Wandering Eyes

There were few more exciting horses last summer than Hronis Racing’s Catalina Cruiser (Union Rags), but after going four-for-four to start his career, the chestnut went up in flames at odds-on in the GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile. He’ll make his much-anticipated return and debut as 5-year-old in Friday’s GII True North S. at Belmont. Victorious on debut in October of 2017 at Santa Anita, the $370,000 Keeneland September purchase repeated in an optional claimer there last May and had his coming-out party when romping by 6 3/4 lengths in the GII San Diego H. July 21 at Del Mar. He added to his legend with a similarly easy score in the GII Pat O’Brien S. Aug. 25, but faded to finish a well-beaten sixth at 9-10 at Churchill Downs. The John Sadler trainee shows a half-dozen works at his Arcadia base in preparation for this comeback, capped by a half-mile spin in :47 3/5 (3/37) June 2. Courtlandt Farms’ Strike Power (Speightstown) returns to the big stage looking to reclaim the cachet he earned last winter at Gulfstream. An eight-length debut graduate to earn ‘TDN Rising Star’ honors in December of 2017, he scored in the GIII Swale S. next out and was a good second stretching out in the GII Fountain of Youth S. The wheels fell off after that though, as he could manage no better than fourth in his next four outings and was beaten by double-digit lengths each time. Laid up for nearly eight months and dropped into optional claiming company when resurfacing Apr. 25 at Gulfstream, the homebred looked much like his old self, going wire to wire in a five-length score that produced a 101 Beyer, easily Strike Power’s best output since the 102 he earned in his unveiling. Whitmore (Pleasantly Perfect) looks to avenge a tough beat from last year’s True North as the most accomplished runner in the group. Missing by a neck to the brilliant MGISW Imperial Hint (Imperialism) in the 2018 renewal, the gelding was runner-up by the same margin in the GII Belmont Sprint Championship before picking up his first Grade I success in the Forego S. Aug. 25 at Saratoga. Completing the exacta behind champion Roy H (More Than Ready) in the GI Breeders’ Cup Sprint, he debuted as a 6-year-old with a conquest of the Hot Springs S. before running into the streaking buzzsaw Mitole (Eskendereya) when second in the GIII Count Fleet Sprint H. and fifth in the GI Churchill Downs S. last out. The post Catalina Cruiser Returns in True North appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The owners of any horse sweeping Canada’s 2019 Triple Crown will receive a C$500,000 bonus as part of a deal reached with Woodbine Entertainment Group (WEG) and Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG). OLG will return as the title sponsor of the race series for Canadian-sired 3-year-olds, comprised of the June 29 Queen’s Plate at Woodbine, July 23 Prince of Wales S. at Fort Erie and the Aug. 17 Breeders’ S. back at Woodbine. “Woodbine Entertainment is thrilled to continue our partnership with OLG as we work towards raising the prominence of Canada’s Triple Crown,” said Jonathan Zammit, VP of Thoroughbred Racing Operations. “The prospect of a Triple Crown champion generates buzz around the sport and bringing back the incentive of a lucrative bonus will help to fuel that excitement.” The post Bonus to be Offered for Canadian Triple Crown Sweep appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is offering the public the opportunity to purchase permanent commemorative bricks in the Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Courtyard. Sales of the bricks will last from now through December and the bricks will be unveiled in the summer of 2020. Two sizes are available: 4″ by 8″ red bricks for $100 and 8″ by 8″ grey bricks for $250. Red bricks feature three lines of engraving with a maximum 12 characters per line, while grey bricks offer six lines with up to 12 characters per line. For more information or to order, visit www.racingmuseum.org/buy-brick or call (518) 584-0400 ext. 109. The post NMRHOF Selling Personalized Bricks appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Zac Purton is riding so well, the biggest challenge for trainers is trying to book him.The Australian booted home another four winners at Happy Valley on Wednesday night, meaning he has now collected 25 from the past six meetings at an astonishing 48 per cent strike rate (and is one away from 1,000 Hong Kong victories in his career).But while Purton is dominating the competition on the track, he has created another one off it – the race for trainers to secure his services, such is his demand… View the full article

