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A unique collection of hair trophies from famous racehorses is one of the highlights of the 'Race To History' horse racing memorabilia auction to be held by Graham Budd Auctions at 1 p.m. on Nov. 13. Held in partnership with Weatherbys, the auction will be located at the National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket. The Bob Champion Cancer Fund, The Injured Jockeys Fund and Racing Welfare all set to benefit from specially donated lots. “Collecting locks of horse hair might seem like an unusual pastime, but it's provided us with an incredible archive, featuring some of the most famous horses the racing world has seen,” said Graham Budd, auctioneer and owner of Graham Budd Auctions, of the hair trophy lot, which features hairs cut form some of the world's most famous racehorses from 1948-2004. “It tells a wonderful story of half a century of racing history.” Other lots include a collection of items from Shergar (GB) (Great Nephew {GB})'s work rider, Cliff Lines, including a bronze statue of the horse, privately commissioned by His Highness The Aga Khan and given to Lines, as well as a shoe worn by the legendary horse in the 1981 Derby. In addition, the rights to a set of purple and scarlet racing silks once registered by the Prince Of Wales, later King George IV are available. Budd added, “It's great to be working alongside Weatherbys again on this auction. The quality and provenance of the items in this sale is unprecedented, and we're fortunate to be selling several lots in aid of some great charities, which have a huge impact in the racing world and beyond. We've had plenty of interest from around the world, so we're in a good position to raise a lot of money for these good causes.” The post ‘Race To History’ Horse Racing Memorabilia Auction To Be Held On Nov. 13 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

XpressBet has agreed to end a financial stalemate with the new Thoroughbred meet in Pleasanton by offering Golden State Racing the wagering rate they sought.View the full article

Long-distance specialist Next (Not This Time) has been confirmed for next week's GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic by his trainer Chief Stipe Cowans in a story first reported by the Daily Racing Form's David Grening. The 6-year-old gelding was listed on the pre-entry list for the Classic with second preference given to the GI Breeders' Cup Turf. “I had to choose one or the other, the Turf or the Classic,” Cowans told the TDN. “The jock and I have sat down and talked after the breezes he's had since winning the Greenwood Cup and we feel like the dirt will give us more answers at this moment in time. If we would have gone turf, we might have walked away not knowing much. This will tell us to stay in our own lane or we can learn that he can run in some mile-and-a-quarter dirt races next year.” Next worked five furlongs Thursday over the Tapeta at Turfway Park, going in 1:01 flat (2/6) with jockey Luan Machado aboard. He rides a seven-race win streak of distances from 1 3/8 to 1 3/4 miles dating back to June 2023 into the Classic which is contested at 1 1/4 miles. Cowans continued: “I think the pace will be a much faster tempo than the races he has been in but my game plan is to play the same game I do when he runs at a mile and a half. That is not worry about where he is positioned. More so, I'll worry about getting him in his rhythm, and once gets into his rhythm, let him do his thing. We'll hope for the best and hope this plays into his hands. I am sure excited about it. I took the process whereby we let the horse tell us what to do. We've looked for every answer not to go. He's given us no signals that not going is the thing to do. He's on top of his game right now.” The post Chief Stipe Cowans Confirms Next For Breeders’ Cup Classic appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Top marathoner Next will run in the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar Nov. 2, trainer Chief Stipe Cowans confirmed Oct. 24.View the full article

Harry Eustace is keen to add his name to an illustrious list of trainers to have won the Cox Plate (G1) and feels his runner Docklands has every chance of success Oct. 26 in an open-looking renewal of the AU$5 million showpiece at Moonee Valley.View the full article

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Domestic buyers dominated the concluding Part 2 session of this year's October Yearling Sale at Arqana on Thursday where a Pinatubo (Ire) filly offered by the La Motteraye Consignment sold to Emeric Guétin on behalf of Ecurie des Charmes for €125,000. Pinatubo is just three winners off Sergei Prokofiev–who has 21–in a wide-open first-season sires' championship in Britain and Ireland. From just seven runners in France, he has sent out four individual winners, including some highly-touted performers. Thursday's top lot hails from a family Lucien Urano of Ecurie des Charmes knows well. Along with Ballylinch Stud, he bred Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Aunt Pearl (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), and he returned to that family to secure the already-named Matauri Queen (Fr). That result headlined another strong day in the ring at Arqana where the average, aggregate and median was up on last year. “She's a lovely looking filly and I've bought her for Ecurie des Charmes,” Guetin said. “She ticks a lot of boxes, walks well and comes from a good family. We'll decide on her trainer later on and we hope that she will be successful on the racecourse and then as a broodmare.” The aggregate was up almost 10% on this corresponding day of trade last year to €4,514,500 while the average climbed 23% to €32,953 and the median jumped by €6,000 to €28,000. Just three yearlings managed to break the six-figure mark on the day, with the threesome completed by a pair of Toronado (Ire) fillies at €120,000 and €100,000 respectively. Lot 474 was consigned by Castillon and she went the way to Peretti Bloodstock at €120,000 while Arcadia Élevage's offering [lot 363] was knocked down to Pauline Chehboub [Yellow Agency]. Chehboub said, “She's a filly that has a lot of qualities –she's lovely looking and walks well. She's well-bred and her brother [Mouillage] is a good horse. We've bought her for a partnership of family friends-it's the first time that they have been to the sales and we wanted to show them our world. This filly stood out and we weren't the only ones who thought so! We're very happy.” Breeze-Up Buyers