Wandering Eyes

HOKKAIDO, Japan — At Northern Horse Park, one of the great tourist attractions of Hokkaido, the next few days will be all business. Japan's most prestigious bloodstock auction, the JRHA Select Sale, springs back to action with a session of yearlings on Monday, but what many observers will be waiting to see is the reception given to the first foals of world champion Equinox. Twenty-five of his debut crop are set to sell on Tuesday, including a colt from American champion dirt mare Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute). His reserve, which is published beforehand along with those for all horses in the sale bar the first and last lot in the ring each day, is the highest of the foal session at ¥100m (€580,000). The Select Sale's early date in the calendar means that most of these foals, though well grown, are not yet weaned. This prompts a carnival of sorts on Tuesday morning, when the youngsters are brought with their dams to the shade of the woods alongside the sales arena to stand patiently while final inspections are made in the hours before the day's trade begins. But as much as this is about assessing the foals, where else would one have the chance to see such a stellar line-up of broodmares all in one place? Grade 1 winner follows Group 1 winner follows Grade 1 winner – a reminder of the Japanese breeders' exhaustive hunt for top-class bloodstock from all corners of the world. It is a spectacle like no other, but then, this is a sale like no other. Over the last decade, the growth in turnover has more than doubled, with the combined aggregate of 2015 of ¥13.1bn (€76.4m) increasing year on year to the 2024 record of ¥28.9bn (€167.8m). The difference in the number sold in those two years? Only two: 470 in 2015 and 472 last year. Demand for high-end bloodstock is not of course exclusive to Japan – corresponding elite sales in Europe and America have seen similar growth, often masking concerns lower down the order – but one key difference here is that neither the size of the foal crop nor the the crowds at the races are diminishing in the way they are in most other parts of the world. On Saturday morning, Teruya Yoshida welcomed a group of visitors to his Shadai Farm and sounded a brief note of caution regarding the wider economic picture on the back of trade tariffs imposed on Japan. “I can't say there is a lot of confidence [in the market] because of President Trump,” he said. “We export a lot of automobiles to America and that trade has been damaged. “But we have many people here for the sale – there are more lookers than last year – so I think we will be okay.” Yoshida continued, “But in Japan Racing Association the betting has grown five per cent on last year, and in NAR [the National Association of Racing circuit, mainly on the dirt] it is up 10 per cent. Racing is so popular here. That means more people may come into ownership – the racing clubs [syndicates] are almost sold out.” The racing clubs in Japan offer not just a way into ownership but also a chance to be at the heart of the action with some top-class runners. In recent years such names as Almond Eye, Gentildonna, Lys Gracieux, Daring Tact, Loves Only You, Epiphaneia, Efforia, Buena Vista, and of course Equinox, have been owned by clubs. The first Equinox foal in the ring is the colt out of Camprock | Emma Berry Despite the unpredictability of the goings-on in the White House, it is fair to say that expectations are high in Hokkaido. For a start, it never hurts to have a world champion to showcase. In 2023, Auguste Rodin, from the small final crop of Deep Impact, gave a global reminder of the talents of the former Japanese champion sire with his victories in the Derby, Irish Derby, Irish Champion Stakes and Breeders' Cup Turf. But these exploits were not enough to match the superiority of Equinox, who strolled through the Dubai Sheema Classic, bloodlessly dispatching such classy challengers as Westover, Mostahdaf and Rebel's Romance, before retuning to his home nation to win the Takarazuka Kinen and Tenno Sho en route to a hero's farewell in the Japan Cup. The latter was named the Longines World's Best Horse Race of that year, just as its winner towered over all Thoroughbreds on rankings. Equinox, a grandson of Deep Impact's full-brother Black Tide, was himself a member of the first crop of Kitasan Black. He now stands alongside his father at Shadai Stallion Station, the pair commanding equal fees of ¥20m (€116,000) in 2024 and 2025 – the highest of any stallion in Japan. The 'Book Full' sign was hung outside Equinox's stable just as soon as that record fee for a freshman had been announced, and he ended up covering 203 mares in his first year. A number of those heading to Tuesday's sale were available for viewing on Saturday at Shadai, Northern and Oiwake Farms – the studs respectively owned by the Yoshida brothers Teruya, Katsumi and Haruya. Teruya Yoshida has been in the game for too long to get carried away at this early stage by thoughts of what Equinox may or may not achieve in his secondary career. Wisely, he focuses instead of the achievements of his sire, whose fee has quadrupled since he first took up residence at the Shadai Stallion Station. “Of course Equinox is remarkable but the father of Equinox, Kitasan Black, also produced this year's Derby winner [Croix Du Nord], so I have more confidence in him. [Equinox] is just a beginner as a stallion,” he said. “The standard of Japanese horses is now very high so we will be very proud to present all these horses at the sale.” That the Japanese breeders are reaping rewards on the track and at the sales is as a result of concerted investment in the best race mares and stallion prospects available – from North and South America and across Europe and Australia. Yoshida's latest in-training purchase was Klaynn (Make Believe), just five days before she won the G2 Oaks d'Italia by seven lengths. The owner may have been associated with reams of good horses over the decades but such was his desire that the Endo Botti-trained filly wear his silks in the Italian Classic that he had jockey Cristian Demuro take a set with him from France to Milan. “For 20 years we have been buying many good mares from all over the world and that is now returning to the quality of the horses here,” Yoshida said. “We've invested in quite expensive mares and that has seen some changes. But from my experience, good horses can also come from so-so mares, not always the expensive mares.” Foal inspections underway at Oiwake Farm | Emma Berry Yoshida is in good heart this Saturday morning as the bloodstock world prepares to turn its attention to the sale he runs with his brother Katsumi. Together, their Shadai and Northern Farm operations account for around 1,600 broodmares – almost double the amount of active mares across all of Germany. He reminisces about the purchase of Northern Taste, some 50 years ago, in the early days of the Shadai Corporation. “Before I bought Northern Taste, Lyphard was sold and he was a small horse but he became such a good stallion. Because I saw Lyphard the year before I had good confidence to buy Northern Taste,” said Yoshida. “When I went to America I expected the American horses to be big. Northern Dancer [sire of Lyphard and Northern Taste] was not big but he had a strong temper. I tried to have a photo taken with him at Maryland but he bit me, so I can't forget him. My father always liked to go to see good horses anywhere in the world. Now we have many foreign visitors here, so I am happy.” Those foreign visitors are undoubtedly happy to be here. In years gone by, the Yoshida clan set about learning all they could from some of the more established Thoroughbred breeding nations. Now, they are the ones teaching the lesson. 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New Zealand-bred three-year-old Arcadia Park (NZ) (Ocean Park) passed his first black-type test with flying colours in the A$125,000 Listed Aquanita Stakes (2019m) at Bunbury on Saturday. The Michael Grantham-trained gelding went into the race with two wins and three placings to his name from eight career starts, most recently a smart last-start success over 1600m at Pinjarra on June 28. The Aquanita was a step up in class and distance, but Arcadia Park was well and truly up to the task. Arcadia Park was ridden by Clint Johnson-Porter and settled in second place as the six-horse field made their way around the Bunbury circuit at a sedate pace. Johnson-Porter allowed his mount to stride up alongside the leader coming up to the turn, and Arcadia Park hit the front as he straightened for home. Arcadia Park got his head to the side in the straight and drifted across the track in both directions, but he dug deep when challenged by the favourite Our Paladin Al (A Lot) and kicked back strongly to win by a neck. “He was left by himself in the straight and was looking around a little bit,” Johnson-Porter said. “He initially shied at the barriers and ran away from them a little bit, and then he went to duck into the mounting yard as we approached the line. So he’s still new, and it was an impressive win by him today.” Arcadia Park’s nine-start career has now produced three wins, three placings and A$242,500 in stakes. Bred and raced by Peters Investments Ltd, Arcadia Park is the latest in a long line of stakes winners to carry Bob Peters’ distinctive cerise and white colours. Arcadia Park became the 23rd individual stakes winner for Waikato Stud stallion Ocean Park. His dam is the Domesday mare Arcadia Dream, whose five wins included the Aquanita Stakes as well as the Gr.2 Western Australian Derby (2400m). Arcadia Dream is a half-sister to Peters’ triple Group One winner Arcadia Queen (Pierro), along with fellow black-type winners Arcadia Prince (Pierro) and Arcadia Rose (Khelefy). “This horse seemed to be all over the place, didn’t he, but he won well,” Peters said. “I was quietly confident coming into the race. I knew that the Domesdays handle the wet and the Ocean Parks handle the wet, so I thought he might be able to run a good race. He’s still got to learn how to go straight, but it was nice to see him get up.” View the full article

