Wandering Eyes

Leading local jockey Vincent Ho Chak-yiu is set to continue his career-best season abroad and ride in England once the Hong Kong season finishes in July.Ho has enjoyed a breakout term at home, racking up 46 winners and gaining the trust of some of the top trainers, but says he is not prepared to rest on his laurels.Visa pending, Ho will return to the United Kingdom to ride for top trainer Mark Johnston, who he teamed up with over the same period last year.The pair combined for a winner with Ho… View the full article

Star New Zealand jumps jockey turned trainer, Craig Thornton, is relishing his time in China. The experienced horseman is doing his bit to upskill participants in the emerging racing nation as he oversees a stable of 32 horses at the impressive Yulong racetrack, located in the county of Youyu, south of Inner Mongolia. Thornton is four months into a year-long contract as a private trainer and the hands-on horseman said the experience is a positive one, despite a few teething problems. “I was ... View the full article

Star New Zealand jumps jockey turned trainer, Craig Thornton, is relishing his time in China. The experienced horseman is doing his bit to upskill participants in the emerging racing nation as he oversees a stable of 32 horses at the impressive Yulong racetrack, located in the county of Youyu, south of Inner Mongolia. Thornton is four months into a year-long contract as a private trainer and the hands-on horseman said the experience is a positive one, despite a few teething problems. “I was ... View the full article

Talented O’Reilly mare Campari will continue her preparation aimed towards the Listed The Ultimate Ford and Mazda Tauranga Classic (1400m) next month when she contests the Race Images 1400m at Ellerslie on Saturday. The Stephen Marsh-trained four-year-old had a successful campaign in Australia late last year winning two races, including a record breaking performance at Randwick on Melbourne Cup day. “She broke a class record at Randwick that day – 1.21.33 seconds over 1400m. To... View the full article

Roger James is keen to welcome Sherrif back into his stable after the talented Cambridge galloper underwent a knee operation late last year. “He had a chip taken out of his knee and he’s had a long time off,’’ James said. ‘’He’s due back next month and I’m looking forward to having him back. He’s a very good horse.’’ Owned and bred by Brendan and Jo Lindsay, Sherrif won the Gr.3 Manawatu Classic (2000m) at Awapuni in just his third start and had only four starts last campa... View the full article

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The 2018/19 season will live long in the memory of leading New Zealand jockey Opie Bosson. The talented hoop went on to win six Group One races, taking his tally to 65, surpassing Hall of Fame jockey Lance O’Sullivan’s previous record of 62 Group One victories. “It wasn’t a goal initially, but when I found out I was pretty close to it I was hungry to get it. I thought it was a great achievement to knock him off because he was a freak,” Bosson said. “When Lance broke his leg I ended u... View the full article