On The Back Foot One of the main talking points heading into Arqana this week was the fact many breeze-up handlers are down on numbers compared to this time last year and, while many big names managed to get on the scoresheet, legend of the game Willie Browne suggests there will be a major dip in the amount of horses offered in that sector next spring. The Mocklershill boss revealed that he is down on numbers by roughly a third and described the trade at Arqana this week as extremely strong for the stock that was on offer. He said, “I am well down on numbers compared to last year. I'd say I'm down by a third. Now, I am trying to buy quality, which is never that easy, but I'm way down and so are a lot of other breeze-up handlers. I don't have to have the numbers like I used to, so I'm not panicking, but the quality horses that I target have gone very expensive.” The big reason behind breeze-up handlers finding themselves on the back foot this year, according to Browne, is down to the fact the European yearling sale market in particular hit a major upsurge halfway during the season. He explained, “Anything that had a bit of quality at the Goffs Orby Part 1 Sale, the vendors got very well paid, and the September Yearling Sale at Tattersalls Ireland was a very good sale as well. But then things went to a different level at Book 1 at Tattersalls and that carried over into Book 2 because people didn't have a chance to spend their money at Book 1. Now we come to France, where the stock is probably a little bit inferior to what we had at Newmarket, but I wouldn't say this lightly, this October Yearling Sale at Arqana has probably been the strongest sale of them all. You go in to buy a horse here and you need double to what you value them at. For what was on offer here, it was very, very strong.” But Browne's trip to Deauville was not in vain as he came back home to Ireland with a Siyouni (Fr) colt and a Hello Youmzain (Fr) filly for €290,000 and €70,000 respectively. He continued, “I bought two so far–a Siyouni for €290,000, which is huge money for us, and everything will need to work out for us to make money on him. But he's a nice horse. Then we bought a sharp-looking Hello Youmzain filly on Wednesday night for €70,000. Again, would we have to have given it at Donny earlier in the year? Probably not. It's a big gamble.” Browe added, “Everyone I have spoken to in France is down on numbers. A lot of people couldn't get horses into breeze-up sales this year but I would be amazed if we could fill all of the breeze-up sales next year. Listen, I hope I'm wrong but I can't see where the horses are to fill all of these sales for next year.” The post Big Result For Pinatubo With 125k Filly As Domestic Buyers Dominate At Arqana appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Group 1 winner and sire Territories (Ire) has been sold to continue his stallion career at Poonawalla Stud Farms in India next year, according to published reports. The deal was brokered by bloodstock agent Ajay Anne. The Godolphin runner and son of Invincible Spirit (Ire), who stood for £10,000 this year at Darley's Dalham Hall Stud, won the Prix Jean Prat at the highest level for Andre Fabre. At stud, he has sired 17 stakes winners, nine of them Pattern scorers. His current flagbearer is G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest winner Lazzat (Fr), while Territories has also sired Group 1 winners Rougir (Fr) and Regional (GB). From his current crop of yearlings, he has a 750,000gns son out of Never Change (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) at the recently concluded Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2. The son of Taranto (GB) (Machiavellian) went to stud in 2017. The post Territories To Stand At Poonawalla Stud Farms Next Year appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Dr. John Chancey and Connie Winn have been appointed to the board of directors of the Association of Racing Commissioners International to fill vacant seats on the board.View the full article

In an era when most racetracks in the mid-Atlantic region are paring race dates from their yearly schedules to reflect the declining number of available horses to fill races, Colonial Downs is an outlier. Under the ownership of the gaming company Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI), the Virginia track announced in August that it plans to increase its race dates to 44 in 2025 after racing 27 programs this year. On Thursday, by Bill Carstanjen, CDI's chief executive officer, said during a quarterly earnings conference call that he expects the number of race dates at turf-centric Colonial to rise to 50 in 2026. The reasoning behind the drastic increase in race dates on a circuit that has long struggled with scheduling conflicts has more to do with CDI maximizing its gaming-revenue opportunities than a purely bullish outlook on hosting live racing. By Virginia law, CDI, which acquired Colonial in 2022, is required to run one race date for every 100 historical horse racing machines (HRMs) that it operates in the state, up to a statutory cap of 5,000 HRMs. During the Oct. 24 call with investors, Carstanjen said during prepared opening remarks that CDI plans to hit that max cap number by the end of next year, thus the anticipated increase to 50 race dates by 2026. “By the end of 2025, after we have completed this expansion, we will have 5,000 HRMs deployed, the maximum permitted under the law of Virginia, up from approximately 4,450 machines that we have deployed today,” Carstanjen said. But it was only at the very end of Thursday's earnings call, when prompted by a question from an investment analyst, that Carstanjen hinted CDI might have an appetite for adding even more race dates-tied to even more HRMs-if the state's legislators saw fit to rewrite the law that caps the gaming machines. “We do think it's a model that works, and if the state has interest and willingness, we hope to talk to them about more,” Carstanjen said. “We think from a racing perspective we'd love to see more days run in Virginia over time, and consequently we'd like to see more HRMs deployed over time in order to support that,” Carstanjen said. “We serve at the discretion of the state,” Carstanjen continued. “Our franchise is a discretionary right given to us by the state and we hope to talk to them about it. “But right now our focus is on delivering on the promises we've made them so far, and delivering for the people of Virginia and for the state,” Carstanjen said. “And hopefully, if we prove the value of that model, they'll be willing listeners to talking about improving and doing more in the state. But it's hard to talk about things we don't control, and I don't want to make promises we can't keep,” Carstanjen said. Colonial's potential increase to 50 dates by 2026 shouldn't come as a sudden surprise. Carstanjen had disclosed that move in July 2022, also during a quarterly earnings call, when he first outlined publicly that it would be CDI's intent to nearly double its racing dates in Virginia by 2026. The post Colonial Aims For 50 Dates In ’26, ‘Would Love More’ If Virginia Raises Gaming Cap appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Wimbledon Hawkeye will face seven rivals in the Oct. 26 Futurity Trophy (G1) at Doncaster, with chief market opposition Hotazhell, Delacroix ,and Detain also declared for Britain's final top-level contest of the season.View the full article