Stakes-winning New Zealand import Aberlour recorded her first win on Australian soil with a strong front-running performance in the A$160,000 Toyota Forklifts Handicap (1800m) at Randwick on Saturday. Sent out as a $15 chance in the hands of expat Kiwi jockey Alysha Collett, Aberlour broke well from the starting gates and slid forward to take the lead within the first 100m. That was where she stayed, bowling along in front with a two-length margin up until the home turn. Aberlour was able to kick again soon after entering the straight, and despite beginning to tire in the final 100m, she held on gamely to win by a neck. Now trained by Joe Pride, Aberlour has had 15 starts for four wins, three placings and A$229,430 in prize-money. Aberlour was bred by Av Todd and is one of six individual winners for Group Two-winning stallion Mongolian Falcon, who stands at Hau Ora Farm for a service fee of $2,500. Aberlour is out of the winning Postponed mare Sophie Louise, who is also the dam of black-type performer Tobilicious. Todd initially raced Aberlour with son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Emma Tyler, along with Kelvin Tyler and his wife Vanessa, and they have all retained a share in the ownership following her sale to Australia last year. Kelvin Tyler trained Aberlour in her six-start New Zealand career, which produced three wins and two placings, including victories in the Listed Gore Guineas (1335m) and Southland Guineas (1600m). “Aberlour made the most of a soft lead over a nice distance today and did us proud,” Tyler said on Saturday. View the full article

Captain Fred Barker, owner of the picturesque King Edward's Place Stud on the edge of the Downs near the Ridgeway, died recently at the age of 88. Born into a world where hunting, racing and breeding were a way of life, horses were always at the core of Fred's being. He did just enough to survive his five years at Harrow and then spent several very happy years in the 11th Hussars, before taking over the running of King Edward's Place, which was once a discreet country retreat of Edward VII, as the name suggests, from his parents, 'Gar' and Nancy Barker in 1962, while in his mid 20s. Ever the perfectionist, Fred worked hard to maintain the stud and with the help of his fellow former 11th Hussar, great friend and bloodstock agent, Johnnie Lewis, he spent a considerable amount of money on stallions, which he hoped would reinvigorate the stud and bring it the recognition it deserved. Stallions like Klairon, Soleil, Manacle, Calpurnius, Prince De Gaulles, Quiet Fling and latterly Anfield, passed through the stallion yard at King Edward's Place. Manacle was the stud's most successful stallion. He sired Moorestyle – British Horse of the Year, European Horse of the Year and champion sprinter in 1980 – and was later sold to Australia. Nick Angus Smith, a manager at King Edward's Place “a very long time ago”, remembers that Calpurnius was a particularly dangerous horse and tried to savage his lad many times. Johnnie Lewis swiftly had him sold to the West Indies, where he went on to be champion sire. Quiet Fling sired Old Country, winner of six races, including the G1 Derby Italiano, G1 Premio Roma and G1 Prix Royal-Oak. He was out of a daughter of Klairon. The last stallion to stand at the stud was Anfield, a three-time Group 3 winner in Ireland by Be My Guest and a half-brother to Group 1 winner North Stoke. His best horse was the very good German colt, Turfkonig, who won the G1 Grosser Mercedes-Benz Preis. Sadly however, none of the stallions Fred stood at King Edward's Place proved a huge success, or provided the necessary financial return. By the late 1980s, disillusioned with the racing industry and facing increasing head winds, as bloodstock became more expensive and it became ever harder to acquire commercial stallion prospects, Fred made the difficult decision to sell King Edward's Place. Sold to Allied Dunbar, it sadly disappeared off the map as a stud farm. “I was born in the house, so it was a very difficult decision to sell,” he said at the time. It would be fair to say that to the wider equine community, Fred Barker was probably more renowned for his mastership of the Quorn and VWH hunts. His two stints as senior master of the Quorn were one of the longest in the hunt's history since the war. Always beautifully mounted and impeccably turned out, Fred was meticulous in planning his days, enjoyed excellent relations with his farmers and even had the respect of the anti-hunting brigade. Fred and his second wife Penny subsequently went on to become successful masters of the VWH hunt, before in recent years switching their interest to three-day eventing. After initially having horses with Australian rider Paul Tapner, they more recently kept them with Tom McEwan, which notably resulted in team gold and individual silver at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics with their horse Toledo de Kerser. Away from horses, Fred owned and operated the BEAS Helicopters company through the 1970s and loved his farming estate at Lushill, near Hannington, Wiltshire. Always one for an adventure, Fred memorably teamed up with Johnnie Lewis and another great friend and fellow 11th Hussar, David Dollar, to compete in the 1968 London to Sydney car rally, where despite not processing one iota of rally driving experience between them, they managed to win the amateur class and finish 18th of the 100 entries overall. His eldest son Grant succinctly summed up his father at his recent funeral. He said, “Fred was prompt, precise and passionate. He also loved polo, power boats and parties, but most of all he loved beautiful things…and married two of them.” Fred Barker died peacefully at his home near Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, surrounded by his wife Penny, children and his dog, Charlie. His was the epitome of a life well lived. The post Remembering Captain Fred Barker: A Life Well Lived appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Sunday, ParisLongchamp, France, post time: 20:25, CYGAMES GRAND PRIX DE PARIS-G1, €600,000, 3yo, c/f, 12fT Field: Surabad (GB) (Bated Breath {GB}), Leffard (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}), New Ground (GB) (New Bay {GB}), Trinity College (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), Uther (GB) (Camelot {GB}), Frankly Good Cen (Fr) (Frankel {GB}). TDN Verdict: Prix du Jockey Club form is the order of the day here, with half the field having crossed swords in the Chantilly Classic. Jockey Club fourth and TDN Rising Star Trinity College has since prevailed in Royal Ascot's G3 Hampton Court Stakes and reopposes Chantilly seventh Frankly Good Cen and 17th Leffard. Juddmonte's New Ground was a never-nearer fourth in Epsom's G1 Derby and rates a serious threat while Alain and Gerard Wertheimer's G3 Prix Noailles winner Uther, a half-brother to last year's hero Sosie, comes back off a third in May's G3 Prix Greffulhe. The in-form Francis Graffard stable is represented by G3 Prix du Lys second and supplementary entry Surabad, who snagged April's Listed Prix de l'Avre over this course and distance. [Sean Cronin]. Sunday, ParisLongchamp, France, post time: 19:10, PRIX RADIO FG – PRIX MAURICE DE NIEUIL-G2, €119,000, 4yo/up, 14fT Field: Sibayan (Fr) (Blame), Columbus (Ger) (Oasis Dream {GB}), Yashin (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}), Emblet (GB) (Aclaim {Ire}), Waldadler (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}), Double Major (Ire) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}), Internaute (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). TDN Verdict: Francis Graffard's in-form stable is represented in this stamina test by Sibayan, who was defeated by a whisker in last month's G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly and seeks a pattern-race breakthrough here. He will be confronted by the Wertheimer duo Double Major, who won this last year, and Internaute. The pair met when fifth and sixth in May's G1 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier at ParisLongchamp. Double Major's Christophe Ferland-trained stablemate Columbus annexed last year's G3 Prix Gerald de Geoffre and rates a danger returning off a short-neck second in Saint-Cloud's Listed Prix La Moskowa on seasonal comeback one month ago. [Sean Cronin]. Sunday, ParisLongchamp, France, post time: 19:50, CYGAMES PRIX DE MALLERET-G2, €119,000, 3yo, f, 12fT Field: Rabbit's Foot (Fr) (Golden Horde {Ire}), Indalimos (Fr) (Cloth Of Stars {Ire}), Sunly (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}), Miss Of Change (Fr) (King Of Change {GB}), Three Pearls (Fr) (Intello {Ger}), Qilin Queen (Ire) (Pinatubo {Ire}). TDN Verdict: Juddmonte's hitherto undefeated Sunly puts her perfect record on the line and will head postward coming back off a taking victory in last month's G3 Prix de Royaumont at Chantilly. Seeking revenge is Royaumont runner-up Indalimos and fifth home Rabbit's Foot. Victoria Head trainee Three Pearls is held by the latter on their Listed Prix Caravelle running while Classic form is represented by G1 Oaks eighth Qilin Queen and Czech Derby heroine Miss Of Change. [Sean Cronin]. Sunday, Mulheim, Germany, post time: 16:15, BBAG DIANA TRIAL-Listed, €25,000, 3yo, f, 10fT Field: Bastion (Ger) (Brametot {Ire}), Lips Vega (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), German Style (Fr) (Shamalgan {Fr}), Ismahane (Ger) (Isfahan {Ger}), Near Rib (Ger) (Ribchester {Ire}), Nurania (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), Que Bella (Ger) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), Rockshalaa (Fr) (Shalaa {Ire}), Stugardia (Ger) (Tai Chi {Ger}), Sunshine Baby (Fr) (Areion {Ger}), Tausendschon (Ger) (Destino {Ger}), Winnyzja (Ire) (Sottsass {Fr}). TDN Verdict: With eight prior starts in the books, G3 Schwarzgold-Rennen third Lips Vega is the most experienced contender in this late-stage launchpad to next month's G1 Preis der Diana (German Oaks) and sets the domestic standard. Stugardia also has black type to her name, having run second in April's Listed Henkel Stutenpreis at Dusseldorf, while Tausendschon makes her stakes bow coming back off a clear-cut debut success at this venue last month. [Sean Cronin]. Monday, Vichy, France, post time: 16:25, PRIX FREDERIC DE LAGRANGE-Listed, €50,300, 3yo, 12fT Field: Quinteplus (Fr) (Telecaster {Ire}), Tommy Boy (Fr) (Intello {Ger}), Zarakchic (Fr) (Zarak {Fr}), Starnberg (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}), Marchemalo (Fr) (Toronado {Ire}), Espoir Avenir (Fr) (Montmartre {Fr}), Yellow Jersey (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}), Master Cath (Fr) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}), Zingara (Fr) (Kingman {GB}). TDN Verdict: While the Tour de France wends its way through the nearby mountains, Qatar Racing's Yellow Jersey is favoured to follow up an impressive debut performance, tackling this trip at Saint-Cloud, on black-type bow. The Andre Fabre nominee was value for more than the official winning margin of four lengths and will bid to become the trainer's first winner since Doha Dream prevailed in 2016. Jerome Reynier won this in 2022 and 2023 and relies on G3 Prix Hocquart third Zarakchic and G2 Derby Italiano fifth Starnberg. Christophe Ferland also supplies two contenders, namely Swiss Derby hero Espoir Avenir and ParisLongchamp handicap winner Zingaro. [Sean Cronin]. Click here for the complete fields. The post Black-Type Analysis: Trinity College Aims To Ace Grand Prix De Paris Exam appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

