Wandering Eyes

The 48th Annual Eclipse Awards, presented by Daily Racing Form, Breeders’ Cup and The Stronach Group, will air live on TVG, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association announced Thursday. Hosted by Jeannine Edwards and highlighted by the announcement of the 2018 Horse of the Year, the Eclipse Awards ceremony will be held Thursday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. ET in the Sport of Kings Theatre at Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino in Hallandale Beach, Fla. TVG is in more than 45 million homes nationwide and also available via DirecTV Now, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV. The Racetrack Television Network (RTN) also will make the Eclipse Awards available across all of its platforms, including Roku. View the full article

In this continuing series, Alan Carasso takes 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 Chukyo and Kyoto Racecourses: Saturday, January 19, 2019 1st-KYO, ¥9,550,000 ($88k), Maiden, 3yo, 1800m BASIN STREET (c, 3, Curlin–Judith Basin, by Danzig), bred on the same cross as champion Good Magic, debuted with a course-and-distance fourth last November and improved to be a close runner-up over this trip at Hanshin when last seen Dec. 22 (see below, gate 9). A $72K Keeneland November weanling, $110K KEESEP yearling and $250K OBS March juvenile, the May foal hails from the extended female family of champion A.P. Indy and fellow Classic winner Summer Squall et al. Christophe Lemaire adds to the colt’s appeal. B-Dixiana Farms LLC (KY) 2nd-KYO, ¥11,400,000 ($105k), Newcomers, 3yo, 1800m AVANCE (c, 3, Uncle Mo–Above Heaven, by Mr. Greeley) gets his career started for owner/breeder Dr. Masatake Iida, who acquired the bay’s second dam–2007 GI Alabama S. winner Lady Joanne (Orientate)–for $1.6 million in foal to Tiznow at Fasig-Tipton November back in 2009. Lady Joanne is a daughter of Broodmare of the Year Oatsee (Unbridled), whose other distinguished produce include treble GISW Shackleford (Forestry), MGSWs Baghdaria (Royal Academy) and Afleeting Lady (Afleet Alex) and SW & MGSP Stephanoatsee (A.P. Indy). Avance was offered twice at public auction, but was bought back on bids of $145K at FTSAUG in 2017 and at OBS April last spring. B-Dr Masatake Iida (KY) 4th-KYO, ¥11,400,000 ($105k), Newcomers, 3yo, 1400m FUTURE BASS (JPN) (f, 3, Discreet Cat–Backseat Rhythm, by El Corredor) is the first Japanese-foaled runner for her dam, whose US-bred 4-year-old son Swing Beat (Tapit) is a three-time winner from seven starts in Japan. Backseat Rhythm, who carried the colors of Paul Pompa, Jr. to victory in the 2008 GI Garden City S., is a half-sister to Frankel’s Kiss (GB) (Frankel {GB}), who at €770,000 was the second highest-priced lot at last year’s Arqana May Breeze-Up Sale. B-Shadai Farm Sunday, January, 20, 2019 5th-CKO, €11,400,000 ($105k), Newcomers, 3yo, 2000mT MONUMENT KING (c, 3, Creative Cause–Overvalued, by Forest Grove) fetched $500K as a KEESEP yearling in 2017, easily the most expensive yearling from the first few crops of this successful young sire. The February foal is the first produce for his dam, bred by Brereton C. Jones and raced successfully in Western Canada by Canmor Farms, with four black-type victories to her credit at Hastings Park in Vancouver. Overvalued is a half-sister to GSP Our Majesty (Majesticperfection), SW I Spy Wolfie (Chief Three Sox) and SP Montana Banana (Formal Gold). B-Brereton C Jones (KY) WATCH: Basin Street finishes second at Hanshin Dec. 22 View the full article

