded level, including GISW Society and additional GSWs Wicked Halo, Red Route One, Il Miracolo, and Disarm. O-Masahiro Miki; B-EM Planning LLC; T-Haruki Sugiyama 10th-KYO, ¥41,800,000 ($284k), Allowance, 3yo/up, 1200m AMERICAN STAGE (c, 3, Into Mischief–Bonita Mia, by Warrior's Reward) strung together three victories at the back end of his juvenile campaign and was set a very tall task as an early 3-year-old. Sent to Dubai, the $500,000 KEESEP grad ran with great credit to finish second to reigning G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen hero Tuz (Oxbow) in the G3 Mahab Al Shimaal at Meydan in March and was last seen finishing a midfield sixth in the Apr. 5 Golden Shaheen. Ryusei Sakai rides the half-brother to MGSW Super Chow (Lord Nelson)–also down the field in the Golden Shaheen–for trainer Yoshito Yahagi, the same human connections behind MG1SW and GI Breeders' Cup Classic-bound Forever Young (Jpn) (Real Steel {Jpn}). O-Yoshizawa Holdings Co Ltd; B-Spendthrift Farm LLC (KY); T-Yoshito Yahagi The post Group 3-Placed Into Mischief Colt American Stage Back To Work at Kyoto appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Two months out from the Dec. 3 start to its 65-date winter/spring season, Turfway Park is projecting maiden special weight (MSW) purses to be $90,000. That's an increase of $10,000 per race from the $80,000 MSW purse level that Turfway paid at the 2024-25 meet. But that figure also falls $10,000 short of the work-in-progress goal stated earlier this year by Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI), Turfway's parent company, of having MSW races of at least $100,000 at all five Thoroughbred tracks in Kentucky. Back in May, Gary Palmisano, Jr., the vice president of racing for CDI, which owns Churchill Downs, Ellis Park and Turfway, told the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund (KTDF) advisory committee that the six-figure MSW level was a benchmark that the gaming company was shooting for. At this year's Ellis meet in July and August, CDI raised MSW purses to $100,000 from the $71,000 per-race figure that was paid out in 2024. Kentucky Downs ran $170,000 MSW races at the August and September meet. Churchill carded $120,000 MSW races during the September season that just concluded. The Keeneland Race Course meet that opens Friday has $110,000 MSW races in the condition book. Even though Turfway hasn't quite hit that six-figure level yet, its MSW purses have been rising. The $90,000 projection for this season is an increase over last year's $80,000. The previous two seasons they were $70,000. In 2021-22, Turfway paid out $62,000 for MSW races. Although MSW purse levels do not tell the entire story about how healthy a track or a circuit's racing is, they are often cited within the Thoroughbred industry as a useful barometer that indicates the class of horses a track can expect to attract. Matthew Shehadi, Turfway's general manager, said during the Oct. 1 KTDF advisory committee meeting that Turfway will be looking to boost other aspects of its winter/spring program while maximizing its slot on the national simulcasting calendar. “We're looking to run 10 races a night in December,” Shehadi said. “During the December time period, California racing moves to Los Alamitos, and we see a really strong uptick in our [handle] performance, [and] that's also our highest field size each year. So we're going to try and capitalize on that with an extra race during the December time period.” Shehadi said Turfway is also “hoping to bump all of our [claiming-race portion of] KTDF money up 10%. It's important to us that not only do we tout the maiden [special weight] figure, but that the bottom races [increase] in some parallel with it.” Turfway also plans to card three additional stakes races so the track will have stakes “at least every Saturday” for the beginning of the season, Shehadi said. “The three stakes will be conducted during the December season,” Shehadi said. “Last year, we ran four stakes and we bundled them together [on the same date] and called it the Turfway Park Synthetics Championship. That delivered almost two-and-a-half times handle last year, so we're going to build that out and keep focusing on that as kind of a December premium day.” Shehadi noted that Turfway received 2,000 applications for 900 stalls. Stabling during the summer, when Turfway is not racing, has averaged a robust 800 horses since the track reopened for year-round stabling several seasons ago. Turfway switched its track surface from Polytrack to Tapeta ahead of the 2020-21 meet. At Wednesday's KTDF advisory committee meeting, Bill Landes III, who represents the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, asked Shehadi if Turfway is making an “extra effort” to “maintain it and keep it in a safe manner” considering the extra wear and tear from year-round usage. “Very good point,” Shehadi responded, noting that Turfway is in “constant contact” with Michael Dickinson, the founder of Tapeta Footings, regarding maintaining the surface. Shehadi added that Turfway “spent well over six figures applying a gel treatment last October in advance of [last] season, which was a recommendation from Dickinson.” Shehadi continued: “We built the track for three months of racing each winter, and now we're using it all year. So our capital costs of maintaining that surface have definitely gone up. But [it's a] pill we're willing to swallow for the fact that we have 800 extra horses here in Kentucky, helping Churchill, helping Kentucky Downs, helping Ellis.” Landes also asked Shehadi about Turfway's willingness to potentially raise purses during the upcoming meet if a boost in betting business warrants a revision. “Just file this away: Should you run into a windfall during this Turfway meet, do you have the option to expand your purses on the fly?” Landes asked. “Yeah, I mean, that $100,000 [MSW purse figure] is what we're always trying to get to,” Shehadi responded. “And we're very close. But as I mentioned also, we do want to bump the bottom up, because that the bread and butter of our Kentucky circuit.” The KTDF is funded by three-quarters of 1% of all money wagered in the state on both live Thoroughbred races and historical horse race gaming, plus 1% of all money wagered on Thoroughbred races via inter-track wagering and whole-card simulcasting. That money, along with funding from each track, goes to pay purses in the state. At the Oct. 1. meeting, the KTDF advisory board approved the recommendation of allotment requests that the Turfway projections were based on. The Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation still has to vote on final approval of the funding at a subsequent meeting later this month. The post Turfway Msw Purses Projected at $90,000 for Winter/Spring Meet appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