Commes (Fr) is the latest daughter of Le Havre (Ire) bound for Japan, with Jour de Galop revealing that Teruya Yoshida has purchased the G1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches runner-up privately. Racing as a homebred for Gerard Augustin-Normand, Commes earned ‘TDN Rising Star’ status with a three-length debut win at Deauville in August and has been second in three subsequent outings, including when beaten a nose by Castle Lady (Ire) (Shamardal) in the Pouliches. Yoshida also purchased privately Le Havre’s La Cressonniere (Fr) and Avenir Certain (Fr), both winners of the Pouliches and the Prix de Diane, which is Commes’s next target on June 16. Yoshida also races the Mar. 10 G2 Hochi Hai Fillies’ Revue winner Pourville (Jpn) (Le Havre {Ire}), who he bought in utero of the Group 3-winning Kenhope (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) for 480,000gns in 2014. The post Commes Headed To Japan appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Skitter Scatter (Scat Daddy) has had an easy spell since tearing a muscle while beating just one home in the G1 1000 Guineas on May 5, and trainer John Oxx revealed on Wednesday that last year’s G1 Moyglare Stud S. winner is being aimed at the G1 Matron S. at Leopardstown in September. “She’s making gradual progress. She’s been confined to walking exercise for a month and we’re coming to the end of that now, so we’ll see how we go from here,” Oxx said. “We think it [the torn muscle] happened about three furlongs out, and she just went backwards then. It’s disappointing, but these things happen.” “It’s a slow process, and she hasn’t been given the all-clear to step up her work yet,” added Oxx of the Sonia and Anthony Rogers homebred. “These things take time and we’ll just have to be patient. She will recover all right and hopefully it will be soon enough, but we haven’t set any deadline for her to run. The Matron S. is a Group 1 target we have in mind for her, but how we get there–whether we can get one or two runs into her beforehand–we’ll just have to see how she progresses.” The post Matron The Plan For Skitter Scatter appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Should all go smoothly in the lead up, Japanese racing fans can expect to have two rooting interests in this year’s G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, with G1 Tenno Sho Spring and G1 Kikuka Sho victor Fierement (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) joining this year’s G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) winner Roger Barows (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) as a contender from the East. Connections of Fierement have said the 4-year-old will have to perform well in the G2 Sapporo Kinen on Aug. 18 to get on the plane, but should he make it to ParisLongchamp stamina certainly won’t be a concern; his two Group 1 wins have come over 3000 and 3200 metres. The post Japanese Duo In Line For Arc appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

In-form jockey Tommy Berry is poised to keep his winning momentum rolling when he heads to Eagle Farm for a strong book of rides on Stradbroke Handicap day. Berry booted home a double at the track two weeks ago then returned to Sydney last Saturday and made it an afternoon to remember with a four-winner haul, each of them for different stables. The Chris Waller-trained Queensland Derby favourite Nobu is arguably the best of his rides. The three-year-old has hit his straps since returning to Aust... View the full article

The latest gavelhouse.com fortnightly New Zealand auction features a special consignment with six-time New Zealand Breeder of the Year winners Waikato Stud offering a draft of 27 unreserved weanlings for sale. The Matamata-based nursery comprise a big chunk of the 83-Lot catalogue, with x-rays for each of their entries available for viewing in the New Zealand Bloodstock online repository. Waikato Stud’s famous hospitality and progressive approach to selling their stock sees the team set to ho... View the full article

New Plymouth trainer Allan Sharrock currently sits on 30 wins for the season and he is on a mission to equal his previous best tally of 40 wins set in the 2001/02 season. The Taranaki horseman has just under two months to secure 10 wins, but he believes he is taking enough firepower into the winter months to achieve his target. “The team is going really well,” Sharrock said. “I’d love to get 40 (wins). I think 40 was my best year. “We have got a bit of work to do, we have go to get 10... View the full article