The New Orleans’ route to the Kentucky Derby kicks off with the GIII Lecomte S. at Fair Grounds Saturday and a competitive field of 14, plus one also-eligible, has been entered for the one-mile-and-70-yard race. Imperial Racing’s Plus Que Parfait (Point of Entry), who will break from post 12, is the tepid 9-2 morning-line favorite. The Brendan Walsh trainee graduated going 1 1/16 miles at Keeneland Oct. 7 and was closing late when he came up a neck short of Signalman (General Quarters) in the Nov. 24 GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. over a sloppy track last time out. “It looks like he’s good enough,” Walsh said of Plus Que Parfait. “He seems to like this track. He’s worked well on it and I believe that the long stretch will suit him. Just like any of them this time of year, he still has a lot of questions to answer, but I think he’s a pretty nice horse. There’s plenty of stamina in his pedigree.” Allied Racing Stable’s Mr. Money (Goldencents) broke his maiden going 1 1/16 miles at Churchill Downs Sept. 28 before running a creditable fourth as a 41-1 outsider in the Nov. 2 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last time out. The bay colt will break from post four and is 5-1 in the Lecomte. Trainer Steve Asmussen will saddle a pair of Winchell Thoroughbreds homebreds in the Lecomte. Wicked Indeed (Tapit), a 12-1 shot, won on debut at Fair Grounds Nov. 30 and was third behind the reopposing Tackett (Limehouse) over a track-and-trip optional claimer Dec. 22. Tight Ten (Tapit), 8-1 on the morning line, was a debut winner at Churchill June 28. Second in the Aug. 12 GII Saratoga Special and again in the Sept. 15 GIII Iroquois S., the bay colt is coming off a troubled ninth-place effort in the Nov. 2 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. View the full article

