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7th-KEE, 100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 4:12 p.m. A pair of fillies by Into Mischief break side by side Saturday on debut led by the $1.2m KEESEP purchase PRINCESS ALIYAH for BC Stables, LLC, Morplay Racing LLC and Joey Platts. Sire power aside, the filly is a half to both GISW Eskimo Kisses (To Honor and Serve) and GISP Silver Ride (Candy Ride {Arg}), all out of Silver Colors who is a daughter GI Kentucky Derby winner and champion 3-year-old filly Winning Colors. D. Wayne Lukas, who notably trained Winning Colors to Derby fame, also trains here with Luis Saez aboard. Breaking to that runner's outside, Keepsake is another Into Mischief filly out of stakes-winning first dam Top Quality who WinStar Farm purchased for $335,000 at KEEJAN in 2019. Her first foal is the now 4-year-old stakes-placed American Speed (More Than Ready). TJCIS PPS 9th-KEE, 120K, OC, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 5:16 p.m. Off for nearly a year, 'TDN Rising Star' Parchment Party (Constitution) returns to the races Saturday for Bill Mott and Pin Oak Stud. Undefeated at Churchill Downs in two races as a promising juvenile (both at Saturday's distance of 1 1/16 miles), the 3-year-old adds Lasix in his first start since early Nov. 2023. TJCIS PPS 6th-SA, 54K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1m, 6:30 p.m. It's Bob Baffert vs. John Sadler as Howin (Gun Runner), a $550,000 KEESEP grad, lines up for Baffert and Baoma Corp inside while Lady Chic (Tapit) goes outside for Sadler and brought an even $500k for Don Alberto Stable at FTKNOV as a weanling. TJCIS PPS 6th-BAQ, 90K, Msw, 2yo, 7f, 2:45 p.m. Earlier in the day in New York, Fort Nelson (Bernardini), a Godolphin homebred, lines up for debut out of the Bill Mott barn. Out of the late MGISW Seventh Street, purchased by Godolphin for $1,000,000 as a 2-year-old in 2007, the colt is a half to GSW/GISP Lake Avenue (Tapit) and a full-brother to GISP 'TDN Rising Star' Marking. The dam herself was a half to G1 Gulf News Dubai Golden Shaheen winner Reynaldothewizard (Speightstown) and to the dam of MGISW American Gal (Concord Point). Also debuting in this spot is Dr. Insel (Uncle Mo) who runs for Todd Pletcher and Robert LaPenta. Dam Steidle is a half to another Pletcher-trained runner in MGISW Princess of Sylmar (Majestic Warrior) who sold to Japan's Shadai Farm for $3.1m at FTKNOV in 2014. TJCIS PPS The post Saturday Insights: $1.2m Into Mischief Filly Leads Saturday Action appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The New York Racing Association canceled the Oct. 11 nine-race card at Belmont at the Big A due to an ongoing maintenance issue at Aqueduct Racetrack.View the full article

Stellenbosch and Cervinia split the first two legs of this year's Japanese filly Triple Crown and meet in the rubber match in the Oct. 13 Shuka Sho (G1).View the full article

The New York Racing Association (NYRA) has canceled Friday's nine-race card at Belmont The Big A due to an ongoing maintenance issue at the racetrack, according to a release from the organization. Per the statement, Resorts World Casino was treating the roof with a product that has since created air quality issues on the building's top floor. Said area is occupied by live racing officials, and as a result, the entire card was abandoned. Aqueduct Racetrack will remain open for simulcasting and the featured Listed Glen Cove Stakes will be rescheduled. The post NYRA Abandons Aqueduct Card Due to Property Maintenance Issue appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

NSL Breeders, Ltd., a new breeders club, was launched by The National Stud on Friday. Club members will have shares in two mares to be purchased at the 2024 breeding stock sales selected by an expert panel. The aim will be on in-foal mares, whose progeny will be sold as yearlings, while the mares will be put back in foal to on of The National Stud's stallions in 2025. Members can be involved in pedigree analysis, young stock development and bloodstock sales through the club. Anna Kerr, CEO, said, “The purpose of the club is to bring together people who have an interest in and passion for our industry and sport. One of our key objectives at the National Stud is to increase industry access and this provides the perfect gateway into thoroughbred breeding. Alongside the commercial aspects we want people to have a really enjoyable experience, so there will be plenty of social activity and educational opportunities involved.” For more information on the breeders' club or pinhooking partnership, please visit The National Stud website. The post New Breeders Club Launched