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Repole Stable's Breeders' Cup-bound homebred full-brothers champion and 'TDN Rising Star' Fierceness (City of Light) and Mentee (City of Light) turned in workouts on a brisk autumn morning over Saratoga's Oklahoma training track Thursday. Fierceness, who was last seen winning a thrilling renewal of the GI DraftKings Travers Stakes Aug. 24, breezed five furlongs to the outside of the stakes-placed Classic Catch (Classic Empire) in 1:01.69 (1/3). The GI Breeders' Cup Classic will be next for Fierceness. “It was another excellent breeze, pretty much what we've become accustomed to seeing from him,” Pletcher said. “Very relaxed throughout, finished up nicely, galloped out well. He's always been a really exceptional work horse, pretty push-button. It seems like he does it so easily.” “We wanted a good, solid work today, and I thought we got that,” Pletcher added. “I think physically, he's done really well. He's gotten bigger, stronger, and put on weight. You can see him maturing into a fall 3-year-old. I'm very pleased with his overall condition.” Shortly after Fierceness wrapped up his work, GIII Futurity Stakes winner Mentee breezed a half-mile in company with Breeders' Cup possible and maiden of three starts Noble Confessor (Quality Road) in :49.39 (3/14). “I thought it was a good work from him,” Pletcher said. “It looked like he was moving well. He's got a great personality and is very laid back and easy to train.” The victory in the Futurity awarded Mentee a berth into the five-furlong GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, but Pletcher said that his preference is the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at one mile. “I think right now the plan would be to enter the Juvenile Turf first preference and the Juvenile Turf Sprint second preference, just to keep our options open,” Pletcher said. LSU Stables' three-time GISW and 'TDN Rising Star' Far Bridge (English Channel) posted a five-furlong breeze Thursday over the Oklahoma turf training track, covering the distance solo in 1:01.47 (1/1). He is a leading contender for the GI Breeders' Cup Turf. “I'm very happy. It was a typical work from him,” said Miguel Clement, son of and assistant to trainer Christophe Clement. “He had his ears up, playing and looking happy. His next work will be in company next Friday. He does it so naturally and he enjoys it out there. Every furlong he was picking it up–he's enjoying it, he's thriving, and that's what we like to see.” Bregman Family Racing and Swinbank Stables' three-time stakes-winner Governor Sam (Improbable) returned to the worktab Thursday at Saratoga for the first time since winning the Listed Indian Summer Oct. 6 at Keeneland. He breezed four furlongs in :50.66 (1/1) over the Oklahoma turf. “We're 15 days out and he just ran 11 days ago–turf sprinters need to be on their toes, so we'll leave it at that,” trainer George Weaver said. “He's an easy horse to be around, he has a lot of class and handles shipping well.” The post Breeders’ Cup Brothers: Fierceness, Mentee Work at Saratoga for Breeders’ Cup appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Jockeys and Jeans, an all-volunteer group that has raised $3.4 million for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund, has named Mike Joyce its 2024 Person of Year. He will accept the award and speak about the need to aid disabled former jockeys during Jockeys and Jeans 10th annual event, at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Jan. 11. “I was reluctant to accept the award because as a board member of the PDJF, I feel like the work we do is our responsibility to the riders that risk their life every day for our entertainment,” said Joyce, a popular FanDuel Racing Analyst. “It's incumbent upon all of us to give back where we can. I look forward to being at the event and I am really honored to be the Jockeys and Jeans Person of the Year.” Joyce added, “I think jockeys are the only group of people risking their lives to bring racing fans enjoyment. I think everyone loves to show emotion toward the horse, but not the jockeys. When there is an accident on the track, people ask about the horse. I understand that, but it still bothers me a bit because the jockeys are human.” The post Mike Joyce Named Jockeys and Jeans Person of the Year appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Thirty-nine Thoroughbred aftercare organizations have been awarded accreditation for 2024, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance announced Thursday. The 39 organizations include 38 organizations who are continuing their accreditation and one that earned accreditation this year. Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance now has a network of 84 organizations with approximately 172 facilities in North America. The new organization earning accreditation this year is Champions Retreat. “We are excited to announce the accreditation of 84 organizations this year,” said Janice Towles, Director of Accreditation and Grants, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. “Their unwavering dedication to meeting the highest standards in Thoroughbred aftercare underscores their commitment to the retraining, retirement, and rehoming of these horses. This achievement reflects a collective effort to ensure a brighter future for Thoroughbreds after their racing careers.” Stacie Clark Rogers, Operations Consultant, Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, added, “We commend all the organizations that applied for accreditation this year. It is a rigorous process in which applicants undergo a series of reviews and inspections covering all aspects of their organization to demonstrate their adherence to the Code of Standards. All accredited applicants have shown adherence to non-profit operational standards and a remarkable commitment to excellence in Thoroughbred aftercare, reflecting their dedication to these horses and their futures.” The post Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Accredits 39 Organizations 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 that means some quality racing at both Addington (first race 4.34pm) and at Alexandra Park (first race 5.46pm). Addington will see the fifth and final heat of the McMillan Equine Feeds NZ Junior Drivers Championships (6.29pm) with Zev Meredith leading the field on 37 points, one ahead of 2020 champion Kerryn Tomlinson, and Crystal Hackett and Seth Hill right in contention on 33. Other features of the night include the appearance of star northern filly Duchess Megxit in the $25,000 Macca Lodge Hilarious Guest 3YO Fillies Classic (7.32pm) and the $25,000 Fahey Fence Hire Handicap Pace (8.57). Included in that field are gun four-year-olds Sooner The Bettor, Wag Star and Pinseeker against the likes of Franco Marek, Tact McLeod and Mach Shard. Auckland’s nine race programme is highlighted by the $30,000 Woodlands Stud – Silk Road Northern Series Final at 8.07pm while there will be Heats 1 and 2 of the latest Northern Metro Series for both the pacers and the trotters. The first five in each heat will be guaranteed a place in the two $35,000 finals next Friday. What A Minx rated chance in $30,000 Final at Alexandra Park By Dave Di Somma, Harness News Desk Canterbury trainer Stephen Boyd reckons he’s a bit “lucky” that What A Minx has made tonight’s $30,000 