Frequent Kranji flyer Fownes heads down South again View the full article

Satoshi Yonekura to ride at Kranji Mile meeting View the full article

Kranji Mile tracknotes Tuesday May 21 View the full article

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TIMONIUM, MD–The two-day Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale kicked off in Timonium Monday with a strong session punctuated by competitive bidding from a broad buying bench. Trainer Ken McPeek made the day’s highest bid, going to $500,000 to secure a colt by Street Sense (hip 156) from the Top Line Sales consignment. In all, 156 juveniles sold Monday for a total of $11,402,500. The average of $73,093 ticked up 4.2% from last year’s opening session and the median rose 19.4% to $43,000. The buy-back rate was 25.7%. It was 22.9% a year ago. Eleven horses sold for $200,000 or more during the session, compared to 13 a year ago. “It was a solid start to the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. “Statistically, it was very similar to last year. It was pretty much the market that we have seen throughout the 2-year-old sales season of 2019 and it was about as expected.” A traditional strength of the Midlantic sale is its diverse buying bench, which was on full display Monday, according to Browning. “We feed a number of racing jurisdictions and you see buyers from literally all over the United States, from California to the Southwest and obviously a lot of Eastern trainers and some Midwestern support,” Browning said. “There was activity from Korea and some folks from Dubai. It’s a very broad-based buying bench that participated in this sale.” The day’s top 10 lots were all purchased by unique buying interests. The Midlantic sale continues Tuesday and Browning is looking for another strong session. “I think we probably have some more top-end horses tomorrow, based on the chatter on the sales grounds amongst both consignors and buyers,” he said. “So we should hopefully have some fireworks tomorrow, but it was certainly a good, solid consistent marketplace at a variety of levels today, which was encouraging.” The Midlantic sale’s final session begins at 11 a.m. Tuesday. Colt Makes Sense for McPeek Ken McPeek made good use of his time in Baltimore. While in town to saddle Signalman (General Quarters) in Saturday’s GI Preakness S., the trainer went through the Fasig Midlantic sales barns and came up with a colt by Street Sense. McPeek purchased the bay on behalf of Reebok founder Paul Fireman for $500,000 Monday in Timonium. “I thought he was a real standout here,” McPeek said. “Obviously the sire is a Derby winner and the bottom line is speed. He looked great breezing and presented himself well out back. He had an injection of Deputy Minister on the bottom line, too, in the second dam, which I am always fond of. I have had a lot of luck with that line.” The juvenile (hip 156) is out of Forest Fashion (Forest Wildcat), who is a daughter of Fashion Editor (Deputy Minister) and she is a half-sister to graded stakes placed Luxembourg (Wild Rush). The 75-year-old Fireman, who races as Fern Circle Stables, was represented in this year’s GI Kentucky Oaks by Restless Rider (Distorted Humor). “Paul Fireman, the principal on this one, is always looking for a really good horse,” McPeek said. “We had Restless Rider in the Oaks this year, so we’ve sort of sniffed around at some top-end stuff and that is what he is after. And this is certainly a high-class colt.” The colt worked over a challenging surface during last week’s first session of the under-tack preview and turned in the fastest quarter-mile time of the day, covering the distance in :21 4/5. “He showed a turn of foot that you need to win big races,” McPeek said of the work. He added, “Because I was here for the Preakness with Signalman, I looked at every horse myself. I had some time to kill going into the race. I trained in the morning and then I had the afternoon [to look at horses]. So I looked at every horse by Sunday and narrowed it down. This was a horse who made the short list and he certainly deserved to be on it.” The colt was consigned by Top Line Sales, as agent for Carlo Vaccarezza who purchased him for $280,000 at last year’s Keeneland September sale. Vaccarezza has enjoyed a string of successful pinhooking scores this spring. At the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale, he sold a colt by American Pharoah for $775,000. He had purchased the youngster for $235,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale. Hip 156 was originally also slated to go to the Gulfstream sale, according to Top Line’s Torie Gladwell. “This colt just took a little bit longer to get ready,” Gladwell said. “We actually had him entered in the Miami sale and he was just a big and little heavier horse and we opted to scratch him out of Miami and just keep training him and getting him a little fitter. We knew he would be a big fish up here. And he did everything right. He breezed two ticks faster than anything else on the first day. The first day was pretty tough and we actually sent him in the last set, hoping the track would dry out a little bit. He breezed really well and he looked good doing it. He looked like he was galloping in his breeze. I’m happy for Carlo, he’s having a good year.” Patience Pays for Uncle Mo Colt Consignor Eddie Woods admitted it had taken some time for his colt by Uncle Mo to come to hand, but the juvenile did it handsomely in Timonium this week before ultimately selling for $475,000 to Martin Schwartz. Woods’s Quarter Pole Enterprise partnership purchased the dark bay for $225,000 at last year’s Keeneland September sale. “He is a lovely horse,” Woods said. “He is just very immature and very backward. It took a long time for him to come around. We never took him to another sale. We had him entered in [OBS] March and he just wasn’t ready for it. His butt is still up in the air, way above his withers. We could just never get him to balance out and in March he looked awkward. But we just gave him the time. This is sort of the last place to come with a horse. I had a partner who wanted to sell here and I said, ‘Okay.’ It went really well.” Hip 236 is out of the unraced Lady Godiva (Unbridled’s Song) and is a half-brother to Grade I winner Leofric (Candy Ride {Arg}). Lady Godiva, in foal to Candy Ride, sold for $600,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton November sale. The juvenile worked a furlong last week in :10 2/5. “He breezed great,” Woods said. “He had a beautiful video because he’s a beautiful-moving horse. He struggled with the turn a little bit, he was going a bit quick and he kind of blew the turn and went into the middle of the track a little bit and then drifted back in and cost himself a tick.” As the juvenile sales season winds down, Woods observed of the Timonium market, “We are getting horses sold. This is one of the last events. Some of the pinhooking has gone quite well, so we’re just moving horses along here.” He continued, “This was the lightest that we had seen for the showing here. Usually Sunday, we are swamped. And we were busy in spots this year, but we weren’t swamped. So I was a little concerned, especially for the bottom-end horses, but we got a lot of them sold just due to setting very realistic reserves and people wanting to move them on.” Carlisle Strikes for Ghostzapper Filly A filly by Ghostzapper will be joining the Tom Amoss barn after bloodstock agent Lauren Carlisle went to $400,000 to secure hip 205 on behalf of owner Temple Webber. “She is beautiful,” Carlisle said after signing the ticket on the youngster. “I loved her top line and her breeze was very impressive. She had a great shoulder and hip to match, so all the angles were there.” The dark bay is out of stakes winner I’m Mom’s Favorite (Indian Charlie) and her third dam is multiple Grade I winner Tout Charmant (Slewvescent). She worked a furlong during last week’s under-tack show in :10 2/5. “That was my last bid,” Carlisle admitted. “I was lucky to get her, but we stretched.” That was a refrain Carlisle has found common all season long at the juvenile sales. “It’s hard to buy the ones you want,” she said. “Everybody is on the same ones, so you’ve got to pray when you go to bid that you’re going to be able to get what you want. The good ones sell.” The dark bay filly was consigned to the Timonium sale by Pelican State Thoroughbreds. “She is just beautiful,” Pelican State Thoroughbreds’ Terry Gabriel said. “Just about everybody in the place was interested in her.” Gabriel purchased the filly on behalf of David Fennelly’s Mountmellick Farm for $185,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale. “We just thought she had a lot of potential in front of her,” Gabriel explained. “She was sort of a late foal [Apr. 28]. She was a big, gawky-looking filly that wasn’t really put together back in October. We hoped that she would arrive here today looking like she did and she did. You’ll read about