By The National Stud appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Book 2 of the October Yearling Sale, which begins its three-day run this Monday, marks a welcome return to the consigning ranks of Daylesford Stud. Daylesford is a name synonymous with quality and it is not just the organic farmshop and luxury goods brand to which that label can be applied. The stud's owner, Lady Bamford, has long been a breeder of top-tier horses, her maroon colours having been carried to glory by two homebred Oaks winners since 2009 – Sariska (GB) (Pivotal {GB}) and Soul Sister (GB) (Frankel {GB}). Not since 2014 has her Daylesford Stud consigned under its own banner at Tattersalls but it is back this year, with four colts being consigned to Book 2, followed by a colt and two fillies in Book 3. Stud manager Chris Lock has been looking forward to the return. He says, “The staff are excited and very pleased to be going to the sales. We've consigned previously with Castlebridge, but the team is very keen to get up to Tattersalls and show their horses, take them through the ring and see the job through.” Lock continues, “We are going back to that traditional owner-breeder profile of mostly selling the colts, racing the fillies. To a certain extent, we've got to keep the numbers to a sensible level. “We feel we've got a good draft to take to market and hopefully show the world what Daylesford is producing.” Through Watership Down Stud, Lady Bamford sold a Frankel colt out of the Listed winner Queen Of Love (GB) (Kingman {GB}) to John Ferguson during Book 1. Daylesford will itself be presenting the sole Dubawi yearling in Book 2 (lot 1205), a colt out of another of the operation's Classic winners, the G1 Prix de Diane victrix Star Of Seville (GB) (Duke Of Marmalade {Ire}). His 97-rated full-brother Lord Of Love (GB) has won twice for Lady Bamford this season. “We felt that sending just one to Book 1 didn't make much of a splash, so we consigned [the Frankel colt] through Watership Down this year and then we'll go ourselves with the Book 2 horses under our banner,” Lock explains. “We wanted to stand out, going our first year, and we have colts by good stallions that have all got deep pedigrees. They are all attractive horses with good walks and hopefully they tick the boxes.” An easy-moving Dubawi colt with a Classic winner for a mother is certainly a good way to stand out. “He's a nice horse,” Lock says. “And he could have been a Book 1 horse, but again we kind of thought it would bring a lot of attention to the draft with him as the jewel in our crown. He's very strong, and a very good walker.” The draft also includes a colt by Wootton Bassett (GB), who, during Book 1, was responsible for the most expensive yearling colt ever to sell in Europe. Daylesford's son of Wootton Bassett (lot 1216) is out of the Group 3-winning Frankel mare Suphala (Fr), herself a granddaughter of the G1 Coronation Stakes winner Sophisticat from the family of the champion racemare and producer Serena's Song. The sire power continues with lot 976, a colt by New Bay (GB) from the great Anna Paola (Ger) dynasty which includes the 1,000 Guineas winner Billesdon Brook (GB) and the colt's granddam, G3 Prix d'Aumale winner and Oaks d'Italia runner-up Middle Club (GB). “The Wootton Bassett is a lovely lad; he goes very well. And the New Bay… I mean it would be hard for me pick out one. I like them all,” says Lock, with the utmost loyalty to the youngsters he has overseen through their formative years on the rolling Gloucestershire pastures of Daylesford, where the yearlings have completed a solid prep of in-hand walking. “It's a beautiful setting,” Lock agrees. “They were born here so they're nice and relaxed walking around the farm. It's very calm. They drop their heads and sort of bowl along and head up the hills. There may be red faces on some of the staff by the end of the exercise though!” Completing the Book 2 quartet is a the sole colt by an unproven sire and he will be the first to sell, as lot 728. By St Mark's Basilica (Fr), he is a half-brother to the Listed winner Mutaraffa (Ire) (Acclamation {GB}) and is one of four youngsters bred at Daylesford by the first-season Coolmore stallion. Lock says of St Mark's Basilica, “He's such a good-looking horse. Everybody you speak to that's got one loves them, and we'd be the same. We're very happy with all four. Great temperaments, good walking horses and we'll use him again next year. We loved him. He was such a good racehorse, great pace. We went all in on him.” The St Mark's Basilica yearlings were certainly given a good reception during Book 1, where 12 sold for an average price 296,667gns, and he had already