A late setback has scuppered the G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe chances of Estrange (Night Of Thunder), who will now miss the race, leaving a field of 17. Due to start widest of all in gate 18, she delivered a dirty scope in the lead up to the race. Owned by Cheveley Park Stud and trained by David O'Meara, the grey filly has won multiple group races and was second to one of the favourites in Minnie Hauk (Frankel) in the G1 Yorkshire Oaks last out. O'Meara told the PA news agency, “We're all devastated. She worked earlier in the week and worked great and it looked like the rain was coming for her which was ideal. “This morning she was coughing after exercise and I scoped her and she was dirty – we don't have enough time to get her cleaned up.” Estrange could yet be seen this season in the G1 QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot on October 18. He added, “We'll see. It would be a guess. I just don't know. We'll put her on some antibiotics and just keep her ticking over and see where we are in a week or so.” The post Setback Forces Estrange To Miss The Arc appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

By Michael Guerin The big girl Beside Me is back at Addington tonight and she is ready to go. She is going to need to be. One of our most talented three-year-old pacing fillies in a very deep yet even crop Beside Me looked like she could be the next big thing with a stunning Caduceus Club Ladyship Stakes win at Alexandra Park in March. Soon after she was odds-on for the Northern Oaks but she was beaten by Arafura in the Oaks and Captains Mistress in a red hot Sires’ Stakes Final. She returns in a Nevele R Fillies heat (R9, No.8 – 9.04pm) with the potential to still be our best filly of 2025 but plenty of talented young ladies standing in her way, many of them tonight. “It is not going to be easy but I am confident she is ready to go,” says co-trainer Cran Dalgety. “She is drawn wide with some good fillies inside her but her trial last week was really good and she is ready to be driven tough if she has to be. “Sure, she will get better with the run but she can win.” The Dalgetys also have Forever Dream and Bettor Than Lizzy in the heat but it is seriously stacked, with any one of Gone Surfin, General Jen, Queen Tyron, One For Jay, Celestial Sea and obviously Oaks winner Arafura capable of winning tonight without stunning punters. Team Dalgety has multiple chances in all the age group pacing races tonight, including two juvenile fillies in their Dunstan Sires’ Stakes heat. “Lizzie Borden is our best chance of our two and she has no luck up north recently. “All Of Me is a half sister to Beside Me and she is improving but again it is a field with a bit of depth to it.” For all the strength of those two races the juvenile boys pace might even be the highlight of the night, even minus Jumal. Allamericanplayer (R8, No.4) is back after a great first campaign in which he beat Fugitive in both the Welcome and Sapling Stakes, the latter in 1:53.5. They meet again tonight but are drawn outside Special Occasion (1) and Incentivise (2), both who look to have real Group 1 class. “Fugitive will be better for his last start,” says Dalgety. “And we have Eun Sogno in there for the TAB Racing Club and while he is still very much learning this should tell us where we stand with him.” Add in northerners War Chief and Move It Lou and the Woodlands Sires’ Stakes heat is a little taster of what is to come but with Jumal and Zeus Lightning waiting in the wings for the winner as the juvenile boys season gets ready hot. Team Dalgety also send Joyride north to Alexandra Park where she is odds-on to win the opener. View the full article

Edited Press Release Hall of Fame jockey Victor Espinoza, best known for piloting American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) to victory in the 2015 Triple Crown and in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland, will be a member of the local jockey colony throughout the Fall Meet, which opens its 17-day run Oct. 3. Espinoza made the change from his longtime Southern California base this past summer after trainer Wesley Ward convinced him to turn his Saratoga Race Course visit into a working vacation. Espinoza agreed and stayed fit exercising horses in the morning and riding a few races. Ward, the 1984 Eclipse Award winner as outstanding apprentice jockey, has 10 Keeneland training titles. He said using jockeys on horses during training is a huge benefit. “The advantage is they might find a little 'this or that' about the horse,” Ward said. “If they have worked them in the mornings, they have a feel for them. They can have a little plan before the race [in the post parade].” This strategy is used for Mountain Bear (Ire) (No Nay Never), third to Carl Spackler (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) in last year's GI Coolmore Turf Mile in his second start in North America for his European connections. In his two most recent races, Mountain Bear was ridden by Espinoza after they became acquainted during training hours. He was most recently third at Kentucky Downs Aug. 31. “We wanted him to get a little feel of the horse,” Ward said. “He has worked Mountain Bear multiple times and knows him very well. [Mountain Bear] has a few antics but he has been gelded, which has made a huge difference.” Mountain Bear is scheduled to make his next start in the eighth race on Oct. 10, a second-level allowance going 8 1/2 furlongs on the turf. Espinoza has ridden sparingly at Keeneland, where he has won six races–four of which are stakes. He hasn't ridden since 2022 at the Lexington oval. “I wanted to try something different,” Espinoza said. “I have never really moved out of California. Everybody here is really nice and really into the sport. Lexington is unique. Everyone seems to know each other and they are looking forward to the Keeneland meet. Everybody is talking about the races, and