her again. She is special.” An Irish native, Fennelly worked as a groom at Spendthrift when he first came to the U.S. and he is now building his own commercial broodmare band at his 600-acre Mountmellick Farm in Georgetown. Of Fennelly’s pinhooking venture, Gabriel explained, “He basically does that because of me. Anything that I sort of want to do, he’ll let me do. It’s been enjoyable for us.” The filly’s final price tag was a career mark for Gabriel. “It was right up there,” he said. “I can’t recall the numbers at this point, but it’s at least as strong as I’ve ever sold one for. I don’t do that many pinhooks–I have just two today. But I was so excited. I just loved her. It was easy for me to promote her because I could stand in front of her and tell people you can send her to the track tomorrow and she is going to be that for you, day in and day out. She has it all in front of her.” Wilkes Busy Shopping for Lothenbach Trainer Ian Wilkes kept busy during Monday’s first session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale, purchasing four juveniles on behalf of owner Bob Lothenbach. Leading the way was a filly by Uncle Mo (hip 90), who sold for $350,000. “She is a nice filly,” Wilkes said after signing the ticket on the bay filly. “Bob has her half-brother, Elusive Mischief, who is a nice horse who won a race for him.” Hip 90 was consigned by Top Line Sales on behalf of Zayat Stables, which purchased her for $160,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale. She is out of Claire’s Song (Unbridled’s Song), a half-sister to the dam of Canadian champion Wonder Gadot (Medaglia d’Oro). Lothenbach purchased Elusive Mischief (Into Mischief) for $92,000 at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Horses of Racing Age sale. The 4-year-old won the Punch Line S. at Laurel for Lothenbach last September. Also on behalf of Lothenbach, Wilkes purchased a colt by Pioneerof the Nile (hip 76) for $195,000, a Street Sense filly (hip 58) for $150,000, and a Speightstown filly (hip 56) for $135,000. “He’s looking for the Oaks or the Derby-type horse,” Wilkes said of Lothenbach. “That’s his main thing. That’s what he is looking for–that nice two-turn type horse.” Bernardini Filly to Speedway Stable Peter Fluor sat alongside Marette Farrell as the bloodstock agent went to $335,000 to secure a filly by Bernardini for his Speedway Stable. While immediate plans are to race the filly in the Speedway colors of Fluor and K.C. Weiner, long-term plans might include adding her to the operation’s fledgling broodmare band to support Grade I winner Collected (City Zip), as well as possibly GI Santa Anita Derby winner Roadster (Quality Road). “They have now started keeping a couple of fillies as broodmares because we have Collected as a stallion,” Farrell said. “We are very hopeful that Roadster is going to come back big in the later part of this year. So we want fillies with proper pedigrees. Which she has.” Hip 85 is out of the unraced Christmas Lass (Lemon Drop Kid), a full-sister to Grade I winner Christmas Kid. “We loved the bottom line and Bernardini speaks for himself,” Fluor said of the filly’s appeal. “So we are buying athletes, but secondarily, looking for Collected and possibly Roadster.” Speedway currently has a broodmare band of some 15 head, with plans to build a commercial breeding operation. “Thanks to Marette, we have been into breeding for three years,” Fluor said. “But we are still very early on in the process. We will race the filly and then we will breed and sell the offspring. It’s a commercial breeding operation, rather than having people wonder why are you selling this one–because it’s a business.” The filly, who worked a quarter last week in :22 1/5, was consigned by Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables on behalf of Ron Fein. Fein’s Superfine Farms purchased the filly for $137,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale. “She has a great pedigree, a great body and she was a nice mover,” Fein said of the filly’s appeal last Fall. “Ciaran loved her–that’s all that counts.” Fein, who said he aims to pinhook five or six a year, had his first million-dollar sale at last month’s OBS April sale, when he sold a colt by Liam’s Map for $1.2 million. The juvenile had been purchased for just $50,000 at last year’s Keeneland September sale. “It’s been a great year,” Fein said of his 2019 sales season. “With a lot of thanks to Ciaran Dunne.” Grassroots Training and Sales Cleans Up Grassroots Training and Sales enjoyed a string of big pinhooking successes during Monday’s opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale, topped off by a son of Wicked Strong (hip 131) who sold for $240,000 to Manganaro Bloodstock. The dark bay colt was a $27,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling purchase by the Ocala-based operation. “We bought the Wicked Strong colt at Fasig Tipton in October and he was a very nice colt up there,” explained Grassroot’s David McKathan. “He had injured himself and he had some cuts behind which took a lot of buyers off of him, but they were superficial. We took a chance and he turned out to be a nice colt, so we got lucky.” Earlier in the session, Grassroots sold a colt (hip 99) from the first crop of multiple graded stakes winner Golden Lad, who stands in Maryland, for $175,000 to Gary Young, as agent for Michael Dubb. That chestnut was purchased for $20,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Yearling sale. “The Golden Lad was by a young sire who people weren’t familiar with,” McKathan said of the bargain purchase. “He’s a good-looking colt. We saw a possible opportunity when we saw him. We buy a lot of possible opportunities that don’t work out, but he did.” During last Tuesday’s first session of the under-tack preview of the Midlantic sale, Grassroots sent out two of the furlong :10 1/5 bullet workers and both sold well Monday. A filly by Weigelia (hip 118), purchased for $23,000 at the Midlantic fall sale, brought $120,000 from Patti Miller and a filly by Competitive Edge (hip 106), purchased by $13,000 at the OBS October sale, attracted a final bid of $110,000 from West Bloodstock. “When we target this market, we try to stay with state-breds for the area, Pennsylvania-breds and Maryland-breds,” McKathan said. “We try to buy good individuals. And sometimes it works.” Strong Timonium Debut for Hemingway Michelle Hemingway brought her first consignment to Timonium and made an immediate impression in the Midlantic sales ring Monday. Hemingway sold a colt by Pioneerof the Nile (hip 76) for $195,000 to Bob Lothenbach. The Virginia native, daughter of former Mid-Atlantic trainer Clarke Whitaker, purchased the youngster for $12,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale. “He had the most beautiful walk of any horse I’d ever seen,” Hemingway said of the colt’s appeal as a yearling. “I was shocked [to get him for that]. I have to give a lot of credit to Mark Taylor and Alex Payne. They had him with Taylor Made and they’ve been really good to me this year. They showed him to me, he was completely under-prepped and overweight, but he had a great walk. So I was very fortunate to get him for what I got him for.” Of the colt’s progression since last fall, Hemingway said, “He is a totally different horse. He’s a real jewel now. I couldn’t have been happier.” Hemingway, based in Ocala since 2008, started Hemingway Racing and Training in 2014. Of her decision to sell horses in Timonium this year, she explained, “[Fasig-Tipton President] Boyd Browning has been super to me. He’s really helped in getting me started and I really wanted to support this sale. I’m from the Virginia area–I grew up riding show horses in Virginia and Maryland and New Jersey. I thought, it was time to go home for a while. And so far, it’s been so good.” The post Strong Opener to Fasig Midlantic Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Nominations for the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards (TIEA) open Tuesday, May 21, and will close Monday, July 15. A new award category, the Administration Award, is being added in 2019, which brings the total number of categories to seven and total prize money to $128,000. The awards will be held Friday, Oct. 11 at Keeneland. “Keeneland is honored to host the 4th annual Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards,” said Keeneland President and CEO Bill Thomason. “These individuals are the backbone of our industry and it is a privilege to celebrate their contributions to our sport.” For more information and to nominate online, please go to godolphinusawards.com. The post TIEA Nominations Open appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The celebrations for trainer Mark Casse's barn continued May 20 when Live Oak Plantation's homebred Souper Tapit returned to Woodbine, the site of his first graded score, and came out on top of a photo finish in the $175,000 Eclipse Stakes (G2). View the full article