provided the sale-topper for the Arqana August Sale in the €1.7 million half-brother to Chicquita (Ire) and Magic Wand (Ire). Lock says of Lady Bamford's mission as a breeder, “The Classics will always be the aim. Lady Bamford's been very lucky to breed two Oaks winners and a Prix de Diane winner as well. It's quite addictive and a fantastic thrill, and they have been great days out for the whole team. Lady Bamford has everybody there – vets, farriers, all the staff and their wives and husbands. “It's what we aspire to. We did buy a few speedier yearlings and speedier mares just to try to open up different distances at different times of the year. Ultimately, though, the best interest of the horse come first. Lady Bamford is a horsewoman and cares about them deeply. So that will always be the main priority here.” He adds, “All of our decisions are made with the horse coming first, even now that we're selling a few that we'd be happy to race. So our matings won't change. We'll still be breeding the horses that we'd like to run ourselves.” Daylesford's latest Classic winner, Soul Sister, returned to the farm earlier this year and is now in foal for the first time to Sea The Stars (Ire). “It was very exciting to welcome her back,” Lock says as he admires the four-year-old mare in her spacious paddock. “And we can't wait until next April.” Colt or filly, whichever Soul Sister ends up producing next spring, her first foal will be exemplary of those Classic aspirations which have served Daylesford Stud well over the years. The post Synonymous With Excellence, Daylesford Returns to Consigning Ranks appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Quite fittingly, a pair of group-winning Europeans have made the trip over the Atlantic for Saturday's GI Queen Elizabeth Challenge Cup Stakes, headed by Highclere Thoroughbred Racing's Soprano (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}). Trained by George Boughey, the 3-year-old filly was last seen finishing 1 1/2-lengths in third behind winner Porta Fortuna (Ire) (Caravaggio) and Fallen Angel (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) in the one-mile G1 Matron Stakes at Leopardstown Sept. 14. That form alone would justify another look at this Irish-bred filly given that Porta Fortuna is a multiple Group 1 winner who is poised to take on the boys in the GI Breeders' Cup Mile, while the runner up has also won at the highest level and most recently finished a close-up fourth in contentious renewal of the G1 Prix de 'Opera at Longchamp. In her previous start, Soprano annexed the G3 Prix de Lieurey at Deauville in August. Soprano arrived in the U.S. on Friday. She spent two days in quarantine at Churchill Downs before arriving at Keeneland Sunday. “This is the main target,” said Charles Eddery, who was aboard Soprano Wednesday morning. “We felt like she would take to American racing, and she likes warmer weather.” On Wednesday, Eddery took Soprano through the Paddock before jogging around to the starting gate. “One thing that is different here is the bell at the gate,” Eddery said. “I wanted to get her used to that, and she did very well.” The sole knock on her is this will be the first time she is being asked to negotiate farther that a mile. According to Eddery, a good performance may prompt the connections to take a look at the GI Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at 1 3/8 miles at Del Mar on Nov. 2. Also shipping in for the race, HH The Aga Khan's Candala (Fr) (Frankel {GB}) will attempt to get back in the winner's circle since last winning the G3 Prix de la Grotte at Longchamp in April. Since then, the homebred ran eighth in the G1 Prix de Diane at Chantilly before finishing runner-up behind Survie in the 12-furlong G2 Prix de Malleret in Paris in July. In her latest start, she was third, beaten only 2 1/2 lengths, by Friendly Soul (GB) (Kingman {GB}) in the G2 Prix Alec Head at Deauville Aug. 18. Her vanquisher that day went on to take the Prix de L'Opera last weekend. Locally-based Florent Geroux gets the call. Representing team America, Flanagan Racing's Grayosh (Yoshida {Jpn}) enters the fray off a narrow victory in the Aug. 17 GII Lake Placid Stakes. The grey is one of two entrants trained by Chad Brown, the other being Oversubscribed (GB) (Too Darn Hot), winner of the Wild Applause Stakes at the Big A in June before coming home second to the re-opposing Pounce (Lookin At Lucky) in the one-mile GIII Lake George Stakes July 20. Trainer Cherie DeVaux sends out She Feels Pretty (Karakontie {Jpn}), runner up in the Lake Placid following a bang-up third in the 1 3/16-mile GI Belmont Oaks Invitational in July. Working like a fiend since her last