Woodlands Stud Silk Road Northern Spring Series Final for the fillies and mares at Alexandra Park. And with a bit more luck he says his four-year-old mare is a decent chance in what is looking like an open race. “She’s as bright as button in the paddock,” says Boyd, “and being second on the second row could be ok, it’s better than drawing eight or nine.” The daughter of Art Major is currently a $6 third favourite along with Mhai Surfer Girl, with Courtney Rose ($2.70) and Akatea ($5.50) rated ahead of them. “It looks like a good competitive race.” The final comes after the series’ five heats between September 13 and October 11. Heat winners You Little Beauty, Courtney Rose and Seaside Rose have all made the final while Wicked Wanda, the only dual heat winner, was scratched earlier this week. What A Minx makes the final despite having only one start in the series, a sixth behind Wicked Wanda on October 11. In that race she was taken back to last with driver Maurice McKendry denied a run in the vital stages. “Maurice said he just couldn’t find a gap.” Boyd decided to send the mare north from his Canterbury base for a number of reasons. “She’d had a gutsful of Addington, she wasn’t trying, and there weren’t any country meetings that suited so I talked to Spud (owner, Craig Crosse) and decided we’d go there.” What A Minx will stay in the north and will try and qualify for the $1m Golden Gait series at the Park on December 20. To be eligible horses need to have raced six times during the qualifying period (January 1 – December 6). So far What A Minx has won six from 52 and $93,118 and earlier in her career was good enough to finish fourth in the 2023 Magness Benrow Sires’ Stakes 3YO Fillies Championship, three lengths between the invincible Millwood Nike. She was also third in the Group 2 2023 Macca Lodge-Nevele R Stud Southern Oaks Final. Boyd says a series of injuries and niggles stopped her from being as good as she could have been. “As a two-year-old she did have a joint issue and it probably did take some of the speed away.” What A Minx’s immediate future after tonight is to get in foal “in the next few weeks” before tackling the Golden Gait series, before retirement. “If we get a good mile time and get up to $100,000 that would be good on her broodmare page.” View the full article

Rolls will contest the New World Otaki Handicap (1600m) at Otaki on Saturday. Photo: Reg Ryan (Racing Photos) Australian visitor Rolls is aiming to finish a frustrating trans-Tasman mission on a high note at Otaki on Saturday. Rolls travelled over from Maddie Raymond’s Warrnambool base in late September for a shot at the Group 1 Arrowfield Stud Plate (1600m), but the eight-year-old failed to make the final field at Matamata, instead having to start in the undercard 2000m race where he finished a meritorious second to Wolfgang. “I thought he was really good, we’d obviously trained him to be running at a mile, so he was a bit on the fresher side rather than the 2000m, particularly being five-and-a-half weeks between runs,” Raymond said. “He had to carry near-topweight up there, so I thought it was a nice run.” Following the race, Raymond shifted her focus to last Saturday’s Group 1 Livamol Classic (2040m) at Te Rapa, but another stroke of bad luck on the morning of the $550,000 feature continued his Kiwi woes. “He travelled up to Te Rapa on the Friday, and unfortunately on Saturday morning, he was just brewing up a foot abscess overnight,” Raymond said. “We obviously couldn’t run him in the Livamol, but we were able to get a farrier to him in the afternoon to fix that up and he’s 100 percent now. “We missed out on getting a run in the Arrowfield and then after missing the Livamol as well, so it’s been an expensive trip over for the owners. “He’s in such terrific order and has been the whole time he’s been in New Zealand, other than last Saturday, so he’s definitely ready to go to the races and do something while he’s still over there. “He’s stabled at Otaki, so it made sense to have a look at this race.” Raymond travelled back to Melbourne on Wednesday evening where she soon will be joined by her charge, who has been right at home at his temporary base. “He’ll come home on a flight next Wednesday, he’s been in work for quite some time, so we’ll let him have a break then prep him for our winter over here,” she said. “He’s thrived, I don’t think he’s left a scrap of feed since he’s been over there and he’s thoroughly enjoyed the environment. “He’s been training down at the Peka Peka Beach every day, it’s a beautiful beach and surface to work him on.” The Listed Warrnambool Cup (2350m) winner will carry the 60kg topweight in Saturday’s race, where he will be ridden by regular hoop Harry Grace. Horse racing news
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Claiborne Farm near Paris, Ky., announced many of its advertised stud fees for 2025, led by the venerable War Front, with new sires Prince of Monaco and Bright Future joining the roster.View the full article

5th-Keeneland, $100,000, Msw, 10-17, 2yo, 7f, 1:28.92, ft, 3 lengths. UNCLE JIM (c, 2, City of Light–Now Now, by Tiznow), the 6-5 favorite, was unhurried and rated off the pace while racing along the rail through a quarter in :22.46 and a half in :45.71. Behind a wall of horses as the field bunched up nearing the stretch, the dark bay colt found clear sailing along the rail and closed powerfully to win going away by three lengths. Copp (Blame) was second. Uncle Jim, a $240,000 KEESEP yearling, has a weanling half-brother by Mandaloun. Now Now, who sold carrying the Mandaloun colt for $25,000 at the 2023 Keeneland November sale, was bred to Maxfield this year. The mare is a half-sister to multiple graded winner Listen Here (Gulch), as well as to the dam of Grade I winner La Coronel (Colonel John). Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $57,350. O-Robert LaPenta & Madaket Stables LLC; B-Kim & Rodney Nardelli & William Werner (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. The post City of Light’s Uncle Jim Storms Home First in Keeneland Debut appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The action at Tattersalls continued apace on Thursday as Book 3 of the October Yearling Sale kicked off with a Whitsbury Manor Stud-offered Havana Grey (GB) filly fetching 200,000gns to Alex Elliott on behalf of Amo Racing. That result matched the record price at Book 3 and became the most expensive filly ever sold at the sale. Overall, trade was good with the 6,451,000gns turnover down just 1% on last year. The average rose by 7% to 26,331gns, the median fell by 5% to 20,000 and the clearance rate was up by 1% to 88%. The Havana Grey filly was reported to have compared favourably with the Group 1-placed Arabian Dusk (GB) (Havana Grey {GB}) at the same stages in their development by Elliott. That filly was sourced by Mags O'Toole and Norman Williamson for 80,000gns at the Tattersalls Somerville Sale before being sold by Katie Walsh's Greenhills Farm for 525,000gns at the Craven Breeze-Up Sale earlier this year and she has very much flown the flag for the stallion in the juvenile ranks this year. Elliott, who was standing beside Williamson during the bidding, explained how that leading consignor was complimentary of his new acquisition. “She has been bought for Amo Racing and George Boughey will train her,” Elliott said. “She is a standout