Tweenhills Stud has added a trio of intriguing additions to its roster in 2019, and one of those is Australian shuttler Zoustar (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}). The Group 1-winning sprinter has got off to an excellent start Down Under with just a year and a half with runners, with highlights including a trifecta in last year’s G1 Coolmore Stud S., a Magic Millions 2YO Classic victory and juvenile group-race wins by Lean Mean Machine (Aus) and Zousain (Aus). Tweenhills hosted a media day to show off Zoustar on Thursday, and the TDN‘s Alayna Cullen spoke with farm owner/manager David Redvers about the horse. AC: You’ve brought up Zoustar, who is already well proven Down Under, from Australia. Tell us a bit about the horse. DR: We met Zoustar for the first time immediately after he won the Coolmore Stud S. himself, and we were immediately taken by his enormous presence. His physicality, his actions–a truly beautiful horse, he was. We bought into him at that stage with the hope of running him at Royal Ascot; he was a favourite for the [G1] Diamond Jubilee S. Sadly, that didn’t happen. He got a knock when he was in training over here, in the immediate run-up to the race. We took the decision at that stage that we would let him start his career at stud in Australia, and we wouldn’t bring him up to the Northern Hemisphere unless he was a prudent success. We had no idea just what a prudent success he would be. We are extremely fortunate to bring a horse of his caliber here. AC: He started out brilliantly as champion first-season sire in Australia and he’s built on that this year. Can you recap his season so far in Australia? DR: Last year he was champion first-season sire in Australia by a wide margin. I think he broke all records when it came to prize money for a first-season sire. And this year he’s followed on in exactly the same fashion. His horses have trained on spectacularly well. I think it’s pretty fair to say that he’s about A$2-million clear on second-season prize money, and the last time I looked, he was the leading sire of 3-year-olds in Australia as well. So he has gone from strength to strength. He’s had a huge book of mares in Australia, but has turned up here looking fresh and ready to go. [Editor’s Note: as of 1/17, Zoustar is Australia’s leading sire of 3-year-olds for the season with A$3,164,050, with his own damsire Redoute’s Choice in second]. Obviously, the highlight to date has been the historical one-two-three, the trifecta, in the Coolmore Stud S., which has been the stallion-making race in Australia. It’s the race that he won himself, that Northern Meteor won, Encosta de Lago won, so he’s got a fair family tradition, and obviously this year, Sunlight, Zousain, and Lean Mean Machine took up the one-two-three, which as far as we know has never been done before. It’s hugely exciting to be involved with a horse of this incredible ability, and potency as a sire. Already this year with his 2-year-olds, we’re seeing some serious action. Sun City won a Group 3 in late December but unfortunately had to sit out the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, for which he was favourite, because of an infected joint. {"id":3,"instanceName":"Articles No Playlist","videos":[{"videoType":"HTML5","title":"Australian Sensation Zoustar New To Tweenhills","description":"","info":"","thumbImg":"","mp4":"https://vimeo.com/311947554","enable_mp4_download":"no","prerollAD":"yes","prerollGotoLink":"prerollGotoLink","preroll_mp4_title":"preroll_mp4_title","preroll_mp4":"","prerollSkipTimer":"5","midrollAD":"no","midrollAD_displayTime":"midrollAD_displayTime","midrollGotoLink":"midrollGotoLink","midroll_mp4":"midroll_mp4","midrollSkipTimer":"midrollSkipTimer","postrollAD":"no","postrollGotoLink":"postrollGotoLink","postroll_mp4":"postroll_mp4","postrollSkipTimer":"postrollSkipTimer","popupAdShow":"no","popupImg":"popupImg","popupAdStartTime":"popupAdStartTime","popupAdEndTime":"popupAdEndTime","popupAdGoToLink":"popupAdGoToLink"}],"instanceTheme":"light","playerLayout":"fitToContainer","videoPlayerWidth":720,"videoPlayerHeight":405,"videoRatio":1.7777777777778,"videoRatioStretch":true,"videoPlayerShadow":"effect1","colorAccent":"#000000","posterImg":"","posterImgOnVideoFinish":"","logoShow":"No","logoPath":"","logoPosition":"bottom-right","logoClickable":"No","logoGoToLink":"","allowSkipAd":true,"advertisementTitle":"Ad","skipAdvertisementText":"Skip Ad","skipAdText":"You can skip this ad in","playBtnTooltipTxt":"Play","pauseBtnTooltipTxt":"Pause","rewindBtnTooltipTxt":"Rewind","downloadVideoBtnTooltipTxt":"Download video","qualityBtnOpenedTooltipTxt":"Close settings","qualityBtnClosedTooltipTxt":"Settings","muteBtnTooltipTxt":"Mute","unmuteBtnTooltipTxt":"Unmute","fullscreenBtnTooltipTxt":"Fullscreen","exitFullscreenBtnTooltipTxt":"Exit fullscreen","infoBtnTooltipTxt":"Show info","embedBtnTooltipTxt":"Embed","shareBtnTooltipTxt":"Share","volumeTooltipTxt":"Volume","playlistBtnClosedTooltipTxt":"Show playlist","playlistBtnOpenedTooltipTxt":"Hide playlist","facebookBtnTooltipTxt":"Share on Facebook","twitterBtnTooltipTxt":"Share on Twitter","googlePlusBtnTooltipTxt":"Share on Google+","lastBtnTooltipTxt":"Go to last video","firstBtnTooltipTxt":"Go to first video","nextBtnTooltipTxt":"Play next video","previousBtnTooltipTxt":"Play previous video","shuffleBtnOnTooltipTxt":"Shuffle on","shuffleBtnOffTooltipTxt":"Shuffle off","nowPlayingTooltipTxt":"NOW PLAYING","embedWindowTitle1":"SHARE THIS PLAYER:","embedWindowTitle2":"EMBED THIS VIDEO IN YOUR SITE:","embedWindowTitle3":"SHARE LINK TO THIS PLAYER:","lightBox":false,"lightBoxAutoplay":false,"lightBoxThumbnail":"","lightBoxThumbnailWidth":400,"lightBoxThumbnailHeight":220,"lightBoxCloseOnOutsideClick":true,"onFinish":"Play next video","autoplay":false,"loadRandomVideoOnStart":"No","shuffle":"No","playlist":"Off","playlistBehaviourOnPageload":"opened (default)","playlistScrollType":"light","preloadSelfHosted":"none","hideVideoSource":true,"showAllControls":true,"rightClickMenu":true,"autohideControls":2,"hideControlsOnMouseOut":"No","nowPlayingText":"Yes","infoShow":"No","shareShow":"No","facebookShow":"No","twitterShow":"No","mailShow":"No","facebookShareName":"","facebookShareLink":"","facebookShareDescription":"","facebookSharePicture":"","twitterText":"","twitterLink":"","twitterHashtags":"","twitterVia":"","googlePlus":"","embedShow":"No","embedCodeSrc":"","embedCodeW":720,"embedCodeH":405,"embedShareLink":"","youtubeControls":"custom controls","youtubeSkin":"dark","youtubeColor":"red","youtubeQuality":"default","youtubeShowRelatedVideos":"Yes","vimeoColor":"00adef","showGlobalPrerollAds":false,"globalPrerollAds":"url1;url2;url3;url4;url5","globalPrerollAdsSkipTimer":5,"globalPrerollAdsGotoLink":"","videoType":"HTML5 (self-hosted)","submit":"Save Changes","rootFolder":"http:\/\/wp.tdn.pmadv.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/Elite-video-player\/"} AC: What sort of reception has Zoustar been given by European breeders? DR: It’s always very difficult with an Australian horse, and people not getting the opportunity to see him until he gets here. Many people will remember him because we paraded him at the first Goffs London Sale, and they loved him then. Anybody with any sort of Australian slant has booked him months ago, and those that came to see him [in the few days after his arrival] all booked him immediately. So we’re now absolutely brim-full with mares. He’s got a limited book. I think we’ve kept back about five spaces for very special mares. I look forward to showing him to everybody, because they need to see this horse. He’s a genuine breed-shaper. View the full article