start, the Lael Stables runner runs with blinkers for the first time. “We just feel like she has been waiting on horses,” DeVaux's assistant David Carroll said. “We like what we have seen from her in the morning [with blinkers] and, hopefully, it will translate to the afternoon.” Caitlinhergrtness (Omaha Beach), Canada's leading sophomore filly, attempts tp build off of her Aug. 23 victory in the first jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown, the 10-furlong King's Plate Stakes. Runner up in the nine-panel Woodbine Oaks over the main track July 20, the Win Star Farm and Siena Farm representative also won her sole prior start on the turf, recorded in a 7 1/2-furlong Woodbine optional claimer July 6. Saturday's graded action also features Aqueduct's GII Sands Point Stakes, headed by last out dead-heat winner of the nine-furlong Virginia Oaks Style Points (Oscar Performance). North of the border, Woodbine presents the GIII Ontario Fashion Stakes, a six-furlong main-track test for fillies and mares. The post Euros Descend on Keeneland in Salty Queen Elizabeth Challenge Cup appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Following the 180-strong Arqana November Yearling Sale on Nov. 16, the Autumn Sale will take place from Nov. 18-21 in Deauville. The catalogue features 290 Flat and National Hunt horses-in-training during the Monday session; 60 2-year-old stores start Tuesday's trade followed by 197 National Hunt yearlings, which also will be sold on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The final day sees 83 well-bred foals and 130 fillies and mares go under the hammer. All sessions begin at 11 a.m. each day. High-class past graduates of the sale include this year's Grand National hero I Am Maximus (Fr) (Authorized {Ire}), while that Grade 1 winner is joined by dual Grade 1 hero Fact To File (Fr) (Poliglote {GB}) besides graded winners Gaucher (GB) (Frankel {GB}), Lump Sum (Fr) (Authorized {Ire}), Capodanno (Fr) (Manduro {Ger}), Djin's (Fr) (It's Gino {Ger}), Lantry Lady (Fr) (Saint Des Saints {Fr}), Asterion Forlonge (Fr) (Coastal Path {GB}). G3 Prix Quincey hero Make Me King (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}) topped the 2023 edition of the sale, as well. The post Arqana Autumn and November Foal Catalogues Revealed appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

A supporter of Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) has donated a Stretch Run East box at the upcoming Breeders' Cup World Championships to be auctioned off, the group announced via presser. The six-person box is located over the pedestrian tunnel and inside the 1/16 pole for Friday and Saturday. Bidding is currently open and will close Friday, Oct. 18 at 5:00 p.m. with all proceeds benefitting the TCA. Please go here if you wish to bid. “We greatly appreciate the Breeders' Cup box donation,” said Erin Halliwell executive director of TCA. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to auction it off to the highest bidder and raise money for our grant recipients working so hard to provide aftercare for Thoroughbreds and health and human services for backstretch and farm workers.” The post TCA To Auction Breeders’ Cup Stretch Run Box appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

At the 17th annual Make-A-Wish Day at Keeneland, Big Ass Fans, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Leslie and Kelly Dorman, and other special guests announced the creation of the Cody Dorman Legacy Wish Fund, a presser revealed Friday. In addition to the inaugural donations, a first ever Cody Dorman Legacy Wish was granted during the ceremony. For the past 17 years, Make-A-Wish Day at Keeneland and its sponsors have granted 10 wishes annually but with a new mission to raise an additional $100,000 annually thanks to the added sponsorship, the goal is now to grant 20 wishes with the proceeds, 10 in Cody's name. Big Ass Fans contributed a $10,000 inaugural donation, and Drew Fleming, president and CEO of Breeders' Cup Limited, announced the organization's own $10,000 donation to the fund. In addition to five additional contributions, Thursday's event totaled $65,000, enough to grant six wishes on behalf of Cody and his legacy. The 2024 event raised the most money in its history. “While he was alive, Cody shared his desire to help make other wishes come true for kids like him,” said Stephanie McCormick, president & CEO of Make-A-Wish Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana. “Today, the work he began continues in his name through the Cody Dorman Legacy Fund. More than $100,000 has been raised to date in Cody's memory.” “Above all, this is what Cody would want,” said