that makes it fun. But the backside is the same. Every track you go to, people are the same. It is nice to see many horses training on the track. I am not used to that.” The post Espinoza Riding Afternoon and Mornings for Ward at Keeneland appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The first-ever vineyard harvest occurred at Newsells Park Stud this past week. The 1200-acre estate is the first Thoroughbred stud in Europe to establish a vineyard for premium English sparkling wine. The event was celebrated with hands-on picking and a gathering of Wine Club members and special guests, including Spurs legend Ossie Ardiles. Planted in 2022 on 30 acres of south-facing chalk, 41,000 vines of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier have flourished on the property. The first 'Newsells-grown' sparkling wines are expected beginning in 2028/29. Approximately 30,000 bottles are likely to be produced, with more than half set to be aged at least five years on lees. Newsells Park is currently producing wines from carefully selected English vineyards, crafted with precision and named after some of the stud's most celebrated racehorses, including Nathaniel, Shastye and Shambolic. For more information on the Wine Club and Newsells Park's English Sparkling Wine, please visit the Newsells Park website. Graham Smith-Bernal, owner of Newsells Park, said, “This is a hugely exciting milestone for Newsells Park. Just as we aim for the very highest standards in breeding and racing, we are committed to producing sparkling wines of exceptional quality. With such perfect conditions this year, our first harvest has been everything we hoped for and more.” Newsells Park will bring a strong 29-horse consignment to next week's Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, with two of the highlights half-sisters to Group 1 winners Zavateri (Without Parole) and Waldgeist (Galileo). The post Milestone Vineyard Harvest For Newsells Park appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

10th-KEE, 110K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 5:48 p.m. John Stewart's Resolute Bloodstock went to $775,000 to acquire SCARLET WAVE (Justify) at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Out of a Canadian multiple stakes-placed first dam, the filly is a three-quarter sister to GI Frizette Stakes winner Nickname (Scat Daddy) who went through the ring herself at Fasig-Tipton's November Sale in 2023 where she RNA'd for $1.45m after selling for $3m to Kerri Radcliffe at the same sale in 2017. As a broodmare, Nickname is responsible for Irish GSW Ides of March (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}). Debuting out of the Riley Mott barn for a partnership that now includes Mrs. John Magnier, Scarlet Wave will get Jamie Torres aboard from the outside gate. Godolphin homebred Inkling (Street Sense) is the latest to race out of GSW/MGISP Penwith who has already produced GSW Cornishman (Curlin). Godolphin acquired second dam, MGISW Composure, for $3.6m at KEENOV in 2003. She rewarded that purchase with six winning foals including GISP Tranquil Manner (A.P. Indy) and MGISP Centring (A.P. Indy) who in her own breeding career is responsible for GISP Central Avenue (Street Sense). Another daughter of Composure is the dam of MGSW Shared Sense (Street Sense), GSW Comparative (Street Sense) and SW Kinetic (Street Sense). TJCIS PPS The post Friday Insights: Turf Fillies Star On Keeneland Opening Day appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Bidding is now open for the Fasig-Tipton October Digital Sale, with a total of 407 horses of all ages on offer. The sale has been divided into two days–bidding on hips 1-225, including horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, yearlings and weanlings will close Tuesday, Oct. 7, while a broodmare section of the sale (hips 226-407) will close Wednesday, Oct. 8. “We're really excited about the October Digital Catalogue,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. “The depth of this sale has led us to split it across two days. Day 1 will feature racehorses at all levels, including some standout broodmare prospects. We're especially thrilled to welcome back A & A Ranch for a second offering of their highly sought-after yearling crop–and there are even 15 weanlings for those early-bird buyers. “Day 2 will be all about broodmares, including a reduction from Machmer Hall along with several other exceptional mares. It's already time to start thinking about breeding season, and this sale is the perfect place to get a head start.” Potential highlights include: Willow Case (Neolithic) (hip 20), whose current three-race winning streak includes victories in the six-furlong Sharp Susan Stakes and the one-mile Hallandale Beach Stakes; Athenian (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) (hip 231), offered in foal to Bucchero and whose juvenile son Argos (Nyquist) won the GI Summer Stakes at Woodbine last month; Spring Dance (Dance With Ravens) (hip 243), dam of recent GIII Oklahoma Derby hero Bracket Buster (Vekoma) and selling on a Mar. 5 cover to Blofeld. To create an account or to register to bid on horses in the October Digital Sale, visit digital.fasigtipton.com. The post Fasig-Tipton Catalogues 407 Horses For Two-Day October Digital Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The winner Wapeka (Dubawi) (lot 26) is one of two new wildcards for Saturday's Arqana Arc Sale. Consigned by Jamie Railton, the son of Wekeela (Hurricane Run), herself a €1-million Arc Sale grad, won his second start at Craon on September 28. Wekeela was successful in the G3 Prix Chloe and GIII Matchmaker Stakes and was placed in the G1 Prix Saint-Alary, GI Jenny Wiley Stakes, and GI Gamely Stakes. The other new wildcard addition to the catalogue is Fire Warning (The Grey Gatsby) (lot 52), who ran second in his hurdling debut recently. The sale takes place at 6:30 p.m. Paris time after racing on Saturday, October 4. The post Another Pair Of Arqana Wildcards Added To The Arc Sale Led By A Dubawi Colt appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