Rockingham Ranch and David Bernsen’s Roy H (More Than Ready), who likely cemented a second straight Eclipse championship with his victory in the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs last November, will make his 7-year-old debut in the GII Palos Verdes S. at Santa Anita Saturday. The Peter Miller trainee opened his 2018 campaign with a win in the six-furlong race before a third-place effort in the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen. Returned stateside, he was second in the July 28 GI Bing Crosby S. at Del Mar before winning his second straight renewals of the GI Santa Anita Sprint Championship Oct. 6 and Breeders’ Cup Sprint Nov. 3. Roy H, 4-5 on the morning line, breaks from post seven in the seven-horse field. Multiple graded stakes winner Kanthaka (Jimmy Creed) has been working strongly as he looks to return to the winner’s circle for the first time since last May. The West Point Thoroughbreds’ colorbearer won the GII San Vicente S. in his third career start last February before a third-place effort in the GII San Felipe S. and a sixth-place finish in the GII Toyota Blue Grass S. scuppered any Derby aspirations. He went to the sidelines after winning the May 12 GIII Lazaro Barrera S. and was a troubled eighth while making his return in the Dec. 26 GI Malibu S. last time out. Kanthaka, 4-1 on the morning line, worked a best-of-101 five furlongs Jan. 11 at Santa Anita in 1:00 flat. Hronis Racing’s St. Joe Bay (Saint Anddan), who won the 2017 Palos Verdes, was claimed for $62,500 last May before finishing second in the June 23 GII San Carlos S. and he was fifth after setting the pace in the Bing Crosby. The 7-year-old gelding, 6-1 on the morning line, is coming off a five-furlong allowance tally at Los Alamitos Dec. 14. View the full article

Mrs J. V. Shields and E J M McFadden’s COUNTRY HOUSE (c, 3, Lookin At Lucky–Quake Lake, by War Chant) completely bombed the start when veering in sharply from gate one, but the chestnut was given a patient ride from the tail thereafter by Javier Castellano and saved his best for last en route to a three-length graduation and ‘TDN Rising Star’ honors. Making his sophomore debut and first appearance since a runner-up effort going a mile over a laboring Aqueduct main track Dec. 1, Country House spotted his rivals the better part of 10 lengths once straightened away and remained out of the frame down the backstretch as 15-1 Ownitifyouwantit (Midshipman) set a modest pace. Called upon while five or six deep on the turn, he continued to make eyecatching progress leaving the quarter pole and finished up full of run and straight and strong for the victory. He covered 40 feet more than the runner-up according to Trakus. Country House is cleverly bred, as second dam Shooting Party (Sky Classic)–raced by the late Shields to a runner-up effort in the 2001 GI Garden City Breeders’ Cup S.–was responsible for Lookin At Lucky’s overachieving son Breaking Lucky, a Grade III winner on synth and three times Grade I-placed on conventional dirt. Country House is the last produce for Quake Lake, who died in 2016. Lifetime Record: 3-1-1-0. O-Mrs J V Shields & E J M McFadden; B-J V Shields Jr (KY); T-Bill Mott. View the full article

Skyler's Scramjet and Gold for the King, who have each won four times at the Big A, will duke it out against three foes in the Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct Jan. 19. View the full article

In this new series, we ask agents and others who book a lot of mares for their clients which sires might be flying slightly under the radar in this breeding season. Who might be getting overlooked in the rush for the new, hot thing? Read on. Peter Bradley, Bradley Thoroughbreds LLC SKY MESA, Three Chimneys, $15,000 Sky Mesa is a horse I like because he is a sire that can get racehorses on any surface, as a sire of Grade I winners on turf, dirt, and Polytrack, having sired horses such as General Quarters and Sky Diva. He is great value at $15,000. At age 19, he is represented by 65 black type winners and four champions. In the auction ring, he provides breeders with access to a great pedigree with a lot of upside in his sales results. In 2018, his yearling average was just over $43,000, but saw high-end prices of $275,000 and $220,000 during the sale season. He also passes on the precocity he displayed as a racehorse as seen through a colt selling at OBS March in 2018 for $300,000. It is also no surprise that daughters of Sky Mesa have found success in the auction ring and the catalogue page. Hailing from one of the great sire and broodmare sire lines in A.P. Indy, Sky Mesa has seen his broodmares sell for prices up to $2,000,000 in recent years. View the full article