It is now or never for Derek Leung Ka-chun as he looks to Beauty Joy to be the catalyst to spark his fading Tony Cruz Award hopes back to life at Sha Tin on Sunday. The 36-year-old is in a three-way shoot-out for the local riders’ premiership, with Matthew Poon Ming-fai leading the way on 36 and Matthew Chadwick sitting second on 34. Leung has two meetings to claw back three winners to draw level with Poon, with his Sunday book of eight rides looking the strongest of the trio. He rides Beauty...View the full article

Jockey Antoine Hamelin admits to feeling sad whenever he thinks about his imminent Hong Kong departure, but it’s certainly been nothing but smiles and celebrations on the racetrack as the Frenchman finishes his five-year stint in the city with a flourish. Victorious at three of the past four meetings, Hamelin will say farewell to Sha Tin this Sunday before signing off at Happy Valley next Wednesday. “I’m feeling OK, not too bad, but when I think about it I’m very sad. When I met my friends for a...View the full article

Promising three-year-old Stop The Rock (NZ) (El Roca) collected the fourth win of his five-race career with another irresistible finish in Saturday’s A$150,000 Sportsbet Same Race Multi Handicap (2000m) at Caulfield. The New Zealand-bred son of El Roca is trained by Patrick and Michelle Payne and kicked off his career with a debut win at Warrnambool on New Year’s Eve. He returned from a freshen up with a fifth at Cranbourne in May, but never looked back from there. He has now strung together three consecutive victories, including two Saturday city successes. Stop The Rock scored stylishly at Swan Hill on June 8 and then again at Flemington on June 21, where he beat next-start Mahogany Challenge Final (2500m) winner Shockletz (NZ) (Shocking). Those performances earned strong support for Stop The Rock on Saturday as a $5 second favourite, and he continued his breakthrough campaign. Ridden by Billy Egan, Stop The Rock settled in second-last among a field of 12 before beginning to warm into his work from the 600m. Egan angled him to the outside at the home turn and he charged home out wide on the track, hitting the lead inside the last 50m and winning by a neck. “He really needs to build his momentum,” Egan said. “He made a long, sustained run at them the other day. “They went quick enough today that I was able to come wide and know that if I came with that same sort of run again, they would get tired and he’d be coming over the top of them late. He’s done a really good job.” Stop The Rock’s five-start, four-win career has netted more than A$214,000 in stakes for his ownership group. “He’s just answering every question that we’re asking him,” Michelle Payne said. “What a horse. He’s doing it on raceday every time for a great group of owners. “He started 35-to-one in his first start. He was always very casual in his trials, but Patrick has really liked him as a horse the whole way through. We were just waiting for him to come into his own. He’s doing that now and he’s a beauty. He shows up on raceday, gets the job done with no fuss and is becoming another stable favourite.” By Westbury Stud stallion El Roca, Stop The Rock is out of the Fusaichi Pegasus mare Shezablonde and stems from the family of Nothin’ Leica Dane. Stop The Rock is a graduate of the hugely successful New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale, purchased for $75,000 by Patrick Payne from the draft of Westbury Stud. View the full article

Progressive mare Nancy She Wrote (NZ) (Wrote) provided co-trainer Ben Foote with the perfect welcome home from a Gold Coast holiday when she came from well back to capture the Tanalised Mile (1600m) at Ruakaka. The five-year-old daughter of Wrote is prepared by Foote and son Ryan from their Cambridge stable and has always looked a promising middle distance performer for her breeder and owner, Gerald Bell. After being given a brief spell following an unplaced run over 2100m at Ellerslie in April, Nancy She Wrote resumed with a handy performance in stakes company when finishing sixth behind Cork in the Listed Tauranga Classic (1400m) at Tauranga last month. Punters were keen on her chances at longer odds on Saturday with a $1000 bet at a $10 Fixed Odds quote shortly before the race jumped, indicating a winning run could be on the cards. That judgement was proved correct as rider Courtney Barnes brought the mare down the outskirts of the track in the home straight to collar local runner Time And Tide in the final 100m as she raced away for a two-and-a-half-length victory. Sporting a handy winter tan, Foote acknowledged it was son Ryan who had done all the hard work to put the winning touches on the mare in his absence. “Courtney knows exactly how to ride this one and she is a little underrated as on her day she is a smart mare,” Foote said. “It was a lovely ride today as she got her out into the clear and she powered home. “We think she can be competitive at the stakes level as long as things go her way. “I probably have to give all the credit to Ryan as he has done the work on her while I’ve been away. “We will go back and see where we go next once she has had time to recover. “We don’t have anything specific in mind but she is suited by the big, roomier tracks.” Nancy She Wrote has now won four of her 29 starts for Bell and over $136,000 in prizemoney. View the full article

Apprentice jockey Ace Lawson-Carroll honoured his late friend Ngakau Hailey with a salute as he guided Reward Smile (Havana Grey) to a poignant win in the Northpine Waipu Cup (1400m) at Ruakaka on Saturday. Jockeys wore black armbands in the $40,000 feature in memory of the 18-year-old Hailey, who was killed in a tragic vehicle accident in Hamilton on Wednesday. Lawson-Carroll was pleased to pick up a victory that meant much more than most. “It’s quite special and I’m glad I could get that win for Ngakau,” he said. “I built up a nice friendship with him and really bonded with him over the last few years riding with him. He had better talent than I will ever have.” Saturday’s special win came courtesy of the British-bred Reward Smile, who joined Jenna Mahoney’s Byerley Park stable earlier this season after winning three races and more than $1.2 million in Hong Kong. The Havana Grey gelding had struck more than his share of misfortune in his first three New Zealand starts, but still showed promise with a close fifth at Ellerslie on May 17, fourth at Ellerslie on June 7 and a last-start fifth in the $60,000 ITM/GIB Sprinters’ Championship Final (1400m) at Ruakaka on June 28. Reward Smile’s luck finally took a turn for the better on Saturday. After settling in third-last in the early part of the race, Lawson-Carroll set him alight and began to press forward around the outside of the field coming up to the turn. Reward Smile loomed ominously on the outside straightening for home, and then he kicked hard with 300m to run. He pulled ahead of local hope Illicit Dreams and won by a length and a half. “We kind of got squeezed back a little bit going into that first corner,” Lawson-Carroll said. “Once everything unfolded after that, I knew that he might not have that much of a sprint, but if you can get hm rolling and really put them away early, he was always going to hit the line really strongly.” Mahoney was relieved to see Reward Smile’s luck change on Saturday. “He hasn’t run a bad race since he got here, but he just hasn’t had much luck, so we were pretty confident he could perform well today,” she said. “He just got too far back in his last run here, but Ace gave him a nice, positive ride today and he found the line really strongly. “We’ll probably look at bringing him back up here again for the next meeting in a couple of weeks’ time.” View the full article

Ruakaka stayer Bosch (NZ) (Pentire) added a fifth win to his imposing course record with a tough front-running performance in Saturday’s Northbeam Strong Stuff (2100m). The Pentire gelding has now recorded five wins from a 30-start career, with all of those five successes coming from 15 appearances on his home track. Saturday’s win took his career earnings past $174,000. Bosch was sent out as a $3.60 favourite on Saturday, having run a gallant last-start second in the $60,000 ITM/GIB Whangarei Gold Cup Stayers’ Final over the same course and distance on June 28. The six-year-old was ridden by Vinnie Colgan and ended up as the leader almost by default, with none of his eight rivals showing any interest in going forward. Colgan was able to give his mount a breather with some easy sectionals down the back straight. Awhina’s (NZ) (Derryn) jockey Jasmine Fawcett decided to throw down the gauntlet coming down the side of the track, spearing forward out wide and clearly taking the lead before the home turn. But Bosch rose to the challenge and found plenty more as he entered the straight. He soon shook free of Awhina and pulled away. Fly My Wey (NZ) (Sweynesse) came through in the favourite’s slipstream and produced a strong late finish to eat into the margin, but Bosch held him out by a long neck. The third-placed I’m Lulu (NZ) ( Belardo) crossed the line another two and a half lengths behind the first two, with Awhina a length and a quarter away in fourth. “That was very satisfying,” said local trainer Michelle Bradley, who also won the Northland Business Systems (1200m) with Iridescent earlier in the afternoon. “He had a very, very soft lead. I was a little bit worried that something would come up, and then I saw Awhina come up and I thought, ‘Oh, Vinnie, keep going.’ “But it was a great win and it’s great to see him back in the winners’ circle. Vinnie’s a top jockey with so much experience. It’s a pleasure to have him on and get the result today. I’m extremely pleased.” Success away from home is the only thing missing from Bosch’s CV, and Bradley is keen to change that later in this preparation. “I’ll have a meeting with the owners either next week or the week after and we’ll have a chat about where we go next,” she said. “We’ve got Ellerslie coming back up in the spring. He’s had two runs at Ellerslie this prep and was carrying big weights. I’d have no hesitation in taking him back there. I do still think he’s going to be competitive there at a nice weight. “We’ll just weigh up our options. To win a Cup with him would be amazing. It’s just about getting him there mentally and getting there the right way.” View the full article