Group Two performer Our Intrigue will head to the spelling paddock after her unplaced run in the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Doomben last Saturday. The Tony Pike-trained three-year-old was heading into the race off the back of a winning performance over 2200m at the Sunshine Coast last month, but Pike said the Oaks test may have been a race too far for his filly. “She probably just came to the end of her preparation,” he said. “She’s going to head to the spelling paddock, she has be... View the full article

The Tony Pike-trained The Bostonian will be attempting to keep his unbeaten Queensland streak alive when he contests the Gr.1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The four-year-old son of Jimmy Choux has won all five of his starts in the Sunshine State, including two successive Group Ones this campaign and Pike is hopeful for a third this weekend. The Bostonian surprised many pundits when taking out the Gr.1 Doomben 10,000 (1200m) as a $41-shot when fresh-up last month, before ... View the full article

Matamata Stud Farm Valachi Downs will welcome three-time Group One-winning sprinter U.S. Navy Flag to their stallion roster for the forthcoming breeding season. “There has never been a sprinter of this elite-level stand at stud in New Zealand, let alone with the incredible pedigree U.S. Navy Flag possesses,” Valachi Downs General Manager Jonathan Scully said. “We are beyond delighted to offer this precocious speed sire to breeders.” A son of top international sire War Front, U.S. Navy F... View the full article

War of Will drew post 9 for the June 8 Belmont Stakes, just inside of Tacitus in the field of 10, as the two favorites will break side-by-side in the 1 ½-mile final leg of the Triple Crown at Belmont Park. View the full article

A life in racing is often filled with complicated twists and turns. Owner-breeder Dr. William Wilmot has experienced them all—every unexpected curve and bend imaginable, traversing each with a sense of self-determination. View the full article

War of Will drew post nine for the June 8 Belmont Stakes, just inside of Tacitus in the field of 10, as the two favorites will break side-by-side in the 1 ½-mile final leg of the Triple Crown at Belmont Park. View the full article

Leading trainer Mark Walker saddles a quarter of the bumper 16-horse field in Sunday’s Silver Bowl (1400m), but sees the first Leg of the Singapore Four-Year-Old Challenge more as a launchpad to better things for most of them. Sharpness of distance aside, Walker also felt the set-weights conditions of the newly-created feature race will put his quartet of lower-rated horses behind the eight-ball with regards to Mister Yeoh (100 points). With his best horse on 80 points, they would have al... View the full article

War of Will and Tacitus draw outside in the expected field of 10 for the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) June 8 at Belmont Park. View the full article