horse in Book 3. I knew the breeze-up guys would be in, and Anthony Stroud, who bought Arabian Dusk at the breeze-ups. I was standing beside Norman Williamson, who consigned Arabian Dusk, and it is good to hear that at the same time last year, he reported this filly was a better filly than Arabian Dusk. She was the main target today.” Wednesday's sale represented more good news for Havana Grey and Whitsbury Manor Stud, whose Ed Harper commented, “This is the last lower-priced crop by Havana Grey so there are some mixed pedigrees out there, as you would expect, and we wanted to make sure he had a real proper one.” He added, “We always liked her at home, but she is a late April foal and she has done so well, we did not expect her to do as well as she has and she did not look like a late-season foal. Alex and Amo and the team have been big supporters of the sire from early on – they just want to buy the best, and we brought her here hoping she was going to be the best in the sale.” Time Test Colt Lives Up To Billing The Time Test (GB) half-brother to the Group 1-placed juvenile Simmering (GB) was billed as one of the star acts at Book 3 and the WH Bloodstock-consigned colt did not disappoint when knocked down to Najd Stud for 110,000gns. Trained by Ollie Sangster, Simmering has emerged as a teak-tough juvenile this season, winning a Group 2 and Group 2 before chasing home Lake Victoria (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) in the G1 Moyglare Stud Stakes. Bloodstock agent Nico Archdale commented, “He is a half to a very smart horse this year in Simmering and by a sire who does very well in Saudi. He goes to Saudi from here, and I am delighted to purchase him for Prince Faisal and Najd Stud.” On the business carried out on behalf of Najd Stud, he continued, “We bought another by Time Test in Book 1 [Lot 150], and seven yearlings in Book 2-they are all going to Saudi, apart from the Sea The Stars [Lot 748] colt who goes to Roger Varian. “Time Test is doing very well out in Saudi, he is flying out there and has had a top rated two-year-old. It has been a very strong market here over the two weeks, there have been some lovely horses here.” This colt is out of the Fastnet Rock mare Cashla Bay, the dam of two winners from three runners, bred by Lofts Hall Stud. Breeder Hugo Lascelles was at Tattersalls to see the sale and said, “Simmering has done us well this summer, she has been very well trained by Ollie Sangster. I am very pleased with that price, he is a very nice horse.” Browne Reinvests Pinhooking Riches In Blue Point Colt A number of leading breeze-up buyers struggled to get in on the action at any real significant level at Tattersalls during Book 1 and 2, but legend of the game Willie Browne was rewarded for sticking it out to the bitter end when going to 150,000gns to secure a Blue Point (Ire) colt from New England Stud. “It was all breeze-up money on this colt, but I think he is a good horse,” Browne afterwards. “The sire is very good. I have had a good price for one by the sire before. For me this is the best horse here today-you are just trying to buy a quick horse if you can and I think he looks quick.” Browne was reinvesting some of the riches earned at Park Paddocks on Wednesday, where a Territories (Ire) colt that he part-owned with Mark Dwyer sold to Sumbe for 750,000gns having been sourced for just 65,000gns. Commenting on trade, Browne added, “It has been very tough to buy-this is the sixth I have managed to buy. The Territories is a gorgeous horse and it was a great result yesterday. That result was way above expectations-and the money has all been spent on this lad.” Golden touch It was at this sale 12 months ago that Luke Coen of 1-Cross Stables turned water into wine when Invincible Spirit (Ire) dilly, who he sourced for €23,000, sold to Joseph O;Brien for 115,000gns. The young head on wise shoulders was back near the top of the table at Book 3 on Thursday when his Without Parole colt kept the consignor in profit. Bought for 21,000gns, the Without Parole went the way of Stuart Williams for 70,000gns. Buy of the day You can't beat a pocket rocket and Jack Channon lot 1378, and A'Ali (Ire) filly consigned by Newsells Park Stud, was exactly that. She was bought by agent Armando Duarte and trainer Jack Channon for 15,000gns. She looks an early type and, given she is GBB 100%, could be capable of bagging plenty of prize-money and bonuses in the first couple of months of the season. The post Havana Grey Filly Headlines Book 3 As Momentum Continues At Tattersalls appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

A contentious, years-long legal battle over the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) appears headed for a showdown in the highest court in the land. At the opposite ends of any future court ruling is one that could essentially impact just the future of horse racing, or one that could take a wrecking ball to various core pillars of modern life. Industry players' stance on HISA can probably be boiled down into three main camps: those who are in ideological lock-step with the new federal body of governance; those who agree with the fundamental premise of federal industry oversight but have concerns with key aspects of the current program, especially when it comes to enforcement; and those who are completely opposed to what HISA represents. Though industry opinions over HISA appear to have no hard and fast political demarcation, the latter camp has courted outside attention from a section of American society, typically from the far right, which believes the government has been far too liberal in the powers it has given federal agencies. They're buoyed by a Supreme Court sympathetic to their fears. Whichever camp you're in, chances are you're already feeling reverberations from these various HISA lawsuits. While HISA declined to say exactly how much to date the industry has spent defending the law, background sources put the cost at over $5 million. If the Supreme Court decides to take this case, however, the implications from the ruling could reverberate far outside the sport. “It certainly is going to be a big deal beyond just horse racing,” said Daniel Suhr, president of the Center for American Rights, which is spearheading the Fifth Circuit case on behalf of the HBPA. Coady In fact, the case makes up one of a sweeping set of lawsuits working their way up the Circuit Courts designed to fundamentally rethink the way that government operates, with pointed implications for the nation's finance and commerce sectors, some systems of which have been in place for nearly a century or more. As Christine Chabot, who teaches administrative and constitutional law at Marquette University Law School, describes this scenario, “it's open season on the administrative state.” Fifth Circuit Case At the heart of the Fifth Circuit's decision which catapulted the case up to the doors of the Supreme Court is the belief that because the HISA Authority has sweeping enforcement capabilities—from subpoenas to investigative powers to penalties—and because the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) only has authority to review the penalties on the backend (in other words, once they've already been meted out), that is insufficient to protect against the private non-delegation doctrine. In a nutshell, the private non-delegation doctrine says “that Congress or agencies cannot delegate extensive governmental authority to a private actor without being able to do oversight,” said Todd Philips, assistant professor of law in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He also served as an attorney for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Administrative Conference of the United States. The HISA Authority, of course, is an example of one of these private actors that perform extensive governmental functions. And the private non-delegation doctrine is one of the pillars of the administrative state targeted by groups led chiefly by powerful right-leaning organizations like the Heritage Foundation. The Fifth Circuit case against HISA was originally led by the Liberty Justice Center, a nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in constitutional cases. When Suhr splintered away from the Liberty Justice Center to start the Center for American Rights, he took the HBPA's case with him. “When I left the Justice Center, I didn't take any other case with me. We were really trying to get a fresh start. The one exception was this case, and that was because we were going to trial something like two weeks after I changed jobs,” said Suhr, who explained he had no background in horse racing prior to his involvement in the case. The Liberty Justice Center—which recorded revenues of roughly $2.3 million in 2022, according to Pro Publica—lists many current and prior cases targeting union powers, the administrative state, and public health and schooling, among others. The ring-wing billionaire Charles Koch is among those who have supported the Liberty Justice Center, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The only other cases listed on the Center for American Rights' website involve recent complaints filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC) claiming biased news coverage by CBS and ABC detrimental to former president Donald Trump. Sarah Andrew The Center for American Rights—which is working pro bono for the HBPA—is only required to disclose its donors to the IRS. “We don't disclose our donors by specifics. I can say in general that we receive support from corporations, from individuals and from philanthropic foundations,” Suhr said. For any industry stakeholders who might be interested, could Suhr disclose the identity of any of those donors? Maybe just the biggest? “No,” Suhr replied. “Could we? Yes. Do we? No.” If the Supreme Court does indeed take up the Fifth Circuit case, Suhr said he hoped the Supreme Court will use the case to, at the very least, significantly curtail the powers of private organizations like the HISA Authority and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), calling them “fundamentally incompatible in my view with the structure laid out” in the constitution. “I'm deeply skeptical in any industry setting you can have a nonprofit organization write the rules, enforce the rules and adjudicate violations of the rules. That is an incredible concentration of power and I'm skeptical you can concentrate all that power in a federal agency,” Suhr said. “The idea that you can concentrate all that power in a non-central, non-profit organization? Yeah, no way,” he added. What, however, would Suhr say to industry stakeholders uncomfortable with the industry's future potentially shaped by an organization that hold beliefs to which they're strongly opposed? “Plenty of people on the left who have a strong civil liberty bent would say, 'oh my goodness, the idea that a regulator can show up and search my property without a warrant, seize evidence without a warrant, order me to take a blood test or draw blood on my horse without a warrant, that makes every civil liberty bone in my body shake in fear,'” said Suhr. “Regardless of how you think about the world politically,” he added, “there are serious constitutional problems with HISA that people recognize and experience in their own lives.” In response to questions about HISA's warrantless authority, an agency spokesperson wrote that while HISA and HIWU have access to “places of business of Covered Persons that relate to the care, treatment, training, and racing of Covered Horses,” HISA and HIWU have not thus far accessed any private farms. “If a Covered Horse has been selected for Out-of-Competition testing and is located on private property, HIWU will call the trainer for permission to enter the property. However, it can also be arranged for the Covered Horse to be moved to another location for testing, e.g., a racetrack, within six hours of notification,” the HISA spokesperson wrote. They added that HISA and HIWU “have no authority to demand a blood test from a Covered Person.” Broader Concerns The Fifth Circuit HISA case, said Chabot, forms one part of a broad, concerted attack on the government's involvement in key parts of everyday administrative life. “These lawsuits are definitely designed to push back against regulation and make it harder to do the business of government that has been done for decades, if not since the founding fathers,” said Chabot. Still, Chabot questions whether the private non-delegation doctrine will prove the one issue the Supreme Court wants to make its “big bold constitutional ruling on.” She sees a case to overturn “Humphrey's Executor”—which could see the president afforded the unilateral authority to fire anyone under the government's employee—as a “far bigger target for them.” But if the Supreme Court does make a “big bold constitutional ruling” on the HISA case, a “very extreme” decision could see the government barred from relying on self-regulatory organizations (SROs)—another term for a private entity like the HISA Authority—to regulate industry, said Phillips. “As long as the Supreme Court takes the case, it could just fundamentally re-write the private non-delegation doctrine if it wanted to,” he said. Sarah Andrew Because Congress in its current dysfunctional state struggles to write and re-write laws quickly and efficiently, that could spell trouble for many governmental agencies like FINRA, which makes sure the broker-dealer industry operates fairly and honestly. “We could end up in a regime where illicit activities go un-enforced because the SRO can't enforce them, and Congress hasn't given the government the authority to enforce them… Again, I'm very concerned,” said Phillips. Industry Involvement Among some of the key legal players in the fight over HISA, there appears to be something of an ideological divide. Defending HISA is attorney Pratik Shah with the multinational law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. While Shah's list of cases is varied, it includes multiple instances of defending key pillars of the federal administrative state. In his earlier legal days, he served as law clerk to liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Among the litigants is Texas Racing Commission executive director Amy Cook. With no prior experience in the racing industry, Cook in her position has been working with the Texas Attorney General's office “to successfully attack the constitutionality of the HISA law,” according to commission chairman Robert Pate. According to Cook's Linkedin page, she does pro bono work for the Alliance Defending Freedom. While the organization says it is not involved in any of the suits against HISA, Cook represents an influential official