Wandering Eyes

Trainer Peter McKay talks about the win of The Mitigator at Te Aroha on Saturday... View the full article

Trainer Frank Ritchie discusses the win of Fiscal Fantasy in the Gr.3 Manawatu Breeders’ Stakes (2000m) on Friday.... View the full article

Waikato Stud’s Mark Chittick discusses a massive weekend around the globe for the farm and their stallions... View the full article

Goodwood Stud principal William Fell received a late wedding present on Saturday when Nicoletta won the Gr.1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) at Te Aroha. The 2017 New Zealand Breeder of the Year recently married central districts jockey Rosie Myers and he was delighted to notch another Group One as a breeder. “It was outstanding, she certainly deserved it I thought,” Fell said. She’s a pretty tough mare. “Last year she ran a pretty good race, where she ran third. It w... View the full article

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New Zealand-bred gallopers have once again dominated Sunday’s Sha Tin programme, winning five of the ten races, including both of the day’s features. Road To Rock’s son Beauty Generation notched his eighth successive victory when he led all the way to take out the Gr.2 Chairman’s Trophy (1600m). Bred by Greg Tomlinson’s Nearco Stud, Beauty Generation is a graduate of the 2014 New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sale series where he was sold by Highden Park for $60,000 to the bid... View the full article

John Sargent didn’t get the perfect result with Luvaluva at Te Aroha on Saturday, but the fleeting trip to New Zealand did increase her value. The Randwick-based former Kiwi trainer believed the Gr.1 New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (1600m) would give Luvaluva a fine opportunity to land a Group One win and, in the hands of Leith Innes, the daughter of Mastercraftsman ran a highly creditable third to Nicoletta, beaten under a length. ‘’She ran a good race and is obviously looking... View the full article

Bad Boy Racing's Danuska's My Girl scored at odds of 20-1 in the $100,000 Las Flores Stakes (G3) April 7 at Santa Anita Park to win her stakes debut for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer over even-money favorite Dream Tree, who faded to finish fifth. View the full article

Katsumi Yoshida's The Mackem Bullet stormed home to take the $200,000 Appalachian Presented by Japan Racing Association (G2T) April 7 at Keeneland. View the full article

Bob Baffert, Simon Callaghan, and Jerry Hollendorfer assistant Dan Ward reported their respective stakes winners came out of the April 6 races in good order. View the full article

Horses' test results April 6 View the full article

Six riders suspended; Freedman, CT Kuah fined, Marsh queried View the full article

Wayne Hillis will be looking to pick up a bit more holiday money when he heads to Sydney on Tuesday with his talented three-year-old filly Imelda Mary. The Matamata trainer is pressing ahead with a start in the Gr.1 Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday with Imelda Mary, who has just completed her local campaign as joint New Zealand Bloodstock Filly of the Year with Queen Of Diamonds. It will be Hillis’ second attack on the Australian Oaks and it comes 15 years since he saddled up Gr... View the full article

LNJ Foxwoods' Fancy Dress Party is 4-for-4 after going gate to wire in a sloppy $150,000 Beaumont Stakes Presented by Keeneland Select (G3) April 7 at Keeneland, holding off Mother Mother by a head. View the full article

Lord Lloyd-Webber’s homebred Group 1 winner Too Darn Hot (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) pleased trainer John Gosden in his first work back on grass at Newmarket on Apr. 6, as he prepares for Saturday’s G3 Watership Down Stud Greenham S. at Newbury, the Racing Post reported. A winner of the G1 Darley Dewhurst S. at headquarters last October, the ‘TDN Rising Star’ galloped seven furlongs under Maisie Hainey and eventually drew even to his lead horse Whitlock (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}) at the end of the workout. “It was nice to get Too Darn Hot back on grass and the round gallop,” Gosden told Racing Post of the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas favourite and English highweight juvenile colt. “It was open much earlier than usual–it was riding to perfection. I was going to get Frankie [Dettori] in to ride him out, when no doubt he would have gone six lengths clear, but Maisie did all that was needed. It was just routine work, but Too Darn Hot is where we want him to be.” View the full article