3-year-old fillies will go one mile on the turf for Friday's $350,000 GII Valley View Stakes at Keeneland in the penultimate weekend before the Breeders' Cup. Last year, in its first rendition run at one mile (the race was previously held going 1 1/16 miles), Chad Brown's Surge Capacity (Flintshire {GB}) spring-boarded from victory into becoming a next-out Grade I winner in the Dec. 3 GI Matriarch Stakes. A full field of 12 (along with four also-eligibles) will look to do the same. Morning-line favoritism lies with the Christophe Clement-trained Les Reys (Fr) (Penny's Picnic {Ire}), a French invader who impressed in her first North American start when upsetting the Winter Memories Stakes at Belmont's Aqueduct meet over this same one-mile distance Sept. 13. She'll be going for three straight wins (all three at one mile) and the 90 Beyer Speed Figure she earned in New York puts her at the top of the field by a clear margin. Her main rival to come close (bar one of the AE's) is Buttercream Babe (Twirling Candy) who has comfortably been in the high 80s during her best efforts at the mile earlier in the season but was last sixth, beaten three lengths, over the tricky course going 6 1/2 furlongs at Kentucky Downs in the GII Music City Stakes Sept. 7 for trainer Michael Maker. That Music City winner, Simply in Front (Summer Front) also appears here drawn widest of the 12. She goes back up to the mile having cut back off four straight efforts at the distance posting one win in allowance company at Churchill in June and one second two starts back in the GIII Ontario Colleen Stakes in late July. Memorialize (Karakontie {Jpn}) comes in off nearly a year on the sidelines, having last won the Tepin Stakes at Aqueduct Nov. 17 of last year. The Graham Motion runner came fifth behind last year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Hard to Justify (Justify) in her last graded stare, the GII Miss Grillo Stakes last October. Drawn against the rail is another French runner, Opera Mundi (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), a juvenile stakes winner at Deauville who was off the board in the G1 French 1000 Guineas and will make her first North American start Friday for trainer Brendan Walsh. The GII Valley View Stakes runs as race nine on a 10-race card at Keeneland with post time scheduled for 5:16 p.m. EST. The post Valley View Tops Keeneland’s Friday Card appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Breeders' Cup Limited has launched a text-to-donate program ahead of next weekend's races to benefit Thoroughbred aftercare in the lead-up to the 2024 Breeders' Cup World Championships held Nov. 1-2 at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, the program announced Thursday. The Breeders' Cup will match up to $10,000 to support the program. Beginning Oct. 24, patrons can donate directly to the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, the official aftercare partner of the Breeders' Cup World Championships by texting BC4TAA to 56651. The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance accredits, inspects and awards grants to approved aftercare organizations to retrain, retire, and rehome Thoroughbreds using industry-wide funding. Since 2012, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance has granted more than $31.9 million to accredited aftercare organizations and 16,500 Thoroughbreds have been retrained, rehomed, or retired by accredited organizations. Currently, 84 organizations with approximately 172 facilities hold Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance accreditation. “Breeders' Cup is very pleased to launch this program to support Thoroughbred aftercare during this year's World Championships,” said Vice President of Events for Breeders' Cup Limited Stefanie Palmieri. “By inspiring others to give, this campaign will support the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance in the vital work they do for our equine athletes.” TAA President Jeffrey Bloom added: “As the official aftercare partner of the Breeders' Cup, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance is thrilled to be the beneficiary of their new Text-to-Give fundraising campaign this year. This campaign offers a terrific opportunity for race fans and participants to actively support aftercare and our mission of facilitating new careers and homes for Thoroughbreds after racing.” The post Breeders’ Cup Launches Text-To-Donate Program To Support TAA appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

It’s Friday night and Cambridge trainer Arna Donnelly has some key runners at both Alexandra Park and Addington. And she looks to have some good chances at both meetings. Inter island assault from Donnelly stable By Michael Guerin Tonight is what trainer Arna Donnelly hoped her training career would look like. Once known as the Cambridge horsewoman who improved other people’s cast-offs, Donnelly is now one of the most respected trainers in the New Zealand harness racing industry. Tonight she has some of the best horses competing at both Addington and Alexandra Park, a rarity for anything but the elite premiership-winning stables with surnames like Purdon, Telfer or Dunn attached to them. “It is pretty cool having top horses at both meetings but now we have to try and win a race or two,” she explains. Possibly the best chance is Jolimont (R9, No.5) in the main pace, the Pat Gubb Mobile Pace, at Alexandra Park. He has looked an open class horse in the making for the last year and was a strong but luckless sixth against Merlin and the big boys in the Spring Cup two starts ago before he has to sit parked and undid himself by