Wandering Eyes

There was a time when Annabel Tuthill wondered whether Tetbury (NZ) (Tavistock) would ever get to the races, but that all became a distant memory when the homebred mare became her first winner at Timaru on Wednesday. The daughter of Tavistock was having her 12th start and had placed on several occasions, and despite a wide barrier draw in the Power Farming Timaru 1600, was backed into clear favouritism in the hands of Bridget Grylls. She went back from the gate and settled into a good rhythm, while Happy Story (NZ) (What’s The Story) ensured a genuine tempo out in front. Grylls started to circle the field turning for home and Tetbury looked likely early in the straight, but had to fight hard in the closing stages to narrowly get up over Shakabrah (NZ) (Darci Brahma), a photo finish favouring the mare by a nose. Tuthill, who bred Tetbury alongside her husband Olly, was elated with the result. “I’m just so thrilled, it was really exciting,” she said. “Training is more of a hobby for us, but one day she’ll be in the broodmare band so it’s great to get a win with her. “She was feeling so good at home so I was gutted when she got the wide draw, I thought that was our chances gone, but I said to Bridget to settle back at the start and get her into the race. “She rode her so well, she gave her every chance and she (Tetbury) tried really hard, it was great.” The North Canterbury couple, who operate thoroughbred nursery Beaufort Downs, initially planned to sell Tetbury through their draft the Karaka Yearling Sales, but that plan was derailed by an untimely injury. She was retained by the family to race but struggled to adjust into a stable environment in her earlier years, so Tuthill decided to bring her back to the farm and train her around their breeding operation. “This win means a lot because she has been tricky over the years, she’s a pretty quirky mare,” she said. “We think she minorly fractured her pelvis as a yearling so she didn’t make it to the yearling sales, and we didn’t think she ever would make it to the races. Eventually she did come right, but she didn’t quite handle a stable environment, so we decided to potter around at home on the farm and see if that would work for her. “When the ground is good at home, I spend as much time as I can working her around the farm. She is very relaxed cantering around the paddock and I do quite a bit of galloping at the beach, which she really enjoys. “She gets quite stressed out going to the track, so I avoid that as much as I can. I just do what works for her, she’s a quirky thing and travels with a wee pony, which is quite funny. “She gets fitted in around everything else, with school drop-off, the mares and foals, she just slots in where she can. We’re lucky to have the farm and the opportunity to do it like that, she’s my one horse so I can fit her around our lives. “All of our family are involved, we bred her and the stud owns her, then we’ve leased her to the family to race. It’s really fun, we get to do it together which is great.” Tetbury will be a welcome addition to Beaufort’s broodmare band when the time comes, as a daughter of well-performed mare Dazzling Lady (NZ). From three foals to race, Dazzling Lady has produced Australian Group One performer So Dazzling (NZ) (So You Think), Tetbury, and Dazz (NZ) (Microphone), who was a debut winner for Kevin and Stephen Gray in the autumn. The Lonhro mare recently foaled a colt by Satono Aladdin and she had another mating booked with the Rich Hill sire this spring. “We gave her a break last year because she got a bit late, then we sent her to Satono Aladdin, and she’s just had a gorgeous colt by him,” Tuthill said. “We are sending her back to him, which seems like a nice mating for her because she’s not the biggest mare. “We’ve had some really nice foals on the ground, it’s such a nice time of the year when all the grass is growing and the foals are here. “It’s exciting having a few in the foaling paddock ready to foal, it’s like Christmas waiting for them to come.” View the full article

New Zealand gelding Trust In You (NZ) (Sweynesse) should get conditions to suit at Rosehill on Saturday when he contests the Gr.3 Colin Stephen Quality (2400m). It will be his second run in Australia this preparation, having finished seventh in the Gr.3 Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m) earlier this month after a first-up run on an unsuitable Heavy10 track over a mile at Te Rapa last month. “His first-up run (at Te Rapa) was okay because it was a really heavy track and he doesn’t handle a real heavy track,” said Grant Cooksley, who trains in partnership with Bruce Wallace. “His run the other day (at Newcastle), 2300m was just a little bit too far so he was coming to the end of it.” The son of Sweynesse drew the outside barrier in the nine-horse field at Newcastle but has drawn much more favourably in three on Saturday, where he will be ridden by Regan Bayliss. “He has got a nice draw this time so he should be alright,” Cooksley said. “He usually goes well third-up, so hopefully he does.” Trust In You’s next target will likely be the Gr.3 St Leger (2600m) at Randwick next month, a race he finished fourth in last year before going on to contest the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m). “He will probably go to the St Leger, but we will just see how he comes through Saturday and go from there,” Cooksley said. Meanwhile, Cooksley has been pleased with the way stablemate Son of Sun (NZ) (Tavistock) has come through his eighth placed run in the Gr.3 Kingston Town Stakes (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday and said the Group Three winner will likely return to the Sydney track on Saturday week. “He has pulled up well and he is going to the Metropolitan (Gr.1, 2400m),” Cooksley said. View the full article

Lucky Sweynesse’s (NZ) (Sweynesse) preparation for Sunday’s (28 September) G1 Sprinters Stakes (1200m) saw the four-time Group 1 winner gallop gracefully over Nakayama’s turf course under beaming sunshine this morning (Wednesday, 24 September) in Tokyo, Japan. Trainer Manfred Man and owners the Cheng family watched on delighted as the seven-year-old brown gelding powered up the 310m-long uphill home straight under restraint from jockey Derek Leung, who with Lucky Sweynesse, is aiming to secure Hong Kong, China’s third win in the prized contest this weekend after Silent Witness (2005) and Ultra Fantasy (2010). “He feels great. He always looks around like he does in Hong Kong, always curious with everything. It was his first time galloping here but everything went smoothly,” Leung said. After his hit-out, Lucky Sweynesse – exuding swagger and confidence – returned to a swarm of photographers and then made a few laps around the paddock before heading to the Japan Racing Association’s international stables at Nakayama. Man said: “He worked very good. The jockey reported that the horse feels very fit. Today was just to see him gallop. In Hong Kong, we already know that his form keeps coming. In my mind, I am happy about the horse. “He had two runs last season and came sixth and fourth. Beginning this season, he came second in the (Class 1 HKSAR) Chief Executive’s Cup (Handicap, 1200m) and the track that day wasn’t really suitable for him, but he still came second behind the best (sprinter) in the world (Ka Ying Rising).” Sporting a visor first-up on 7 September in the HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup under persistent rain at Sha Tin, Lucky Sweynesse will again don headwear this Sunday when he squares off with Group 1 winners Satono Reve, Lugal, Mama Cocha and more at Nakayama, a picturesque racetrack located in the Chiba Prefecture of the Greater Tokyo Area. Speaking of Lucky Sweynesse’s added gear, Man said: “Now as his age is getting a bit older, we need a little bit of support to keep him more concentrated (in races).” Lucky Sweynesse began his career as an unraced three-year-old with debut success at Happy Valley in 2022, the former Hong Kong Champion Sprinter (2022/23) has won 16 times from 27 starts in Hong Kong for earnings of HK$75.75 million. Barriers for the Sprinters Stakes are drawn on Friday (26 September) at 9am (JST). View the full article

Kiwi stayer Trust In You will contest the Group 3 Colin Stephen Quality (2400m) at Rosehill on Saturday. (Photo: Kenton Wright/Race Images) New Zealand gelding Trust In You should get conditions to suit at Rosehill on Saturday when he contests the Group 3 Colin Stephen Quality (2400m). It will be his second run in Australia this preparation, having finished seventh in the Group 3 Newcastle Gold Cup (2300m) earlier this month after a first-up run on an unsuitable Heavy 10 track over a mile at Te Rapa last month. “His first-up run (at Te Rapa) was okay because it was a really heavy track and he doesn’t handle a real heavy track,” said Grant Cooksley, who trains in partnership with Bruce Wallace. “His run the other day (at Newcastle), 2300m was just a little bit too far so he was coming to the end of it.” The son of Sweynesse drew the outside barrier in the nine-horse field at Newcastle but has drawn much more favourably in three on Saturday, where he will be ridden by Regan Bayliss. “He has got a nice draw this time so he should be alright,” Cooksley said. “He usually goes well third-up, so hopefully he does.” Trust In You’s next target will likely be the Group 3 St Leger (2600m) at Randwick next month, a race he finished fourth in last year before going on to contest the Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m). “He will probably go to the St Leger, but we will just see how he comes through Saturday and go from there,” Cooksley said. Meanwhile, Cooksley has been pleased with the way stablemate Son of Sun has come through his eighth-place run in the Group 3 Kingston Town Stakes (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday and said the Group Three winner will likely return to the Sydney track on Saturday week. “He has pulled up well and he is going to the Metropolitan (Group 1, 2400m),” Cooksley said. Horse racing news View the full article