with a far-right agenda who is trying to dismantle HISA. Designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Alliance Defending Freedom reportedly seeks “cultural renewal” through recovering “the robust Christendomic theology of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries,” according to its supporters. But as NHBPA CEO Eric Hamelback sees it, from within the industry this case “is not and never has been” about politics. “There were Republicans and Democrats who sponsored and pushed HISA through Congress, and there are R's and D's among my Full Board members and other groups that have opposed HISA,” Hamelback wrote. “This is a fight for and to protect basic American principles, like the people we vote for should be the people who make the law, or that the people who have power should be transparent and accountable with how they use that power, or how they use our mandatory fee dollars,” he added. When asked about some of the broader implications from the case, Hamelback wrote that “we do not feel as if this is our concern, because our concern is for the horsemen. Certainly, we hear the noise about FINRA and the SEC in this case, and if some stockbroker wants to sue FINRA and the SEC after we win and argue why our precedent applies to them, fine—that's not our issue. This is and will remain our focus—that being, making sure that horsemen's rights are respected and our regulators act in a constitutional way,” Hamelback wrote. As for the Center for American Rights' donor base, Hamelback wrote that Suhr is supported by “individuals who are inside and outside of the horse racing industry who care that this issue gets resolved.” According to Suhr, similar scrutiny should also be placed on the HISA Authority using monies accrued from mandatory fee assessments to pay for legal representation. “While people may or may not agree with everything my law firm or my former law firm does in other cases, we've represented the HBPA for free throughout because they are patriotic, philanthropic supporters of our work,” said Suhr. “On the other side, the Authority has taken millions of dollars in mandatory fees that are coerced from unwilling horsemen and spent it on high-priced DC lawyers to defend the law on the other side.” When asked to respond to Suhr's comments, a HISA spokesperson wrote that the equine fatality rate has recently declined markedly over four consecutive quarters, and that the HISA Authority will continue to do “everything in its power” to protect the “safety and integrity” of Thoroughbred racing. “As part of this commitment, legal expenses have been incurred in response to serial litigation, primarily driven by the HBPA. Rather than filing a single challenge, the HBPA chose to initiate legal actions in five separate federal courts, significantly increasing the costs,” the statement read. “However, we believe that these legal defense efforts are essential to uphold the Authority's mandate and protect the long-term future of the sport.” The post HISA Supreme Court Showdown Could Have Major Implications for Everyday Americans appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

I Wish I Win will contest the $20 million The Everest (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday. Photo: Grant Peters Kiwi-bred sprinter I Wish I Win will be flying the New Zealand flag high when he heads to Randwick on Saturday, where he will be seeking redemption in the $20 million The Everest (1200m). The Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained gelding was runner-up to Think About It in the rich feature last year and he will once again fill Trackside Media’s slot this weekend, where he will jump from the more favourable barrier nine compared to his ace draw last year. “We have worked out that one is not in his favour and of his last five or six runs he has drawn one four times,” said Waikato Stud principal Mark Chittick, who bred the gelding and races him in partnership with Moody. “We certainly wanted to be outside of four and it wouldn’t have worried us if it was the outside barrier. It (barrier nine) sets us up perfectly. We are hoping we can sit three back, a couple out, he can do what he wants to do and hopefully finish first. “I think there is a bit of speed in the race, which is probably a bit different to last year, which is great.” Chittick is excited to have partnered with Trackside Media once again and said second time round has felt like a more enjoyable experience. “It is fantastic to be tied up with Trackside again and going over there and having a crack at it with New Zealand in behind us,” he said. “Last year, he was the first New Zealand horse to run in the race and Entain was new in town. It was full on. “By the time we got to about now, and certainly Saturday, it was like ‘let’s just get on with this’, whereas this year it has been a bit easier to get on with our day job, which is day and night at this time of the year. “Around the farm, the buzz is really building towards Saturday and we are really looking forward to it. “Happy horse, happy trainer and happy owners. It is a hit-and-run mission this year (heading over from New Zealand) and hopefully we can come home with the prize.” Moody is just as excited about the weekend and said I Wish I Win is in great order ahead of his weekend assignment. “Myself and Katherine are proud to be representing Entain and Waikato Stud with I Wish I Win in The Everest on Saturday. He is in great order,” he said. “He will have a few days there to settle in pre-race. A few showers of rain are forecast up there, but that won’t disappoint us, it takes a little bit of jar out of the ground for him. “I think barrier nine is ideal, he will be able to sit midfield or the second half three deep and get a bit of cover and be the first one to peel and hopefully the first one over the line.” Horse racing news
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Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., announced many of its advertised stud fees for 2025, led by the venerable War Front, with new sires Prince of Monaco and Bright Future joining the roster.View the full article

Claiborne Farm has announced the advertised fees for its 2025 stallion roster, led once again by the venerable War Front. War Front, a son of the mighty Danzig, will stand for an advertised fee of $75,000. He is North America's leading sire by lifetime percentage of stakes winners and graded stakes winners. This year, he added to his impressive list of top runners with GI E. P. Taylor Stakes winner Full Count Felicia, and Grade III winners Fort Washington, First World War, and Goliad, winner of the $2,000,000 Mint Millions Stakes. New to the Claiborne Farm roster for 2025 are Prince of Monaco (Speightstown) and Bright Future (Curlin). Prince of Monaco, one of the top dirt sprinters of his class and the only son of legendary stallion Speightstown to win a Grade I at age two, is targeting this year's GI Breeders' Cup Sprint and will have his fee announced at a later date. Bright Future, winner of the $1-million GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, will debut at $12,500. The 5-year-old son of Curlin won five of 11 career starts and earned $947,940 for owners Repole Stable and St. Elias Stables and Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher. Following is a complete list of Claiborne Farm's 2025 