2018 G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas victor Saxon Warrior (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}–Maybe {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) and GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf hero Mendelssohn (Scat Daddy–Leslie’s Lady, by Tricky Creek) will shuttle to Coolmore Australia in New South Wales for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season, Coolmore announced on Sunday. Saxon Warrior will command a fee of A$24,750 and Mendelssohn is priced at A$17,600. Both are standing their first Northern Hemisphere seasons at Coolmore Ireland and Ashford Stud, respectively. Also a winner of the G1 Racing Post Trophy and G2 Beresford S. as a juvenile, Saxon Warrior is a son of Irish highweight juvenile filly and G1 Moyglare Stud S. victress Maybe, who also ran third in the G1 QIPCO 1000 Guineas in 2013. A $3-million KEESEP sale-topping yearling, Mendelssohn is a half-brother to multiple Eclipse champion and MGISW Beholder (Henny Hughes), as well GI CashCall Futurity S. hero and successful sire Into Mischief (Harlan’s Holiday). “Saxon Warrior and Mendelssohn combine Group 1 winning excellence at two with remarkable performances at three,” said Paddy Oman, Coolmore Australia Sales & Nominations. “They are both by exceptional sires, have stallions’ pedigrees and will suit the Australian broodmare population. They’re two very exciting prospects and offer Australian breeders the best of international form and bloodlines.” View the full article

The Week in Review, by T.D. Thornton One of the ironies about the controversial topic of whip use in North American Thoroughbred racing is that the jockeys themselves apparently need to feel the sting of coercive correction to realize they have an opportunity to shape systemic change before it is imposed upon them. The Apr. 5 letter (read it here) submitted by officials from The Jockeys’ Guild to California stakeholders and regulators outlines an experiment in which riders at Santa Anita Park will race this Friday without carrying whips (or, as the Guild prefers to call them, “cushioned riding crops”). The Apr. 12 trial is an admirable step in the right direction, and in the long run, it won’t really matter if the Guild came to its decision to test out whip-free racing via the carrot (enticement) or the stick (punishment). Either way, the willingness to engage in a no-whipping experiment does represent a marked departure from the set-in-its-ways testimony Guild officials gave to the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) not even two weeks ago when the topic was discussed at length on Mar. 28. At that meeting—prior to the CHRB unanimously advancing a potential rule change to bar in-race whip use for anything other than “when necessary to control the horse for the safety of the horse or rider”—Guild officials presented arguments about keeping the status quo that focused on the alleged “lack of any harm to the horse” and how “we as an industry did not put forth our best efforts in educating the general public” about how modern-day whips have “completely eliminated” welts and cuts to horses. Those assertions were immediately challenged by CHRB members. Perhaps realizing after a week of reflection that the organization’s attitude came across as tone-deaf in the midst of a cacophonous racehorse welfare crisis, the Guild subsequently offered to go whipless for one day per the letter of the law (CHRB Rule 1688). That rule, as currently written, does not actually require riders to carry a whip, but does mandate public disclosure for when a jockey won’t be carrying one during a race. The Guild’s letter served as advance notice