The Stronach Group has invested little to no money in upkeep at Pimlico, heightening calls for the race to be moved somewhere more suitable for crowds of more than 130,000 people. View the full article

For the third time in the last five renewals, a colt by Deep Impact (Jpn) proved the top seller at the annual Chiba Thoroughbred Sale held Friday, May 17, at Funabashi Racecourse outside of Tokyo. A total of 60 horses were sent through the ring during the single-session auction, and the Shadai-bred lot 41 led the proceedings, attracting a final bid of ¥74,520,000 (£523,434/€606,740/US$677,608). The Feb. 15 foal is a son of Mrs. Lindsay (Theatrical {Ire}), who carried the silks of Bettina Jenney to an upset victory in the G1 Prix Vermeille and to a defeat of Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill (Point Given) as the favourite in course-record time in the GI E. P. Taylor S. in 2007. Trained by Francois Rohaut, the chestnut was victorious in that year’s G3 Prix Penelope and finished runner-up in the G1 Prix de Diane. Mrs. Lindsay, a half-sister to US Grade I winner Dame Dorothy (Bernardini), has proved equally proficient in her second career, having produced MSW and G1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains third-placegetter Mr. Owen (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) prior to being acquired privately by Shadai ahead of the 2013 breeding season. Mrs. Lindsay did not produce a foal in 2018 and was most recently covered by two-time G1 Tenno Sho (Spring) winner and 2012 G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) second Fenomeno (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}). The session’s top-selling filly was lot 25, a daughter of boom sire Lord Kanaloa (Jpn)–Artemis Heart (Jpn), by Heart’s Cry (Jpn), whose second dam Moonlady (Ger) (Platini {Ger}) was a multiple group winner in Germany and also annexed the GII Long Island H. in the US before producing 2010 Tokyo Yushun hero Eishin Flash (Jpn) (King’s Best). A Feb. 7 foal, the bay was hammered down for ¥52,920,000 (£523,434/€430,707/US$480,953). The post Deep Impact Colt Tops Chiba Thoroughbred Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