Kelly Dorman, Cody's father. “One thing he loved as much as anything, as much as that horse [Cody's Wish], was knowing that he was part of helping grant other kids' wishes.” If you would like to support the Cody Dorman Legacy Wish Fun, please go here. The post Big Ass Fans, Make-A-Wish, Others Raise $65k For Cody Dorman Legacy Fund appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Taking another step forward from her G2 May Hill Stakes success, Godolphin's Desert Flower (Ire) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}–Promising Run, by Hard Spun) emphatically established herself at the head of the pecking order among the stronger-staying juvenile fillies of 2024 in Friday's G1 Fillies' Mile at Newmarket. Having mastered Ballydoyle's January (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) by 1 1/2 lengths at Doncaster last month, the Charlie Appleby-trained TDN Rising Star made it 5 1/2 this time as she opened up with the rising ground to the line bringing out her superior stamina. Settled behind Aidan O'Brien's other runners Dreamy (Ire) (American Pharoah) and Ballet Slippers (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) by William Buick, the 10-11 favourite looked second choice to come up with the goods moving to two out as Ryan Moore sat pretty on January. Drawing alongside to take control soon after, it was quickly evident that Desert Flower had what it takes and her final-furlong tour de force saw to it that she boasts the widest winning margin in this race since it was switched to Newmarket. January paid the price for putting it up to the winner, finishing tired a half-length ahead of Ballet Slippers. “I'm not usually right, but I did say to William beforehand that the way she conducts herself in the mornings, don't be surprised if she gets lost in that dip and that was the way it played out,” Appleby said of the impressive winner, who will be up against another Rosegreen obstacle in Lake Victoria (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) back over this course and distance next May. “She's still very raw, but once she hit the rising ground he struggled to pull her up. She was a bit of a handful at Doncaster and challenged herself that day, but I was happy with the way she paraded today and hopefully she'll be a more mature filly in the spring.” “She is scopey, but won't take much to get fit then–she hasn't put a kilo on since midsummer–so I don't see any reason why she can't go straight to the Guineas,” he added. “We'll see what she does in the winter, but she's kept pleasing us all the way. She's not an exciting filly in the morning, but it's the way she does stuff and the way she pulls up that gives you encouragement.” A in the making The unbeaten bolts up in the @bet365 Fillies' Mile.@godolphin | @WilliamBuickX pic.twitter.com/JY2w0ZGtIG — Racing TV (@RacingTV) October 11, 2024 The post Night Of Thunder’s Desert Flower Dominates The Fillies’ Mile For Godolphin appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

By Michael Guerin Impressive Alexandra Park winner Bazooka is moving to a new home. But that doesn’t mean he is leaving trainer Steven Reid because Reid is the one doing the moving. Reid moves to Canterbury in nine days where he will set up training out of the Rakero Racing property used by Tom Bamford. Reid moves south as his partner Bella Storer is from there and her father, well-known harness racing owner Reg Storer lives there. So the couple will head to Canterbury with 10 horses, including Bazooka. It is a big move but I am looking forward to the challenge,” says Reid. “We are renting the house out up here so we can always come back if it doesn’t work out but we have some nice horses to take south, including some really nice two-year-olds.” Bazooka could be Reid’s first southern runner from his new base in the $50,000 Sophomore Classic at Ashburton on Labour Day. “The way he won tonight it could be an ideal race for him,” says Reid. “Horses who have won over $100,000 or a Group 1 aren’t eligible so it means Chase A Dream and Cold Chisel won’t be there. “The way this horse is improving he deserves his crack at it. “I have always really liked him but he is really coming to it now.” Bazooka was confidently driven by Matty White in the Lather Up @ Woodlands Tender Closes 1/11 Mobile Pace and held out the late run from Hawkeye Pierce in a super fast 2:38.9 for the 2200m, a 1:56.2 mile rate and while the three-year-old bar is set very high it wouldn’t surprise to see him end up in the NZ Derby. Reid says he has only lost one horse because of the move and that is because the owners of Change Tact are based in the north and want to see their horse race. “I