GII Wood Memorial S. victor Tacitus (Tapit), most recently third in the GI Kentucky Derby got the morning-line nod at 9-5 while drawn furthest outside in post 10 for Saturday’s GI Belmont S. GI Preakness S. hero War of Will (War Front) is the second-choice at 2-1 and breaks to Tacitus’s inside from post 9. The rest of the field is as follows: Everfast (Take Charge Indy) in post 2 at 12-1; Master Fencer (Jpn) (Just a Way {Jpn}) in post 3 at 8-1, Tax (Arch) in post 4 at 15-1, Bourbon War (Tapit) in post 5 at 12-1, Spinoff (Hard Spun) in post 6 at 15-1, Sir Winston (Awesome Again) in post 7 at 12-1 and Intrepid Heart (Tapit) in post 8 at 10-1. The post Tacitus Draws Post 10 as Belmont Favorite appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Wednesday’s action features a 1.3million gns filly making her awaited debut. 12.00 Nottingham, Mdn, £6,000, 2yo, f, 5f 8yT AL RAYA (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}) is a £450,000 Goffs UK Breeze-Up topper who debuts for Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa and the Simon Crisford stable. A daughter of the Listed Empress S. winner and G2 Queen Mary S. fourth Fog Roll (GB) (Bahamian Bounty {GB}), the January-foaled bay encounters 11 rivals. 6.15 Kempton, Novice, £10,000, 3yo/up, 7f (AWT) TUK POWER (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) makes her belated debut for King Power Racing and Andrew Balding, having cost 1.3million gns at Tattersalls October Book 1. Out of the dual group-placed Soon (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), the January-foaled bay is met by fellow newcomer Laurier (Scat Daddy), a Kevin Ryan-trained $410,000 Keeneland September graduate who is a half-sister to the GIII Tom Fool H. winner Skyler’s Scramjet (Creative Cause). The post Observations for June 5 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The horse shortage has hovered over racing for year, a black cloud that, inevitably, had to become a crippling problem for some racetracks. Running cards filled with four or five-horse races is a recipe for disaster; a betting product the public will not buy. While the problem has gotten incrementally worse every year, it has reached a tipping point this year at Delaware Park. It’s not surprising that it is a track in the Mid-Atlantic region that is having a crisis. At this time of year, Delaware Park, Parx, Monmouth and Laurel are all running. Though offering a cheaper brand of racing, Penn National and Charles Town also factor into the equation and Colonial Downs in Virginia is set to re-open for a 15-day meet in August. The track has been closed since 2013. There is too much racing in the Mid-Atlantic and not nearly enough horses available to fill cards at so many tracks. Neither is it surprising that Delaware is the track getting hit the hardest by the horse shortage as it has the smallest purses among the four major tracks in the area, Parx, Laurel, Monmouth and Delaware. They are averaging $156,000 a day in purses. At Delaware, three of the first 13 scheduled cards had to be canceled due to a lack of entries. There are no official records kept on how often tracks have had to cancel due to a lack of entries, but it’s likely Delaware has set some sort of low mark. When it has raced, Delaware has averaged a little over 6.4 starters per race and most cards include just seven races for Thoroughbreds and one for Arabians. Four and five-horse fields are not uncommon. Both sides, management and horsemen, are doing their best to come up with solutions, but this is all about a supply and demand. There is no magic wand. Worse yet, rather than come together, the two sides seem more interested in pointing fingers at one another. Track President Bill Fasy said the meet got off on the wrong foot when horsemen insisted Delaware Park open up on the day of the GI Kentucky Derby. In prior years, the track did not open until the first week in June. All three cancellations have come in May. “I would absolutely say that our horsemen’s group insisting on racing in May created a big problem,” Fasy said. “We told them the horses wouldn’t be available to us that early. But that was a big push for them in order to agree to a contract.” With sports betting proving additional revenue, the horsemen also successfully lobbied to extend the meet from 81 to 85 total days. “We also agreed to, even though we didn’t believe the races would fill, to take on four additional days,” Fasy said. “You have to be practical. With the field sizes we have had last two years and with the purse money we have we cannot be competitive with other tracks in the area. The horsemen are not looking at the supply and demand, the economics.” Fasy claimed that Delaware Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association President Scott Peck wants to run 100 cards a year. The TDN asked to speak with Peck, but the horsemen’s group asked that Executive Director Bessie Gruwell answer questions on its behalf. Delaware was the first state in the area to have slot machines and for years it thrived. In 1999 and 2000, the meet consisted of 149 days. But once surrounding states, particularly Pennsylvania, added alternative gaming to its racetracks, the revenue from Delaware’s casino plummeted. Most of the purse money comes from casino profits. The trick became how to run a meet of reasonable length while maintaining competitive purses. When Fasy was asked what he felt would be an optimal number of racing dates, he sais that was an area he did not want to touch. “I would hate to answer that and I will tell you the reason why,” he said. “Years ago, I was almost involved with a lynch mob in my paddock that wanted to hang me when I told them we needed to go from 135 to 120 days. I’m damned if I do and damned if I don”t.” He did say that the solution lies in figuring out what Delaware needs to pay out in daily purses to be competitive and then take the amount of money it has for purses. Do the math and that should give you a meet length that is viable. It’s been a difficult stretch for the horsemen, as well, and Gruwell didn’t hide the fact that many are angry. She said Delaware should have opened the turf course earlier (the first grass race was run on Memorial Day), that there are more horses on the grounds this year than last year and that the racing office has not been working hard enough to fill cards. “The first time they canceled the card they stopped taking entries at 3 p.m. and said we can’t make the card,” she said. “The second time they canceled it was at 2 p.m. The third time it was 12:49 p.m. Some of these guys at other tracks are staying there until six or seven at night to put together a card. They called ours off at 12:49 p.m. in afternoon.” In a perfect world, Delaware could turn back the clock to the 1950s when it ran 32-day meets. The Maryland tracks would close as they had formed a circuit with Delaware and there was no legal racing in Pennsylvania at the time. Some seventy years later, with a 32-day meet and with all the slots money available to the track, the purses would be among the best in the country. But the horsemen argue that is not a realistic solution. Since Delaware does not race year-round, it must rely on outfits to ship in from other tracks like Tampa Bay Downs and the feeling is no one would stable at Delaware if the meet were so short. With the turf course now fully operational and with 2-year-old racing underway, Delaware has resources that should increase field size. However, after running three days a week since opening day, the track went to a four-day-a-week schedule starting May 30. Ironically, that was a day it had to cancel. “I’m worried that four days a week just won’t happen,” Gruwell said. And she’s well aware that further cancellations will be a hardship on her membership. “Any day that you can’t race is a day you can’t make money,” she said. “Any day you can’t lead your horse over there to race, it’s a day you have no opportunity to make money. It doesn’t matter if the purse is $100, $10,000 or $100,000, the horseman have to have a chance to earn.” Fasy said he believes the solution is for racing to take a page out of its past and start up again with circuits that include one or more states. He also knows that isn’t going to happen. In the meantime, one of racing’s most picturesque tracks and one with a storied past, is in trouble. There doesn’t seem to be much that anyone can do, other than accept the status quo, keep on racing with short fields and hope the cancellations don’t become a regularity. Delaware has carded seven Thoroughbred races for Wednesday with 52 horses entered for an average field size of 7.4. That’s not good, but neither is it terrible. Maybe the worst is over. The post Horse Shortage Causing Havoc at Delaware Park appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Three fillies from the Chad Brown barn appear to hold most of the cards in Thursday’s seven-furlong GIII Intercontinental S. at Belmont. Favored on the morning line is Stephanie Seymour Brant’s Significant Form (Creative Cause). A dominant winner of the Memories of Silver S. last spring at Aqueduct in her 3-year-old debut, the $575,000 OBS April buy finished off the board in her next three, and was last seen running fourth in the off-the-turf Winter Memories S. Nov. 22 at the Big A. Stella di Camelot (Ire) (Camelot {Ire}) also makes her first start as a 4-year-old here. Third in the G3 Premio Regina Elena last spring in Italy, the bay had an auspicious North American debut when rallying to a clear score in the Pebbles S. Oct. 13 at Belmont, but could not build on that when fifth at 1-2 in the GII Mrs. Revere S. Nov. 23 at Churchill. Martin Schwartz’s Zonza (Fr) (Alex the Winner), a French Group 3 winner, was fourth in a Keeneland allowance in her Stateside bow Apr. 19. The post Brown Trio Tops Intercontinental appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