Apprentice Gareth Lahoud made good use of his 4kg claim as he guided Reptak (NZ) (Shocking) to an all-the-way victory in the Northpine Making It Tanalised (1200m) rating 75 contest at Ruakaka on Saturday. The Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott-prepared five-year-old had kicked off his latest campaign with a win at Ellerslie over 1200m back in April and in two subsequent runs had not been disgraced despite not featuring in the placings. Drawn ideally in barrier two Reptak made a swift beginning with Lahoud not afraid to keep his race rivals at bay in the early stages as he claimed pacemaking duties on the son of Shocking and set up a solid speed in front. Turning for home it was evident Reptak was travelling sweetly as he put a two length break on the chasing pack and despite race favourite Judicial (Written Tycoon) mounting a strong finish from midfield, Reptak had plenty in hand as he went to the line nearly two lengths to the good of the favourite with local runner Dancing Dream (NZ) (Contributer) sticking on well for third. O’Sullivan was taking in all the action from his Matamata home and liked what he saw from both the horse and rider. “It was a good positive ride by Gareth as we told him to go forward and lead and make the best use of his claim which worked out nicely,” O’Sullivan said. “We like to give the apprentices their chance on our horses in the winter as we are firm believers in their claim giving a horse a big advantage over the higher-weighted runners. “This fellow (Repak) has always shown plenty on the training track at home but hasn’t always put that out on raceday. “He is learning all the time and has matured well which is starting to show in his performances. “I have no doubt he can get through to open class and with his liking for some cut in the tracks he will be well suited over the next few months.” Bred by the late Colin Devine and raced by his wife Jill, Reptak is out of the Carnegie mare Marley Magic (NZ) and comes from an extended family that includes three-time Australian Group One winner Desirable (NZ). The victory added to a stellar season for the O’Sullivan and Scott partnership, who sit third on the National Trainers’ premiership ladder with 82 wins and more than $4.395million in prizemoney earned. View the full article

Talented two-year-old Yokozuna (Fierce Impact) turned Saturday’s Promote Waipu 2YO (1200m) into a winning Ruakaka homecoming for former local trainer Donna Logan. Logan was based at the Northland track from 1985 until 2018, when she relocated to Singapore. She returned to New Zealand following last year’s closure of racing in Singapore and now bases herself at Byerley Park in South Auckland, but still jumps at every opportunity to return to her old stomping ground on the shores of Bream Bay. “It’s so good to be back up here at Ruakaka, and a win like that makes it even better,” Logan said after Saturday’s win, which was her 103rd career success at Ruakaka. “That was a really nice win by Yokozuna today, I think he’s got the makings of a good horse.” Saturday’s $35,000 race marked the first raceday appearance for Yokozuna, who had finished second in a trial over 1100m at Ellerslie on June 9. He was ridden by Vinnie Colgan and jumped only fairly from gate two, but quickly recovered and took up a handy position in fourth by the end of the back straight. Many of his rivals showed signs of greenness, most notably the front-running Rotten Tommy (NZ) (U S Navy Flag), who ran off at the home turn. But Yokozuna balanced up at the top of the home straight and lengthened stride stylishly. He bounded to the front at the 200m mark and strode clear to win by a length and a half from the strong-finishing favourite Moretothinkabout. Yokozuna’s performance made a favourable impression on Colgan. “He’s a lovely-looking horse,” he said. “Everything went his way and he gave me a very good feel in the straight. “He didn’t get away that cleanly, but he got into gear well after two or three strides and felt very nice from there. He’s still a bit raw and green, but he’s a nice horse who should develop into a good three-year-old.” Logan suggested that Yokozuna could be in line for a return to Ruakaka in the coming weeks. The August 2 meeting features an 1100m three-year-old race worth $35,000, while the Gr.3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) will be run for a $100,000 stake two weeks later. “The phone’s ringing already with people interested in buying him, which isn’t surprising after a performance like that,” Logan said. “We’ll wait and see what we do with him from here, but he’s shown that he likes the track here, so we might be bringing him back to Ruakaka.” Yokozuna is by Fierce Impact out of the winning Flying Spur mare Misstiflying. Offered by Hallmark Stud in Book 2 of Karaka 2024, he was bought by Logan Racing for $40,000. Yokozuna races in the colours of part-owners Social Racing, whose manager Brent Cooper has a long-running association with Logan. “Donna and I go back 30 years,” Cooper said. “She’s a special person and has been a great friend. It’s so good to get back involved with her stable again now that she’s back in New Zealand, and I’m super excited that we’ve got a talented horse like this. This horse has obviously come on in leaps and bounds from his trial.” The Logan connections continued in the second and third races on Saturday’s card. Logan’s daughter Samantha trained the Mountfield Quarry (1600m) winner Ascension, while former staff member Michelle Bradley won the Northland Business Systems (1200m) with Iridescent. View the full article

Popular Foxton trainer Gail Temperton will take a two pronged attack to the races at Woodville on Sunday with promising hurdler Never Look Back (NZ) (Shocking) set to contest one of the feature races on the card, the Te Whangai Romneys Hawke’s Bay Hurdles (3000m). The six-year-old son of Shocking is in the early stages of his life as a jumper having won four races on the flat plus another over hurdles. A gritty effort for fifth in the Waikato Hurdles (3200m) a month ago has Temperton cautiously optimistic about his chances against a stellar line-up on Sunday. “He stuck on very well at Te Rapa after having a bit of a life at the very first fence that day so I’m hoping it is a sign he will eventually measure up in this type of field,” Temperton said. “I’m never nervous about him getting over a fence as he has that ability to do it his way and make it to the other side. We have trained him that way from day one which is a little different to most but it is very effective for him. “He won’t mind a testing track as he has been in work a long time with only a four week break in late January so fitness won’t be an issue even though he hasn’t run since Te Rapa last month. “Emily Farr is going to ride him which is just great as we have had a very long association over the years and she tells me she has a picture of when she rode Just Ishi for me back in 2017 on a wall at her home in Wales. “She is a tough little critter and so is the horse so they are a match made in heaven.” Temperton admits that six-start maiden Name The Game is a different kettle of fish to Never Look Back despite his granddam being Gr.1 Railway Handicap (1200m) winner Coogee Walk. The full brother of handy galloper Nom Du Beel will tackle the Cody Singer Memorial (4000m) maiden steeplechase with Temperton hoping an impressive effort at the Cambridge jumping trials last Monday will stand him in good stead. “Name The Game isn’t much of a flat galloper but from what he has shown us in his only hurdle run and his schooling lately he could make a nice chaser for us,” she said. “He is brilliantly bred being out of a Zabeel mare who is a daughter of Coogee Walk but unfortunately he hasn’t really inherited that flat ability. “Stephen Nickalls took him to the jumping trials at Cambridge earlier this week where Hamish McNeil rode him and he said he jumped superbly. “That is similar feedback to what I’ve had from other riders so I’m hoping he can bring that to raceday. “I’m thrilled to have Ellie Callwood on him as she is a super rider and a lovely girl who has been on him at several jumps days and knows him well now. “I’m hoping he puts his best foot forward and if he does he would be a top three prospect.” It isn’t all good news for the Temperton team however as promising galloper Procul Boy, who has won three of his four starts, badly injured a foot when having a week away from the stable recently and faces a period of rest and recuperation before getting back to the track. Temperton had entertained thoughts of taking the son of Proisir to Riccarton for racing during the Grand National Carnival in early August but will now have to revisit any future plans for him. View the full article