totally understand that but everybody has been really good about the move.” He is hoping for an even bigger win as he has Coastal Babe as favourite in the Victoria Oaks. “Emma Stewart has been looking after her over there but she will be returning back to us at some stage,” says Reid. “She went over because she wasn’t staked for anything over here.” Other highlights of the Alexandra Park programme include Skipper winning the main handicap pace, Matty A continuing his impressive strike rate in the feature trot while the night started with Yurok giving trainer Steve Green his first Alexandra Park winner in three years. Later in the night the Stephen Doody-trained Sweet Olivia made it four wins in a row winning her trot, graduating from the Cambridge Tuesday circuit to The Park. View the full article

The judges for the Goffs British NH Breeders foal show have been confirmed, Goffs announced on Friday. The panel will consist of Highflyer Bloodstock's Tessa Greatrex, Luke Cummins of Rathurtin Stud and Spincourt Bloodstock's Antonin Pelsy. The foal show will be held the day prior to the Goffs British NH Breeders Showcase Sale on Thursday, Oct. 31. The foal show will once again honour two much missed figures of the British breeding world with the colts' class commemorating Richard Aston of Goldford Stud and the fillies' class Robert Chugg of Little Lodge Farm. The show will be held in association with LH Woodhouse and will offer a total prize pool of £10,000 to be shared among the top three colts and fillies. The post Judges Revealed For Goffs British NH Breeders Showcase Foal Show appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The Ocala Breeders' Sales company (OBS) will launch their new digital platform, OBSOnline, with a new auction for horses who failed to meet their reserve or were withdrawn from the 2024 October Yearling sale due to the threat of Hurricane Milton, the company announced via presser Friday. Set to begin Oct. 24 and closing Oct. 30, entries for the timed online auction will close Oct. 18 and those who choose to participate will not have to pay any entry fee. There will also be reduced commissions with consignors being given the option of bringing their yearlings to OBS for inspection Monday, Oct. 28. “We felt providing this opportunity to the horses that were either bought back or scratched from our yearling sale was important,” said OBS Director of Sales Tod Wojciechowski. “I think it is obvious that Hurricane Milton impacted the travel of buyers to the sale. By placing these horses in the online sale format, it will give buyers a second chance.” “We are appreciative of the collaborative effort of the consignors, buyers, staff, board members and auction team to be able to react to the pending storm and allow us to conduct the sale a day earlier than originally planned. This was not an easy decision or a simple task to implement, so it was important for everybody to pull together to make it happen.” Entry forms for the auction can be found here or in hard copy at the OBS office. In addition to the October debut, OBSOnline will also hold timed auctions in December and January, the former being open to all horses while the latter will be limited to 2-year-olds and horses of racing age. The January 2025 online sale will open for bidding during the 2025 OBS Winter Mixed sale live auction, which will run Jan. 29-29, and will close Jan. 30. Both the OBSOnline December and January sales will be an optional under tack show. Additional information, including deadlines, requirements, and start/closing dates for the respective auctions, is available here. The post OBSOnline to Debut with October Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

A total of 1,008 foals will be offered at Park Paddocks, as the catalogue for the Tattersalls November Foal Sale was announced on Friday. Scheduled for Nov. 26-30, the sale will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with a day set aside for viewing on Thursday, Nov. 28. As previously announced, a full-sister to G1 2000 Guineas heroine Chaldean (GB) (Frankel {GB}) will feature as lot 945. She is among the lots that are half- or full-siblings to 129 group or listed winners, including six Group 1 winners. There are also 107 foals out of group or listed-winning mares catalogued including a pair of Frankel colts–a son of GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf heroine Audarya (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) (lot 936) and the second foal out of three-time Group 1 winner Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead) (lot 927). Other lots of note include a Wootton Bassett half-sister to G1 Dubai Turf hero Facteur