stallion roster and advertised fees: Annapolis – $12,500; Blame – $25,000; Bright Future – $12,500; Demarchelier (GB) – $5,000; First Samurai – $5,000; Lea – Private; Prince of Monaco – TBD; Runhappy – $7,500; Silver State – $15,000; War Front – $75,000; and War of Will – TBD. The post Led by War Front, Claiborne Farm Announces Fees for 2025 Breeding Season appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Taylor Made Stallions has set its 2025 stallion roster and fees for the upcoming breeding season, headed by Not This Time, who will stand for $175,000 S&N. Not This Time (Giant's Causeway) is the sire of Grade I winner and North American record-setter Cogburn and multiple graded stakes winner Next, a dominating winner of seven straight. Both are headed to the Breeders' Cup. Not This Time ranks second by percentage of stakes horses at 15.2 percent. He is the third-ranked sire by stakes horses with 31; and is fourth by graded stakes winners with seven. Not This Time is also a leading sire of 2-year-olds this year. In the sale ring, Not This Time had four yearlings sell for a million dollars or more in 2024, including the $3.4-million sales topper at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, the second-highest priced yearling in North America this year. Angel of Empire (Classic Empire) will stand his first season at stud for $7,500 in 2025. Winner of the 2023 GI Arkansas Derby just like his sire–the 2016 champion 2-year-old male–Angel of Empire also won the GII Risen Star S. and finished a rallying third as the race favorite in the GI Kentucky Derby for owner Albaugh Family Stables and trainer Brad Cox. The 2025 roster of stallions and fees for Taylor Made Stallions are as follows: Angel of Empire ($7,500); Dr. Schivel ($10,000); Early Voting ($12,500); Idol ($7,500); Instagrand ($10,000); Instilled Regard ($10,000); Knicks Go (TBD); Not This Time ($175,000); Rowayton ($2,500); and Tacitus ($10,000). The post Not This Time Anchors Taylor Made’s 2025 Stallion Roster appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

She Is For Me Boys (GB) (Clovis Du Berlais {Fr}) and 159 other lots are part of the Tattersalls Online October Sale catalogue which was released on Thursday. The sale, which runs from Oct. 24-25, features 102 horses in- and out-of-training, 30 yearlings, 17 broodmares, four foals, four stores, and three point-to-pointers. Sold as lot 86, She Is For Me Boys won her point-to-point debut at Toomebridge on Oct. 5. Her family features Queen Mother Champion Chase winner Klairon Davis (Fr) (Rose Laurel {Ire}). Grade 3 hurdle winner Aramax (Ger) (Maxios {GB}) (lot 21) and multiple graded-placed hurdler/chaser Ciel De Neige (Fr) (Authorized {Ire}) (lot 33) are part of the catalogue. Zminiature (GB) (Territories {Ire}) (lot 17), listed placed at Sandown, as well as yearlings by Cotai Glory (GB), Dandy Man (Ire), Mehmas (Ire), and Territories will also visit the virtual ring. There are also a pair of mares in foal to Serge Prokofiev, while Awtaad (Ire), and Nando Parrado (GB) are also represented. The first lot is scheduled to close beginning at noon on Friday, Oct. 25. The post Debut P2P Winner One Of The Tattersalls Online October Catalogue Stars appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Arthur's Ride (Tapit), a disappointing fifth in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup Stakes Sept. 1 after posting one of the more impressive performances of the year in the GI Whitney Stakes Aug. 3, remains on target for the GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar Nov. 2. The stunning gray breezed five furlongs in 1:02.87 (1/2) for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott over Saratoga's Oklahoma training track over a surface labeled as “good” on a rainy Sunday morning Oct. 13, his fourth workout since the Jockey Club Gold Cup. “Everything's been normal,” Mott said standing outside of his office at Barn 80. “He's been training with good energy, eating well. All the things you want to see. There are no negatives that I see at the moment.” Arthur's Ride, a $250,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Glassman Racing, posted a breakthrough performance with a career-best 111 Beyer Speed Figure in a double-digit victory in an optional claimer going 1 1/4 miles at Saratoga June 7. He ran nine rivals off their feet following an aggressive ride from Junior Alvarado while making his stakes debut over a muddy track in the 'Win and You're In' Whitney. He tired to fifth, beaten 9 1/2 lengths, as the 4-5 favorite after facing some early pressure from eventual winner Highland Falls (Curlin) in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. Arthur's Ride gearing up for ⁦@BreedersCup⁩ Classic over the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga pic.twitter.com/KPEaUzYiMn — Steve Sherack (@SteveSherackTDN) October 12, 2024 “I guess the biggest step was coming out of the allowance race into the Whitney,” Mott said. “That was a huge jump, then we ran back in four weeks and probably as big of a race that he ran in the Whitney, I could see that he could possibly regress a little bit in the Jockey Gold Cup. Although I thought he was probably good enough to do it, he regressed a little bit, and now he's had a little more time to recover.” Mott added, “I look for him to come back in the Breeders' Cup a little bit.” While not ready to talk race strategy for Arthur's Ride in the Classic this far out–pre-entries for the Breeders' Cup will be announced Wednesday, Oct. 23–Mott said that his takeaway from the Jockey Club Gold Cup was that, “The horse doesn't need to be on the lead.” Other potential 2024 Breeders' Cup runners for Mott include the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf-bound War Like Goddess (English Channel). The 7-year-old mare worked four furlongs in :51.66 (70/84) over the Oklahoma training track Oct. 12. This will be the fourth and final trip to the Championships for the popular two-time GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic S. heroine, who has been entered by owner George Krikorian for the Fasig-Tipton November sale. She was third as the favorite in the 2021 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar, third against males in the 2022 GI Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland and a troubled seventh in last year's Turf at Santa Anita. She came within a half-length of making it three straight wins against the boys in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic at the Big A Sept. 28. Juddmonte homebred and 'TDN Rising Star' Scylla (Tapit) worked a bullet four furlongs in :48.21 (1/31) for Mott over the Oklahoma training track Oct. 11. The well-related daughter of Close Hatches (First Defence) heads to the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint following second-place finishes in the 1 1/16-mile GI Clement L. Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar Aug. 3 and seven-furlong GI Ballerina Handicap at Saratoga Aug. 24, respectively. Lawrence Goichman homebred Scythian (Tiz the Law) punched her ticket to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf with an 11-1 upset in the 'Win and You're In' GII Miss Grillo Stakes at the Belmont at Aqueduct meet Oct. 6. The New York-bred, one of four stakes winners for her freshman sire, is now two-for-two for Mott on the turf. “They're all nice enough to warrant giving them a chance and seeing what we've got,” Mott said. Recognized as Outstanding Trainer at the 2023 Eclipse Awards, Mott had three winners–Cody's Wish (Curlin) (Dirt Mile), Elite Power (Curlin) (Sprint) and Just F Y I (Justify) (Juvenile Fillies)–at last year's Championships held at Santa Anita. Cody's Wish and Elite Power were also Breeders' Cup winners at Keeneland in 2022. The post With Jockey Club Gold Cup Disappointment in Rear View, Arthur’s Ride ‘Training with Good Energy’ for Classic appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Claiborne Farm has secured the breeding rights to Prince of Monaco, one of the top dirt sprinters of his class and the only son of top sire Speightstown to win a grade 1 at age 2. View the full article