By Bettina Keller Miro Weiss, the 26-time champion trainer in Switzerland, has announced his impending retirement at the age of 76. He and his family have made an incomparable impact on Swiss racing. Coming from the former Czechoslovakia, they settled in Urdorf, Zürich and began training in 1970. Since 1981, Weiss has been responsible for training up to 60 or 70 horses at time. His family's Beliar Bloodstock, originally consisting of Weiss's late father Adolf and late brother Richard, has subsequently been managed by the trainer with the support of his partner Ingrid Bult. Weiss has won every big race in Switzerland and amassed well over 1,000 winners. His two Derby winners, Majofils and Fabrino, as well as Oaks winner Blue Ellen, were ridden by British jockey Robert Havlin, who has been engaged on Swiss racetracks over many years. Many young riders found their way to Weiss's Beliar Stables and progressed to become champions in Switzerland. Also a group-winning trainer in Germany, Weiss was a successful and experienced White Turf trainer, making him popular with English colleagues, who would turn to him for advice when bringing horses to St Moritz to race on the frozen lake. In 2010, he won St Moritz's Sprint Grand Prix with Sweet Venture, ridden by Frankie Dettori. Twenty-eight horses remain in training at Beliar Stables in preparation for next year's White Turf meeting, after which the curtain will fall. The retirement of Miro Weiss brings to an end an era in Swiss racing which is not replaceable. We wish him a happy retirement. The post Swiss Champion Trainer Miro Weiss Set to Retire appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

KILDARE, IRELAND – Classic winners Jim Bolger and Joe Joyce shared the spoils for top lot status on the final day of a red-hot Book 2 session of the Goffs Orby Sale on Thursday when their respective fillies by Teofilo and Mehmas sold for €135,000 apiece. Bolger's fingerprints were all over Joyce's Mehmas filly, who the breeder consigned himself under his own Cahermorris Stables banner. It was Tally-Ho Stud who landed the filly whose dam, Smart Flies, won and reached a rating of 86 when in training with Bolger. As for the legendary trainer's own offering, the Teofilo half-sister to Group 2-placed Geometrical, it was Federico Barberini who secured the filly on behalf of Dream Ahead's owner Khalifa Dasmal. Bolger was in attendance at Goffs, where he will sell 45 yearlings under his granddaughter Clare Manning's Boherguy Stud outfit at the Autumn Yearling Sale later in the year. The master of Coolcullen spoke about putting his famous Redmonstown Stud on the market last week and Thursday's joint-top lot marked the beginning of a winding down process for the man who has bred Group 1 and Classic winners like Teofilo himself along with Dawn Approach, Trading Leather, Poetic Flare and more. Asked if he expected the Teofilo filly to sell for €135,000, Bolger replied, “Not quite, but she is a gorgeous filly – everything works. She's worth every penny.” On the winding down process, he continued, “I came into this game hoping that one day I would train the winner of the Moyglare. That was the height of the ambition and I haven't gotten any more ambitious since. I take things as they come. Selling these horses, it makes life easier for me. I don't pile on pressure. We aren't in this filly's pedigree as long as others but it is a nice pedigree and we're happy with the price that she made.” Barberini has been busy at Goffs this week and confirmed that the Teofilo filly has been purchased on behalf of Khalifa Dasmal. “I saw her this morning and really fell in love with her,” Barberini said. “She's a lovely filly by a very good sire of fillies. I really loved her as an individual but she also has a fantastic pedigree. She comes from a beautiful family and the mare has already produced a black-type horse, so there's no reason why she shouldn't do it again.” He added, “She'll stay in Ireland to be broken and then we'll decide who'll train her. She's been bought for Khalifa Dasmal, a very enthusiastic and successful owner who really enjoys his racing.” As for Joyce, a native of County Galway whose colours were carried by the Frances Crowley-trained Saoire to win the Irish 1,000 Guineas back in 2005, Thursday's result sugar-coated what has been a remarkable sale for the owner-breeder. It was here at Kildare Paddocks on Tuesday when Blue Diamond Stud paid €240,000 for a filly by his own stallion Fracas, who, like Saoire, carried Joyce's familiar blue and white silks with distinction. “I have had this family for a long time,” he said after the sale of the Mehmas filly. “I bred the dam, and this is a smart filly – she is definitely a two-year-old. This is my first time selling at Goffs for I think nine years. Okay, we sold McTigue through Goffs in 2022, but it's great to be back selling a few. We usually race all of the stock but it's nice to be getting some money in for a change.” He added, “Goffs have treated us very well and put on a good show with buyers here from all over the world this week. I have had a great sale, highlighted by the Fracas selling in Book 1 for €240,000. I had to give the O'Callaghans a bit of a push earlier on and told them I had a nice filly. I think they copped on!! The dam is in foal to Good Guess and she has a cracking foal on the ground by the same sire. He is a really nice stallion.” With regards to the father-and-son combination of Tony and Roger O'Callaghan, they were not going to be beaten on the Mehmas filly. Bidding from their usual spot on the right of the rostrum, they held off competition from a number of breeze-up buyers and trainers. Asked what path the filly could chart, Tony commented, “She'll go breezing or racing. We loved the filly and she came from a good breeder from the West of Ireland in Joe Joyce. I haven't much else to say, only that we love the sire.” Asked what he felt made the progeny of Mehmas so good, O'Callaghan replied, “Their honesty and their will to win. He has been very consistent since he has started. Trainers like them. They put their head down low and they want to do it. It has been a very good sale this week but then again every sale has been good. It's been extraordinary.” The Book 2 session of the Orby followed a familiar script to Book 1 with sharp rises across the board. Of the 394 horses offered, 338 were sold at a clearance rate of 86% [up by 14% on last year]. The €8,550,000 turnover climbed 28%, the average was up by 25% to €25,296 while the median rose by 33% to €20,000. Henry Beeby commented, “Book 2 of the Irish National Yearling Sale always has a hard act to follow after two days of the best in Orby Book 1, and this year