On a weekend that featured a 65-1 winner of the GI Kentucky Derby, the most shocking result may have in fact come in a Friday undercard race at Churchill Downs, when the seemingly invincible Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) was beaten on the square in the GIII Edgewood S. It was the first defeat for the Klaravich Stables colorbearer after annexing her first three races by a combined 19 1/2 lengths, and she will try to get back on track as a huge favorite again in Thursday’s GIII Wonder Again S., the first of a whopping 19 stakes to be run on GI Belmont S. weekend. Bought for 200,000gns as a Tattersalls October yearling, Newspaperofrecord debuted with a 6 3/4-length romp Aug. 19 at Saratoga and followed up with a devastating 6 1/2-length conquest of the GII Miss Grillo S. Sept. 30 at Belmont. She then made her star turn on Breeders’ Cup weekend with a comprehensive 6 3/4-length score in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, a performance that set off speculation the bay could be trainer Chad Brown’s long-awaited first Royal Ascot starter. That was, until the Edgewood. Newspaperofrecord took up her usual spot at the head of affairs as a 1-5 favorite and had everything her own way, but lacked the usual door-slamming stretch kick and was run down rather easily, finished 3 3/4 lengths behind Concrete Rose (Twirling Candy). Ascot’s loss is Belmont’s gain, however, as the filly adds early star power to an already action-packed weekend of racing. The ‘TDN Rising Star’ shows three interim breezes, capped by a four-furlong spin in :48 flat (5/12) on the local inner turf June 1 (video). As in the Edgewood, Newspaperofrecord will have an uncoupled stablemate in OXO Equine’s Cambier Parc (Medaglia d’Oro). Turning heads when selling for $1.25 million at Keeneland September, the daughter of 2008 GI Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf runner-up Sealy Hill (Point Given) graduated second out and first time on turf Jan. 2 before repeating in the GIII Herecomesthebride S. there two months later. She suffered her initial defeat on grass when fourth in the Edgewood. The other stakes winner in the five-horse field is Debby Oxley’s Chocolate Kisses (Candy Ride {Arg}). Victress of the GIII Honeybee S. Mar. 9 at Oaklawn, the $410,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga buy was off the board when sixth in the GI Central Bank Ashland S. and seventh in the GI Kentucky Oaks. The Mark Casse trainee broke her maiden on grass last summer at Saratoga and returns to the lawn for the first time since taking a Fair Grounds optional claimer Jan. 18. The post Newspaperofrecord Tries to Bounce Back in Wonder Again appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