By Michael Guerin John Dunn thinks his team have the ideal horse for a new series of mares races set for the second half of the season in Canterbury. Dunn suggests there will be a series of six mares races, usually run at two week intervals, in the region starting late August. “We have been told there will be six races, three of them worth $60,000 and going through until mid November,” says Dunn. “I think it is a great idea because it is important to give these good mares races they can target and keep them in the country.” It also helps that Diamond Racing, officially made up of Dunn’s dad Robert and John’s wife Jenna training, have the perfect mare for the new races in Always B You. She beat some tough, older rivals at Addington on Friday night as the improvement curve continued. “She just keeps getting better and better,” says Dunn. “So this series will be perfect for her and great for heaps of other mares around here. “And after that she can head back to Auckland for a race like the Queen Of Hearts to give her her Group 1 shot as she races well right-handed.” Dunn says the stable is on the improve after a slow start to the season but he says their defence of their training premiership title is already over as they have 44 wins for the season while Team Telfer went to 90 with a double on Friday night. That puts them 16 clear of Michael House and they are $1.02 to win the title. While one mare in Always B You was the star at Addington at a rain-soaked Alexandra Park it was another mare in Mantra Blue who took horse of the night honours. She sat parked to win the main pace in the hands of Monika Ranger, pacing her last 800m in 54.9 seconds and showing she is right back to her best. Other highlights of the Alexandra Park card were a training quinella for Roydon Downey with Sans Au Revoir and Saninarmbro while Craftsman suggested he is a two-year-old with a future when he won on debut after covering plenty of ground over the last 400m. Later in the night Seaclusion continued her great form for Graeme Rogerson and James Stormont when she overcame starting from the outside of the front line to win the Woodlands Stud Silk Road Final for her high-profile ownership group. It was her seventh career win and shows what a great weapon being able to run on the pace is, especially at Alexnadra Park. Matty A won the main trot for trainer Sheryl Wigg, recording his first win for the season. View the full article

Ka Ying Rising’s outstanding performance during the 2024/25 racing season saw the record-breaking speedster earn the Horse of the Year title at a special presentation held at the Grand Ballroom of the Rosewood Hotel in Hong Kong tonight (Friday, 11 July). In addition, he was also named Champion Sprinter and Champion Four-Year-Old at the ceremony. Owned by Ka Ying Syndicate and trained by David Hayes, last season’s Champion Griffin improved sharply in his sophomore season, scoring one of his biggest wins of the season in the HK$26 million G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m), and completing a record-equalling season with a commanding victory in the HK$22 million G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) in April to secure this season’s Champion Sprinter mantle. His triumph in the G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize not only left him unbeaten with eight wins from eight starts during the season, but also took his unbeaten streak to 12 consecutive races. The four-year-old Shamexpress gelding completed a clean sweep of the Hong Kong Speed Series and collected a HK$5 million bonus, emulating the feats of Mr Vitality (1995/96), Grand Delight (2002/03), Silent Witness (2003/04 and 2004/05) and Lucky Sweynesse (2022/23). Ka Ying Rising broke Sacred Kingdom’s Sha Tin 1200m record with a gallop of 1m 07.43s in the G2 BOCHK Private Banking Jockey Club Sprint (1200m), lowering a mark which had stood since 2007. He broke his own record just two months later in a time of 1m 07.2s in the G1 Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m). He is currently the world’s highest-rated sprinter, with the international rating of 126, sitting joint fourth alongside Romantic Warrior in the latest LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings at 126 behind joint top-rated horses Field Of Gold, Forever Young and Ombudsman (127). He was also named the Champion Four-Year-Old based on his brilliant performance throughout the season. Voyage Bubble is named Champion Miler and Champion Stayer. The Ricky Yiu-trained Voyage Bubble also enjoyed a stellar season, especially when he rewrote Hong Kong racing history with an impressive victory in the HK$13 million G1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) in May to become only the second horse in Hong Kong racing history after River Verdon in 1993/94 to complete the Triple Crown by winning the HK$13 million G1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m), HK$13 million G1 Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup (2000m) and Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup in the same season, snaring a HK$10 million bonus. Voyage Bubble has dominated this season’s mile and stayer divisions, winning this term’s HK$36 million G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile (1600m) and consecutive HK$13 million G1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) and, with these outstanding performances, the six-year-old Deep Field gelding was crowned Champion Miler as well. His LONGINES Hong Kong Mile win was further boosted by seven runners, including himself, from that race who subsequently achieved Group one successes. He also scored in the HK$5.35 million G2 BOCHK Private Wealth Jockey Club Mile (1600m) and in total won five races, including four Group 1s, from seven starts this term. Based on his outstanding achievements, he was named Champion Miler and Champion Stayer for the 2024/25 racing season. Romantic Warrior is crowned Champion Middle-Distance Horse. Romantic Warrior secured a fourth straight title as Champion Middle-Distance Horse, following his outstanding wins in the G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m), G1 Jebel Hatta (1800m) and G2 BOCHK Jockey Club Cup (2000m). The Danny Shum-trained globetrotter also finished gallant second in the G1 Saudi Cup (1800m, dirt) and G1 Dubai Turf (1800m), taking his career earnings to a world record-extending HK$214.7 million. The seven-year-old Acclamation gelding clocked a sensational record-breaking time of 1m 45.10s to beat a group of global top middle-distance runners with more than four lengths to spare in the G1 Jebel Hatta and became the first Hong Kong-trained horse to achieve Group 1 successes in four different racing jurisdictions, namely Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and Dubai. My Wish is this season’s Most Improved Horse. The Mark Newnham-trained My Wish is this season’s Most Improved Horse. After starting the campaign rated 54, the Flying Artie gelding soared 51 points to 105 after achieving four wins, two seconds, two thirds and a fourth from nine starts in his second season, including his career-best performance when winning the Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) in January. My Wish ran well in the other two legs of the Four-Year-Old Classic Series, finished second in both the Hong Kong Classic Cup (1800m) and BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m). Zac Purton takes top honours for an eighth time. Zac Purton is now an eight-time Hong Kong Champion Jockey. The Australian rider enjoyed another remarkable season of dominance, including reaching 1,800 career wins in Hong Kong and breaking Douglas Whyte’s all-time record for Hong Kong win. He also reached 700 and 1,000 career wins on Happy Valley races and Sha Tin turf events respectively in the term. This season’s Most Popular Jockey and Most Popular Horse will be announced at the conclusion of Sunday’s (13 July) 87th and final Sha Tin meeting this season. The presentation ceremony for the 2024/25 Hong Kong Champion Trainer will also be held this Sunday following the races should any trainer gain an unassailable lead ahead of Wednesday night’s (16 July) 88th and final fixture of the racing season, while this season’s Champion Griffin and Tony Cruz Award will be announced at the conclusion of Wednesday’s (16 July) 88th and final fixture this season at Happy Valley. The Champion Awards Judging Panel announced the winners for the 2024/25 season during this evening’s presentation ceremony as follows:- Award Winner Owner Trainer Horse of the Year Ka Ying Rising Ka Ying Syndicate David Hayes Champion Jockey Zac Purton Champion Four-Year-Old Ka Ying Rising Ka Ying Syndicate David Hayes Champion Sprinter Ka Ying Rising Ka Ying Syndicate David Hayes Champion Miler Voyage Bubble Sunshine And Moonlight Syndicate Ricky Yiu Champion Middle-Distance Horse Romantic Warrior Peter Lau Pak Fai Danny Shum Champion Stayer Voyage Bubble Sunshine And Moonlight Syndicate Ricky Yiu Most Improved Horse My Wish Ada Che Xiao Hong, Suki Tang Xianfang & Ruby Hui Like Sea Mark Newnham View the full article

New Years Eve (Night Conqueror), believed to be the second-oldest American Thoroughbred on record, has passed away in Pennsylvania. He was 39 and reported to be the oldest living Thoroughbred at the time of his death. We shared his story in March, shortly after his official birthday. Called 'Axl' by those closest to him, the beloved dark bay was foaled the same year as Sunday Silence and Easy Goer. History's oldest-known American Thoroughbred, a gelding named Dead Solid Perfect, died in 2022 at 39 years and 188 days. New Years Eve was 39 years and 57 days when he passed. Julie Izzo, who owned Axl for more than 32 years, said the record was not important to her. She shared a statement with TDN, which appears in its entirety: “On May 13, 2025, the uncommonly long life of New Years Eve, more commonly referred to as Axl, came to a peaceful end. He had started to lose strength in his hind end and getting up was becoming increasingly difficult. True to his breed, he still tried with everything he had to keep going. But it wasn't fair to keep asking. One day, he paused in an effort to rise and looked me in the eye with an expression I'd never seen on his face before. He simply had nothing left to give. I had always promised him that I would not compromise his comfort for more time. And although he was ready, I was not. But I never would be. “I will forever be grateful for our many years together. There will always be a piece of me missing. He wasn't an extraordinary racehorse. But he was extraordinary to me. “I want to thank everyone who had a part in his journey. There were many farriers and vets along the way, but Dr. Melinda Freckleton and Dr. Kate Baldwin were instrumental in giving my boy so many good years. And a special thank you to Barbara Livingston, Sarah Andrew, Bill Finley, and Jill Williams for immortalizing him in print and photos. Axl brought so many amazing people into my life. Thank you to everyone who took an interest in his life and story.” The post Oldest Thoroughbred in America Dies at 39 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

A New York-based track veterinarian has been suspended for two years after an internal adjudication panel for HISA determined he had failed to submit veterinary treatment records for thousands of sessions in 2023 and 2024.View the full article

Rallying behind a blistering pace, Italian Soiree surprised at 14-1 in the July 11 Coronation Cup Stakes (G3T) at Saratoga Race Course.View the full article