upped the ante as Monday and Tuesday returned record breaking results with new highs for average at €136,256 and the €98,000 median headed by a trio of millionaire lots. “That Orby 1 is a world class yearling sale that is the measure of any on the planet when we have the horses is proven time and again and so it was the case this week as we enjoyed a trade of sustained demand as demonstrated by the 89% clearance rate.” He added, “Orby 2 operates at a different level but the unceasing hunger for horses over the last two days has continued the trends set since August as we have seen mighty trade at Saratoga, Deauville, Doncaster, Keeneland and Fairyhouse, all at their own levels. In fact, the Orby 2 average is a record as well, and the median came within a bid of the high of 2022, whilst we have sold more six figure lots and the number making €50,000 or over has also risen dramatically, and all from a strong clearance rate of 86%. Another notable statistic is that the last 10 lots averaged well above the sale average so dispelling any suggestion of the sale tailing off in any way. “Buyer diversification is also noteworthy and the combined efforts of the Goffs Purchaser Attraction Team and our friends at Irish Thoroughbred Marketing has led to a huge number of buyers from all over the world with new faces coming specifically for Orby 2 and 35 different entities signing for lots making €50,000 and above – that's some spread. “There is no doubt that the unique Goffs Two Million Series has a positive impact on Orby 2 as well as its predecessor and the five Book 2 graduates who took home a €50,000 Goffs Bonus have acted as inspiration for buyers over the last two days much the same as those buying earlier in the week. Indeed, the €5,000 Orby 2 daughter of Coulsty bought by Nick Bradley last year is a graphic illustration of why it pays to “Tick the Box” at Orby 1 and Orby 2. “As we close out the Irish National Yearling Sales week there is no doubt there will be more headlines elsewhere in the coming weeks to follow those from USA, France and closer to home over the last couple of months, but nothing will diminish the record-breaking achievements and vibrancy of Orby 1 and Orby 2. For that we repeat our thanks to every vendor and each purchaser as we are nothing without both groups.” The post “She’s Worth Every Penny” – Jim Bolger Supplies The Joint-Top Lot At Goffs appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

C2 Racing Stable LLC, Gary Barber and La Milagrosa Stable LLC's White Abarrio (Race Day) went a half-mile Thursday morning at Gulfstream Park as he continues his preparations for the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar on Saturday, Nov. 1. Winner of the 2023 GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita, the 6-year-old took to the main track following the renovation break and drilled a half-mile in :46.56 (1/7) before galloping out five furlongs in :59.29. A latest fifth, but placed fourth, in a rough-and-tumble renewal of the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga on Aug. 31, the 10-time winner was recording his second breeze since, having registered a three-furlong bullet in :33.73 on Sept. 25. “Last week's breeze was sharp and this week's breeze going a half is similar,” said trainer Saffie Joseph, Jr., who has scheduled White Abarrio to ship to Del Mar Oct. 23. “He seems to be in good order and going well. We just want to get him in the right spot mentally to hopefully fire one of his best races again.” Joseph, Jr. has as many as five horses in the mix for Breeders' Cup weekend, including 'TDN Rising Star, Sponsored By Hagyard' Be Your Best (Ire) (Muhaarar {GB}) for the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf; and GIII Princess Rooney Stakes victress Haulin Ice (Coal Front), R Disaster (Awesome Slew), a latest winner of the GIII Vagrancy Stakes and Mystic Lake (Mo Town) for the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. Soul of an Angel (Atreides) gave Joseph, Jr. his first win at the Breeders' Cup in last year's Filly & Mare Sprint. Work of the Day from @GulfstreamPark—White Abarrio worked 4 Furlongs in 46.56 on October 2nd, 2025, for trainer @SaffieJosephJr. pic.twitter.com/cz1bksPdiM — 1/ST TV (@Watch1ST) October 2, 2025 The post White Abarrio Breezes Another Bullet For BC Dirt Mile appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Elite Status, a Group-winning sprinter at two and three, has been retired from racing and will stand alongside his sire, Havana Grey, at Whitsbury Manor Stud next year. A stud fee will be announced at a later date. Trained by Karl Burke for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum, Elite Status arrived at Royal Ascot unbeaten as a two-year-old following impressive victories in a maiden at Doncaster and the Listed National Stakes at Sandown. Though meeting with defeat when attempting to extend his winning sequence in the G2 Norfolk Stakes, ultimately finishing third behind Valiant Force, he soon opened his account in Group company with a dominant triumph in the G3 Prix de Cabourg at Deauville. As a three-year-old Elite Status again kicked off his campaign in the best possible fashion, registering back-to-back wins at Newbury in the Listed Carnarvon Stakes and G3 Hackwood Stakes. On the last occasion he lowered the six-furlong course record at the Berkshire venue, winning by half a length from a trio of top-level performers in Lake Forest, Kind Of Blue and Regional. Last seen finishing seventh behind Rage Of Bamby in the latest edition of the Hackwood, Elite Status now joins the stallion ranks at Whitsbury Manor in something of a homecoming, having been born there to the three-time winner Dotted Swiss, a daughter of another former Whitsbury Manor resident in Swiss Spirit. Ed Harper, director of Whitsbury Manor Stud, said, “We have loved everything about Elite Status since the day he was born. He knocked our eyes out as a foal at home and it's fantastic we now get to support him with our mares that have already bred top runners by Havana Grey. He's not only a stunning-looking horse, but he was rated 4lbs higher than his sire and 6lbs higher than his grand sire [on Racing Post ratings], so he's the full package.” Elite Status first sold for 56,000gns at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, before being purchased by Karl and Kelly Burke for 325,000gns when returning to Park