Lucky Sweynesse strides out at Nakayama. (Photo: HKJC) Lucky Sweynesse’s preparation for Sunday’s Group 1 Sprinters Stakes (1200m) saw the four-time Group 1 winner gallop gracefully over Nakayama’s turf course under beaming sunshine on Wednesday morning in Tokyo, Japan. Trainer Manfred Man and owners the Cheng family watched on delighted as the seven-year-old brown gelding powered up the 310m-long uphill home straight under restraint from jockey Derek Leung, who with Lucky Sweynesse, is aiming to secure Hong Kong, China’s third win in the prized contest this weekend after Silent Witness (2005) and Ultra Fantasy (2010). “He feels great. He always looks around like he does in Hong Kong, always curious with everything. It was his first time galloping here but everything went smoothly,” Leung said. After his hit-out, Lucky Sweynesse – exuding swagger and confidence – returned to a swarm of photographers and then made a few laps around the paddock before heading to the Japan Racing Association’s international stables at Nakayama. Man said: “He worked very good. The jockey reported that the horse feels very fit. Today was just to see him gallop. In Hong Kong, we already know that his form keeps coming. In my mind, I am happy about the horse. “He had two runs last season and came sixth and fourth. Beginning this season, he came second in the (Class 1 HKSAR) Chief Executive’s Cup (Handicap, 1200m) and the track that day wasn’t really suitable for him, but he still came second behind the best (sprinter) in the world (Ka Ying Rising).” Sporting a visor first-up on 7 September in the HKSAR Chief Executive’s Cup under persistent rain at Sha Tin, Lucky Sweynesse will again don headwear this Sunday when he squares off with Group 1 winners Satono Reve, Lugal, Mama Cocha and more at Nakayama, a picturesque racetrack located in the Chiba Prefecture of the Greater Tokyo Area. Speaking of Lucky Sweynesse’s added gear, Man said: “Now as his age is getting a bit older, we need a little bit of support to keep him more concentrated (in races).” Lucky Sweynesse began his career as an unraced three-year-old with debut success at Happy Valley in 2022, the former Hong Kong Champion Sprinter (2022/23) has won 16 times from 27 starts in Hong Kong for earnings of HK$75.75 million. Sparingly raced over the last year due to surgery and setbacks, Lucky Sweynesse’s biggest wins have come in the 2023 Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint (1200m), 2023 Group 1 Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m), 2023 Group 1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup (1400m) and 2023 Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m). He is one of only five horses to claim the HK$5 million Hong Kong Speed Series bonus, doing so in the 2022/23 season, along with Mr Vitality (1995/96), Grand Delight (2002/03), Silent Witness (2003/04 & 2004/05) and Ka Ying Rising (2024/25). The three-race bonus rewards a horse successful in the Centenary Sprint Cup, Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup and Chairman’s Sprint Prize in the same season. Horse racing news View the full article

TAB Karaka Millions 2YO (1200m) hopeful Tale Of The Gypsy. (Photo: Kenton Wright/Race Images) Lady Luck has finally smiled on talented filly Tale Of The Gypsy, who has been plagued by wide barriers throughout her short career to date. The daughter of Written By has jumped from the outside gate in half of her six appearances and contended with poor draws in the other three. Despite that, she posted a debut victory last season and finished fourth in the Group 1 Sistema (1200m), fifth in the Group 2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) and had no luck again when out of the money in the Listed Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) earlier this month. Tale Of The Gypsy has finally drawn a decent barrier (one) in Saturday’s Group 2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) at Te Rapa with stablemates Magic Carpet and Moretothinkabout to also represent trainer Stephen Marsh. “I rate all three and Tale Of The Gypsy was unlucky in the Group One and just kept drawing outside gates,” he said. “Last time out, she was again caught wide with no cover.” Magic Carpet finished third on debut on the course and added another placing last time out in a competitive maiden at Taupo. Moretothinkabout gave a bold account of himself in his only appearance last season when he ran second at Ruakaka. “The two boys are a lot better than maidens and I think they’re going places,” Marsh said. “Magic Carpet has done nothing wrong and last start we had to ride him a bit upside down. “On a bigger track, we can ride him a spot further back and I think he’ll be a lot better chasing rather than leading them up and doing the donkey work. “We’ve changed a bit of gear on Moretothinkabout with the blinkers and tongue tie on to help him focus and the 1400m with a trial under his belt will be ideal for him.” Marsh isn’t short on age group talent in the stable with Churmatt, a leading light after the fast start he has made to his career. The Rotorua debut winner then finished runner-up in the Listed Wanganui Guineas (1200m) before a dominant last-start victory at Ellerslie. “He’ll run on Melbourne Cup Day in a three-year-old race over 1400m back at Ellerslie,” he said. Marsh is also delighted with stable star El Vencedor ahead of the Group 1 Howden Insurance Mile (1600m), although the upcoming Group 1 Livamol Classic (2040m) is seen as a more ideal opportunity to add to his top-flight record. “He had a gallop at Ellerslie and is going great, although he won’t get a track to suit him on Saturday,” he said. “Hopefully, it doesn’t rain too much and it will be full steam ahead to the Livamol after this.” Of his two runners in the BCD Group Sprint (1200m), Ardalio is slightly favoured over Glamour Tycoon. “As long as it doesn’t get to a Heavy 10 they’ll run, it’s hard to split them and maybe Ardalio at the weights,” Marsh said. She will carry 54kg in her first start since winning last season’s Group 3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) while dual stakes winner Glamour Tycoon has 58.5kg to carry in her resuming run. Horse racing news View the full article

Otaki trainer Andrew Campbell. (Photo: Angelique Bridson) Otaki trainer Andrew Campbell is excited about the prospects of his promising juvenile Singletary, and he is looking forward to kicking off his career at his home track on Friday. The Satono Aladdin colt was purchased by Campbell and his primary owner Tommy Heptinstall out of Rich Hill Stud’s 2025 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 2 draft for $125,000, and he is living up to his price tag. He has impressed Campbell with his two trials to date, including victory over 850m at Foxton last week, and he is confident of a bold showing in his debut run where he will come up against just three other runners. “He was pretty impressive at the trials the other day,” Campbell said. “He is such a big striding horse. “There’s a question mark about the track (rated a Heavy10 on Wednesday morning), but we are going to start him because he is going to go to the paddock regardless.” Karaka Millions eligible, the $1 million 1200m showpiece at Ellerslie in January is Singletary’s primary objective, and Campbell is hopeful of adding some money to his kitty this weekend to help qualify him for the race. “The ultimate goal would be the Karaka Millions,” he said. “We are going to get a bit of stakes money on Friday and I would love to think it is the thicker end of it. “Then we will put him in a paddock, bring him back for two or three races into the Karaka Millions, if he is good enough, but he certainly shows enough promise.” While Singletary is an assured starter, Campbell said track conditions will dictate whether Croupier steps out in the New World Otaki Handicap (1200m). The Ace High gelding showed a lot of promise as a three-year-old, winning two of his three starts in New Zealand before a two-run campaign in Queensland. The enigmatic gelding has pleased Campbell with his progression this preparation, but his first-up tilt could be saved for another day. “He trialled up well the other day,” Campbell said. “We are just worried about the track and whether we are going to start him or not. It’s a Heavy track so it might be a bit of an ask first-up, but I am happy with him.” Croupier holds a nomination for the Group 3 Join TAB Racing Club Mile (1600m) at Riccarton in November alongside stablemate Cocobill, who is looking for a better track than the Heavy 10 he faced in his New Zealand debut at Woodville last month. The four-year-old son of Vadamos was initially trained in Australia by Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, for whom he won three and placed in one of his nine starts. He returned to New Zealand in search of his more favoured wet tracks, but as his connections found out last start, he doesn’t like it bottomless. “We thought he might have needed quite a heavy track because his form over there was on wet tracks, hence why he came back to me,” Campbell said. “We started him at Woodville, thinking he would thrive on a heavy track, and he just couldn’t go an inch in it. “It’s 50/50 whether he starts, but he is working well and I think he just needs the cut out of the track and not a bottomless track. “He will keep, he has got a few more wins left in him yet on the way he works.” Campbell’s racing team on Friday will also include Perfect Pete, who he is expecting to feature in the Aquashield Roofing Maiden (1600m). “It is probably his day in the sun,” Campbell said. “He has got a half decent draw (7) this time, a good, strong rider (Jonathan Riddell) and a wet track. “He is well, I galloped him this morning and it’s his best gallop this time in. I would be very disappointed if he wasn’t in the first three.” Horse racing news View the full article