that none of the Santa Anita jockeys will be using whips on Friday. Guild co-chairmen Mike Smith and John Velazquez, who both signed the letter, won’t be among the jockeys riding at Santa Anita that afternoon. Smith is booked on mounts at Oaklawn Park, while Velazquez will ride at Keeneland Race Course. While it’s generally considered wise, in any endeavor, to heed the experience of veteran, well-respected leaders and to present a unified stance, the Guild will be doing its membership a disservice if it doesn’t also try to seek out and build consensus among riders who believe that it won’t be the end of the world when (not if) whip use is barred on an industry-wide basis. As CHRB commissioner Alex Solis, a Hall-of-Fame jockey, said after the Guild’s Mar. 28 public comments, “I feel for my peers. But we’re at a very critical time for horse racing here in California, and it breaks my heart. We’re talking about the future of California racing, so I feel like we have to compromise one way or another.” The banishment of whipping in our sport won’t happen overnight. But here in North America, I’m betting on it being an industry-wide inevitability. Given that premise, let’s say you’re an up-and-coming rider under the age of 25 who has aspirations of continuing on with a career in the saddle for the next quarter of a century. Professionally speaking, you’re going to either have to adapt or expire. Do you want to have the chance to flourish under a new race-riding paradigm that is guided by your input, or do you want to cling to the outmoded current system that is well on its way to becoming an anachronism? For ages, our industry has billed jockeys as “pound for pound, the strongest athletes in any sport.” I’m a firm believer in that statement, and I would like to use the current debate over whipping as a way to reframe the overall picture: The substance of the argument doesn’t have to be about a tool of the trade being taken away. What is happening right now can instead be a proactive opportunity for jockeys to showcase their athleticism by underscoring how physically gifted riders don’t have to rely on stick work to win races while guiding a Thoroughbred around the track safely. Criticism of indiscriminate whip use is nothing new in our sport–it just happens to be more firmly fixed in the uncomfortable glare of the equine welfare spotlight right now. To illustrate, here’s an archived Daily Racing Form article published way back in ’03 quoting some leading horsemen on the subject (paraphrased for brevity). “No [jockey] has any business with a whip. If it was not that it gives him the appearance of trying and looks good to the public, I would not give it to a [jockey] of mine. A horse which will run will run without a whip. [Jockeys] lose a length going for it and dear knows how many lengths after they draw it … Hands and knees and good will are all a jockey needs to make a Thoroughbred do his best.” To be clear, that article was written in 1903–not 2003. You can read the whole piece here in its entire context. But my point is that calls for reform are now well more than a century old, and the supporting reasons for the continued whipping of racehorses aren’t standing up to wider scrutiny. There will come a time in the not-too-distant future when a jockey wins the Eclipse Award for outstanding rider without ever once having struck a mount with the whip during an entire year of racing. Is that jockey a man or a woman who is among the current corps of riders? Or will it take an infusion of new talent from the next generation of jockeys before a new paradigm and mindset are firmly embraced at the pinnacle of the race-riding profession? View the full article