As a 850,000gns Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up topper, Godolphin’s Divine Spirit (GB) (Kingman {GB}) was on a hiding to nothing making her debut at the same Windsor track as her dam Shyrl (GB) (Acclamation {GB}) who was third in 2008 prior to going within a neck of breaking her maiden in the G2 Queen Mary S. days later. Hard to contain going down to post for the five-furlong fillies’ novice on Monday evening, the 8-11 favourite was settled perfectly under cover in the contest tracking the pace set by fellow Craven breezer Pink Sands (Ire) (No Nay Never). Getting a gap on the rail a furlong out, the bay was through and to the front with over a half-furlong remaining and hit the line strong with 1 3/4 lengths to spare over that rival. Jockey James Doyle was impressed with the winner, who had been withdrawn from her intended debut at Ascot 10 days earlier due to soft ground won by the operation’s fellow TDN Rising Star Final Song (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}). “She set off going to post and scooted a bit, but the bit had slipped to one side of her mouth and I didn’t have much control–she didn’t go that quick, but in the race she was perfect,” he commented. “She was a little bit ring rusty and a little bit green, but clicked into it at halfway. I liked the way she did take her time to pick up, so learnt on the job and then powered away nicely. There’s a bit of stamina there and she’s not an out-an-out five-furlong filly, but looking at her she’s not overly big and very precocious and racy. She’s ready to rock and roll now, so I’m sure Royal Ascot will be on the agenda.” By Juddmonte’s sire sensation Kingman, the winner is a half-sister to Raucous (GB) (Dream Ahead) who was a smart juvenile himself when third in the G2 Gimcrack S. and G2 Mill Reef S. and who was later also in that position in the G3 Hackwood S. and G3 Bengough S. The third dam is Benicia (Ire) (Lyphard), who captured the Prix de Flore and was third in the Prix Saint Alary. 5th-Royal Windsor, £7,400, Novice, 5-20, 2yo, f, 5f 21yT, :59.56, gd. DIVINE SPIRIT (GB), f, 2, by Kingman (GB) 1st Dam: Shyrl (GB) (GSP-Eng), by Acclamation (GB) 2nd Dam: Finicia, by Miswaki 3rd Dam: Benicia (Ire), by Lyphard Sales history: 92,000gns Ylg ’18 TATDEY; 850,000gns 2yo ’19 TATBRE. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $6,085. O-Godolphin; B-Saleh Al Homaizi & Imad Al Sagar (GB); T-Charlie Appleby. Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. The post Kingman’s Divine Spirit a New Rising Star At Windsor appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Judging by the betting for this year’s race, Galileo’s impact on the Derby, both directly and indirectly, looks set to grow and grow, and the same could be said of New Approach, who became the first of Galileo’s three winners of the Epsom classic. In addition to following in his father’s footsteps when he scored by half a length in 2008, New Approach has already been represented by Libertarian, runner-up to Ruler Of The World in 2013, and Masar, the unexpected 2018 winner. Now he has come up with another possible contender in Telecaster (GB), who kept on so gamely to deprive Too Darn Hot of his unbeaten record in last week’s G2 Dante S. There is some doubt as to whether Telecaster with line up at Epsom, as he will need to be supplemented, and his connections are reportedly worried about asking their colt to race again just 16 days after his battle in the Dante. I tend to take the attitude that there is only one Derby and would remind Telecaster’s connections that he is the product of two admirably durable performers. New Approach won the Derby just 14 days after he had finished second in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, having already had a hard race when beaten a nose in Henrythenavigator’s 2,000 Guineas. Those efforts were on top of a thorough testing as a 2-year-old, when New Approach was undefeated in five starts on his way to the juvenile championship. Admittedly New Approach needed a rest after the Derby, but he returned to win both the Irish and English versions of the Champion S. Telecaster’s trainer Hughie Morrison knows all about Telecaster’s dam Shirocco Star, as he trained her throughout a somewhat luckless career. Although she managed to win just one of her 13 starts, this rather quirky performer was beaten only a neck in the G1 Oaks and a short neck in the G2 Prix de Royallieu, as well as finishing second in the G1 Irish Oaks and G2 British Champions Fillies’ and Mares’ S.I have to say that I am delighted to see Mark Weinfeld, of Meon Valley Stud, being rewarded for flouting the widespread belief that a mating between two mile-and-a-half performers is a fast-track route to getting a slow-maturing stayer. While I have to concede that the progeny of such matings may need some time, there is no reason why they cannot shine in the very valuable middle-distance events. Perhaps the quickest way to back this up in the run-up to the Derby is to mention that the Derby-winning Galileo, who raced just once as a two-year-old, has sired three G1 winners from winners of the Oaks, namely the St Leger winner Sixties Icon from Love Divine, the Derby and Irish Derby winner Australia from Ouija Board and the Coral-Eclipse and Juddmonte International winner Ulysses from Light Shift. Australia’s first crop, of course, has produced two of the leading Derby contenders in Broome and Bangkok. I could also mention the 1966 Derby winner Charlottown, who