4th-BEL, $90k, 3yo/up, f/m, 6 1/2f, 4:38 EST A contentious field of well-bred maiden fillies will line up at Belmont Thursday. LIZA JAMBALAYA (Ghostzapper) is a sibling to two Grade I winning millionaire sprinters in Paulassilverlining (Ghostzapper) and Dads Caps (Discreet Cat). A homebred for Vincent Scuderi, the chestnut filly is trained by Rudy Rodriguez, the same conditioner who guided Dads Caps to his greatest career victories in the 2014 and 2015 renditions of the GI Carter H. The always dangerous Chad Brown looks to have a live entrant in this maiden event with Trial and Error (Uncle Mo), a full-sister to Grade I winner Dream Tree. A $150,000 KEENOV’16 purchase, the Klaravich Stables-owned filly has been training towards her debut up at Saratoga. Gainesway Stable and Andrew Rosen’s My Happy Place (Tapit) makes the first start of her career after selling for $575,000 at the 2017 Keeneland September sale. The Shug McGaughey trainee is out of GSW, $583,437 earner and ‘TDN Rising Star’ My Happy Face (Tiz Wonderful). TJCIS PPS 5th-BEL $90k, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 5:10 EST Running for the same connections as her hard-knocking millionaire dam, YGRITTE (Tapit) heads to the post for the first time Thursday at Belmont. The chestnut filly is the first foal produced by Shel Evans’s multiple graded stakes-winning and two-time Sovereign Award champion mare Irish Mission (Giant’s Causeway). Another contender with a compelling pedigree is the Kiaran McLaughlin-trained MADAME ORBE (Orb). The $260,000 buy is a half-sister to multiple Grade I winning grass specialist Divisidero (Kitten’s Joy). TJCIS PPS The post June 6 Insights: Auspicious Ghostzapper Filly Aims to Replicate Siblings’ Success in Belmont Debut appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The first of five under tack sessions for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age Sale starts Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. with Hips 1 – 216. Hips 217 – 432 will be on display Thursday, Hips 433 – 648 Friday, Hip 649 – 864 Saturday and concluding with Hips 865 – 1059 Sunday. Each session will begin at 7:30 a.m. The sale will run Wednesday, June 12 through Friday, June 14 with selling getting underway at 10 a.m. daily. The post OBS June Under Tack Show Starts Wednesday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article