by Dan Ross & Jessica Martini POMONA, CA – The Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings Sale, held Tuesday at Fairplex, produced average and median figures largely in line with its 2024 renewal even as its clearance rate declined. A total of 140 yearlings sold for $4,603,400. The average increased 11.4% to $32,666 and the median remained steady at $15,000. In 2024, 163 head grossed $4,781,400 for an average of $29,334. With 97 horses reported not sold, the buy-back rate rose to 40.8%. It was 34.8% a year ago. “The California breeding program is such a great breeding program, so these breeders are proud to take and race their homebreds,” said Fasig-Tipton's Mike Machowsky. “There is such an advantage for stallion awards, breeders awards, and owners awards in California. There is a big advantage for those breeders. There is money to be made with a nice Cal-bred. So guys aren't shy to take them home.” A filly by Corniche brought the auction's top price when selling for $250,000 to Legacy Ranch. The yearling was one of three to sell for over $200,000–matching the figure from last year–and 11 to sell for six figures. Eight yearlings sold for six figures at the 2024 auction. “We are committed to serving and establishing a solid sale out here in Southern California to support the market and all the breeders,” said Machowsky. “We are here to support these California breeders and we are going to stay here.” Corniche Filly to Legacy A filly from the first crop of Corniche (hip 193) will be joining the roster at Legacy Ranch after the Parrellas' operation purchased the yearling for a sale-topping $250,000 in Pomona Tuesday. “The Corniches were selling very well at Keeneland,” trainer John Sadler, who was seated alongside Legacy manager Terry Knight, said of the filly's appeal. “And she is a very smooth filly. We thought she was the best horse in the sale.” The 43 yearlings by Corniche who sold at the recently concluded Keeneland September sale averaged $203,651. The stallion stands at Coolmore for $15,000. Hip 193 is out of Carmelita (North Light {Ire}) and is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Carmelita's Man (Mucho Macho Man). She was bred by Richard Barton Enterprises and was consigned by Barton Thoroughbreds, agent. “There have been a lot of good horses coming out of this sale the last couple of years and the state-bred program is solid,” Sadler said. “There are races for these horses on our circuit. We were delighted to get her.” Sadler continued, “She will go to Legacy Ranch. Terry Knight will break her and supervise her early training up there.” Hip 20 | Fasig-Tipton Moroney Strikes Again at Fairplex John Moroney, who purchased the $250,000 sale-topping son of Stay Thirsty at last year's Fasig-Tipton California Fall Yearlings Sale, struck again in Tuesday's renewal of the auction with matching $225,000 bids to acquire a colt by Maxfield (hip 20) and a son of Good Magic (hip 61). Both yearlings were purchased in partnership with trainer Steve Knapp and Thomsen Racing. Knapp handled the bidding on both colts, who, like last year's sale-topper, were bred by Terry Lovingier and consigned by Lovingier's Lovacres Ranch. Out of graded stakes winner Lost Bus (Bring the Heat), hip 20 is a half-brother to stakes winner Bus Buzz (Stay Thirsty), who won the 2023 Real Good Deal Stakes for Knapp, Lovingier, Thomas Halasz and Amanda Navarro. “I trained Bus Buzz, who looks just like him,” Knapp said. “He was a running son of a gun.” Steve Knapp | Fasig-Tipton Knapp also has experience with the colt's freshman sire Maxfield. He trains his son Max Ciao and co-owns the colt with Lovingier and Moroney. Max Ciao won the Sept. 5 I'm Smokin Stakes at Del Mar. “He looks like both of them,” Knapp said. “He's a big, good-looking horse. And we will go from there.” Hip 61 is out of stakes winner Noble and a Beauty (Noble Causeway), a mare purchased by Lovingier with the colt in utero for $22,000 at the 2023 Keeneland November sale. “He's bred really nicely and he's a really good-looking colt,” Knapp said. “If you don't buy them, then you've got to beat them.” Moroney, along with Knapp and Thomsen Racing, partnered to acquire an additional three yearlings, led by a filly by McKinzie (hip 86) for $100,000. In partnership with Tom Landon, Moroney purchased a pair of yearlings by Stay Thirsty (hip 65 and hip 21) for matching $40,000 price tags. All seven were from the Lovacres Ranch consignment. A Missouri businessman, Moroney owns a string of Taco Bell restaurants in the Midwest. Last year's sale-topper, now named Fionello, races for Knapp, Lovingier, Moroney and Sandra Lee Grey. A debut winner at Santa Anita in May, he was fourth in the Aug. 8 Graduation Stakes and again in the I'm Smokin Stakes last time out. 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Lady Luck has finally smiled on talented filly Tale Of The Gypsy (Written By), who has been plagued by wide barriers throughout her short career to date. The daughter of Written By has jumped from the outside gate in half of her six appearances and contended with poor draws in the other three. Despite that, she posted a debut victory last season and finished fourth in the Gr.1 Sistema (1200m), fifth in the Gr.2 Matamata Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) and had no luck again when out of the money in the Listed Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) earlier this month. Tale Of The Gypsy has finally drawn a decent barrier (one) in Saturday’s Gr.2 Timberspan Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) at Te Rapa with stablemates Magic Carpet (NZ) (Satono Aladdin) and Moretothinkabout (NZ) (So You Think) to also represent trainer Stephen Marsh. “I rate all three and Tale Of The Gypsy was unlucky in the Group One and just kept drawing outside gates,” he said. “Last time out, she was again caught wide with no cover.” Magic Carpet finished third on debut on the course and added another placing last time out in a competitive maiden at Taupo. Moretothinkabout gave a bold account of himself in his only appearance last season when he ran second at Ruakaka. “The two boys are a lot better than maidens and I think they’re going places,” Marsh said. “Magic Carpet has done nothing wrong and last start we had to ride him a bit upside down. “On a bigger track, we can ride him a spot further back and I think he’ll be a lot better chasing rather than leading them up and doing the donkey work. “We’ve changed a bit of gear on Moretothinkabout with the blinkers and tongue tie on to help him focus and the 1400m with a trial under his belt will be ideal for him.” Marsh isn’t short on age group talent in the stable with Churmatt (Churchill), a leading light after the fast start he has made to his career. The Rotorua debut winner then finished runner-up in the Listed Wanganui Guineas (1200m) before a dominant last-start victory at Ellerslie. “He’ll run on Melbourne Cup Day in a three-year-old race over 1400m back at Ellerslie,” he said. Marsh is also delighted with stable star El Vencedor (NZ) (Shocking) ahead of the Gr.1 Howden Insurance Mile (1600m), although the upcoming Gr.1 Livamol Classic (2040m) is seen as a more ideal opportunity to add to his top-flight record. “He had a gallop at Ellerslie and is going great, although he won’t get a track to suit him on Saturday,” he said. “Hopefully, it doesn’t rain too much and it will be full steam ahead to the Livamol after this.” Of his two runners in the BCD Group Sprint (1200m), Ardalio (NZ) (Ardrossan) is slightly favoured over Glamour Tycoon (Written Tycoon). “As long as it doesn’t get to a Heavy 10 they’ll run, it’s hard to split them and maybe Ardalio at the weights,” Marsh said. She will carry 54kg in her first start since winning last season’s Gr.3 Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes (1200m) while dual stakes winner Glamour Tycoon has 58.5kg to carry in her resuming run. View the full article