pulling too hard in the same grade last start. He drops several grades tonight and while he meets another who has been racing at that level in Lady Of The Light, Jolimont has a better draw and the gate speed to use it in the mobile mile. “Even though he was well beaten last start his sectionals were great and he has come through that well,” confirms Donnelly. “If he races up to his best he has to be hard to beat.” It is no good thing that Jolimont will run straight to the lead but if he does reach the pace making role it is hard to see him being run down. Donnelly also has Le Major (R8, No.4) in the Stew Ashworth Mobile pace and while she doesn’t doubt his motor he doesn’t fill her with the same confidence as Jolimont. “We know how good he was last season and he won two trials before his fresh up run this time in but he was disappointing there. “I really don’t know where he is at but he gets his chance to stand up this week and show us.” Rough And Ready (R6, No.3) finds himself in one of tonight’s two $35,000 Metro Finals (The Lynette Burton) tonight but his trainer fears he has lost his gate speed so is looking forward to getting him back to standing start racing. The Purdon/Phelan team look to hold the key to that final with Dawson and Always B Elite while the earlier $35,000 Tony Grayling Northern Metro Trot Final is very even but the early $12 price given by the bookies for Taylad To Use (R5, No.12) looked overs after two recent wins in fast times. At Addington, Donnelly has stable star Kango returning but is expected to need a run in the main pace, the Alan Gibson Handicap Pace, as he hasn’t trialled but she has three good reps in a stacked Race 5, the Greg Prendergast Mobile Pace. She has Mako, Little Spike and The Surfer up against one of the better three-year-olds from earlier in the season in We Walk By Faith. Mako was outstanding when fourth in the Group 1 Flying Stakes last start but Donnelly stops short of rating him her best chance. “I was actually really happy with all three of them last start so it might come down to who gets the right run.” Atlantic City out to “lead all the way” at Addington By Michael Guerin Phil Williamson knows Atlantic City has huge hoof prints to follow in. But he says she is in the right race to take that next step at Addington tonight. Atlantic City is the one year younger sister of Empire City, our best two-year-old trotter last season and arguably our best three-year-old this term. That will be put to a stern test in the Hambletonian at Ashburton on Monday but before then little sister gets her chance in the $45,000 Macca Lodge Sires’ Stakes Classique at Addington tonight. Atlantic City has only had two starts for an impressive win last time out and a fresh up second to the unbeaten Habibti Pat, who isn’t in tonight’s race. “She has a way to go to watch her older sister but she is heading in the right direction,” says Williamson. “She has great manners and a good combination of speed and toughness so she is a smart juvenile filly. “I think she will go forward and can try and lead all the way.” The obvious dangers are Ya Rite Darl and Queen Kizen, the latter storming home late last start. The Williamsons also take Brother Johnson (R2, No.11) to Addington tonight to try and break his maiden, in the Murray Howard Handicap Trot. “I drive him because he still has a bit to learn,” says Williamson. “He will get there but he doesn’t have a great gait yet so I can’t tip him to win just yet.” Looking forward to Monday’s mega meeting at Ashburton and Williamson says Empire City has come through her last-start shock defeat in the Southland Oaks in great style. She led and looked the winner until she stood on a shoe that had come loose and galloped, losing all chance. “She didn’t miss a beat after that and I have actually stepped her work up because she is going to need to peak for this and THE ASCENT. “She is loving it and last time I put her in her paddock she was kicking and bucking and carrying on which is a good sign for her. “I know there are some good horses in there but they are going to need to be good to beat her.” View the full article

Bill Carstanjen, the chief executive officer of Churchill Downs, Inc. (CDI), said during a quarterly earnings conference call Thursday that the gaming company will embark upon a series of frontside and infield projects at Churchill Downs that will increase premium seating by 20% at the corporation's flagship racetrack in Louisville, representing “the largest expansion we have done to date.” The frontside redevelopment will be centered on the area starting 180 feet past the finish line through to the First Turn Club, and will require the demolition of the existing Skye Terrace structure, Carstanjen said. CDI is considering building a new tunnel to give access to the new infield amenities, although that part of the plan is not fully fleshed out yet, Carstanjen said. Carstanjen did not disclose the costs for the projects. He added that CDI would provide additional details at the corporation's next quarterly earnings call in early 2025. “The finish line/first turn projects, on the one hand, and the infield projects on the other, will be worked on simultaneously in stages, with some areas ready for the [GI] Kentucky Derby in 2026, and the remaining areas opening for the Derby in 2027 and 2028,” Carstanjen said. Regarding the frontside development, Carstanjen said, “The scope of this project covers approximately 500 feet of racetrack frontage, starting with the Skye Terrace structure, which we will take down and replace with a new building, and extending through the box seats adjacent to the First Turn Club. To put this further into perspective, the First Turn Club has approximately 330 feet of track frontage. “These projects will replace over 10,000 existing seats that currently consist of uncovered box seats and dated dining areas with approximately 16,000 seats representing a variety of premium hospitality experiences. This is a considerable undertaking, and will meaningfully increase the number of reserved seats and experiential options at various price points on the frontside of the racetrack,” Carstanjen said. “We are also designing a series of new infield experiences that will, in part, convert the current temporary infield structures, where we seat approximately 800 guests, with permanent premium structures providing hospitality for approximately 7,000,” Carstanjen said. “Accomplishing this requires a new ingress and egress option for our guests to reach the infield,” Carstanjen said. “Hence, we are exploring a novel additional tunnel between the frontside and infield that will be part of the overall experience as guests arrive to a reimagined [GI Kentucky] Oaks and Derby infield.” The post Four-Year Series Of Frontside/Infield Projects To Be Churchill’s ‘Largest Expansion To Date’ appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