Breeders’ Cup World Championships hopefuls Mufasa, Gold Phoenix, Kilwin, and Pandora’s Gift are part of the 12 offerings by Keeneland for their Championship Sale Oct. 30.View the full article

Qatar Racing's homebred New Century, the full brother to the most expensive colt ever sold at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, has been reported in great shape as his Breeders' Cup assignment looms.View the full article

Twenty years after the improbable victory of Singletary in the 2004 Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T), Little Red Feather Racing brings a trio of starters to the 2024 World Championships at Del Mar.View the full article

Casa Creed (Jimmy Creed), a two-time winner of the GI Fourstardave H. at Saratoga and GI Jaipur S. at Belmont Park, will command a $10,000 stud fee in his first season at stud at Mill Ridge Farm in 2025, it was announced Thursday. “He showed up for every race and was beaten only once more than four lengths in his (28) graded stakes–what a brilliant racehorse and one who will contribute to our breed,” said Mill Ridge's General Manager Price Bell. With five graded stakes winners this year, Oscar Performance (Kitten's Joy) is currently the leading third-crop sire of graded stakes winners by percentage of starters. He will command a $45,000 LF stud fee at Mill Ridge in 2025. “From Trikari's brilliant 3-year-old campaign culminating with his Grade I win, Endlessly running well in the Kentucky Derby, to Tumbarumba considering a run in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, it has been an inspiring year for Oscar Performance's offspring on the track,” Bell said. Aloha West (Hard Spun), winner of the 2021 GI Breeders' Cup Sprint, will stand for $8,500 LF. “His foals are outstanding and we look forward to the public assessing them in November,” said Bell. The post Casa Creed Joins Oscar Performance and Aloha West for Mill Ridge’s 2025 Stallion Roster appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The inaugural Keeneland Championship Sale–part glitzy party, part horse auction–will be held in the Del Mar paddock Oct. 30, offering invitation-only attendees, as well as off-site bidders, the chance to become owners of horses running in the Breeders' Cup at the oceanside oval just days later. The catalogue for the auction was released Thursday, revealing full or fractional interests available in four Breeders' Cup contenders, as well as stallion share in a fourth championship starter. The 12 offerings in the auction also include a half-sister to a Breeders' Cup runner, a 3-year-old heading for a Grade I race later in the month and stallion share in champion Flightline. “We spend a lot of time talking about what's good for the market. What would be exciting for the market, what are ways to get new owners engaged, what is the market looking for,” Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin said of the inception of the championship sale. “The more we talked, the more we thought it would be really fun to offer an opportunity to get engaged with a horse that obviously has a lot of action in the next days following the sale and potentially even the ability to roll it right back into the [Keeneland November] sales ring. It just seemed like a great opportunity to create a lot of excitement and fun around what is already a tremendous week for the sport with the Breeders' Cup championships.” Arvin admitted part of the inspiration for the sale came from the Goffs London Sale, an auction held on the eve of the Royal Ascot meeting which offers bidders the chance to buy entries for the legendary meet. But another inspiration was provided by a pre-Breeders' Cup party Keeneland hosted two years ago. “We hosted a party the Tuesday or Wednesday before the Breeders' Cup when it was here in 2022 and we hosted it out at Castle & Key [Distillery],” said Arvin. “We found it was a really unique and fun experience. We started with that. We say all the time, many of the people involved in this sport at the highest levels as principals are great businesspeople and work really hard at other things. And part of the reason that they want to be involved in our sport is for fun. We want to provide that unique, top-level experience for our people.” Once the concept for the auction was in place, the Keeneland teamed move on to logistics. With limited capacity in the Del Mar paddock, on-site participation for the party/auction will be by invitation only. “The people who are there will be some of our sellers and accredited buyers who are pre-registered and have gone through the paper work,” explained Keeneland Vice President of Racing Tony Lacy. “They are green-lighted for the sale itself.” The party in the paddock will begin at 5 p.m. PT, with the sale starting at 6:30 p.m. After the dozen horses are offered, the party will resume. “It's a party. And we want it to be party,” Lacy said. “We want it to be fun. The experience is very much a part of, and lending into, what the world championships are. And that is a celebration.” Days after hosting the Breeders' Cup in 2022, Keeneland opened its November Breeding Stock Sale by offering a share in recently retired GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner Flightline. In front of a packed pavilion–and with plenty of fanfar–the share sold for $4.6 million. The Championship Sale is an extension of that sort of energy-creating initiative, according to Lacy. “As you see at the sales, we are all about trying to create an environment where everybody is enjoying themselves,” Lacy said. “It creates the synergy that allows people to feel a part of the action. This allows people to potentially be a part of the action at the Breeders' Cup on some horses or in the future endeavors of some very high-class horses. I think that in itself creates a lot of buzz.” While on-site attendance will be limited, those interested can take part in the festivities–and the bidding–remotely. FanDuel will provide coverage of the sale on its racing channel and on its app from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Fans can also watch the action on Keeneland's YouTube channel and Gabby Gaudet will provide coverage from the paddock. Keeneland will also offer phone and on-line bidding to registered buyers. The dozen horses catalogued for the auction include 25% interests in GI Breeders' Cup Mile/Turf contender Gold Phoenix (Ire) (Belardo {Ire}) (hip 2) and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf contender Kilwin (Twirling Candy) (hip 8); and a 50% interest in GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile hopeful Mufasa (Chi) (Practical Joke) (hip 9). Pandora's Gift (Ire) (Churchill {Ire}) (hip 11), heading either for the GI Breeders' Cup F/M Sprint or GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. Also on offer will be a stallion share in GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint contender Cogburn (Not This Time) (hip 5). “We threw a wide net out to the industry at large, looking primarily for horses with connections to the Breeders' Cup,” Keeneland Director of Sales Operations Cormac Breathnach said of the recruitment process for the inaugural event. “We are very excited with the 12 horses in the catalogue. We've got four shares–between 25% and 100% interest–in four different Breeders' Cup contenders. We've got five big-time stakes performers that could go anywhere in the world from here. We are very excited with the diversity and the relevance and the variety of what is on offer on Wednesday the 30th.” Of the team's initial expectations for the catalogue's numbers, Breathnach said, “It actually is right where we want it to be. We kind of figured it could be eight or it could be 20. We just really didn't know where it was going to land. But we have been very well supported by the customer base and by the clientele. People are very excited about this and they want to be part of it.” The catalogue, as well as relevant bidder registration forms, for the Championship Sale, are available at championship.keeneland.com. “It's a very interactive catalogue,” Breathnach said. “There is a lot of information on there on the various offerings and the percentage interests for horses that are not selling in whole. The perspective bidder form is housed there and that is going to be an important part of the process. In order for people to inspect horses that are on the backstretch at Del Mar and in order for people to participate remotely via the phone or via the online platform, we ask them to fill out the perspective bidder form, so that we have the information we need to make this as seamless as possible.” In order for Wednesday's buyers to be participants on championship weekend, officials from the California Horse Racing Board will be on hand at the sale to make sure the licensing paperwork is handled expeditiously. “We would encourage anyone who is interested in registering, that they are registered as owners and licensed as owners in California if they want to bid on any of these horses that are participating over the Breeders' Cup weekend,” Lacy said. “Just to make sure the paper work is in place, so it makes it as seamless as possible. The CHRB will be there to help complete the transfer and get everything organized.” Of the expected buying bench for the auction, Lacy said, “We want this to be a gateway for people that are looking at this sport as a potential investment or a potential interesting activity for them to get involved. This can be a way that they can come in at the highest level and be able to participate and enjoy the sport. We have gotten interest from potential buyers we didn't have in our system that are completely new to the game and are pretty serious punters.” The auction can also appeal to established owners, Lacy added. “You could have somebody who has a horse who didn't make it or didn't have a horse good enough for the Breeders' Cup this year, and really wants to be a part of it,” he continued. “This is something that can support California racing, can support new fans and new investors, as well as current investors. It's a way of sort of spreading the love a little easier for people who want to.” The auction's main attraction will be going from the sales ring Wednesday to the winner's circle Friday or Saturday. “Hopefully the successful bidders will be successful at the weekend,” Breathnach said. The post Inaugural Championship Sale ‘A Gateway’ from the Sales Ring to the Winner’s Circle appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Four horses have been supplemented to the upcoming Keeneland November sales. The two mares added to the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, to be offered during the auction's Nov. 5 Book 1 section are: Page Three (Dialed In), a 5-year-old half-sister to Timberlake who is in foal to that Grade I winner's sire Into Mischief and consigned by Four Star Sales; and Villanelle (Curlin), a stakes-placed 7-year-old who is carrying a foal from the first crop of champion Forte. She is consigned by Rosilyn Polan (Sunday Morning Farm), agent. Supplements to Keeneland's November Horses of Racing Age Sale, to be held Nov. 14, are: Autumn Rhythm (Vekoma), a 2-year-old who scored a three-length debut victory in an Oct. 10 Keeneland maiden special weight race and consigned by Four Star Sales, agent; and Ennereilly (Ire) (Footstepsinthesand {Ire}), a 3-year-old filly consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. The post Recent Debut Winner Among Four Supplements to Keeneland November Sales appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Claiborne Farm has secured the breeding rights to Grade I stakes winner Prince of Monaco (Speightstown–Rainier, by Medaglia d'Oro), who will enter stud at the Paris nursery at the conclusion of his racing career. The 3-year-old, winner of last year's GIII Best Pal Stakes and GI Del Mar Futurity, is expected to start next in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. He is coming off narrowly beaten runner-up efforts in the GI Woody Stephens Stakes and in the GI H Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes. “Running a 103 Beyer [in the Best Pal] as a 2-year-old is a significant achievement and a great barometer of talent and ability,” said Claiborne's Walker Hancock. “Additionally, he was only beaten a combined three-quarters of a length in two premier Grade I races at Saratoga this summer, while dealing with troubled trips. We have a tremendous amount of respect for Stonestreet's breeding program and we are excited to add another one of their homebreds in Prince of Monaco to our stallion roster.” Prince of Monaco, a $950,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase, races for the partnership of SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Stonestreet Stables, Dianne Bashor, Robert Masterson, Waves Edge Capital, Catherine Donovan, and Tom Ryan. “SF Bloodstock has been Speightstown's biggest fan and supporters for going on two decades now,” said Ryan. “On the heels of having Charlatan, we are very excited to be associated with Speightstown's fastest 2-year-old ever in Prince of Monaco. You would be hard pressed to find a better-looking animal and we are staunch in our beliefs that he will fall into the successful footsteps of his father.” Bred in Kentucky by Barbara Banke's Stonestreet, Prince of Monaco is out of Rainier (Medaglia d'Oro), a half-sister to stakes winners Laurie's Rocket (Bluegrass Cat) and Greeley's Rocket (Mr. Greeley). “I am excited for what lies ahead,” said Banke. “Prince of Monaco has been a standout since birth, with his natural talent and athleticism evident from the start. His speed, heart, and sheer brilliance on the track will make him an extraordinary stallion. He's the complete package, and I can't wait to see him pass on that exceptional talent to future generations.” The post Prince of Monaco to Stand at Claiborne Following Racing Career appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article