Cheval (Ire) (Ribchester {Ire}) (lot 908); a half-sister to G1 Haydock Sprint Cup hero Regional (GB) (Territories {Ire}) by Oasis Dream (GB) (lot 924); a Pinatubo (Ire) half-sister to Italian Group 1 winner Sortilege (Ire) (Tiger Hill {Ire}) closely related to G1 Grand Prix de Paris hero Sosie (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) (lot 827); a State Of Rest (Ire) half-brother to G1 Japanese Derby hero Deep Brillante (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) (lot 863); and a Sea The Stars (Ire) three-quarter brother to G1 Deutsches Derby hero Fantastic Moon (Ger) (Sea The Moon {Ger}) (lot 931). The catalogue also features 262 lots by the current top 25 active British and Irish based sires, including Blue Point (Ire), Camelot (GB), Churchill (Ire), Dark Angel (Ire), Frankel, Gleneagles (Ire), Havana Grey (GB), Invincible Spirit (Ire), Kingman (GB), Kodiac (GB), Lope De Vega (Ire), Mehmas (Ire), Nathaniel (Ire), New Bay (GB), Night of Thunder (Ire), No Nay Never, Sea the Stars, Showcasing (GB), Starspangledbanner (Aus), Too Darn Hot (GB) and Wootton Bassett. A total of 14 first-crop sires will be represented, among them: Baaeed (GB), Bayside Boy (Ire), Blackbeard (Ire), Golden Pal, Minzaal (Ire), Naval Crown (GB), Perfect Power (Ire), Sealiway (Fr), State of Rest, Stradivarius (Ire) and Torquator Tasso (Ger). Other stallions who are faring well with their first runners and have foals selling at Tattersalls include Earthlight (Ire), Hello Youmzain (Fr), Mohaather (GB), Kameko, Pinatubo, Sands Of Mali (Fr), Sergei Prokofiev, and Without Parole (GB). In 2023, 669 foals sold for a gross of 29,842,902gns with an average of 44,608gns and a median of 21,000gns. Current Group 1 winners Economics (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) and You Got To Me (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) are just two of many alumni to have excelled in 2024. Tattersalls chairman Edmond Mahony said, “The Tattersalls December Foal Sale is well established as Europe's premier foal sale, consistently attracting the cream of the British and Irish foal crops. This has been reflected in an exceptional year on the racecourse, headed by the Irish Oaks winner You Got To Me and Economics, one of Europe's top 3-year-old colts. In addition to outstanding racecourse success, the sale never fails to produce numerous and remarkable pinhooking triumphs. This year's catalogue as ever has the quality and diversity to attract buyers from all corners of the globe and across all levels of the market.” The post ‘Quality And Diversity’: Tattersalls December Foal Catalogue Revealed appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Proving yet again that Aidan O'Brien's second string is never to be discounted in pattern races, the 25-1 shot Merrily (No Nay Never–Caponata, by Selkirk) swooped to conquer in Friday's G3 Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp Stakes at Newmarket. Anchored in rear early by Wayne Lordan, the relative of Sunday's Arc heroine Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}) was a touch free early in response the switch in tactics from her latest fifth in the G3 Weld Park Stakes. Saving her energy for the finale this time, the $325,000 Keeneland September graduate reeled in the 3-1 favourite Cathedral (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) with 150 yards remaining en route to a half-length success, with Flight (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}) 3 1/4 lengths behind in third. Her win now makes it 13 in black-type races for Ballydoyle's juvenile fillies in 2024. A 25/1 Aidan O'Brien winner @Ballydoyle second-string causes a bit of a shock in the Group 3 Oh So Sharp Stakes under Wayne Lordan. What to make of that? ‍@NewmarketRace | @godolphin pic.twitter.com/JwNHUO3N3s — Racing TV (@RacingTV) October 11, 2024 The post No Nay Never’s Merrily Extends Ballydoyle Streak In The Oh So Sharp appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Mohammed Sultan's Coto De Caza (Ire) (Sioux Nation–Coto {Ire}, by Fast Company {Ire}), last seen finishing third in Ayr's Sept. 24 Listed Harry Rosebery Stakes, stepped forward to claim a career high with a determined effort in Friday's G3 Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes. The Simon and Ed Crisford trainee accepted a tow racing second in the smaller stands' side grouping, and third overall, after a slick getaway in this five-furlong dash. Easing to the fore with a quarter-mile remaining, the 13-2 chance came under pressure soon after and was forcefully ridden inside the final furlong to deny Grande Marques (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), who flashed