Otaki trainer Andrew Campbell is excited about the prospects of his promising juvenile Singletary (NZ) (Satono Aladdin), and he is looking forward to kicking off his career in the Vets On Riverbank Two-Year-Old (800m) at his home track on Friday. The Satono Aladdin colt was purchased by Campbell and his primary owner Tommy Heptinstall out of Rich Hill Stud’s 2025 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 2 draft for $125,000, and he is living up to his price tag. He has impressed Campbell with his two trials to date, including victory over 850m at Foxton last week, and he is confident of a bold showing in his debut run where he will come up against just three other runners. “He was pretty impressive at the trials the other day,” Campbell said. “He is such a big striding horse. “There’s a question mark about the track (rated a Heavy10 on Wednesday morning), but we are going to start him because he is going to go to the paddock regardless.” Karaka Millions eligible, the $1 million 1200m showpiece at Ellerslie in January is Singletary’s primary objective, and Campbell is hopeful of adding some money to his kitty this weekend to help qualify him for the race. Otaki trainer Andrew Campbell. Photo: Angelique Bridson “The ultimate goal would be the Karaka Millions,” he said. “We are going to get a bit of stakes money on Friday and I would love to think it is the thicker end of it. “Then we will put him in a paddock, bring him back for two or three races into the Karaka Millions, if he is good enough, but he certainly shows enough promise.” While Singletary is an assured starter, Campbell said track conditions will dictate whether Croupier (NZ) (Ace High) steps out in the New World Otaki Handicap (1200m). The Ace High gelding showed a lot of promise as a three-year-old, winning two of his three starts in New Zealand before a two-run campaign in Queensland. The enigmatic gelding has pleased Campbell with his progression this preparation, but his first-up tilt could be saved for another day. “He trialled up well the other day,” Campbell said. “We are just worried about the track and whether we are going to start him or not. It’s a Heavy track so it might be a bit of an ask first-up, but I am happy with him.” Croupier holds a nomination for the Gr.3 Join TAB Racing Club Mile (1600m) at Riccarton in November alongside stablemate Cocobill (NZ) (Vadamos), who is looking for a better track than the Heavy10 he faced in his New Zealand debut at Woodville last month. The four-year-old son of Vadamos was initially trained in Australia by Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, for whom he won three and placed in one of his nine starts. He returned to New Zealand in search of his more favoured wet tracks, but as his connections found out last start, he doesn’t like it bottomless. “We thought he might have needed quite a heavy track because his form over there was on wet tracks, hence why he came back to me,” Campbell said. “We started him at Woodville, thinking he would thrive on a heavy track, and he just couldn’t go an inch in it. “It’s 50/50 whether he starts, but he is working well and I think he just needs the cut out of the track and not a bottomless track. “He will keep, he has got a few more wins left in him yet on the way he works.” Campbell’s racing team on Friday will also include Perfect Pete (NZ) (Fabulous), who he is expecting to feature in the Aquashield Roofing Maiden (1600m). “It is probably his day in the sun,” Campbell said. “He has got a half decent draw (7) this time, a good, strong rider (Jonathan Riddell) and a wet track. “He is well, I galloped him this morning and it’s his best gallop this time in. I would be very disappointed if he wasn’t in the first three.” View the full article

Cody Cole is keeping his options open with talented three-year-old Landlock (Merchant Navy) as wet weather threatens to halt his initial plan to contest Saturday’s Gr.2 Timberspan Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) at Te Rapa. Landlock is the highest-rated galloper in the $175,000 contest, having narrowly gone down to Return To Conquer (Snitzel) in the Gr.1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) and placing in a Gr.2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m) as a juvenile. The son of Merchant Navy resumed in the Listed Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) earlier this month and pleased Cole with a fourth-placed finish, having been held up at a vital stage in the straight. “It was a good effort, he didn’t really get a chance to get out and go through his gears to build momentum,” he said. “He was coming off heels at the 200 and had to pick himself up, which I thought he did really well especially with the way the race was run, it was hard for them to make ground. “It was a good kick-off point, he raced like he is looking for a little bit further and his manners were good, so he’s only going to be better for that run as a first good blowout.” While the Hawke’s Bay Guineas is the natural next step for Landlock, Cole said he won’t hesitate to scratch if the wet weather continues. “My biggest concern is the track at the moment,” he said. “If it did get to the really testing, heavy going, we’d be looking at other options.” Cole has nominated four other runners for the feature meeting, including Astoria Brooke (NZ) (American Pharoah), who looked impressive when cruising to second in a competitive trial at Ellerslie a fortnight ago, taken out by stakes winner Glamour Tycoon (Written Tycoon). “It was a super trial, she was vulnerable fitness-wise and came to the end of her run inside the 100, but we expected that, it was just a nice hit-out for her and she did it effortlessly,” Cole said. “She’s only gone forward since then.” The American Pharoah mare completed her last campaign with back-to-back wins on off tracks, but Cole will consult with her owner-breeders before assuring her place in the St John’s College Foundation 1400. “I have to speak to Brent and Cherry Taylor, we will make that call together. But based on the way she has been working on off-going, I would say yes (to starting),” he said. Coming off a well-deserved spell will be Renovations (NZ) (Ardrossan), who secured more valuable black-type when third in the Gr.3 Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) in January. She continued that form through to mid-May, and Cole couldn’t have been happier with her overall efforts at three. “She really deserved that break, she had a long preparation and trekked all over the country and did a really good job for the crew involved in her,” he said. “She was hardly ever out of the first four. “She’s a really genuine little racehorse and I think she’s come back better from the break. We had her in last weekend but scratched from a wide gate, so we were able to get some more work into her with the extra week up our sleeve. “I’m a bit worried about the track with her, the better side of heavy is alright, but it would be a question mark if it was really bottomless.” She is entered for the Craigs Investments Partners Sprint (1100m) at Rating 75 grade. Cole will also be well-represented across the Central Districts, particularly with the progressive Atmospheric (NZ) (El Roca) stepping out at Otaki on Friday in the Otaki Tyre Repairs Handicap (1600m) The son of El Roca was an eye-catcher resuming at Ellerslie, being held up for most of the straight before flashing home into fourth over 1300m. “He was super first up, he just didn’t get the breaks when he needed them,” Cole said. “He was really solid to the line and doing his best work late. “The 1300m is obviously short of his best, his most recent run was in the Trelawney Championship Stakes (Gr.3) over 2100m, and he’s only taken steps in the right direction this time in. “It’ll just be whether we put him on the truck and trek all the way down there for a heavy track, but there are limited options around, so we’ll be considering it.” His stablemate Oneira (NZ) (Contributer) will being heading down regardless of track conditions, taking her place under a light weight in the New World Otaki Handicap (1200m). “I don’t think she’s as capable on wet tracks as she looked to be when she was younger, but on the way she’s working, she looks like she can run a race,” Cole said. “She was a little bit disappointing at Ruakaka, but I just felt that tough run from a wide gate at Tauranga might’ve just knocked a bit of the nip out of her. She’s been freshened up since then and is working well, so we’ll be looking to run her either way down there.” Of his remaining runners, including a couple heading to Waverley on Sunday, Cole noted Dance For Her (Testa Rossa) (Te Rapa) and Arrowfield Stud-owned filly Cheerio (Maurice) (Waverley) as ones to follow. “Dance For Her was a big run out of her grade at Taranaki, she was fresh-up over a mile on extremely testing going and that condition just told,” he said. “She’s bounced through it well and worked well this morning, so provided she cops the two-week back-up, I think she’ll run well again. “Cheerio is one that I am really looking forward to, she’s probably still six months away from really seeing a bit more from her but I think she’s got a bright future, however long it takes for us to get there.” View the full article

Landlock (inside) will contest Saturday’s Group 2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) at Te Rapa. (Photo: Kenton Wright/Race Images) Cody Cole is keeping his options open with talented three-year-old Landlock as wet weather threatens to halt his initial plan to contest Saturday’s Group 2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) at Te Rapa. Landlock is the highest-rated galloper in the $175,000 contest, having narrowly gone down to Return To Conquer in the Group 1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) and placing in a Group 2 Wakefield Challenge Stakes (1100m) as a juvenile. The son of Merchant Navy resumed in the Listed Sir Colin Meads Trophy (1200m) earlier this month and pleased Cole with a fourth-placed finish, having been held up at a vital stage in the straight. “It was a good effort, he didn’t really get a chance to get out and go through his gears to build momentum,” he said. “He was coming off heels at the 200 and had to pick himself up, which I thought he did really well especially with the way the race was run, it was hard for them to make ground. “It was a good kick-off point, he raced like he is looking for a little bit further and his manners were good, so he’s only going to be better for that run as a first good blowout.” While the Hawke’s Bay Guineas is the natural next step for Landlock, Cole said he won’t hesitate to scratch if the wet weather continues. “My biggest concern is the track at the moment,” he said. “If it did get to the really testing, heavy going, we’d be looking at other options.” Cole has nominated four other runners for the feature meeting, including Astoria Brooke, who looked impressive when cruising to second in a competitive trial at Ellerslie a fortnight ago, taken out by stakes winner Glamour Tycoon. “It was a super trial, she was vulnerable fitness-wise and came to the end of her run inside the 100, but we expected that, it was just a nice hit-out for her and she did it effortlessly,” Cole said. “She’s only gone forward since then.” The American Pharoah mare completed her last campaign with back-to-back wins on off tracks, but Cole will consult with her owner-breeders before assuring her place in the St John’s College Foundation 1400. “I have to speak to Brent and Cherry Taylor, we will make that call together. But based on the way she has been working on off-going, I would say yes (to starting),” he said. Coming off a well-deserved spell will be Renovations, who secured more valuable black-type when third in the Group 3 Desert Gold Stakes (1600m) in January. She continued that form through to mid-May, and Cole couldn’t have been happier with her overall efforts at three. “She really deserved that break, she had a long preparation and trekked all over the country and did a really good job for the crew involved in her,” he said. “She was hardly ever out of the first four. “She’s a really genuine little racehorse and I think she’s come back better from the break. We had her in last weekend but scratched from a wide gate, so we were able to get some more work into her with the extra week up our sleeve. “I’m a bit worried about the track with her, the better side of heavy is alright, but it would be a question mark if it was really bottomless.” She is entered for the Craigs Investments Partners Sprint (1100m) at Rating 75 grade. Cole will also be well-represented across the Central Districts, particularly with the progressive Atmospheric stepping out at Otaki on Friday in the Otaki Tyre Repairs Handicap (1600m) The son of El Roca was an eye-catcher resuming at Ellerslie, being held up for most of the straight before flashing home into fourth over 1300m. “He was super first up, he just didn’t get the breaks when he needed them,” Cole said. “He was really solid to the line and doing his best work late. “The 1300m is obviously short of his best, his most recent run was in the Trelawney Championship Stakes (Group 3) over 2100m, and he’s only taken steps in the right direction this time in. “It’ll just be whether we put him on the truck and trek all the way down there for a heavy track, but there are limited options around, so we’ll be considering it.” His stablemate Oneira will be heading down regardless of track conditions, taking her place under a light weight in the New World Otaki Handicap (1200m). “I don’t think she’s as capable on wet tracks as she looked to be when she was younger, but on the way she’s working, she looks like she can run a race,” Cole said. “She was a little bit disappointing at Ruakaka, but I just felt that tough run from a wide gate at Tauranga might’ve just knocked a bit of the nip out of her. She’s been freshened up since then and is working well, so we’ll be looking to run her either way down there.” Of his remaining runners, including a couple heading to Waverley on Sunday, Cole noted Dance For Her (Te Rapa) and Arrowfield Stud-owned filly Cheerio (Waverley) as ones to follow. “Dance For Her was a big run out of her grade at Taranaki, she was fresh-up over a mile on extremely testing going and that condition just told,” he said. “She’s bounced through it well and worked well this morning, so provided she cops the two-week back-up, I think she’ll run well again. “Cheerio is one that I am really looking forward to, she’s probably still six months away from really seeing a bit more from her but I think she’s got a bright future, however long it takes for us to get there.” Horse racing news View the full article