was by a winner of the 12-furlong Prix du Jockey-Club and the 15-furlong Grand Prix de Paris out of the mighty Meld, heroine of the 1,000 Guineas, Oaks and St Leger. Mark Weinfeld would probably concede that matings between two middle-distance performers do not always reap their just rewards in the sales ring, as Telecaster showed. He was led out unsold at 180,000gns as a yearling, whereas his year-younger half-brother by the top miler Dubawi realised 1,100,000gns last October, before Telecaster had seen action. With two wins from three starts, Telecaster would obviously now command a very substantial price tag. Shirocco Star was also led out unsold as a yearling, at 48,000gns, but her breeders had the last laugh, as she proceeded to earn more than £310,000. Shirocco Star’s sire Shirocco never raced at two and never won over less than 11 furlongs, but that didn’t stop him earning the equivalent of over £1.3 million, thanks to G1 successes in the Deutsches Derby, Gran Premio del Jockey-Club, Breeders’ Cup Turf and Coronation Cup. Shirocco Star’s dam, Spectral Star, won at around a mile and a half at Leicester as a 4-year-old, so clearly possessed the stamina inherent in her pedigree. Her sire, the high-class Unfuwain, raced exclusively over a mile and a half after winning over a mile as a two year old, and he made his name as a stallion by siring an Oaks winner, three winners of the Irish Oaks and a 1,000 Guineas winner, as well as a top two-year-old in Alhaarth. Unfuwain’s stamina did not deter Meon Valley Stud from sending Telecaster’s third dam, Hyperspectra, to him, even though this daughter of Rainbow Quest had gained her only win in a brief career over a mile and a quarter. The attraction of this mating was that the Arc-winning Rainbow Quest was a son of Blushing Groom, sire of Unfuwain’s outstanding half-brother Nashwan, winner of the 2,000 Guineas and Derby. Hyperspectra’s dam, Hyabella, also had a stamina-packed sire in Shirley Heights, a Derby and Irish Derby winner whose progeny had an average winning distance of 12.3 furlongs. So, with a pedigree featuring such as New Approach, Galileo, Sadler’s Wells, Shirocco, Monsun, Unfuwaim, Rainbow Quest and Shirley Heights, it is easy to understand why Telecaster was able to maintain his gallop so well in the Dante S., after appearing to have gone very fast in the early stages. There is some speed in this famous Meon Valley female line and Hyabella was very useful over a mile, despite being by Shirley Heights. She no doubt owed her speed to her dam Bella Colora, who was beaten only two short heads when third behind Oh So Sharp and Al Bahathri is a vintage edition of the 1,000 Guineas. Bella Colora later showed she stayed beyond a mile, notably winning the G2 Prix de l’Opera. Bella Colora was the second foal and second stakes winner out of Reprocolor, one of Meon Valley’s brilliant foundation mares. Reprocolor went on to produce Colorspin (Irish Oaks) and Cezanne (Irish Champion S.). It is a measure of the expertise at Meon Valley that Telecaster represents the sixth generation of black-type winners descending from Reprocolor, whose G1-winning descendants also include Opera House, Kayf Tara, Zee Zee Top, Izzi Top, Necklace and Lyric of Light. The founders of Meon Valley certainly got their money’s worth when they invested 25,000gns in a yearling filly by Jimmy Reppin in 1977, with Reprocolor herself winning the Lingfield Oaks Trial and Lancashire Oaks, in addition to taking fourth place in the Oaks The post Caulfield Examines Telecaster appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

With the May 18 Preakness Stakes (G1) added to his resume, War of Will moved from eighth to second in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top 3-Year-Old Poll. View the full article

Northview Stallions’ Jump Start (A.P. Indy–Steady Cat, by Storm Cat), the leading sire in the Mid-Atlantic region for the past five years, was euthanized Sunday morning at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center due to complications from colitis, Northview announced Monday. The dark bay was 20. Standing at Northview PA in Peach Bottom, Pa., for $10,000 live foal, the most expensive stallion in the region, Jump Start sired 69 stakes winners and 24 graded/group winners since launching his stud career in 2003 at his birthplace, Overbrook Farm in Kentucky. He sired three millionaires–GISW Rail Trip and MGSWs Prayer for Relief and Pants On Fire. Sent to Argentina for seven breeding seasons through the mid-2010s, Jump Start also sired three South American champions: 2014 Argentinian Horse of the year Idolo Porteno (Arg), Uruguay’s 2017 champion 3-year-old filly and older mare Sexy Reasons (Arg) and Argentina’s 2-year-old filly champion of 2015 Seresta. Trained by D. Wayne Lukas for his breeder, William T. Young, Jump Start won the GII Saratoga Special S. as a juvenile and finished second in the GI Champagne S. He was retired with a condylar fracture of his left front cannon bone after an off-the-board finish in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and finished his racing career with a record of 5-2-1-0 and earnings of $221,265. The post Leading Mid-Atlantic Sire Jump Start Dead at 20 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The NBC telecast of the Preakness Stakes (G1) May 18 from Pimlico Race Course attracted an overnight rating of 4.3 with a 10 share, earning the highest overnight rating of any afternoon sporting event Saturday. View the full article