A member of the Internal Adjudication Panel (IAP) for the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) and the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit (HIWU) on July 10 imposed a two-year suspension and a $25,000 fine on a veterinarian who has practiced on the New York circuit for more than three decades for “failing to submit over three thousand veterinary treatment records to HISA within 24 hours after examination or treatment of Covered Horses during the period from Jan. 1, 2023, through Mar. 7, 2024.” The veterinarian, Michael J. Galvin, could have faced penalties that included a lifetime ban. Galvin's attorney, Kim Bonstrom, told TDN late Friday afternoon the decision will be appealed. The decision was signed by Barbara Borden, a member of the IAP. Borden is separately employed as the chief state steward in Kentucky. “My first take on this is that there was not one citation to law in this 12-page opinion,” Bonstrom said. “We raised legal issues, constitutional issues. And the hearing officer essentially took the position that HISA rules trump the Constitution, trump the case law. I don't necessarily fault the hearing officer. I found her delightful. But she wasn't a lawyer.” By registering with HISA as a veterinarian, Galvin assumed responsibility to comply with all HISA rules, including Rule 2251(b), which requires the reporting of all veterinary treatments to the HISA portal within 24 hours of the treatment. The decision stated that the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit (HIWU) began looking into Galvin's recordkeeping after a HIWU investigator “obtained, copied, and returned to Dr. Galvin” his daily treatment notebook “during a search of Dr. Galvin's vehicle at Belmont Park on Sept. 2, 2023.” According to Borden's decision, “The notebook contained trainer names, horse names and notes that appeared to relate to veterinary treatments. [The agent] also described a 'Work Done' record provided to HISA by Dr. Galvin on Nov. 13, 2023, which contained the names of trainers and horses listed by date. However, the 'Work Done' record did not record the specific treatments provided by Dr. Galvin to each horse.” The decision stated that in February and March 2024, “HIWU issued a 'Demand for Business Records' to trainers and owners whose horses had been treated by Dr. Galvin. The demand required the production of, among other items, records of veterinary services provided by Dr. Galvin, and trainer administration records required to be kept for Covered Horses that had Galvin.” The decision stated that a HIWU agent “then compared these records and documents to the treatment records that had been entered by Dr. Galvin into the HISA portal [and that] analysis revealed that many treatments had not been reported to the HISA portal.” The agent “also testified that her analysis revealed that Dr. Galvin had not entered treatment records for several horses that had either suffered injuries during their race, or that died or were euthanized after they raced,” Borden wrote. On Aug. 23, 2024, HISA issued a violation notice to Galvin, alleging that he failed to enter required veterinary treatment records into the HISA portal. Borden's decision stated that as Galvin's Mar. 10, 2025, hearing before the IAP neared, “counsel for Dr. Galvin objected to the notices, scheduling, and deadlines concerning the hearing of this matter.” According to Borden's decision, Galvin had been advised by a member of his legal team not to appear at the hearing. Then, “Counsel for Dr. Galvin then proposed that the hearing be continued to a later date to allow his client to be physically present with him while testifying, citing principles of due process.” Borden wrote in her decision that she denied that request “because counsel for Dr. Galvin had had ample time prior to the hearing to arrange for his client to be present with him.” Galvin then filed a Motion to dismiss the IAP proceeding on Mar. 7, 2025. But that motion, too, was denied and the hearing proceeded three days later without the veterinarian testifying. According to the decision, Galvin's legal team argued that HISA's notice of violation failed to state a cognizable offense; that HISA violated his due process rights by an impermissible pre-accusation delay; that the proceeding should be dismissed on the grounds of selective and/or vindictive prosecution, and that “HISA'S refusal to produce relevant (and exculpatory) evidence violated Dr. Galvin's Fifth Amendment due process rights.” Borden did not agree. In meting out Galvin's penalty, Borden underscored that some of the horses whose procedures had not been logged “appeared to have received treatments, including intra-articular injections, several days prior to competing in races.” Borden explained further: “In some instances, had the intra-articular injections been reported, the horses would not have been permitted to work or race in what should have been a mandatory stand-down period. Because the treatments were not reported to the HISA portal, a number of these horses did in fact work and race during what should have been a mandatory stand-down period. “Enforcement counsel also presented evidence that several horses that raced during what should have been a mandatory stand-down period were either injured and did not finish their races or were claimed and the claim subsequently voided by the regulatory veterinarians in the test barn,” Borden wrote. “In other instances, the treated horses finished their races but never raced again,” Borden wrote. “In addition, Enforcement counsel presented evidence that several of the listed horses that raced during what should have been a mandatory stand-down period died or were euthanized shortly after competing,” Borden wrote. “In at least two instances, horses appeared to have had an intra-articular injection on the morning of their race,” Borden wrote. According to a summary of Galvin's past legal issues that the Paulick Report published on Aug. 27, 2024, “Galvin's history in New York includes issues dating back to 1998, when the New York Racing Association (NYRA) banned him for eight months after allegedly treating a filly with a nasogastric tube on race day. The New York Post reports that Galvin actually served a suspension of four months, and later sued NYRA for $30 million. The parties later settled for $500,000.” The Paulick Report story from last summer also stated that, “The New York State Gaming Commission later attempted to suspend Galvin for 45 days over the same issue, but on appeal it was settled for a $250 fine.” A Daily Racing Form story by Matt Hegarty from 2021 stated that Galvin “was temporarily barred” by NYRA from practicing at Belmont, but that the issue was resolved and Galvin was allowed back on the grounds in a matter of days. At the time of that story four years ago, Hegarty quoted a press release from NYRA that stated, “Galvin's NYRA credential was temporarily revoked this week due to a number of concerning operational and administrative issues related to his practice at Belmont Park [but that] his NYRA credential was subsequently reinstated after he took action to address these issues.” The post New York Vet Who Failed to Submit 3,000+ Treatment Records Gets 2-Year HISA Suspension, $25,000 Fine appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The world's highest-rated sprinter, Ka Ying Rising (Shamexpress) scooped a trio of titles including Horse of the Year at the Hong Kong Champion Awards at the Rosewood Hotel in Hong Kong on Friday night. The 4-year-old gelding also earned the title of Hong Kong Champion Sprinter and Hong Kong Champion 4-Year-Old at the ceremony. Running in the colours of the Ka Ying Syndicate, Ka Ying Rising was undefeated during his 2024/2025 season with eight wins in eight trips to the post for David Hayes. His final seven starts of the campaign occurred exclusively in group company. After posting wins in G2 Premier Bowl and G2 Jockey Club Sprint in October and November, the 2023/2024 Hong Kong Champion Griffin won the G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint a month later. He kicked off 2025 right were he left off, with victories in the G1 Centenary Sprint Cup in January and the 1400-metre G1 Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup in February, his only start not at his pet 1200-metre distance. After a win in the G2 Sprint Cup at the end of March, his season finale was a score in the G1 Chairman's Sprint Prize in April. In the last-named race, he increased his winning streak to 12 races, and also swept the Hong Kong Speed Series, good for an HK$5-million bonus. Voyage Bubble (Deep Field) is the 2024/2025 Hong Kong Champion Miler and Champion Stayer and is only the second horse to sweep the Hong Kong Triple Crown. Trained by Ricky Yiu for the Sunshine and Moonlight Syndicate, the bay finished first or second in all seven starts this season with five wins, four at the highest level. A winner second up in the G2 Jockey Club Mile, he struck in the G1 Hong Kong Mile, the G1 Stewards' Cup, and the G1 Hong Kong Gold Cup in succession before missing by just a short head in the G1 Champions Mile. He ended his season with a 3 1/2-length win in the G1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup in May. Horse of the Year in 2023/2024, Romantic Warrior (Acclamation) spent most of his season traveling, but still managed to take his two local starts, good for his