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5. DISCLAIMER, BAQ, 9/20, 1 mile (turf) (VIDEO) Beyer Speed Figure- 82 (3rd) (c, 3, by Caracaro–Tara Road, by Quality Road) O-Curragh Stables. B-Joe Jr., John and Karen Mulholland (Ky). T-John Terranova. J-Luis Rivera. As the slight 5/2 favorite after his solid 3rd at Saratoga, he ran his race on numbers but may be better than this. He and runnerup Wicked Improbable (see below) exchanged a bump at the start that appeared minor, yet both wound up farther back than expected. Next-last by 8 lengths down the backstretch, he followed Wicked Improbable on the rail around the 2nd turn then swung out to finish with good energy. 4. FAST MARKET, BAQ, 9/21, 1 mile (turf) (VIDEO) Beyer Speed Figure-82 (f, 3, by Volatile–Betty Draper, by Street Cry {Ire}) O-Hit the Bid Racing Stable. B-Breed First (Ky). T-John Terranova. J-Dylan Davis. The first four on this list represent trainers making their initial appearances in Five Fastest Maidens–and Terranova makes it twice. Terranova removed blinkers for this race, and Fast Market settled willingly inside for Davis then unleashed a final quarter in :23.21 to win going away with nice strides. Her dam began her racing career with Andre Fabre for Godolphin's French wing, but was bred by Darley in Kentucky and probably named there, too: Betty Draper was the wife of Don Draper on the acclaimed American TV series “Mad Men.” 3. WICKED IMPROBABLE, BAQ, 9/20, 1 mile (turf) (VIDEO) Beyer Speed Figure-83 (2nd) (c, 3, by Improbable–Baffle Me, by First Samurai) O-Donegal Racing. B-WinStar Farm (Ky). T-Thomas Morley. J-Ricardo Santana. After a somewhat awkward beginning, he was given a ground-saving ride by Santana and finished strongly inside for 2nd in his third lifetime outing, all on turf. His consistent dam Baffle Me won five stakes and recorded 13 Beyers between 90 and 94 after being switched from dirt to grass. 2. CUANDO, BAQ, 9/20, 1 mile (turf) (VIDEO) Beyer Speed Figure-90 (g, 4, by Not This Time–Fox Hunt, by Saint Liam) O-Two Tone Farms. B-LaDona Hudson (Ky). T-Bruce Levine. J-Ruben Silvera. The 16-race maiden had previously shown he was capable of running competitive numbers when a) in peak form and b) on an uncontested early lead. And at 8/1 odds here he was ridden with intent early by Silvera to set the pace and was never threatened in a strong performance. Owner/breeder Hudson has raced at least four generations of the female family dating back 40 years. 1. ENGLISHMAN, CD, 9/19, 7 furlongs (VIDEO) Beyer Speed Figure-97 (c, 2, by Maxfield–In It for the Gold, by Speightstown) O-C R K Stable. B-Fifth Avenue Bloodstock. T-Cherie DeVaux. J-Jose Ortiz. He somehow wasn't even the betting favorite, but Englishman recorded the second-fastest 2-year-old debut figure thus far in 2025, behind only Brant's 101. As the 2/1 second choice, this 'TDN Rising Star' left 9/5 Tagermeen in the dust–and Tagermeen had finished 4th at Saratoga in Ted Noffey's maiden win. Sire Maxfield (who won his first five starts) has been represented in his first crop by 11 winners to date, including California-bred stakes winner Max Ciao and Sapling runner-up Just Asap. The post Five Fastest Maidens, Presented By Taylor Made: Sept. 15-22 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

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The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals relieved Seth Fishman of a horse doping forfeiture order of about $10 million, remanded a $25 million restitution order to a lower court, but refused to overturn Fishman's underlying conviction and sentence.View the full article