With the success of its historical horse racing operations in Virginia helping the company to a record-breaking third quarter, Churchill Downs Inc. officials expressed confidence Oct. 24 in plans to expand the racing calendar in the state.View the full article

Gun Song nearly took a lot of the juice out of the Breeders' Cup and the Horse of the Year debate. View the full article

6th-BAQ, $90K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 3:16 p.m. ET. DIVINE ROSE (Good Magic) has reached her unveiling under the watchful eye of trainer Cherie DeVaux. The John Gunther and Eurowest homebred is a half-sister to GI Central Bank Ashland Stakes heroine and 'TDN Rising Star' Leslie's Rose (Into Mischief). Both are out of unraced Wildwood Rose (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who herself is a half-sister to GI Kentucky Oaks runner-up My Miss Sophia (Unbridled's Song)–the dam of 'TDN Rising Star' and current sire Annapolis (War Front). Also set for a first start is Cabaletta (Maclean's Music). The Godolphin homebred trained by Bill Mott is out of GI Frizette Stakes victress Balletto (UAE) (Timebrer Country), who is also responsible for GISP Villanesca (Distorted Humor) and GSW Frost Point (Frosted). The debuting filly claims as her third dam the foundational mare Althea (Alydar). TJCIS PPS The post Friday Insights: Half-Sister To ‘TDN Rising Star’ Leslie’s Rose Makes First Start At Aqueduct appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI), a service provider and membership organization, has added to its board Dr. John Chancey and Connie Winn, the group said in a press release on Thursday. Both Chancey and Winn were appointed to fill vacant seats by the group's chair, Commissioner Chief Stipe Moore of the Washington Racing Commission. Dr. Chancey has been Executive Director of the Oklahoma Racing Commission since early 2023 and he currently serves as the Chair of the Drug Testing Standards and Practices Committee of ARCI. Winn, the Executive Director of the Oregon Racing Commission, has over a decade of leadership experience overseeing racing operations. She currently serves as the Chair of the Auditors and Wagering System Security Committee of ARCI. The post ARCI Adds Two New Board Members In Chancey And Winn appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This week's column is highlighted by the victory of Aussie Girl in Lexington. Aussie Flair At Keeneland Woodford Thoroughbreds' Aussie Girl (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) triumphed in her second American start for trainer Will Walden at Keeneland on Oct. 17 (video). Bred by Airlie Stud, the chestnut won the Listed Brigids Pastures Stakes and was placed in the G3 Ballyogan Stakes last year. Sold for €35,000 by her breeder at Goffs Orby to De Burgh Equine and subsequent trainer James 'Fozzy' Stack, she made 14 starts for Peter Piller in Ireland, and also was placed in the Listed Yeomanstown Stud Stakes. Woodford picked her up for 380,000gns out of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale in 2023. The last known foal of her dam, the winning Galileo (Ire) mare Ravissante (Ire), Aussie Girl counts stakes winner and multiple group-placed Stunning (Nureyev) as her granddam, while GI Vanity Invitational Handicap, GI Ashland Stakes, and GI Hollywood Oaks victress Gorgeous (Slew o'Gold) was her great granddam. Coolmore's reverse shuttle stallion Starspangledbanner has accrued 15 winners from 28 runners (53%) in the U.S. Seven of them are stakes winners, with GI American Oaks heroine Rhea Moon (Ire) and GI Saratoga Derby victor State Of Rest (Ire) the best of the bunch. (11) Aussie Girl (IRE) victorious in the eighth under @iradortiz! (4) Saffron Moon a close second, (5) Blissful takes third. pic.twitter.com/FiEmMsJKDO — Keeneland Racing (@keenelandracing) October 17, 2024 Wootton Bassett Filly Wins For Klaravich Klaravich Stables' Catalyzed (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) graduated at fourth asking during the Belmont at the Big A meet on Oct. 17 (video). Trained by Chad Brown, the dark bay is the second foal out of French listed heroine Red Line (Fr) (Sageburg {Ire}). Lisa Lemiere Dubois bred the €255,000 Arqana August yearling, who went to Oceanic Bloodstock. Her yearling half-brother by Galiway (GB) was purchased by MV Magnier and Charles Shanahan for €125,000 at the 2024 Arqana August Yearling Sale. This is the extended family of multiple stakes winner Red Cat (Storm Cat), who was third in the GIII Jenny Wiley Stakes, herself a half-sister to graded/group winners Lady Blessington (Fr) (Baillamont) and Lowell (General Holme). Coolmore's Wootton Bassett is responsible for 18 winners from 37 runners (48%) in North America. Breeders' Cup winners Audarya (Fr) and Unquestionable (Fr) are two of his seven stakes winners in that jurisdiction, as is Tamahere (Fr), who won the GII Sands Point Stakes and was second in the GI Jenny Wiley Stakes. Repeat Winners: Stephanie Seymour Brant's Opulent Restraint (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) won for the second time in three starts when taking the Chelsey Flower Stakes during the Belmont at the Big A meeting (video). Trained by Chad Brown, she won by a nose over Rare Art (Munnings). OPULENT RESTRAINT wins the Chelsey Flower Stakes in a close finish! Jockey Flavien Prat and trainer Chad Brown team up for another victory. pic.twitter.com/wDnmeyFZZ1 — NYRA () (@TheNYRA) October 20, 2024 Another stakes at that meeting, the Athenia Stakes, also went to a Making Waves alum in Child Of The Moon (Fr) (The Grey Gatsby {Ire}) (video). The Chad Brown charge carries the colours of Madaket Stables LLC, Michael Dubb and Louis Lazzinnaro LLC. Graham Motion saddled The Grey Wizard (Ire) (Caravaggio) to win the John Forbes Memorial Stakes at Far Hills last week. The grey gelding races for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and the Estate of Albert Frassetto. Trainer George Arnold's Just A Care (Ire) (Australia {GB}) first featured here after taking a Gulfstream maiden in February of 2023. The 4-year-old filly added a Keeneland contest for Ashbrook Farm, Matthew O'Connor, Upland Flats Racing and Amy Dunne on Oct. 18 (video). The post Making