Paddocks for Book 2 of the October Yearling Sale. The first foal out of Dotted Swiss, he was followed by Victorious Racing's Listed Ripon Champion Two Yrs Old Trophy Stakes hero Soldier's Heart (Havana Grey). Their second dam, Luxuria (Kheleyf), is a half-sister to another winner of Sandown's National Stakes in Sweepstake (Acclamation), the dam of the Group 1 winners Broome (Australia) and Diego Velazquez (Frankel), as well as the multiple Group scorer Point Lonsdale (Australia). The post Elite Status to Join Sire Havana Grey at Whitsbury Manor Stud in 2026 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Roll up, roll up. It's the bloodstock equivalent of the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, live and exclusive in Newmarket for three days only. Yep, it's Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale and doors open this year on Tuesday, October 7. That is indeed if there are any doors left, as they were blown right off last year with the most sensational yearling trade ever witnessed in Europe. Turnover reached a new high of almost 128 million gns, and while on first glance that tally is only just above the aggregate set for 2022, it was accrued from the sale of 90 fewer yearlings, setting a median price of 250,000gns. Last year's Book 1, which had 449 yearlings catalogued, was the smallest ever, and this time around numbers are back up to the level seen in 2022 and 2023, with 537 in that premier book for this year. For marketing director Jason Singh, the October Sale results will be key in more ways than one. “My predecessor, Jimmy George, went out with an absolute stonker of a sale,” he says with a grin. “I was thinking at the end of that, 'thanks a lot, Jim'. Of course, the responsibility of getting buyers to a sale effectively falls on me now.” Singh probably won't have too much to worry about in that regard. For a start, the yearling sales generally have started in buoyant fashion. Keeneland has witnessed spectacular returns, no doubt aided by President Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' and its associated tax breaks, but as we saw last year in particular, the October Sale at Tattersalls has a life force all of its own. “Because Book 1 was so strong last year, it follows that more people are happy being in there, so demand for places was higher,” Singh says. “There were a few factors at play last year, and I think it's fair to say that up until a few days before [Book 1], we didn't really see that coming. When we knew the level of American participation that we were going to have, we certainly were confident that we were going to have a good sale.” Indeed, the American participants played their part, with Klaravich Stables notably spending 3.6 million gns through agent Mike Ryan, but up above them on the Book 1 buyers' table were Godolphin (22m gns), Amo Racing (19.5m gns), Blandford Bloodstock, whose clients include Wathnan Racing (10.4m gns), and Yulong (3.9m gns). “But the yearling sales last year up until that point in Europe had been, I think, average, a little bit underwhelming,” Singh says. “Book 1 really was the turning point at which all the sales for the rest of the year took a significant upturn, and that has mostly continued throughout this year. Jason Singh with Littleton Stud's David Bowe | Tattersalls “Keeneland has looked extraordinarily strong. I think it's fair to say the top of the market is as strong as it's ever been. And obviously Books 1 and 2 are both big beneficiaries of that strength at the top of the market because they have so many of those top yearlings. That's not to ignore other issues that racing faces, and I'm not suggesting that the polarisation of the market is a good thing.” Prize-money is often cited as an issue for racing in these parts, and certainly many British and Irish tracks would struggle to compete with the purses offered during the recent turf meeting at Kentucky Downs in particular. It is one of the reasons why Singh has confidence that we will still see American participation at Tattersalls, despite potentially increased costs from tariffs. “With the turf racing there becoming much more popular and there being a bigger programme of races available, it makes sense that if you want to access the best turf pedigrees, there's no question that they are here in Britain and Ireland, and they're the best yearlings on offer every year here at the October Yearling Sale,” he says. “It's not just the turf horses that are bought by American owners and trainers to race there, it's also the performances of the turf horses from Europe that go over to things like the Breeders' Cup. There are the American-trained horses like Newspaperofrecord and Aunt Pearl, but then you've got the European-trained horses like Victoria Road, Big Evs, and Starlust. And you've also got the long-way-around ones that are sold and trained here, and that have then been bought to race in America.” He continues, “There's no question that Chad Brown changed the landscape, and he has come back every year. And in the last two or three years, the numbers have really surged. “Since 2022, the winners of 51 graded stakes in America have come just from the October Yearling Sale alone. And those results, both from the horses trained there and the horses that have gone from here, it's something that people notice – that they're European pedigrees and European standards.” Group 1 winner Venetian Sun as a yearling at Tattersalls | Laragh de Burgh While there is understandably much focus on the prices achieved at Book 1, the success stories come from all levels of the market, both in that first week of the October Sale and across Books 2 and 3 in the following week. There is no Book 4 this year; instead there is a short session of yearlings in the Autumn Sale, which follows at the end of the week of the Horses-in-Training Sale, on October 31. Those later yearlings are also all eligible for the £200,000 Somerville Auction Stakes and the £200,000 October Auction Stakes. At last year's Book 1, only one yearling sold for less than the 25,000gns it took Charlie Johnston to buy Suddenly I See from Kildaragh Stud, and the Ribchester colt, owned by Barbara and Alick Richmond, is now a Book 1 Bonus winner, having triumphed on his second start at Musselburgh. “The Book 1 Bonus is 10 years old now, and we've averaged about 43 winners a year for those 10 years. So we're just on the