FAIRYHOUSE, IRELAND – On a day when even the wildest expectations for the opening session of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale were exceeded, Peter Nolan enjoyed a result he will never forget when his homebred colt by first-season sire Blackbeard was knocked down to Ted Durcan for €165,000. That result represented a shrewd piece of business for Nolan who went with his gut when deciding not to part with the Blackbeard colt as a foal, thus reaping the rewards for sitting on his hands until the yearling sales. It was also a shrewd piece of placing, too, with the Blackbeard colt standing out to a number of buyers, ultimately going the way of Durcan on behalf of an existing client that is understood to be sending the horse Richard Hughes's way. “He is a beautiful stamp of a horse,” Durcan said. “He vetted really well and I knew he'd make money. We hoped we'd get him for a lot less than that but in this healthy market you have to push the boat out.” A healthy market is one way of putting it. With 11 horses selling for six figures, you could say things were thriving at Fairyhouse on Tuesday. And the love was spread across the board, too, which was illustrated by the fact the median climbed by 55% and the clearance rate settled at 93%. Not only was Nolan responsible for the top lot, but he enjoyed an excellent day on the whole with three horses selling for a combined sum of €295,000 – completed by a €70,000 Sioux Nation filly to Joe Murphy and a €60,000 Churchill colt to Jeremy Brummitt on behalf of Quantum Leap Racing. Nolan commented on the Blackbeard colt, “He was bred at home and we offered him as a foal but he was a vendor buy-back for €60,000. We thought he was better than that and thankfully we have been proved right. We chose this sale as we thought there would be a lot by the sire to sell so we wanted to get out early.” Along with that massive jump in the median, the average climbed 49% to €44,096 while the turnover was up by roughly a third to €9,833,500. Of the 240 lots offered, 223 were sold at that 93% clearance rate. 'We've Been Lucky Here' – Rabbah Spends Over 1 Million With a total spend of €1,092,000, Rabbah Bloodstock contributed to one of the most memorable starts to this sale in a very long time. Rabbah signed for four individual six-figure horses, including a €120,000 Night Of Thunder filly from the family of Group 1 performer Spectre (Siyouni) that was consigned by Castlebridge. America Queen is an excellent example of what can be sourced at this sale. Bought by the Rabbah team 12 months ago for €180,000, the Richard Hughes-trained filly has already gained black-type for her connections when second in the G2 Lowther Stakes at York and is as short as 4-1 with most firms for Saturday's Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket. Speaking about the appeal of this sale, Rabbah's David Ryan said, “We've been very lucky here in the past. We have America Queen (Havana Grey) running in the Cheveley Park on Saturday and she came out of this sale last year. We bought Cercene's half-sister by Starman here last year for €115,000 and we bought the Mehmas filly [for €180,000] who topped the sale here last year. She's a lovely filly and we haven't given up on her. So it has been a very good sale for us – very lucky.” He added, “I'll tell you what you get here is good, hard horses and you can run them. When you start moving on to Goffs and Book 1 and 2 in Newmarket, they are bigger horses and they take more time. Some work out, some don't. Most of these are runners. They're ready to go. Well, we'll see if they can run!” Condon Sources Sioux Nation Yearlings For American-Based Client Group 1 and Classic-winning trainer Ken Condon spent €265,000 on behalf of an existing American-based client on a filly and a colt by Sioux Nation, with the idea that both horses would be for export to that country. Condon, who signed under Osborne Lodge Racing, was only knocked off his perch as the leading buyer deep into the session having spent €150,000 on Weir View Stud's brother to the highly-rated Native American. The trainer commented on the colt, “We started looking on Sunday morning and he was on the list straight away. He's a very attractive and athletic colt. He was well-prepared and just had a bit of business about him. The full-sibling is obviously a good horse and achieved a good rating as a two-year-old. It's a good pedigree underneath and we just really liked him. We saw him several times and he also vetted very well.” Tuesday's leading filly, purchased for 120,000 euro | Tattersalls Weir View Stud's Ed Ryan was visibly delighted after the sale. “He has been run off his feet all week and had over 150 shows,” Ryan commented. “He showed himself like a gentleman. He has been sold for a client and we are trying to build up a consignment. We have been very fortunate to have been sent some lovely horses. He has stood out here and has been an absolute dude.” The spend was completed by a €115,000 Sioux Nation filly consigned by Tom Whelan of Church View Stables. Condon added, “She seemed to have a very good disposition and, like the colt, she showed well every time we saw her. We had to stretch a bit for them but the market has been very strong. They have been bought on behalf of an existing client whose horses race for Brendan Walsh in America. They have been bought with that idea in mind so they will stay with us over the winter and we can make our minds up with regards to a plan in the spring.” The Sioux Nation filly is a half-sister to the Coventry Stakes runner-up Qaader and was bred by Patricia Walsh. She beamed afterwards, “For me this is the best result I've had at the sales because I used to sell as foals all the time but I wasn't making any money so I decided to hold onto them until they are yearlings.” Subplots Leading breeze-up handler Mark Grant was one of the leading buyers and, after sourcing fillies by Havana Grey and Sea The Stars for €90,000 apiece, said that buying his horses in Euros was a major attraction to this sale. Grant said, “It's a good sale and we've been lucky here. We bought a Havana Grey filly who looks smart and the intention is to go to the Craven with her. With the Sea The Stars filly, there won't be many by him going breezing, so we'll probably go to France with her. It's a big help buying in Euros.” Harry Eustace, who has played a big role in putting this sale on the map with his Royal Ascot-winning graduates Time For Sandals and Docklands, was rewarded for that amazing training performance with a €120,000 Invincible Spirit colt. Consigned by the Irish National Stud, the colt was sourced by Alex Elliott and Billy Jackson-Stops on behalf of powerful owners Valmont and Michael Blencowe. Jackson-Stops said, “He's going to Harry Eustace and was bought by Valmont and Michael Blencowe, who are spreading some horses around between Andrew Balding, Ralph Beckett, George Scott and now Harry. This is the first one with Harry, who has had an amazing year, so it makes a bit of sense.” Elliott added, “We originally owned [Group 2-winning sprinter] West Acre together and we have quite a nice filly now called Forty Years On. It's good to support Harry, who has killed it this year, so hopefully he can keep progressing.” Jackson-Stops and Elliott, two of the bigger agents in the business, admitted to being bowled over by the strength of the market at Fairyhouse. Jackson-Stops concluded, “It was extremely tough in the middle. If you came here with a €60,000 order, you were really struggling. Tattersalls Ireland has done a remarkable job at getting everyone here. The footfall is unbelievable.” The progeny of Naval Crown was very well-received on Tuesday with seven yearlings by the Group 1-winning sprinter selling for an average of €55,857. That was enough to place Darley's young stallion, who stands at Kildangan Stud for just €9,000, within the top 10 performing stallions on day one. Durkan Dives Back Into The Flat Market When you think of trainer Bill Durkan, you automatically think of Group 1 scorer Miss Beatrix, who carried his colours during a glittering career with Kevin Prendergast. And while Durkan, whose stable is based in Dublin, has been more focused on National Hunt runners in recent times, connections have clearly got the bug back for the Flat after a couple of cheaply-bought yearlings -Time Bender (Gustav Klimt) and Parkside Lad (Elzaam) – won two-year-old maidens in Ireland this summer. Gary Bannon, assistant trainer to Durkan, teamed up with bloodstock agent Barry Lynch, to secure a fast and precocious-looking Highly Motivated colt for €90,000. The Highly Motivated colt was consigned by Lakefield Farm and represented a shrewd piece of pinhooking from young Luke Bleahen, who sourced the colt out of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale for just $3,000. “Lovely horse,” Bannon commented. “I didn't know much about the sire but Barry is giving me a hand this year and did his homework. Normally, we're more of a jumps yard but we won two two-year-old races this year with cheap horses so we've decided to dip our toes in the sand a little bit more on the Flat. Lovely colt and hopefully he'll be lucky for Bill.” Lynch added, “Highly Motivated was a very good two-year-old himself – he was very sharp – and is actually very like this horse. He is also a son of Into Mischief, who is one of the top stallions in America. This horse is very simple. He had a great temperament every time we saw him and, up around the ring, he didn't bat an eyelid. Hopefully he'll be a nice, sharp horse who can take us to the big days next year.” Thought for the day There was no shortage of trainers either side of the Irish Sea making their love for this sale known to the public in recent days. However, they may have been forced to reevaluate the situation on Tuesday evening as, just like the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale and Somerville Sale at Tattersalls, the demand for horses was through the roof at Fairyhouse on day one and finding that diamond in the rough became a whole pile more difficult. The sharp rise to the median and average illustrates how strong the market was on Tuesday and just how good of a job Tattersalls Ireland is doing with this sale. It will be very interesting to see if there is a drop-off on Wednesday or if trade can continue in this direction. Buy of the day Johnny Murtagh was one such trainer to get on the scoreboard and the €38,000 he spent on lot 176, a Bungle Inthejungle filly consigned by Donnellys Well, looks money well spent. We all know what Bungle Inthejungle gets you – fast, early and precocious types. This filly is no different and, while she looks well up to representing the Murtagh stable in the sprint maidens in the spring of next year, she also boasts a bit of class. The post ‘We’ve Been Proved Right’ – Joy For Peter Nolan With Sale Of 165k Blackbeard Colt appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Delaware Park will introduce a starter bonus beginning Oct. 1 and continuing through the remainder of the 2025 meet, which is scheduled to conclude Oct. 18. Horses stabled at Delaware Park who start in fields of eight or more on the dirt, and 10 or more on the turf will receive $1,200, of which the trainer will receive $1,000 and the owner will receive $200. For horses not stabled at Delaware Park who start in fields of eight or more on the dirt, and 10 or more on the turf, connections will receive $700, of which the trainer will receive $500 and the owner will receive $200. For horses that start in fields of less than eight on the dirt or 10 on the turf, the bonus will be $500, of which the trainer will receive $300, and the owner will receive $200, regardless of where they are stabled. The post Delaware Park to Offer Starter Bonus appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Rocco Bowen was suspended 30 days by the stewards at Belterra Park Tuesday for “intentionally” engaging in “rough riding” when finishing second aboard the 3-10 favorite during the stretch run of the $75,000 Miss Southern Ohio Stakes last Friday. But because the veteran jockey has agreed not to appeal the ruling, the penalty has been cut in half, to 15 days. Bowen's agent, Cory Hayes, confirmed to TDN that the reduced suspension will be in effect from Sept. 29 through Oct. 13. “It's pretty self-explanatory in the [ruling],” Hayes said. “I'm a little biased on how I think it should have played out. But the stewards, they made their decision, and that's the game we have to play, that you go with what they say.” On Sept. 19, Bowen was riding the 3-year-old filly Parlay (National Flag), with whom he has partnered for two state-bred stakes victories on the turf this summer at Belterra. He made the lead midway through the 1 1/16-miles grass race, but was confronted by the 12-1 Green Lady (Tough It Up) and jockey John McKee in the stretch. According to the Equibase chart, Parlay “drifted out near the eighth pole then drifted back in near the sixteenth pole and bumped Green Lady twice in the final sixteenth and was denied the win.” (Video). After a next-day hearing involving both Bowen and McKee, the stewards wrote in the ruling that Bowen had “intentionally guided his horse towards the inside rail to make contact with jockey John McKee.” Bowen is currently the leading rider based on earnings at the summer meet at Thistledown. He rides less frequently at Belterra (21 mounts so far this season), the other Ohio track that is active at this time of year. Albin Jimenez, the standings-topping rider this meet at Belterra, was also recently penalized by that track's stewards. Jimenez is appealing a one-year suspension for “failure to give his best effort to obtain a winning performance and conduct detrimental to the best interests of racing” while riding a 7-10 favorite to a second-place finish Aug. 21. Although a stay of his suspension has been granted, Jimenez has not had a mount since Aug. 22. And just last Thursday, the Belterra stewards suspended jockey Eddie Jurado 10 days (reduced to five if no appeal gets filed) for holding his whip in front of another jockey's mount in a Sept. 13 race, causing that rival to check to avoid being hit. Jurado's mount went on to win the race, but was disqualified because of the incident. The post Bowen Suspended 30 Days for ‘Intentional’ Bumping at Belterra; Penalty Halved for Not Appealing appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