Waves: Euro Stakes Winner Shines In Kentucky appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Bidding opened Thursday for MSW E J Won the Cup (Omaha Beach), who is being offered in a one-horse flash sale on Fasig-Tipton Digital, which will close Monday, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. ET, according to a presser from the company midday on Thursday. As a 3-year-old this year, E J Won the Cup is a multiple stakes winner, two-time graded stakes placed and his latest Beyer Speed Figures are the highest of his career. In his most recent start in the GIII Oklahoma Derby, the colt was the runner-up, and two starts back he won the St. Louis Derby. His 2024 campaign also includes victories in the Texas Derby and Turf Paradise Derby, and he was third in the GI Santa Anita Derby. “E J Won the Cup is a horse on the rise,” said Leif Aaron, Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales. “He is on the improve at the right time, with several important and lucrative races in the handicap division on the horizon this fall and early next year. He's a ready-to-run prospect for some of the sport's most valuable races.” The son of Omaha Beach is out of Firsthand Report, a multiple stakes winner and multiple stakes-producing daughter of Blame. He has current earnings of $620,580. E J Won the Cup is consigned by his trainer, Chief Stipe O'Neill, and is available for inspection at Santa Anita Park. Click here to view the entry and register to bid. The post Fasig-Tipton Digital Flash Sale Opens For MSW E J Won the Cup appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The second edition of the Coral Gold Cup Sale will take place during Newbury's feature meeting on Saturday, November 30, Goffs announced in partnership with the racecourse on Thursday. Of the 18 horses sold at the inaugural sale, 13 achieved a six-figure sum and the average was £119,167. Staged on the same day as the £250,000 Coral Gold Cup, the sale will see changes this year with plans in place to hold it in the pre-parade ring, right opposite the owners and trainers' facility. The horses will also be stabled in the racecourse stables. Goffs UK managing director Tim Kent said, “Last year's sale saw us return to Newbury after a 10-year absence and it was a resounding success. The feedback we received from vendors and buyers was overwhelmingly positive so we are thrilled to be returning again next month. “Once again, the Newbury team have been enthusiastic and proactive partners and have worked with us to deliver what we hope will be an even better experience for vendors and buyers alike. We will be canvassing for entries at the upcoming UK and Irish point-to-points and the catalogue will be released in the build-up to the sale.” Shaun Hinds, chief executive of Newbury Racecourse, added, “The Coral Gold Cup meeting is an iconic weekend and the highlight of our jumps season here at Newbury. Following the success of last year's Goffs Coral Gold Cup Sale, we are delighted to be able to support Goffs once again this year following the conclusion of what is set to be a fantastic two days' racing.” The post Goffs Confirm Coral Gold Cup Sale at Newbury Racecourse appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Owner Paul Teasdale of RP Racing has described Big Evs (Ire) as “a horse of a lifetime” as the Mick Appleby-trained colt prepares for his career swansong in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar on Saturday, November 2. Named after Paul Evans, a friend of Teasdale who died of lung cancer in 2022, Big Evs won four of his six starts in a memorable two-year-old campaign, including at Royal Ascot where he shed his maiden tag with victory in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes. Group-race successes followed in the G3 Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood and G2 Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster, before Big Evs signed off for the year with Breeders' Cup glory in the Juvenile Turf Sprint at Santa Anita. “He had an amazing season at two, culminating at the Breeders' Cup which was just incredible,” Teasdale said of that experience. “I guess we should have expected him to win, but we never expected anything like that. “He travelled over there well, took all the proceedings well, and then just acquitted himself in a fantastic way. Turning for home there was only one horse in the race and [jockey] Tom Marquand's view was he just wasn't getting beat. We were all delighted with him.” He added, “There was a lot of temptation to retire him last year. We had some huge offers to retire him, but we really wanted him to have a three-year-old career.” This year Big Evs has justified the decision to keep him in training in no uncertain terms, proving himself one of Europe's top sprinters in finishing third in the G1 King Charles III Stakes at Royal Ascot and winning the G2 King George Stakes at Goodwood. Now, all roads lead back to the Breeders' Cup with the son of Blue Point (Ire), who will bid to bounce back from a rare poor effort in the G1 Nunthorpe Stakes when he lines up in the Turf Sprint, with this year's Molecomb winner Big Mojo (Ire) (Mohaather {GB}) also set to represent the same connections in the latest edition of the Juvenile Turf Sprint. “He's absolutely a horse of a lifetime for us,” Teasdale said of Big Evs. “We've had a fantastic run of success and he means the world to us. It would mean everything for him to go back there and win again. It would be a fantastic way for him to sign off and say 'look who I am and how good I am'. “I think he is a very well followed horse and someone described him to me as being the 'people's horse'. Everyone always asks about him and it would be great and synonymous with how he's been in his career to just finish off in style. “He's proved everyone wrong and has trained on really well this year. He won a nice Group 2 at Goodwood and was third in the King Charles at Royal Ascot. We look forward to going back to the Breeders' Cup, which will hopefully suit him.” Those sentiments were echoed by Appleby, who said, “He's so quick and he's not the biggest, so he can nip round that bend. With his natural speed, America just seems to suit him. It will be nice to go back and it would be great if he could win. “He's a once in a lifetime horse and a lot of trainers dream of having a horse like this. All credit has to go to Paul for bringing horses to us and putting his faith in us. You have to savour days like last year because they are far and few between.” The post “Horse of a Lifetime” Big