A 2-year-old colt by Merit Man brought top price of $60,000 at Wednesday’s California Thoroughbred Breeders Association January Mixed Sale in Pomona. In all, 81 head sold during the one-session auction for a total of $589,300. The average was $7,275 and the median was $4,000. The buy-back rate was 33.6%. The CTBA hosted the January sale as a transitory auction between the now-defunct Barretts, which ceased operations at the end of 2018, and the upcoming Fasig-Tipton sales. Frank Veiga, as agent for trainer Bob Hess, Jr., made the winning bid on the sale-topping juvenile (hip 110), who was bred by Terry Lovingier and was consigned by his Lovacres Ranch. The dark bay colt is out of multiple stakes placed Seaside (Aldebaran), who was purchased by Lovingier while in foal to Can the Man for $5,000 at the 2015 Keeneland November sale. The mare’s Can the Man colt sold for $30,000 at the 2017 Barretts August Yearling Sale. Hess, who trained Merit Man, also purchased a 2-year-old filly (hip 138) by the 9-year-old stallion for $30,000 from the Lovacres consignment Wednesday. “I haven’t seen them yet,” Hess said of the two juveniles. “I’m down at Gulfstream with horses, so my dad [trainer Bob Hess, Sr.] drove down from Golden Gate. I had him look at all the Merit Mans in the sale. I trained Merit Man and he’s done well with his initial crop, so we were trying to focus on all the Merit Mans. My dad identified the two that we bought as the two best ones in the sale.” Hess continued, “We bought them for a group of clients that my father and I both work with. My dad will get both of them ready up at Golden Gate and then we would hope to debut them sometime in early summer at Santa Anita or Del Mar.” A debut winner at Del Mar as a 2-year-old in 2012, Merit Man won the Tim Conway S. at Santa Anita before being nosed out of the win when second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint. He won the Spectacular Bid S. at Gulfstream in 2013 and was third behind subsequent GI Kentucky Derby winner Orb (Malibu Moon) in the GI Florida Derby. “Merit Man was precocious, he won early,” Hess said of the 9-year-old stallion whose first foals are three. “And then he ran a good third to Orb going 1 1/8 miles in the Florida Derby. A lot of his horses have a great mind and they have his speed, but they also have his laid back attitude. I’m looking forward to getting a few more Merit Mans and luckily we picked up two yesterday.” A large portion of the CTBA January catalogue was made up of 2-year-olds and three of the sale’s top four prices were for juveniles. Hess sees advantages to buying juveniles before the 2-year-olds in training sales season gets underway in March. “I feel like it’s a great buyers market, buying a 2-year-old in January,” he said. “Once they go down the lane in :10 and change, or now :9 and change, then you’ve got to pay through the teeth. I feel like we stole both of these and I’m sure there were a bunch of other great buys because they didn’t get to preview, which I think is better for the horse and better for the buyers. Maybe the seller takes it through the teeth when they sell them early, but there is a lot of risk involved with getting them ready for a 2-year-old sale. So I think it’s a win-win for all parties.” View the full article

David Armstrong has been appointed the new chief executive of the Racecourse Association (RCA) and will take up the role full-time on Mar. 11, the organisation announced on Thursday. Previously, Armstrong served as the Group Chief Executive of Wasps Holdings where he oversaw the club’s transition to becoming the largest rugby club in the world by revenue. Earlier in his career Armstrong served in senior positions with PepsiCo, Compass Group, Diageo and Lonrho, and was also a racehorse owner with William Muir. “I am delighted to welcome David Armstrong as Chief Executive of the RCA and to the sport of horseracing,” said RCA Chairman Maggie Carver. “David brings extensive and valuable experience across the sports and leisure industries as well as a background in finance. I am confident David will be a vital asset in the future development of racecourses as well as the sport as a whole. The full RCA team is looking forward to welcoming him and to working together.” Added Armstrong, who will remain Chairman of Pentathlon GB, Non-executive Director of Wasps Holdings and Advisory Board member at Oakwell Capital, “I am delighted and honoured to be joining the RCA at such an important time in the evolution of the sport. I hope I can bring my varied experiences from across the sporting landscape to bear in developing our racecourses and the sport in general.” View the full article