verge of paying out £10 million in bonuses,” says Singh. “The owners seem to love it. By and large, it pays for their training fees for the year if they manage to win one. And the great thing is, and this year is a perfect illustration, you don't have to pay a huge amount of money to win one. Ten of the yearlings that have won a bonus this year were bought for 100 grand or less, and that's out of 29 Book 1 Bonus winners so far. “Charlie Johnston's colt is a great illustration of that. He was bought for 25 grand and he's won his purchase price back by winning a Book 1 Bonus.” Venetian Sun is the poster girl for last year's sale. The winner of the G1 Prix Morny, G2 Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and G3 Albany Stakes was sold by Tally-Ho Stud for 240,000gns to owners Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy, and she is doing a fine job advertising not just Book 1 but also the merits of her first-season sire Starman. “Not everybody has to play at the top end,” Singh says, “And there's plenty of success from more cheaply-bought horses – that proves that success can come from anywhere.” He has first-hand experience of that, having bought the G3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes winner Furthur from Book 2 of the 2023 October Sale for 58,000gns with trainer Andrew Balding. The Waldgeist colt, who runs for the Merry Pranksters syndicate, is now in quarantine ahead of taking his owners on a trip to Singh's home city of Melbourne for the 'race that stops the nation'. From last year's Book 2 has sprung Zavateri, now a three-time group winner, including the G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien National Stakes, for trainer Eve Johnson Houghton and owners Mick and Janice Mariscotti. He looks set to round off his season in the G1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes a week on Saturday. “Zavateri is a great story,” Singh says. “The Mariscottis have been great supporters of Book 1 and Book 2 for over a decade now and have had great reward from that. They've always operated in that 50-to-100-grand range and they have done it very successfully, which is proof it can be done. It's an amazing story that you buy a horse for 35,000gns and he turns into a Group 1 winner.” What then can be expected from this year's October Sale? In Book 1, page after page of illustrious pedigrees means that the wish list ends up being rather long. Just the briefest of snapshots by way of example would have to include Ballyphilip Stud's Frankel half-sister to crack sprinter Battaash (lot 28), the Norelands-consigned Dubawi half-sister to St Mark's Basilica (lot 71), Bearstone Stud's Frankel colt out of Glass Slippers (lot 163), the Fittocks Stud-consigned son of Dubawi and Lady Bowthorpe (lot 218) and 30 yearlings by the recently deceased Wootton Bassett. We could go on – and on. “There's certainly a very good bunch of pedigrees in the catalogue and we've had very positive reports from the inspectors on the road, so we're hopeful that the two marry up,” Singh says. “We're not expecting huge numbers to be bought by Australian buyers, but we can't understate the level of investment in British bloodstock by Middle Eastern buyers, specifically the royal families of Dubai, Qatar and Bahrain, as well as Saudi Arabia, all of whom enjoy racing their horses in Britain, and that's a massive fillip to our industry. The sales of British and Irish bloodstock are huge beneficiaries of that commitment to race here. “We also can't ignore the domestic market, which plays such a big part in what we do. There are plenty of British-based owners who are investing heavily in our industry and are enjoying success. A good example of that is Tony Bloom and Ian McAleavy, who have had such success with Venetian Sun this year.” With Venetian Sun being joined on the 2025 list of Group 1-winning graduates of the October Sale around the world by Ombudsman, Camille Pissarro, Dynamic Pricing, Al Riffa, Believing, Diego Velazquez, Dubai Honour, El Cordobes, Romantic Warrior, Zavateri, Royal Patronage, Never So Brave, and King Of Gosford, surely Singh's jitters are gradually easing? He says, “Being ultimately responsible for getting people to the sales focuses you more, and you feel a greater pressure, but hopefully also greater satisfaction if it goes well.” Across almost all levels of the yearling market so far this year, there have been plenty of positives to be drawn, and there is every reason to suppose that the demand for European bloodstock will continue to be high at Park Paddocks across the coming fortnight. The post ‘My Predecessor Went Out on a Stonker of a Sale’: Jason Singh Looks Forward to Another Big Fortnight at Tattersalls appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Arnaldo Bocachica notched the 3,000th win of his riding career Oct. 1 in guiding Thunderturtle to victory in the third race at Charles Town. View the full article

The New York Racing Association (NYRA) will partner with FOX Sports to present live television coverage of Sunday's €5-million G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from ParisLongchamp. The telecast will air on FS1 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. ET, with the main event to jump at 10:05 as the fifth event on a 10-race program. The Arc, Europe's weight-for-age championship, is run over 2400 meters. The Arc is part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series and offers the winner an all-expenses paid trip to Del Mar for the GI Breeders' Cup Turf on Saturday, Nov. 1. A field of 18 was drawn on Thursday. NYRA will host a special Double wager linking the Arc with Saturday's running of the GI Champagne Stakes at Aqueduct. The wager features a $2 minimum and an 18.5% takeout. The one-mile test for 2-year-old males is a steppingstone to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, for which the Champagne serves as a 'Win and You're In' qualifier. The post FOX Sports To Broadcast Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Ralph Beckett trainee Lady Roisia (St Mark's Basilica), who is a daughter of G1 Oaks heroine Talent (New Approach), backed up a promising debut third at Leicester last month with a game half-length victory in Thursday's EBF Oh So Sharp Maiden Fillies' Stakes at Nottingham, becoming the 17th winner for her freshman sire (by Siyouni). Behind some very smart types on debut, Lady