fourth straight Hong Kong Champion Middle-Distance Horse title. Successful in the G2 Jockey Club Cup, the Danny Shum charge struck in the G1 Hong Kong Cup in December before a trio of overseas runs. In Dubai, the G1 Jebel Hatta went the way of the Peter Lau Pak Fai colourbearer over the winter, and he ran a pair of close seconds thereafter–in the G1 Saudi Cup in Riyadh, and in the G1 Dubai Turf back at Meydan. The Mark Newnham-trained My Wish (Flying Artie) was named the Most Improved Horse. He started his campaign rated 54 and, after four wins, two seconds and two thirds in nine starts, rose to a mark of 105. He landed the Hong Kong Classic Mile in January, and was second in both the Hong Kong Classic Cup and Hong Kong Derby. As expected, Zac Purton was crowned Hong Kong Champion Jockey for the eighth time. Over the racing season, he reached 1,800 wins Hong Kong, breaking Douglas Whyte's mark. In addition, he scored his 700th and 1,000th wins at Happy Valley and Sha Tin, respectively. The remaining seasonal award–Most Popular Jockey, Most Popular Horse, Hong Kong Champion Trainer, Champion Griffin and Tony Cruz Award–will be announced in the coming days. The post Ka Ying Rising Named 2024/2025 Hong Kong Horse of the Year appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Nothing like claiming your second lifetime win in a graded stakes at Saratoga, especially so when your last time on the board was a year ago at the venue. A pricey $600,000 OBS March juvenile purchase in 2024, Italian Soiree (Uncle Mo) came with big expectations and her connections refused to throw in the towel despite their filly not hitting the board in the last five starts at the black-type level. Her 2025 attempts included a Feb. 8 seasonal bow in the Suncoast Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs where she ran fourth as MGISW La Cara (Street Sense) ran off the screen. Gone until Apr. 27, she returned to the turf in New York when contesting the Memories of Silver Stakes and ran fifth as undefeated MSW Laurelin (Ire) (Zarak {Fr}) continued her streak. She was well beaten last out June 8 during the Belmont Stakes Festival when trying her luck in the six-panel Jersey Girl Stakes against another salty field of stakes fillies. While her team believed in her, the betting public opted to look elsewhere here, and Italian Soiree went off carrying chilly 14-1 odds as the second longest shot on the board. Coaxed out but content to track from third, she was patiently handled through the bend by Luis Saez and when he asked the question, rally she did. Taking command a sixteenth out after being forced to wait on traffic in front of her, she inched away from the longest shot on the board, SP Laurice (Bolt d'Oro), to win by a length. GSW Abientot (Not This Time) came from last to claim third after hitting the near-side stall at the break. “We had worked her on the turf, and she went to Canada and ran really well and even at Keeneland against some of the top turf fillies in the country, but the distance was always the question with her,” said Tonja Terranova, assistant to trainer John Terranova. “The owners had [Kentucky] Oaks vibes, as everyone does, and we tried to stretch her at Tampa [in the Suncoast] and had a little bit of a tough trip. But this is obviously what she wants to do.” Terranova added that the Memories of Silver performance had a noteworthy excuse, saying, “She had trouble. She almost fell. She was hit severely and Johnny [Velazquez] just wrapped up on her, so that was the reason that it didn't look that impressive on the grass that day.” When asked about a next target, Terranova said, “Let's just see how she is. She's a lighter filly so we let her tell us when she keeps her weight and when she's going to run.” ITALIAN SOIREE ($31.20) gets her first stakes win in the Grade 3 Coronation Cup Stakes at 14-1 under Luis Saez for trainer John Terranova. pic.twitter.com/uPU56rP3ZQ — NYRA () (@TheNYRA) July 11, 2025 Pedigree Note: Italian Soiree is the second in her family to claim black-type behind full-brother Be Better. From their dam's last five offspring, four are full-siblings and all of them are winners. The lone half-brother Forced Errors (City of Light) was placed as a 3-year-old. Social Call, a half-sister to GSW Old Time Hockey (Smarty Jones) from the female family that produced MGISW Scat Daddy (Johannesburg) and his full-sister GSW & GISP Antipathy, has not had any foals since Italian Soiree. Her 2025 Forte foal was stillborn. Friday, Saratoga CORONATION CUP S.-GIII, $175,000, Saratoga, 7-11, 3yo, f, 5 1/2fT, 1:02.21, gd. 1–ITALIAN SOIREE, 120, f, 3, by Uncle Mo 1st Dam: Social Call, by Smart Strike 2nd Dam: Grat, by A.P. Indy 3rd Dam: Likeable Style, by Nijinsky II 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($290,000 Ylg '23 FTKJUL; $600,000 2yo '24 OBSMAR). O-Hit The Bid Racing Stable, Morplay Racing LLC and Randall Hartley; B-Repole Stable, Inc. (KY); T-John P. Terranova II; J-Luis Saez. $96,250. Lifetime Record: 8-2-1-0, $227,048. *Full to Be Better, SW, $346,180. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. 2–Laurice, 120, f, 3, Bolt d'Oro–Major Z, by Candy Ride (Arg). 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($75,000 Wlg '22 KEENOV; $80,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP; $460,000 2yo '24 OBSAPR). O-Bregman Family Racing LLC; B-Vehbi Hakan Keles (KY); T-George Weaver. $35,000. 3–Abientot, 124, f, 3, Not This Time–Ready Ready Ready, by More Than Ready. ($210,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP). O-Tracy Farmer; B-Killora Stud, LLC (KY); T-Mark E. Casse. $21,000. Margins: 1, NK, 3/4. Odds: 14.60, 14.80, 3.10. Also Ran: Cloe, Gata Brazil, Make Haste (GB). Scratched: Flat Out Time, Spirited Boss, Twirling Beauty, You'll Be Back. Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. The post Pop the Corks: Italian Soiree Pulls the Shocker in Coronation Cup appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Before the young horse with the easy-going disposition even stepped on the track at Saratoga Race Course Friday afternoon, just about everyone knew the story behind Dr, Agne (Into Mischief), who is out of Lady Eli (Divine Park). When the 2-year-old colt powered to the finish line and won the seven-furlong, $100,000 maiden special weight, the story came full circle. Dr. Agne, trained by Cherie DeVaux, is named for Dr. Robert Agne, who died at the age of 54 on Labor Day of 2015 after being hit by a car while cycling in Vermont. Dr. Agne was instrumental in the recovery of Lady Eli, who recovered from laminitis in 2015 and later became an Eclipse Award winner. Dr. Agne worked on Lady Eli along with Dr. Bryan Fraley of Fraley Equine Podiatry in Kentucky. DeVaux, then an assistant for trainer Chad Brown who conditioned Lady Eli, was with the filly every step on her long journey back. When Dr. Robert Agne died, DeVaux said she wanted to one day name a horse for him. And here we are. The horse came to her barn in April after he was scratched out of an auction. He was then bought privately by a group that included some of Lady Eli's owners. One is Sol Kumin, whose Sheep Pond Partners owned Lady Eli. The widow of Dr. Robert Agne, Carrie, made the trip to Saratoga from Asheville, North Carolina, to see this special horse debut It was emotional. There were hugs between Carrie and DeVaux in the box seats when jockey Jose Ortiz got Dr. Agne home. There were tears from Carrie in the winner's circle. There may also have been some from DeVaux, but they would be hidden behind a pair of sunglasses. “Oh, my God,” Carrie Agne said, when asked what was going through her mind when Dr. Agne struck the front inside the eighth pole, “he might pull this off!” Carrie Agne, widow of Dr. Robert Agne, embraces trainer Cherie DeVaux after Dr. Agne's emotional debut win at Saratoga | Sarah Andrew Then, after a pause and a tear: “Bob had such heart. He loved racing, everything about horses. He gave his all.” Owned by Kumin's Madaket Stables LLC, Twin Brook Stables and Belladonna Racing LLC, Dr. Agne was foaled in Kentucky. He is the first foal from Lady Eli to run in the United States. The race was originally scheduled to be run on the inner turf at a mile but heavy rain on Thursday night forced it to be moved to the main at seven furlongs. “I knew he would be fine,” DeVaux said. “I felt like he would be ok, just getting a race under his belt. I was not surprised that he could win. Against dirt horses, it might be a lot different.” Sent off as the 7-2 third choice, Dr. Agne held off a late charge from 2-1 favorite Epic Desire (Uncle Mo) and Irad Ortiz Jr. and got to the wire first. Dr. Agne ran the seven furlongs in 1:25.97 and paid $9.70, $3.80 and $2.90. When the colt is next seen, DeVaux said it will be on the grass. Lady Eli, after getting back to the races, was the 2017 Eclipse Award winner for champion Turf Female. While allowing this victory to settle in, DeVaux said she was more nervous for Carrie Agne, who was making her first visit to Saratoga since 2015. “For me, we do this, we have a lot of 2-year-olds,” DeVaux said. “I try to manage my expectations with each of them accordingly. I wanted everything to go well for Carrie. This is like her first soiree, and I wanted to make her proud.” The post Saratoga Maidens, Presented by Keeneland: Dr. Agne with an Emotional First Victory at Saratoga appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