Evs Ready for Breeders’ Cup Return appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Keeneland has supplemented 10 horses, including two-time winning juvenile Delightful Flame (Flameaway), to its Horses of Racing Age Sale which begins at noon ET on Thursday, Nov. 14, the auction company said in a release Thursday. A total of 221 horses have been catalogued to the single-session auction and most will be stabled at Keeneland in Barns 18-26 with some being offered remotely from their training locations. Additional supplements will be considered until the day of the sale. Internet and phone bidding will be available. Delightful Flame is a 2-year-old daughter of Flameaway out of Canadian juvenile champion Delightful Mary (Limehouse). Consigned by Grovendale Sales, agent, she captured a maiden special weight race during the Belmont At The Big A meet by nine lengths then turned in a 1 1/2-length victory in an allowance race at Ellis Park. Delightful Flame is from the family of MGISW The Chosen Vron (Vronsky) and MGSW Delightful Kiss (Kissin Kris). Also supplemented are these winners: Eglise is a 3-year-old colt by Frosted who won an Oct. 5 maiden special weight race at Keeneland by a length. Out of GII Ahh Chocolate (Candy Ride {Arg}), he is consigned by Highgate Sales, agent. Hopper in 2023 won the GIII Oaklawn Mile Stakes and was the runner-up in the GIII San Pasqual Stakes. A 5-year-old son of Declaration of War out of South African champion Irridescence (SAF) (Caesour), he is consigned by Grovendale Sales, agent. The remaining supplements are by Awesome Slew, Catholic Boy, City of Light, Into Mischief, Mitole, Quality Road and Speightstown. The online catalogue for the sale features Daily Racing Form and Equibase past performances along with Thoro-graph and Ragozin sheets, race replays and more. A print edition for the auction with Equibase past performances for the entrants will be available for pickup at Keeneland as early as Oct. 31. Click here for past performances and other information to assist with pre-sale shortlisting. The post Keeneland Adds 10 Horses To November Horses Of Racing Age Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

It has always been a small farm, and nowadays they're down to no more than half a dozen mares. Some of the more strenuous duties, moreover, have lately been contracted out. After all, Alfonso Mazzetti is not as young as he was. It's been a long and winding road since he used to ride a motorcycle, aged just 11, to the racetrack in Lima where he would shoot pool with the jockeys; never mind the many years in Colorado in between. Such a long and winding road, in fact, that he expects to be selling up his farm outside Paris, Kentucky, sooner rather than later. But the sale of its principal asset is being expedited to just a few days from now, when a mare owned by Mazzetti and longstanding partner R.J. Winkler goes to the Keeneland November Sale. It's a poignant prospect for Mazzetti, especially when he recalls a snowy Sunday in February 2021. “She was waxed, but acting normal,” he recalls. “I thought, 'Well, we're going to have a baby tonight.' We'd had a really big snowstorm. But I believe that a horse is better off outside than in, and decided to turn her out. So she's all by herself, in a field covered with snow. And about 11 o'clock in the morning I look out the window–and she's going to have the baby right there.” In principle, that was okay. No matter how hard you work on your barns, Mazzetti reckons it will always be cleaner outdoors. Al Mazzetti with The Nth Degree in retirement | courtesy of Al Mazzetti “But when you have a foaling in the middle of the day, it's usually not good news,” he says. “And we never have any help on Sundays. So there's nobody to help me. I had heart surgery 17 years ago and my wife thought I was going to die, trying to pull this colt. My heart rate was 184 per minute. But the mare knew me, she was calm. It was a big first foal, huge really, so she needed plenty of help. But we got him out. And then I did get my neighbor to help bring him into the barn, I didn't want him to lie in the cold snow. They brought their Gator and we threw the baby in there.” He gives a self-deprecating smile. “I know people won't think that's scientific enough,” he resumes. “But I think horses do great things in spite of us. We just need to get out of their way. And it was a wonderful baby.” As the three protagonists–mare, foal and farmer–recovered from their trauma, Mazzetti thought back to 2000, when he and Winkler had bought a Dixieland Band mare named Coastal Wave for $32,000 at the OBS Fall Sale. She hadn't made the track until she was four but then won her first two starts, and she was in foal to Distorted Humor. Mazzetti and Winkler took her back to Colorado to deliver her colt. They cut him, named him The Nth Degree. And in 2008, aged six, he became the first Colorado-bred to win a graded stakes in the GIII Shakertown Stakes. “He was not very sound, but big and strong,” Mazzetti recalls. “I think he ended up around 17 hands. That was a great day at Keeneland. We'd realized a dream we never thought possible, and were getting so many calls from Colorado. I started breeding horses there in 1990, and we were used to running for, like, $3,000.” Violent Wave in foal to Up to the Mark | courtesy of Al Mazzetti Coastal Wave bred a few other winners, albeit none of the same caliber, and was already 22 when producing a filly by Violence. In fact, already the previous year a consignor had rebuked Mazzetti that the mare was too old to be commercial. “Doesn't matter,” he answered with a shrug. “Genes are genes.” “And then this Violence filly was so beautiful they wanted to sell her for us,” Mazzetti recalls. “They weren't mad with me anymore! But she'd been too old for them the year before, so that was the end of that.” She made $150,000 at the September Sale, and her purchasers named her Violent Wave. But after winning a maiden claimer she was thrown into a stake, and ran so poorly that she was next entered under a tag of just $6,250. Mazzetti got straight onto the phone to Winkler. “Hey, she's worth a lot more than that,” he said. “And besides, we get to keep the $143,750!” They tried her with the ageing Distorted Humor, who had clicked so well with her dam, but she did not conceive and in 2020 they went to the other end of the spectrum, to the commercial rookie Maximus Mischief. “Because I'd been one of the few people that always believed Into Mischief was going to make it,” Mazzetti recalls. “I bought into the Share The