The G1 Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas) was billed as a showdown between 2018 Japanese champion juvenile filly Danon Fantasy (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and her paternal half-sister, Group 2 victress Gran Alegria (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}). However, it was the latter that had the last laugh and she bettered Japanese Horse of the Year and Triple Tiara heroine Almond Eye (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn})’s stakes record by 0.4 seconds while collecting the first Japanese Classic crown of the season in 1:32.70. Second choice on the board at 2-1 behind crowd’s pick Danon Fantasy, the Sunday Racing colourbearer secured a position just behind the first flight in fifth through the early stages as Mar. 10 G2 Hochi Hai Fillies’ Review winner Pourville (Jpn) (Le Havre {Ire}) showed the way. Caught out very wide after leaving from stall 15, Danon Fantasy was rank until finally settling in midpack. Gran Alegria moved up to third at the half-way point and hoop Christophe Lemaire was always sitting on a ton of horse. Looming dangerously in second at the head of the lane, Gran Alegria quickened effortlessly clear to win by 2 1/2 lengths, leaving a slew of rivals fighting out second-place honours. Shigeru Pink Dia (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}) rallied stoutly from well back to pip Chrono Genesis (Jpn) (Bago {Fr}) by a neck for second, with Danon Fantasy a nose behind in a tight finish. The fifth-place Beach Samba (Jpn) (Kurofune) was only a neck better than the front-running Pourville in sixth. “She certainly won strongly today,” said Lemaire. “I was a little bit worried as it was her first time out after a long break [111 days]. She was unable to make use of her speed in the G1 Asahi Hai Futurity S., so I made sure this time to secure a good position early on and from there I had every confidence in her exceptional speed. The extended 2400 metres in the G1 Yushun Himba though is going to be a tough race for us.” A winner of a 1600-metre Tokyo newcomers contest last June with Oka Sho crowd’s pick Danon Fantasy second, Gran Alegria defeated males in the Oct. 6 G2 Saudi Arabia Royal Cup, and was third, as the favourite in the G1 Asahi Hai Futurity S. to 2018 Japanese champion juvenile colt Admire Mars (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}) when last seen in mid-December. Pedigree Notes Gran Alegria, one of 133 black-type winners for Deep Impact, is the 40th Group 1 winner for her sire who is currently being rested the remainder of the year due to neck soreness. The first millionaire and Group 1 winner for Tapit as a broodmare sire, Gran Alegria is one of 15 black-type winners to date out of daughters by the Gainesway resident. Her dam, Tapitsfly, won twice at the highest level on the grass in the GI Longines Just a Game S. and the GI First Lady S. Although black-type is sparse under the second and third dams, fourth dam Pink Dove (Argument {Fr}) foaled two stakes winners–the Grade III placed Moonshine Hall (Spinning World) and the GI Del Mar Invitational Oaks bridesmaid Malli Star (Baldski). Pink Dove is also a half-sister to GI Arlington Million victor Golden Pheasant (Caro {Ire}), and GSWs Seewillo (Perfect Pigeon), Trial By Error (Caro {Ire}) and SW Supreme Excellence (Providential {Ire}). Sunday, Hanshin, Japan OKA SHO (JAPANESE 1000 GUINEAS)-G1, ¥234,070,000 (US$2,095,336/£1,606,972/€1,867,752), Hanshin, 4-7, 3yo, f, 1600mT, 1:32.70 (NSR), fm. 1–GRAN ALEGRIA (JPN), 121, f, 2, 3, Deep Impact (Jpn) 1st Dam: Tapitsfly (MGISW-US, $1,495,503), by Tapit 2nd Dam: Flying Marlin, by Marlin 3rd Dam: Morning Dove, by Fortunate Prospect 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Sunday Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); T-Kazuo Fujisawa; J-Christophe Lemaire. ¥129,829,000. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-1, ¥188,275,000. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2–Shigeru Pink Dia(Jpn), 121, f, 3, Daiwa Major(Jpn) 1st Dam: Moonlight Bay (Jpn), by High Chaparral (Ire) 2nd Dam: Moonlight Dance (Ire), by Sinndar (Ire) 3rd Dam: Style of Life, by The Minstrel O-Shigeru Morinaka; B-Amaba Farm (Jpn); ¥49,094,000. 3–Chrono Genesis (Jpn), 121, f, 3, Bago (Fr) 1st Dam: Chronologist (Jpn), by Kurofune 2nd Dam: In This Unison (Jpn), by Sunday Silence 3rd Dam: Rustic Belle, by Mr. Prospector O-Sunday Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); ¥29,547,000. Margins: 2HF, NK, NO. Odds: 2.40, 19.00, 4.70. Also Ran: Danon Fantasy (Jpn), Beach Samba (Jpn), Pourville (Jpn), Aile Voix (Jpn), Juranville (Jpn), Schon Glanz (Jpn), A Will a Way (Jpn), No One (Jpn), Meisho Meikei (Jpn), Aqua Mirabilis (Jpn), Red Aster (Jpn), Figlia Pura (Jpn), Ho O Catherine (Jpn), Noble Score (Jpn), Regard Calme (Jpn). Click for the JRA chart or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. JRA Video. View the full article