When Frank Taylor, the director of new business development at Taylor Made, started the Stable Recovery and the Taylor Made School of Horsemanship programs, the idea was to help those addicted to drugs and alcohol, get them sober and give them the skills to work in the horse racing industry. But Stable Recovery is branching out, ready to help anyone in need. Elizabeth Blythe once arranged the mating for Allen Paulson's horses and her work produced several champions, including the great Cigar and four other Breeders' Cup winners. But, for Blythe, little has gone right since Paulson's death. She has had to deal with three forms of cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer and melanoma. That left her unable to work and she soon found herself in dire straits financially. She didn't have the money or the energy to take care of her house and the bank was ready to repossess her property. When Taylor got wind of Blythe's problem, he did what he always seems to do when he hears of someone down on their luck. He set out to help. He made a big enough payment to the bank to halt the foreclosure and he will soon send some of the people who graduated from his Stable Recovery program to help fix up the house this Saturday. “Frank is fantastic,” Blythe said. Blythe and Taylor have entered into an agreement. To pay Taylor back for all the money he has spent helping Blythe, Blythe has agreed to donate her Nicholasville house upon her death to Stable Recovery. “I thought that's something that I can do to help other people when I'm not here anymore and to thank Frank and everybody for the help that they've provided to me,” Blythe said. It isn't just the money. “He would come and pick me up and drive me to appointments at the hospital, that sort of thing, or pick me up after a procedure was over with,” Blythe said. “Usually they have to give you sedation and so you can't drive in and drive home. In the early parts of it, they would have to keep me overnight because I didn't have anybody to drive me. And that got to be probably a little bit onerous for the hospital because they had to keep me there when there might've been somebody else who had something more serious than what had happened to me. And so that's kind of a part of it as well. But Frank is just wonderful and I can't tell you how much his support and help has meant to me.” Frank Taylor | Sue Finley Christian Countzler, who runs the Stable Recovery program, knows firsthand how willing Taylor is to help those in need. “Frank went out of his way to help someone that deserved to be helped,” he said. “We're really excited about that. She's had a tough time, especially as of late, Anything we can do to help her we're absolutely willing to do. In return, she wants to help us by donating the house to us.” Frank Taylor is just a good soul. There's no other way to put it. He sees a problem and he works to find a solution. He decided to branch out from his Stable Recovery work and look to assist others who are down on their luck. “Elizabeth Blythe has been in horse business forever,” Taylor said. “She's probably about my age, late fifties, early sixties. She's well respected. She did a lot of pedigree work for Allen Paluson. I heard about a year ago that she had cancer and that she was really struggling with it. They were getting ready to take her house away. My wife and I put up $150,000 as a loan, which got the mortgage company off her back. She won't be able to pay it back but when she passes she's going to give the house to Stable Recovery. It's a really nice house. It's on three acres, but it hasn't really been maintained. It would be like having a yard that hasn't been mowed in 10 years. We're going to take our crew down there and clean it all up. We got her out of foreclosure, so she has a place to live.” Taylor said that the people from the Stable Recovery program will also benefit from helping out Blythe. “Part of of being sober and working the 12 steps is you need to give back,” Taylor said. “And help your fellow man. Volunteering is part of the recovery part. This is a project for these guys to help someone. Any time you're giving back and putting other people first is good for you.” So what is it about Taylor that he's so willing to help people, be they individuals struggling with substance abuse issues or are dealing with cancer and financial pressures? “Part of the 12 steps and being sober is that you need to give back and help your fellow man,” Taylor said. “The recovery part includes volunteering. We're using this as a project for these guys to spend their time on and help. Any time you're giving back and putting the people first is good for you.” “Why does Frank do what he does?” Countzler said. “I think he got this from his dad. He grew up watching his mom and dad do things for other people. I guarantee he would answer that question the same way. Joe Taylor, the patriarch of the family, showed all the Taylor brothers, and especially Frank, what it means to give back and help other people, especially people who don't have the means they've been blessed with. I would almost guarantee that it was Joe Taylor that did that.” The School of Horseman has had 89 graduates and has 25 legacy graduates. There have 10 that have made it two years of sobriety. “That's something we are really proud of,” Countzler said. Blythe is one of the first people not in the program that Taylor has helped. There's no doubt there will be many more. 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Stable Recovery opened its Women's Horsemanship Program at Spy Coast Farm Monday, marking an important milestone in the organization's mission to empower women in recovery. In partnership with Lisa Lourie and the Spy Coast Farm team, the program provides participants with hands-on training through the School of Horsemanship at the Spy Coast Farm Reproduction Center, offering the chance to learn from some of the leading professionals in the sport horse industry. “I am delighted to welcome the Stable Recovery Women's program to Spy Coast Farm” said Lourie, owner and CEO of Spy Coast Farm. “Our farm is owned by a woman and is primarily managed by women. We work hard to educate and promote best practices in equine care while fostering a culture of acceptance and inclusion. As such, we believe that we are uniquely positioned to assist women in recovery. Our partnership with Stable Recovery has been impactful thus far and we look forward to having an even greater impact by hosting their women's program. We thank them for their trust in us to do so and look forward to the future success of the women we will work with” Christian Countzler, CEO and cofounder of Stable Recovery added: “This is a milestone for Stable Recovery and a win for Kentucky. With Spy Coast Farm, we're building a program where women can find stability, learn a skill, and leave stronger than they arrived mentally, physically, and most important, spiritually. This unique opportunity not only equips women with specialized skills for the equine industry, but also prepares them for long-term success in their careers and lives beyond recovery. They will spend three months in the School of Horsemanship before finding further employment in the industry upon completion of the school.” The post Stable Recovery And Spy Coast Farm Open Women’s School Of Horsemanship appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority has announced that jockey Paco Lopez has been suspended for six months, effective Sept. 23.View the full article