It was Constitution Day last Friday when racing was held at Norway’s Øvrevoll racecourse, a leafy green little country track nestled on the outskirts of Oslo, the famous Holmenkollbakken ski jump soaring high in the far distance. Constitution Day commemorates the signing in 1814 of the Norwegian Constitution, declaring the nation a sovereign entity–Norway, at the time, had been ceded by those sneaky Danes to the king of Sweden (and it would take Norway until 1905 before they finally became an independent nation, but that’s a story for another time). On this day every year, droves of Norwegians throw on their glad rags–lavish folk costumes called bunad. And there was bunad aplenty at Øvrevoll last Friday. But this wasn’t perhaps the most eye-catching memento from the day. Nor was it the large Ikea bags turned hay nets, into which the rotund little pony taking families on cart rides around the track would routinely disappear. No, for this export from California–where the authorities are currently debating whether to restrict use of the whip for safety purposes only–perhaps the most conspicuous turn of events was the site in race after race of jockeys driving their horses towards the finish line with both whip-less hands on the reins, that dull “thwack, thwack, thwack” absent from the end-of-race soundtrack. A site unique to this country for quite some time. It was back in 1986 that the Norwegian minister of agriculture first outlawed use of the whip in both Thoroughbred and trotting races. This didn’t go down too well with some of the horsemen, however, who pushed back against the measure, and a compromise was reached allowing jockeys to carry a shortened version of the whip, to be used for safety purposes only. In 2009, a further amendment put into place the rules that exist today, allowing jockeys to carry a whip in 2-year-old and jump races only. In flat races for 3-year-olds and up, no whip may be carried. Both of the jockey’s hands must be on the reins at all times, and if jockeys violate these rules, they can face a possible fine, ban and disqualification. “We’ve never had any complaints from the punters,” Hans Petter Eriksen, former director of the Norwegian Jockey Club, told a gathering of leading industry figures from around the world the day before. “The best horse can win the race, even without the whip.” Eriksen also said that in 30 years, “there have been no accidents resulting from jockeys not being able to carry a whip;” a statement with which the Øvrevoll stewards all agreed, when they stayed behind after the last race to explain the mechanics of policing the rule to the TDN. Helge Byrgin, one of those stewards, added that anecdotal evidence suggests that there have been “fewer serious injuries to horses during the races than there were before.” The jockeys can use the whip on the shoulder to avoid a dangerous situation, said Kristin Grundy, head steward, but the action must be taken only when the horse visibly needs correction–it cannot be used to correct a horse in anticipation of wrongdoing. Most races are for 3-year-olds and up, where jockeys aren’t permitted to carry a whip at all. Nor can they use their reins as a substitute. But that doesn’t stop the jockeys from trying; just that afternoon, one was suspended for using his reins as a whip. Still, the stewards all agreed that their jobs had gotten easier since 2009, when the whip was banned entirely in most races. “It’s not always easy when they have the whip,” said steward Nicholas Cordrey. “It’s a lot easier when they don’t.” Fines range from around $230 to $570US for an infraction, and stewards also have the option of disqualifying a horse–not that the rules are broken too often, anyway. The stewards said it occurs on average 3 times a year–out of between 240 and 250 races run annually–and they added that no horses were disqualified in 2018. Helpful to the stewards, undeniably, is how the fields typically aren’t glued together tight. Indeed, as they enter the straight, the horses fan wide across the track. This phenomenon, they said, has less to do with the whip ban (as some suggest), and more to do with Øvrevoll’s configuration: as undulating as a swelling ocean, narrow tracks, and tight turns that would give a greyhound vertigo. “It’s not a bend, it’s a corner,” said steward Nicholas Cordrey of the turn into the straight. “And if they can come around that corner without a whip, they can come around nice big bends without one.” One of the concerns raised in California about the proposed whip rule is that it could lead to more instances of non-triers. “We discuss it regularly when a horse is behind and whether the rider put the horse enough in a race,” said Cordrey. “But I think that happens just as much when they can use the whip.” Another concern in California is that a whip ban would throw a wrench in punters’ handicapping algorithms. But the form, said Grundy, holds up well when horses who run regularly in Sweden and Denmark (where the whip is still largely permitted) come to Norway, and vice versa. Interestingly, while the whip ban extends to the morning, trainers still use it regularly during training, but are rarely, if ever, reported to the stewards, they admitted. “I have never heard of anybody being reported,” said Grundy. A little earlier in the afternoon, I checked in to gauge the temperature in the jock’s room, and, as expected, the warm enthusiasm shown by those policing the rules wasn’t mirrored by those being policed. “What use is that to the jockey?” complained Per-Anders Graberg, a veteran of the jock’s room, about the shading in the rules where jockeys can only correct a horse when it visibly needs correcting, and not before. “If they’re going to duck out, you want to whack them before they do it. Now you’ve got to let the horse duck out and possibly hit someone and then whack it. It’s too late.” “I always see things happening that you could have avoided carrying the stick,” he added. “They always say, ‘nobody broke their neck the last 10 years.’ It doesn’t have to go that far. Every year you see things that could have ended up better if you had the stick to correct the horse.” Roughly six or seven years ago, said Graberg, a horse he was riding hung out during a race and broke through the outside rail, leaving the jockey with a broken rib. “I’m pretty sure if I had a stick I could have made the turn,” he said. (For their part, the stewards have a different reading of this incident, and place a lot of the blame on the narrow nature of the course). Jockey Jan-Erik Neuroth, son of one of Norway’s most illustrious trainers Wido Neuroth, told his own story, of an incident concerning a 2-year-old having its first run. “It started broncking, started to turn, I gave it two on the shoulder,” said Neuroth. “That’s it, I got two days on the ground [suspension], big fine,” he added. Which explains why a number of jockeys in Norway now voluntarily choose to leave the whip back in the jock’s room when riding 2-year-olds. “It’s too big a risk, really,” said Graberg, about the temptation to reach for the whip and the potential consequences of doing so. “We can’t afford to lose big races,” jockey Oliver Wilson chimed in. While the stewards and the jockeys are polarized on this issue, other horsemen enjoying the hazy spring Oslo sunshine that afternoon appeared ambivalent. Indeed, in a turn of phrase that will ring familiar to any trainer in the U.S., Neuroth expressed greater frustration with the lack of regulatory uniformity between the Scandinavian countries where his horses perform. Madeleine Brixner owns a 6-year-old mare called Swan Black, in training with Øvrevoll-based Niels Peterson. While she would prefer the jockeys to at least carry the stick, “I understand the public perception,” she said. As for the general race-going public, the consensus was clear: don’t bring the whip back. “I think it’s bad,” said Anders Lien, a racing neophyte, who had never seen the whip used in a race until he watched recently the Netflix series “7 Days Out,” which chronicled the lead up to the 2018 Kentucky Derby. “I don’t see the need for it,” he said. With that in mind, I asked the Øvervoll stewards one piece of advice for their American counterparts, in the event California goes the way of Norway, and jockeys will only be able use the whip for safety purposes only. Collectively, they replied, almost in unison: take the whip completely away. The post A Whip-Free Day of Racing in Norway appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Goffs have launched a new website tailored for their eve of Royal Ascot London Sale which takes place in four week’s time June 17. The website is live and can be accessed at www.goffslondonsale.com and contains all the relevant information on the sale with a section dedicated to those less familiar with the sport and thoroughbred auctions. Video guides from David Redvers and Nick Nugent offer an insight into what attributes buyers may seek in a racehorse and how to read a horse’s catalogue page, while there is also a section where vendors can access lists of historical buyers and nominate a horse for the sale. “Attracting newcomers to racehorse ownership has been the joint ambition of Goffs and QIPCO for the London Sale since the start, and the aim of this new website is to help make bloodstock sales more accessible to potential buyers around the world,” said Goffs CEO Henry Beeby. “It is a step forward in our digital marketing of this unique sale and will be an excellent support to the proactive work that our client relations team and international agents are doing on buyer attraction this year and into the future,” he added. Goffs will release a digital catalogue of the initial London Sale entries on this website in the coming weeks. The post New Website For London Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