In discussing the evolution of his StrideSAFE wearable sensor, Dave Lambert turns to a tufty-haired German philosopher called Arthur Schopenhauer, who described new truths as a play in three parts. “First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” Lambert has had the rejection and a little bit of ridicule, he said. “Some people have thrown rocks at me,” he added, one recent afternoon via Zoom in a brightly lit corner of his Kentucky home, a small bronze horse as his virtual companion. “But it's getting around to universal acceptance now.” If the bronze had been of the flesh-and-bone kind and trained in Kentucky these past couple of years, chances are it would have worn Lambert's StrideSAFE wearable sensor, used on every horse in every race in the state since May of 2023. Thanks in huge part to this blanket program in Kentucky, StrideSAFE has now been used on over 55,000 individual starts, providing a rich trove of data to understand just how best to use this system to identify the Holy Grail of racing welfare–those horses that exhibit no visible lameness but harbor a brewing problem that could turn catastrophic without intervention. The equation is simple: “screen, scan, save.” Use a wearable sensor like StrideSAFE to screen for early potential injuries. Scan the horse for problems. Then if something shows up, give the horse the necessary time off. It has reached the point where StrideSAFE is now able to identify in which leg the brewing problem is located, and even the type of pathology, the sesamoids versus the condyles (the end of the cannon bone making up part of the fetlock), said Lambert. Brewing injuries in the fetlock are notoriously hard to diagnose. David Lambert with trainer Dale Romans | StrideSAFE In a recent TDN letter to the editor, trainer Dale Romans shared his story of a stakes-level trainee that StrideSAFE had flagged for being at increased risk of injury in its right-front sesamoid in its last race, as well as a flag in the start prior. The horse was visibly sound, but given the StrideSAFE readings, Romans sent it for a precautionary PET scan, which indeed detected worrying bone remodeling in the right-front sesamoid bone. “This horse is now resting for 90 days and is expected to make a full return to training pending a clean recheck. Without StrideSAFE, we wouldn't have caught it,” Romans wrote. Nevertheless, the racing community at large is still proving reluctant to more broadly adopt these wearable technologies, said Churchill Downs' equine medical director, Dr. Will Farmer. “We've come a long way. We've learned a lot. I know StrideSAFE has learned a lot,” said Farmer. “My biggest push with this is that I really would like our horsemen to engage with it.” What would help, said Lambert, would be to start viewing the sensor as a veterinary tool rather than simply a training aid. As Lambert describes it, “this is about developing a new level of finesse in veterinary medicine.” The Evolution of StrideSAFE StrideSAFE is a wireless iPhone shaped bio-metric sensor that fits into the saddle cloth. It captures a variety of measurements while a horse is breezing or racing, like its acceleration and deceleration, its up and down concussive movement, and its medial-lateral motion (movement side to side). David Lambert | StrideSAFE As Lambert and his team's understanding of what StrideSAFE can do has evolved, so has the way they relay its information. In earlier iterations, it worked on a traffic light system, with a green for all-clear, a yellow for caution, and a red for possible danger. Since then, Lambert and his team have refined the system to use a risk factor calculation from one to five, with five the category in which a horse is most at risk of a fatal or career ending injury–nearly 300 times more likely than horses that fall within risk category one. StrideSAFE has now been used on some 55,000 individual starts at 13 racetracks around the country. Of the 55,000 individual starts–many of them in Kentucky–about 65% of the horses have been given a rating of one, about 25% were classified two, and the remaining 10% fell in the three, four and five range. Furthermore, during that time, 152 horses suffered catastrophic injuries. “We have [StrideSAFE data for] nearly 400 career races from those 152 horses,” said Lambert. “So, we have longitudinal records on those horses, which is a massive data set.” Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to run the profiles of the horses in this database, Lambert and his team have been able to more thoroughly and quickly refine their machine to better understand which horses are at heightened risk of injury and why. The most telling rendering of StrideSAFE's efficacy perhaps best lies in individual cases. Lambert is preparing about eight or nine of them for a paper in a peer-reviewed journal. Lambert tells the story of a one-time Derby prospect, who even as early as May of his two-year-old year was flagged by StrideSAFE during his breezes. The horse then won two of his races in the fall of that year, but in doing so, StrideSAFE showed that something again was amiss, despite being visibly sound. Equine athlete with StrideSAFE | StrideSAFE By the time January rolled around, the connections decided to scan the horse, the findings of which indicated he would need 60 days off. But before returning to work, subsequent PET scans and X-rays showed a major problem in the left-front condyle, along with bone remodeling in the other three fetlocks for which time-off was also recommended. “He was sound to the eye throughout all of that,” said Lambert. “But they operated on it and screwed it [the left front]. He's come back to the races and run three times, had a green flag each of the three times since.” With all this data under his belt, Lambert has a growing belief that potential problems can be picked up as far back as a year prior to any serious injury occurring. As Lambert tells it, something occurs that causes the horse serious enough initial pain to show up on StrideSAFE, but which is still not visible to the human eye. “The horse learns to live with it. The problem will heal a little bit. That's when some bone remodeling goes on. It'll get more stable, doesn't hurt so much. It doesn't show you a strong red anymore. It shows a category two or three instead of a category four or five,” said Lambert, stressing how this isn't a set in stone timeline of pathology. “But as you get closer and closer to the fatal race, the pain can actually be diminishing because the condition is healing to some extent and stabilizing. But it's still there,” said Lambert. “That's a new way of thinking about these things.” Kentucky Program Such chronology in the pathology of an injury wouldn't surprise Farmer, he said. “Looking at the necropsy program, we know that these are repetitive use injuries. These aren't singular events. And that fits that idea. It's logical,” he said. “They're either going to adapt to the issue, or they're going to adjust their strides and we can pick that up with the sensor, but we may not be able to pick it up at the jog,” said Farmer. This tallies with one of Farmer's main takeaways from the two years that StrideSAFE has been deployed in Kentucky–a program paid for by the tracks. According to Farmer, Churchill Downs has invested nearly $1 million in piloting the technology at its Kentucky tracks. StrideSAFE's findings, Farmer said, support the overwhelming wealth of evidence that catastrophic injuries aren't caused by a bad step but rather are the accumulative wear and tear over repetitive races and workouts. “There are horses that we see, they start off as 'ones,' then they go 'twos,' then 'threes,' then 'fours.' And then they ultimately have some diagnostics done, or they end up with a fracture,” said Farmer. StrideSAFE device | StrideSAFE As such, StrideSAFE offers “a very unique opportunity” to find the “needle in the haystack,” said Farmer, giving trainers “insight into what's coming down the pipeline before the horse fractures,” or worse, suffers a catastrophic injury. “Rather than it being a fracture, they can get ahead of it, change training patterns for a period of time,” said Farmer. “The goal is to keep horses safer, healthier and in the racing population longer.” Despite the promise, acceptance among the racing community is still limited. “The truth is that unfortunately, we don't have many trainers engaging with it,” said Farmer. “For this to really take that next step, we need that trainer engagement.” Part of the problem is that the information collected by StrideSAFE isn't currently processed and sent back to the trainers in an easily accessible form, said Farmer. “They need to make it as easy to have access to, whether that's a push–like a text push–with a report, or a reminder. That's something StrideSAFE needs to work out, how the information is relayed,” said Farmer. For StrideSAFE's part, they're working on a new password protected interactive website for trainers to access, with data on the welfare of the horse, as well as its performance. “In particular, the way in which they fatigue in a race,” Lambert said. But Lambert is beginning to see the communication issue from a slightly different angle–that the diagnostic component to the utility and effectiveness of StrideSAFE makes it a veterinary tool primarily. “We're getting very sophisticated information about musculoskeletal health, and it's the vets that need to be the ones that manage that and learn about it,” said Lambert. AAEP Study StrideSAFE is one of six wearable sensors currently being used in an ongoing study out of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP). The others are Alogo, Arioneo, Equibase/Stable Analytics, Equimetrics and Garmin. The goal, said Langsam, is to see which of these technologies can most accurately detect the sort of hard-to-detect emerging injury that requires intervention, said Dr. Sara Langsam, AAEP racing committee chair. Beyond the sesamoids and condyles, think buck-shins and small chips in the joint. “At the end of the study, we would pass forward this information to HISA [the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act Authority], and they would potentially roll out some sort of integration into the entire industry,” said Langsam. Dr. Sara Langsam | AAEP WEB Each of the sensors are being used on at least 100 two-year-olds throughout this year during high-speed workouts. Over 700 individual horses are enrolled. Each horse that breezes is issued a green, yellow or red rating, with a 48-hour window for the study participants to receive the results. As on ongoing study, there are no concrete findings right now, said Langsam. The study focused on two-year-olds for several reasons. One was to minimize the variables in the study by using a cohort of horses that haven't already accumulated a lot of pre-existing wear and tear. Another is that two-year-olds offer the best opportunity to intervene as injury progresses. “We know that about 40 percent of the two-year-olds are going to get an issue. They like to get mild injuries that may take them out of training, but [which are] less catastrophic in general,” said Langsam. They're hoping to have some kind of conclusion ready for a public airing by the first or second quarter of 2026, said Langsam. “A lot of low hanging fruit has already been conquered. Technology is going to be the next step to help us get even lower [fatalities]. And while zero is ever achievable or not, that is always the goal,” Langsam said. “And this is just one part of the technological sphere that's going to help us move forward. It's exciting.” The post StrideSAFE Update: A New Level of Veterinary “Finesse” appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

8th-Monmouth, $51,275, Msw, 7-11, 3yo/up, 1m, 1:38.40, ft, 1 length. NEW MAGIC (c, 3, Curlin–Magic Dance {SW & GSP, $191,083}, by More Than Ready), sluggish from the gate as the 5-2 second choice, quickly found himself far out of it into the first turn as the far more experienced race favorite Bridoza (Khozan) dueled on the front with Atrocious (Ghostzapper) through the quarter in :23.63. Making an early move to catch up with the field through a slowed-down half, the Three Chimneys homebred then had to shift out wide to keep coming and was up into contention by the time the leaders swung for home. In a four-wide calvary charge to the line, New Magic finished up best to deny Bridoza by a length. Magic Dance, herself a half to MGISW and $4.4m FTKNOV broodmare buy Guarana (Ghostzapper), has since produced back to back fillies by Gun Runner in 2024 and 2025 respectively. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $31,500. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. O/B-Three Chimneys Farm, LLC (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. The post Three Chimneys Homebred New Magic Last To First In Monmouth Debut appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article