Thoroughbred owner/breeder and philanthropist Phyllis Mills Wyeth died Monday at the age of 78, according to a statement released by the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art, of which Wyeth was a long-time supporter. Wyeth passed away with her husband and acclaimed painter Jamie Wyeth by her side. Born in New York City to the late James and Alice du Pont Mills and raised in Middleburg, Virginia, Wyeth became involved in racing through her family and achieved her greatest success as the owner/breeder of Union Rags, a fourth-generation homebred and winner of the 2012 GI Belmont S. Devil’s Bag and Gone West rank among the other success stories that were products of the Mills family breeding program. Wyeth majored in political science at Finch College and later attended the Columbia School of Social Work, eventually working for U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy and later in the Kennedy White House. In 1968 she married Jamie Wyeth and the couple took up residence on the Wyeth family’s 240-acre Point Lookout Farm on the Pennsylvania-Delaware border. Away from the racetrack, Wyeth dedicated her time to environmental conservancy in addition to serving as an advocate for the arts and the rights of the disabled. Funeral services will be private. This story will be updated. View the full article

Santa Anita has been doused with 3 1/2 inches of rain since Monday. View the full article

They call him 'Wow.' Sure it's an acronym for his name, but it's also the first thought that came to mind when the connections of Lecomte Stakes (G3) contender of War of Will watched him train early on. View the full article

Skyler's Scramjet and Gold for the King, who have each won four times at the Big A, will duke it out against three foes in the Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct Jan. 19. View the full article

Skyler's Scramjet and Gold for the King, who have each won four times at the Big A, will duke it out against three foes in the Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct Jan. 19. View the full article

This week is a recap of Kona Gold's win over Big Jag in the Palos Verdes Handicap (G2) Jan. 29, 2000 at Santa Anita Park. The recap, written by Craig Harzmann, ran in the Feb. 5, 2000 magazine and carried the headline, "Solid Gold." View the full article

Addressing your thoughts, questions and statements about Hong Kong racing. Have something to say? Send a tweet to @SCMPRacingPost. Grant van Niekerk grabs a double and Danny Shum makes it three on the night as Star Of Joy runs down Powermax to take race seven: a deserved first win at start 21 – @HKJC_Racing With the next meeting of the Jockey Club’s licensing committee getting closer and closer, it’s time for some reckless speculation (think of this as if you were chatting... View the full article

18:55 Newcastle The penultimate race of the day at tonight’s evening meeting at Newcastle is the scene of our NAP. Seven-year-old Landing Night returns to a venue he’s been successful at, off his last all-weather winning mark and under a jockey he’s done exceedingly well with. A drop in class will also be a massive […] The post Picks From The Paddock Best Bet – Thursday 17th January appeared first on RaceBets Blog EN. View the full article

Trainer Tony Cruz will bypass the Classic Mile with his stayer Helene Leadingstar as he plots an alternative course to the BMW Hong Kong Derby in March. The Australian Group One winner will instead step up in trip on Sunday when he tackles the Class Two New Street Handicap (1,800m) as Cruz looks for more ground after not living up to his lofty reputation over 1,600m in his two previous Hong Kong starts. As a winner of last year’s Group One South Australian Derby over 2,500m, Cruz said his... View the full article

He was reduced to a mere bystander in Beauty Generation’s stunning Longines Hong Kong Mile win in December but Peter Ho Leung has ensured Fifty Fifty will not face the same fate as the pair return to Group One racing this Sunday. While the reigning Horse of the Year lines up in the Stewards’ Cup (1,600m), Ho is stepping Fifty Fifty back to the 1,200m of the Centenary Sprint Cup, and not only to dodge the all-conquering Beauty Generation. “He’s the best horse in Hong Kong... View the full article

As the favorite to be named champion male sprinter for a second straight year, Rockingham Ranch and David Bernsen's Roy H should soon enough be in pretty exclusive company. View the full article

After his most successful racing season, X Y Jet will make his 2019 debut at his favorite track and in a familiar race when Gulfstream Park hosts the Sunshine Millions Sprint Jan. 19. View the full article

Koh hoping for Solo hit on Sunday View the full article

Juglall stood down by order of Stewards this weekend View the full article

Early scratching January 20 View the full article