Roisia (St Mark's Basilica) opens her account second-time out and looks a filly to note over further next term for @RalphBeckett and @newsellspark pic.twitter.com/hmUZ1N0eWH — Racing TV (@RacingTV) October 2, 2025 1st-Nottingham, £8,000, Mdn, 10-2, 2yo, f, 8f 75yT, 1:51.00, g/s. LADY ROISIA (GB) (f, 2, St Mark's Basilica {Fr}–Talent {GB} {G1SW-Eng, $765,222}, by New Approach {Ire}), who finished just under six lengths behind the winner when third in a hot novices' heat at Leicester in her Sept. 9 unveiling last time, broke swiftly from the outside stall and shadowed the leader in second for the most part here. Shaken up to launch her bid with a quarter-mile remaining, the 5-6 favourite seized control soon after and was ridden out inside the final furlong to prevail by a half-length from Enchanted Queen (Ghaiyyath), becoming the 17th winner for her freshman sire (by Siyouni). Lady Roisia is the seventh of eight foals and fifth scorer out of G1 Oaks heroine Talent (New Approach), whose first was multiple Group-winning G1 Prix Jean Romanet runner-up Ambition (Dubawi). Talent is a daughter of Listed Cheshire Oaks third Prowess (Peintre Celebre) and thus a half-sister to the stakes-placed duo Skilful (Selkirk) and King Power (Frankel). The February-foaled chestnut is kin to a yearling filly by New Bay. Sales history: 575,000gns Wlg '23 TADEWE. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-1, $7,367. O-Newsells Park Stud -Bloodstock 25; B-Ashbrittle Stud & M H Dixon; T-Ralph Beckett. The post Talent’s Daughter Lady Roisia Sheds Maiden Status at Nottingham appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Thursday saw the all-important draw made for the G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, with the key take-out being the disastrous post position of 17 for the leading Japanese hope Croix Du Nord (Kitasan Black) among the 18 final confirmations. Things didn't get much better for the nation seeking its elusive first Arc, with the Tokyo Yushun winner's wide post compounded by the draw of 15 for the impressive Prix Foy winner Byzantine Dream (Epiphaneia). Some good news finally arrived during the live draw at 11am French time, with the country's other prospect, the Prix Guillaume d'Ornano winner Alohi Alii (Duramente), getting stall four. Aidan O'Brien's pair Los Angeles (Camelot) and Minnie Hauk (Frankel) have drawn 14 and one respectively for Sunday's ParisLongchamp showcase, with the latter on track to start favourite from the stall that housed Zarkava. Challenging the Oaks, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks heroine for that status is last year's Arc runner-up Aventure (Sea The Stars), who will break from stall 12 as she bids to build on her latest Prix Vermeille success for the Wertheimers and Christophe Ferland. Joining Aventure in the French defence is the fellow Wertheimer contender Sosie (Sea The Stars), who has drawn favourably in three, and Godolphin's Prix Niel winner Cualificar (Lope De Vega) in stall eight from the Andre Fabre stable, with Daryz (Sea The Stars), Gezora (Almanzor) and Quisisana (Le Havre) forming a strong three-pronged assault from the Francis-Henri Graffard stable. Daryz is in two, Gezora in 13 and Quisisana in seven. Jean-Claude Rouget has the Grand Prix de Paris hero Leffard (Le Havre) in stall six and Arrow Eagle (Gleneagles) who has stall 16. Irish outsiders Hotazhell (Too Darn Hot) and White Birch (Ulysses) and the British-trained contingent Giavellotto (Mastercraftsman), Estrange (Night Of Thunder) and Kalpana (Study Of Man) complete the line-up. Giavellotto has stall five, Estrange was drawn widest of all in 18 and Kalpana is in 10. The post Blow For Japan As Wide Draws Blight Arc Hopes, Minnie Hauk Has Inside Stall appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

By Dave Di Somma, Harness News desk It’s one target down and two to go for talented junior driver Olivia Thornley. Last night the 25-year-old achieved a major personal milestone with her 100th driving success. Robyns Art came from the one-one to win the Captaintreacherous – The Morning Star Filly Mobile in race 4 at Addington ahead of Lorton Vale in a Michael House-trained quinella. “Getting to 100 wins is something I’ve always wanted to do – it’s one of those milestones you want to tick off,” Thornley says. “It was pretty special to get there.” She brought up three figures in her eighth season of driving. Her first winner was Awaytocullect for her father Robin Thornley at Motukarara in December 2017. Her first big break came working for the All Stars’ stable at Rolleston. She was there for eight years before moving to her current employers, Hayden and Amanda Cullen. Along the way she’s driven and won with some equine superstars (think Akuta and Oscar Bonavena) as well as claiming Group 1s with Chase A Dream in the 2023 Woodlands Stud Sires’ Stakes Final and No Matter Wat in the 2022 IRT New Zealand Oaks. Both Group 1s were extraordinary victories with Chase A Dream miles off them turning for home and No Matter Wat pulling badly during the entire race. “Chase A Dream came from no man’s land that day and with No Matter Wat I was just a passenger.” But pride of place is Millwood Nike – the superstar who won 17 from 17 before being retired with a tendon issue. Thornley drove her in her first two wins, at Timaru in May 2022 and then the Group 3 Helen Pope 2Yo Fillies Stakes at Ashburton in June. Co-trainer Mark Purdon then drove in her next 12 wins. “I did a lot of work with her because she was quite highly-strung and it was just so cool to win on a horse I’d done a lot of work with and she was very special in the end.” If Millwood Nike was your favourite at the Purdons who’s your favourite at the Cullens? “Winelight is one and so is Hadron Collider, he’s quite a quirky horse but I like him too.” Winelight and Thornley combined to win the Harness Million 2YO Fillies last year while Hadron Collider and Blair Orange took out the Tyre General Timaru Summer Cup last Sunday. As for future goals Thornley has two. Her tally for 2025 is 18 driving wins – three short of her personal best for a season. “I’ve equalled it twice in the past two years so it would be nice to equal or even beat that.” And then there’s her third target? “That is to train a winner.” So far she’s taken her trotter Starstruck to the races six times – for one placing. “That’s the next milestone.” View the full article