Upside program when nobody was using him. And while I think we were the last to sell our share, it was probably my biggest mistake in the industry to sell at all! But it's a horse. A horse can always colic, anything can happen. Anyway we started working again, tried to find an Into Mischief that would fit. And Maximus Mischief really fitted her well. My only concern was that they're both a little big, but their baby was always very light-footed.” Raging Torrent | Benoit Starting that day in the snow. He was such an impressive specimen that his breeders now felt mightily relieved that nobody had met their reserve when they offered Violent Wave for sale, Winkler having decided that it was time to wrap up his bloodstock interests. She was led out unsold at $27,000 at Keeneland in January 2021, carrying the Maximus Mischief, and again at $145,000 last November. There will be rather more interest, you may be sure, when she returns to the same ring (in foal to Up to The Mark) as Hip 100 in the forthcoming November Sale. For the colt who reddened the snow that morning is none other than Raging Torrent, whose breakout success in the GII Pat O'Brien Stakes in August produced one of the hottest numbers of any horse heading back to Del Mar for the Breeders' Cup. “They wouldn't give us the money when we tried to sell her,” Mazzetti remarks. “But that is my story in the horse business. Even with her son, the same. At the September Sale he was a gorgeous colt, big and scopey, a lot like Maximus Mischief. A couple of little things on the X-rays, but nothing significant. Nobody paid him any attention: $27,000 RNA. So I said, 'Okay, let's fix him up, take that little flake off his ankle, and send him to the 2-year-old sales. We'll get our money there.'” Randy Bradshaw breezed him at OBS the following April. Maximus Mischief | Spendthrift Farm “Al,” he said, “I don't know what we'll get for this colt-but he's the best Maximus Mischief I've seen.” “Well, I feel that way too,” Mazzetti replied. “But I'm not a lucky man at the sales. Or rather I'm lucky when I buy, but not when I sell.” Sure enough, though he breezed like he could make a couple of hundred, he ended up scraping his reserve at $75,000 to Mark Davis. That has proved a rare bargain. “That last race was a big ask for a 3-year-old,” Mazzetti says. “I believe he's only the third one to have won that race in a 59-year history. Even before, he had the best numbers of any horse on Derby Day, when he wasn't even running in a stake.” And if nobody wanted him before, nor his dam either, then Mazzetti and Winkler can now hope to bring their odyssey together to a suitably rewarding conclusion. “Rodney is 10 years older than me, to the day,” Mazzetti says. “I don't know, this might be his last horse. We have one more homebred between us. It's special because he has been my customer and friend since I started in Colorado.” He had swapped the Andes for the Rockies when his father, an engineer, was transferred by his employers away from turmoil in their homeland in 1971. Within a couple of years Mazzetti was at Colorado State, a freshman at just 17, but he always missed the racetrack–an environment he had explored even more precociously. “My father hated horseracing and gambling,” he recalls. “But my best friend's father would take us to the Jockey Club all the time, and I made friends with the doorman there. So I could go in and out, and he'd watch my motorcycle, and I'd hang around with the jockeys. I was already much taller than they were, tall enough to bet as well! It was a great youth.” Having become a partner in his father's business, Mazzetti needed little persuasion when a customer approached him about partnering in a racehorse. “We bought a 9-year-old Nebraska-bred gelding for $700 or $500, I can't remember,” Mazzetti recalls. “And the first weekend we had him, he made 700 bucks.” Arapahoe Park | Coady Photography That old horse made a total 181 starts–but the ones that meant most were at Arapahoe Park. Bringing the sport he loved to Colorado was Mazzetti's proudest achievement as president of the local breeders' association, the campaign having started “with four or five of us round a kitchen table.” But in 1997, having sold his automobile transmission franchise, it was time to match an upgrade in his bloodstock with a farm in the Bluegrass. During Mazzetti's 27 years at Old Shadowlawn, Into Mischief has by no means been his only alert discovery. Curlin had only just got started, for instance, when Danette (co-bred with Alexandra and Peter Gross) was Grade I-placed as a juvenile in 2014. “Then she was beaten under two lengths at the Breeders' Cup,” Mazzetti says. “Whenever I see Keith Desormeaux we agree that if they don't close the hole, she wins.” At its peak, the farm had maybe 35 head of horse, including a dozen mares. But only two or three of those would typically be Mazzetti's. Of those still keeping Violent Wave company, Alta's Award (Tonalist) was co-bred with Ed and Susie Orr. “She had enough points to go to the [GI Kentucky] Oaks,” Mazzetti recalls. “But then Covid hit, they changed the date and she wasn't ready in September. But this industry will give you blessings or take them away. You just thank God for those blessings, and make sure you enjoy every moment. Because it takes a lot. Ruins your fingers and your toes, you get run over every once in a while. Actually, it was Covid that made me realize how isolated my life was: lockdowns didn't make any difference!” Nobody meeting this unassuming gentleman would guess all he has seen and done. But what he has achieved with this mare, even as he approaches the end of his career as a horse farmer, means he can no longer elude our attention. “It's hard work,” he says. “Especially the way I've done it. If we get the farm sold, I might participate in the sales a little more, do some buying and selling. But they'll board somewhere else. When that alarm goes off, and a baby's coming, my wife follows me around thinking my heart's not going to make it through another one. “This is one of the few industries where no matter how hard you work, there's no guarantee of success. Which is fine. It is what it is. The one certainty is that you will have to work hard, whatever the outcome. But I think I can pick good horses. My mares aren't expensive, but they could all run, and have good physiques. I can't always pick what people want. But I try to make the best racehorse I can.” The post Sale Reject Returns On The Crest Of A Wave appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article