Goffs has catalogued 75 lots for its upcoming British NH Breeders Showcase, which takes place Friday, Oct. 31. In its third year, the sale will offer 65 NH foals in addition to 10 breeding stock lots, several of which at offered in foal to NH sires. The sale will feature foals by Bathyrhon, Capri, Choeur du Nord, Cracksman, Frontiersman, Jack Hobbs, Jeu St Eloi, Logician, Moises Has, Order of St George, Poet's Word, Postponed, Stradivarius, Subjectivist and Yeats. The breeding stock segment of the sale will follow the foal session. Covering sires include Golden Horn, Logician, Ocovango, Stradivarius, Subjectivist and Walk In The Park. “This sale was created at the request of British NH breeders who wanted a pre-Christmas quality outlet for NH foals in the UK and, in two years, they have ensured it is now an unmissable event,” said Goffs UK Managing Director Tim Kent. “In keeping with that strong start, Britain's leading NH breeders have once again thrown their weight behind this sale, and the catalogue is set to offer another standout selection, for which we are grateful and appreciative as it allows us to market the sale with confidence. To view the complete catalogue, click here. The post Goffs Catalogues 75 For British NH Breeders Showcase appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The boy-made-good story of Wootton Bassett is as time-honoured as life itself. To a degree, it is a rags-to-riches tale, particularly when it comes to the phenomenal trajectory of his stallion career. And it is a story which is ending far too soon. The 17-year-old stallion died on Tuesday at Coolmore Australia in the Hunter Valley after developing acute pneumonia from a bout of choke, a condition in which food blocks the oesophagus, often leading to complications. His passing comes at a time when Wootton Bassett was in his pomp; his reputation, already on a high, is being augmented year on year by a burgeoning array of runners at the highest level. In 2025 alone, they include the French Classic winners Henri Matisse and Camille Pissarro, G1 Prix du Moulin winner Sahlan, G1 Irish St Leger hero and Melbourne Cup hopeful Al Riffa, and the brilliant filly Whirl. A growing number of his sons at stud means that Wootton Bassett has also featured as paternal grandsire this year of Gezora and Woodshauna, winners of the G1 Prix de Diane and G1 Prix Jean Prat. His 2025 fee in Europe was €300,000, behind only Dubawi and Frankel, who, as the world's most expensive stallions, each stood for £350,000. Quite something for a horse who started his career covering mares in France for €6,000, dropping to €4,000 for his third and fourth seasons at Haras d'Etreham. Not everything comes down to money of course, but in the stallion business, tracking the rise and fall of nomination fees is a telling marker of a horse's success and reception by a market which can quickly be blown hither and thither by the winds of fashion. That Wootton Bassett would rise to the level he has would have been hard to predict. His first four crops at those lowly fees numbered 23, 18, 45 and 47 foals respectively. Then came a champion three-year-old from his first crop – the 2016 Prix du Jockey Club, Irish Champion Stakes, and Champion Stakes winner Almanzor – and the penny began to drop that this was a stallion who could be a little out of the ordinary. Thereafter, his stock began to rise – both literally when it came to crop numbers, and reputationally. His current tally of individual Group 1 winners stands at 16, but that will only grow in the years – perhaps even weeks – to come, as the autumn's major contests are settled. In this Saturday's G1 Middle Park Stakes, for example, his sons Puerto Rico, Kansas and Brussels remain engaged, while Beautify is among the fancied runners for the G1 Cheveley Park Stakes. Wootton Bassett's stallion career has been conducted from France, Ireland and Australia, but his life began in England where he was bred by Colin and Melba Bryce at their Laundry Cottage Stud. For a relatively small farm, the Hertfordshire nursery has packed quite a punch in recent years, with the 10-time Group 1 winner Via Sistina (Fastnet Rock) also being among the Bryces' graduates. Of the Iffraaj colt born on February 4, 2008, to their Primo Dominie mare Balladonia, Colin Bryce recalled on Tuesday, “I suppose there are two things about Wootton Bassett that I would say. One, he was the most incredibly chilled horse that we have ever had on the stud. He would lie down in his stable all the time, snoozing, sleeping, whatever, and you would give him a little bit of a tap and help him get ready for action, and he'd do whatever you wanted to do. Then when you'd finished, down he went again and had a gentle snooze. He was so easy to handle, so kind, and a beautiful, very dark day horse to go with it.” He continued, “And the second thing I would say about Wootton Bassett is, although we bred him and are very proud to have done so, really without the skill of Nicolas de Chambure and the way he developed the stallion's career, I think he wouldn't have got to where he got to. “We've been privileged to breed him, and we were privileged to be involved, using him to cover our mares and buying his early stock. We've been involved all the way through until he became too expensive for us at Coolmore in the last few years. But we still watched with interest, and have loved to see him doing so well. “Obviously he was massively upgrading his mares all the way through, and so there was a natural talent there, but I think Nicolas mined that very intelligently. He was a rising star of the stallion ranks, and has risen almost to the top of the pile. He may yet do so in memoriam.” It was Bobby O'Ryan who signed for the young Wootton Bassett at the DBS Premier Yearling Sale (now Goffs UK), buying him for £46,000 to join Richard Fahey's stable. He raced in the ownership of Frank Brady & The Cosmic Cases, who already had Wootton Bassett's half-brother, the seven-time winner and Listed-placed Mister Hardy (Kyllachy), in training. “I know our yard is sad this morning,” Fahey said on Tuesday, speaking from the Tattersalls Ireland Yearling Sale. “It's the people who looked after him that you feel for, the Coolmore team and everyone involved with him directly and the people who cared for him along the way.” From Fahey's Yorkshire base, Wootton Bassett ran in Scotland, England and France in his first unbeaten season, raking in the prize-money from York's DBS Premier Yearling Stakes and the Weatherbys Insurance £300,000 2-Y-O Stakes at Doncaster before completing his season with victory in the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, a race which had been won the previous year by another luminary of the European stallion ranks, Siyouni. “We knew he was a very good horse from the start really,” Fahey said. “We cheated a bit as we went for the sales races and took the easier option, but the Lagardere was always going to be his race. “He's been an incredible sire and an incredible horse, and he was a good-minded, kind horse.” At three, Wootton Bassett managed a fifth-placed finish in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains back at Longchamp, and was seventh in Frankel's St James's Palace Stakes. Dropping back from a mile, he ran twice more in the Prix Maurice de Gheest and Haydock Sprint Cup but never recaptured the winning ways of his juvenile season. Retiring after those four unplaced starts in 2011, he was bought by Nicolas de Chambure to stand at his family's Haras d'Etreham in Normandy. Not only did the stud play an important role as the home of Wootton Bassett in his formative years as a stallion, but Etreham is also the breeder of his breakout star Almanzor. The latter was bought by his trainer Jean-Claude Rouget for €100,000 and was one of two first-crop sons of Wootton Bassett to fetch six figures at the Arqana August Sale of 2014. That in itself was telling for a stallion who was launched at such a lowly fee. For de Chambure, the fourth generation of his family to take the helm at Haras d'Etreham, Wootton Bassett was the first stallion he signed up to join the roster in the year following his return to run the stud after stints working in Ireland, America and Australia. Casting his mind back to his decision to buy him, de Chambure said, “I've always been a bit cautious about too much inbreeding, and so he was a bit of an outcross and he was also carrying blood that we didn't really have much of in France. I thought he was going to be well suited to the French population of mares. “As a racehorse he showed toughness, and I know a lot of people don't believe it, but I really fell in love with him physically when I saw him at Richard Fahey's. It probably took a while for the breeders to share that. I was lucky that he transmitted his looks and his walk.” He added, “Ed Sackville was very important in making the deal happen at the time. We did the deal together and he introduced me to the owner and to Richard. He was also very positive about the horse, and having his confidence and his support was also a big help for me to make the deal.” Despite his own faith in Wootton Bassett, and the support of Colin Bryce as the first shareholder in the stallion's syndicate, de Chambure admits that it remains difficult to get a sire off the ground. “When you retire a horse it's a four-year commitment, so it's not easy. When you're syndicating those horses, even if you have a good group of loyal clients, in the end it's really you that has to carry the whole thing, with your team, so it can be a bit lonely. And it was: it felt very lonely indeed with Wootton Bassett for a few years. “But he's been so good; he could improve his mares so much. He was the horse of a lifetime, he got us out of trouble. Even with the difficult start, he pulled his way up and he made himself, really.” De Chambure adds, “That day in Chantilly when Almanzor won the Jockey Club, it was by far my best day, my best memory at the races, because it meant a lot for us. And just seeing Wootton Bassett continuing to do so well for Coolmore, who didn't go halfway in supporting him. They went all the way and sent all their best mares, and the results have been incredible. “But, you know, that's what makes it even more sad, because I think he would have been a breed-shaper. To have another few years with those really good mares, it would have been great to see. We've got a few generations to come, daughters and sons, and hopefully they will leave a strong mark.” Wootton Bassett has had no shortage of support in more recent years, and it is quantity which is backed up by quality. His departure will only enhance the demand for the remaining three crops of youngsters to come, beginning with the 19 yearlings at the Goffs Orby Sale next week and a further 30 at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Sale. The 206 mares registered as being covered by him earlier this year, in what has transpired to be his final season in Europe, include Lady Bowthorpe, Opera Singer, Ramatuelle, Tahiyra, and Treve, as well as the dams of Camille Pissarro, Churchill, Palace Pier, and Vandeek. The list goes on. Following his private purchase for an undisclosed but presumably vast sum, Wootton Bassett has been on the Coolmore roster since 2021, dividing his time between County Tipperary and shuttle stints to New South Wales. In Australia, his first-crop numbered 10 winners from 36 runners to put him in second place, behind Ole Kirk, in the racing season that ended in August. His return to Australia this year was at a record fee of A$385,000. “In his time at Coolmore, he developed into a world-class sire, with 25 stakes winners and six Group 1 winners from his current two- and three-year-old crops conceived in Ireland. Included amongst these are multiple Group 1-winning sons Camille Pissaro and Henri Matisse as well as this season's multiple Group 1-winning filly, Whirl,” read a statement released on Tuesday by Coolmore to announce the stallion's death. “His current two-year-old crop in Europe already includes six Group winners. Albert Einstein, who defeated subsequent Group 1 winner Power Blue in the G3 Marble Hill Stakes, is considered by both Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore to be one of the best two-year-olds ever seen in Ballydoyle.” At the time of writing, Wootton Bassett, who was the champion sire of two-year-olds in 2024, is poised to take that title again and to be the European champion sire of 2025. He has come a long way. The one consolation on a sad day for those involved in the horse's life is that, in a sense, the very best of the breed never die. Their bloodlines can live on for generations, and this indeed looks to be the case for Wootton Bassett. In that regard, his story has chapters still to be written, even though its leading actor has now left the stage. The post ‘Horse of a Lifetime’ Wootton Bassett Remembered On His Death At Age 17 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article