THE MACKEM BULLET (Ire) (Society Rock {Ire}–Elkmait {GB}, by Trade Fair {GB}) stalked the pace and had plenty left in the stretch to capture the GII Appalachian S. on a rainy Sunday at Keeneland. Away in good order, the bay secured an ideal spot tracking the pace from second through a half-mile in :49.21. Cued up to seize control coming off the final turn, she kicked clear in upper stretch and maintained a comfortable margin to the wire as Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom) closed belatedly to complete the exacta. The final time for a mile over off going was 1:39.31. The Mackem Bullet campaigned in Great Britain last year for trainer Brian Ellison and came to the States to run sixth in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf in the autumn. Subsequently transferred to the care of Wesley Ward, she wintered in Kentucky and won once from two starts over the synthetic track at Turfway Park. Lifetime Record: GSW, 10-3-2-2, $305,358. Sales History: $11,633 yrl GOUKSI ’17. O-Katsumi Yoshida. B-Tally-Ho Stud (Ire). T-Wesley Ward. View the full article

The April 6 Wood Memorial presented by NYRA Bets (G2) winner Tacitus was no worse for wear the morning after his triumphant run in the final Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) qualifier at Aqueduct Racetrack. View the full article

Three freshman sires were represented by their first starters April 7 at Keeneland in a $60,000 maiden special weight and all three hit the board despite rainy conditions. View the full article

Winx (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire})’s appearance in the G1 Longines Queen Elizabeth S. Saturday, Apr. 13 at Randwick could well be her swansong. It’s almost impossible to conjure up a new superlative for the mighty mare who has won 32 consecutive stakes races, including 24 Group 1s. So we decided to reach out to some experts in the Northern Hemisphere to reflect on her achievements. “To win 36 races, and counting, is extraordinary in itself. I know how hard it is just to get a horse to the races, let alone win 32 in a row. Congratulations to Chris, Hugh, Debbie and Pete, they have shown as much class as their horse. I know a stallion who would love to meet her.”–Lord Teddy Grimthorpe, Juddmonte “I have just one thing to say about Winx: I wish I trained her. She’s everything you want in a racehorse. She’s beautiful, fast and she wants to win. Brilliance never has to make an excuse. She always gives us a Hollywood ending.”–Bob Baffert, dual Triple Crown winning trainer “She’s a phenomenon, and hence such a crowd favourite with her heart, mind and the durability of the pure athlete. Great credit must be paid to her training team and rider Hugh Bowman, for simply sustaining her love and enthusiasm for racing. 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I have rarely seen any racehorse who has managed to maintain such a competitive streak for as long as she has, and I would just like to pay tribute to all of those directly involved with her, who have done such a superlative job of keeping her physically in one piece and mentally as focused as she is. I have nothing but admiration for the way Chris Waller and his staff have managed to keep her at the top for so long, and Hugh Bowman’s outwardly calm approach to the task in hand has been a privilege to watch.”–Angus Gold, Shadwell Stud “She will certainly be remembered as one of the greatest ever. Her connections did a wonderful job managing her brilliant career and sharing her with the entire racing world.”–Bill Farish, Lane’s End Farm View the full article

As rainy conditions picked up at Keeneland, FANCY DRESS PARTY (f, 3, Munnings–The Schvagen, by Matty G) proved to relish the off track with a hard-fought wire-to-wire score. Sent straight to the front, she established a clear lead past a quarter-mile in :22.57 as a number of her rivals shifted ground in search of an ideal stalking spot. Turning for home with Mother Mother (Pioneerof the Nile) rallying up the rail and Feedback (Violence) knocking on the door to her outside, Fancy Dress Party kept finding and had enough gas left in the tank to hold off Mother Mother by a head. The final time for the approximate seven-furlong distance was 1:28.18. Fancy Dress Party was a first-out winner in the Keeneland slop last October and added an allowance score at Churchill in November. The dark bay became a stakes winner in Gulfstream’s Glitter Woman S. Jan. 5 and had been on the sidelines since then. Sales History: $280,000 yrl KEESEP ’17. Lifetime Record: GSW, 4-4-0-0, $222,405. O-LNJ Foxwoods. B-Douglas J. Arnold (KY). T-Ben Colebrook. View the full article

Four fillies clocked an eighth of a mile in :10 2/5 Sunday at Lone Star Park during the under tack show for the Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. The auction, originally scheduled for Tuesday, will be held this Wednesday at noon. The sale is sponsored by the Texas Thoroughbred Association and Lone Star Park. “We saw some great times considering the track was a bit heavy from some significant rain last night, and early on during the under tack there was a pretty stiff headwind,” said Tim Boyce, sales manager. The horses sharing the bullet were hip 35, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Constitution, hip 58, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Flat Out, hip 72, a Louisiana-bred daughter of Guilt Trip and hip 133, a Texas-bred daughter of Twirling Candy. Replays of the under tack show will posted at www.ttasales.com. View the full article

Trainers of the top three runners from both the April 6 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2) and Central Bank Ashland Stakes (G1) discuss what's next. View the full article