With just over a week to go to the Investec Derby the bigger question appears to be not who will win but who will turn up. The two most exciting trial winners to this eye, Sir Dragonet (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) and Telecaster (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), may both be sons of Derby winners but could head instead to the Prix du Jockey Club and the Irish Derby. Both of course would need to be supplemented for Epsom, and with Sir Dragonet’s win coming in the wet at Chester and Telecaster’s Dante victory being posted just 16 days before the Derby, there is understandable hesitation from connections in both cases. In the meantime we will be able to see both of Aidan O’Brien’s Guineas winner, Magna Grecia (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and Hermosa (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), aim to become dual Classic winners at the Curragh this weekend. Classic action was available farther afield over the past weekend, with War Of Will (War Front) gaining some compensation for his bumpy ride in the Kentucky Derby with victory in the Preakness S., while Loves Only You (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) broke the record of her paternal half-sister Gentildonna (Jpn) when winning the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) in impressive fashion in Tokyo. The linking factor to these 3-year-olds, other than becoming Classic winners on two different continents, is that both stem from the breeding operation of the Niarchos family which has enjoyed such prolonged success. As discussed in yesterday’s TDN, Loves Only You is a great grand-daughter of Miesque and thus joins Study Of Man (Ire)—who is bred on the same Deep Impact-Storm Cat cross but out of a daughter of Miesque (Nureyev) rather than a grand-daughter—as well as Alpha Centauri (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) on the list of top-class winners from this dynasty in just the last two seasons. War Of Will, as a third-generation descendant of Aviance (GB) (Northfields), hails from no less celebrated a family which has been represented by the likes of Spinning World, Chimes Of Freedom and Denon. As co-owners of Magna Grecia, the Niarchos family has already enjoyed a taste of Classic success in Europe this season and could be in for more on Saturday. Celebrated matriarchs The names of such pre-eminent broodmares as Urban Sea (Miswaki) and Miesque regularly crop up on both sides of the pedigrees of Classic winners and it will be no surprise if we end up talking of Zenda (GB) in similarly hushed tones. Indeed, the daughter of Zamindar, herself a Classic winner, has been in the news in the last few weeks for both good and bad reasons. As the dam of Kingman (GB), her contribution to the bloodstock world looks set to be significant, and Zenda was also represented at York this week by her winning son First Eleven (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and grandson Repartee (Ire). The latter, as a son of Invincible Spirit (Ire) out of the unraced Plesantry (GB) (Johannesburg), is thus closely related to Kingman, but he is also noteworthy as the first winner for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid to be trained by Kevin Ryan. The Yorkshire-based Irishman, along with French trainer Henri-Francois Devin, was a major benefactor of the sheikh’s largesse at the yearlings sales last season and is training 17 horses for the owner. With his stylish five-length winning debut, Repartee could not have put the new partnership on a better first footing. The youngster was co-bred by Joseph Burke, the shrewd purchaser of Pleasantry in the year before Kingman burst onto the racing scene. Burke was also in action the weekend before last at Arqana in his other role as bloodstock agent, where he made a rare breeze-up purchase for Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum. He kept his faith in Zenda’s clan when selecting a Kingman colt from the family of classy sprinter Signs Of Blessing (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). Following victories on consecutive days for First Eleven and Repartee, the third day brought only bad news as it was announced by Juddmonte that Zenda had succumbed to a prolonged bout of laminitis which ultimately proved fatal. With two colts still in training and a Frankel yearling colt to come, as well as three daughters remaining in the Juddmonte broodmare band, the full extent of Zenda’s legacy will not determined for some years yet. Another of the Juddmonte mares, Kind (GB) (Danehill), already has her name writ large in racing history as the dam of Frankel but she extended her influence over the weekend through her grand-daughter Jubiloso (GB), the offspring of Shamardal and Frankel’s listed-winning half-sister Joyeuse (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}). Having made her debut on the all-weather at Chelmsford in late April, the 3-year-old took another major step forward when winning at Newbury, eased down, by seven furlongs on a banner day for Sir Michael Stoute who, unusually, had engaged Colm O’Donoghue for the ride. A step up into Pattern company will certainly be next on Jubiloso’s agenda. Kind, like fellow Juddmonte matriarch Hasili (Ire) (Kahyasi {Ire}) and the aforementioned Urban Sea, is notable for having produced more than one son to end up at stud. One of the greatest mares in this regard was Lord Howard de Walden’s Doubly Sure (GB) (Reliance {GB}), the dam not just of the celebrated Sharpen Up (GB) brothers Kris (GB) and Diesis (GB), but also the stallions Keen (GB) (also by Sharpen Up) Rudimentary (Nureyev), Presidium (GB) (General Assembly) and Doubletour (Lyphard). While Kris and Diesis still pop up fairly regularly in pedigrees, their lesser stallion brothers have largely been forgotten, so it was nice to see the rare appearance of Doubletour’s name as the damsire of Surrounding (Ire) (Lilbourne Lad {Ire}), winner of the listed Owenstown Stud S. for Michael Halford at Naas on Sunday. The 6-year-old mare runs for her breeder Peter Newell, who also raced her half-brother, the useful eight-time winner Rummaging (Ire) (Chineur {Fr}). Like a Hurricane Due Diligence (War Front) notched an important marker in his fledgling career by posting his first black-type winner, Good Vibes (GB), in the listed Marygate S. at York. Paul and Clare Rooney’s juvenile was bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud, where his sire stands. Arguably the most impressive performance by the offspring of a first-season sire last week, however, came from TDN Rising Star Hurricane Ivor (Ire). The Fabrice Chappet-trained youngster races in the same colours as his sire, Ivawood (Ire), and looks to be another exciting representative for Fiona Carmichael, whose strike-rate with group winners to runners is enviable to say the least. For the same owner, Chappet trained Intellogent (Ire) to become the first Group winner (and subsequently first Group 1 winner) for Intello (Ger) and it would be no surprise if that team did the same for Ivawood, who is understandably close to Carmichael’s heart. The young son of Zebedee (GB) was a Group 2 winner at the July meeting and Glorious Goodwood at two and was runner-up to Charming Thought (GB) in the G1 Middle Park S. before twice finishing third behind Gleneagles (Ire) in both the English and Irish 2000 Guineas. Ivawood has been represented by three winners to date, with Hurricane Ivor being out of a Royal Applause (GB) mare and another winner, Iva Reflection (Ire), out of a mare by Royal Applause’s son Acclamation (GB). Abergavenny-based trainer David Evans, who saddled Good Vibes to win the Marygate, also sent out an Ivawood debutant (another from a Royal Applause mare) to finish second last week and his name, Ivatheengine (Ire), has a suitably Welsh theme which will appeal to readers of a certain age. Euros flying high in Australia It was a good weekend for European imports in Australia, particularly at Morphettville, where three of the stakes winners were bred in Britain and Ireland. Chief bragging rights went to the former William Haggas-trained OTI Racing representative Fastnet Tempest (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), who won the G3 R A Lee S. for the David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig team. The same training triumvirate also sent out the Moyglare Stud-bred Valac (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) to win the listed Port Adelaide Cup over 2500 metres, while another of the day’s listed contests was won by Clearly (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), a 5-year-old mare who raced initially for Godolphin and John Gosden before a stint in Germany with Sarah Steinberg and then a switch to the Ballarat stable of fellow British expat Archie Alexander. In Sydney, one-time Melbourne Cup hope Grey Lion (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) proved he is still competitive at the age of seven, winning the listed Lord Mayor’s Cup for Matthew Smith and capping a good weekend for his team of owners with OTI, which also struck with another import, Mantastic (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}), at Flemington. The former John Hammond trainee has won his last two races on the bounce for Chris Waller and also landed the listed CS Hayes Cup at Morphettville back in March. The post The Weekly Wrap: In Praise Of Superior Mares appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Dual G1 Dubai World Cup winner Thunder Snow (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}) could be back in action next month with trainer Saeed Bin Suroor planning a trip to Belmont with the globetrotting 5-year-old. Bin Suroor has an eye on the GI Metropolitan H. over a mile on Belmont Stakes day for Thunder Snow who was last seen edging out Gronkowski (Lonhro {Aus}) by a nose at Meydan in March. “Thunder Snow is doing good and worked nicely on Thursday,” his trainer reported. “I don’t think he will be going to Ascot – America is more likely. He needs to do another two pieces of work before we make a decision. There is a Grade I at Belmont Park over a mile for him on June 8. I’ve talked to both Christophe Soumillon and Kieren Fallon, who rides him every morning, and we think maybe a mile is better to start him back over,” he added. Dream Castle (GB) (Frankel {GB}) didn’t fare quite as well as Thunder Snow on World Cup night but the G1 Jebel Hatta winner had an excuse for his down the field finish in the G1 Dubai Turf and Bin Suroor is hoping to see him back on track as soon as this coming weekend. “He is doing well and we are looking for a Group 1 for him. He had a foot problem in Dubai, that is what I found after the race. He didn’t change his lead in the race, but he is fine now. We could take him to France this weekend [for the G1 Prix d’Ispahan],” he said. The post Godolphin Stars On Comeback Trail appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article