home on the opposite side of the track, by 3/4-of-a-length. The front two separated by the width of the track! Coto De Caza (Sioux Nation) lands the spoils down the stands side and on her first crack at Group company in the Newmarket Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes for @gainsboroughHQ pic.twitter.com/P5niewLYlN — Racing TV (@RacingTV) October 11, 2024 The post Sioux Nation’s Coto De Caza Makes Stakes Breakthrough in the Cornwallis appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Godolphin contributed to a succession of fireworks at Newmarket's Park Paddocks sales venue during the earlier part of the week and, with action firmly centred on the nearby Rowley Mile racetrack, continued in similar vein as the operation's 2-year-old filly Verse Of Love (GB) (Siyouni {Fr}–Vercelli {GB}, by Shamardal) powered to a 'TDN Rising Star' rosette in Friday's Godolphin Under Starters Orders Maiden Fillies' Stakes. She becomes the 14th Rising Star for her sire, whose roll of honour includes this month's G1 Prix Marcel Boussac runner-up Zarigana (Ire). The March-foaled homebred found a modicum of cover, racing in an overall seventh, after breaking on the far-side wing. Inching forward from halfway, the well-backed 2-1 favourite loomed large on the bridle passing the quarter-mile marker and powered clear in style once quickening to the fore approaching the final furlong to easily outclass stablemate Wild Angel (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) by an impressive five lengths. Verse Of Love (Siyouni) makes a lovely start, travelling powerfully and pulling clear of a talented and well-bred field for Charlie Appleby, @WilliamBuickX and @godolphin @NewmarketRace pic.twitter.com/R9ASRAqdlZ — Racing TV (@RacingTV) October 11, 2024 The post Siyouni’s Verse Of Love Powers to TDN Rising Stardom at Newmarket appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Mike Moroney is recuperating well from a major health scare, with the popular Flemington-based trainer looking forward to a prosperous spring. Moroney has been back at work at Flemington this month after he spent many weeks in hospital since April with a range of serious ailments and he said the time away from the sport he loves has reinvigorated him. “I’ve been back at track now around about a fortnight,” he told RSN927 on Friday. “Things are going great and I’ve got a real enthusiasm for the whole thing. “They say when you are on the sidelines now and then you come back bigger and stronger and I am feeling that way. “You get stopped in your tracks a bit and you reconsider what are the important things in life. In saying that, I’ve been one of the lucky ones as from the time I was young, my passion is what I make a living out of.” Moroney said his new training partnership with Glen Thompson has injected ‘some youth into the place’, while also paying tribute to his staff, led by racing manager Anthony Feroce, for their efforts in maintaining his Ballymore stable in his absence. Moroney said he has high hopes this spring for Melbourne Cup entrant Whisky On The Hill as well as for promising three-year-old Plymouth, a four-year-old War Machine and Run Harry Run, who is one of three stable runners in Saturday’s Listed Weekend Hussler Stakes (1400m). View the full article

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Bet N Win has again shown his undoubted class with a commanding win in tonight’s Group 3 Dancinginthedark (USA) Canterbury Park Cup Handicap Trot at Addington. The David and Stacey White-trained trotter started quickly and went straight to the lead for driver Bob Butt. From there the win looked a formality, ahead of two longshots in Mystic Max and Love N The Port. Al three now automatically qualify for the $400,000 Renwick Farms Dominion Trot on IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup day on Tuesday, November 12. Impressive at recent trials, it was Bet N Win’s first race day start since an abscess in his hoof curtailed his Australian campaign in July, after he won his Australian debut at Albion Park. He has now won eight from 15 starts and is now a $8 third favourite for the Dominion behind Aussie stars Just Believe ($1.70) and Callmethebreeze ($3). In tonight’s race multiple Group 1 winner Muscle Mountain went round the field to sit parked and battled on well to finish fourth fresh up while reigning Trotter of the Year Oscar Bonavena settled towards the rear of the field and was never a factor. Backed into $1.95, the Mark and Nathan Purdon-trained Chase A Dream duly delivered in the Group 1 Canprint Flying Stakes Mobile Pace for the country’s leading driver Blair Orange. It’s Tough was exactly that in finishing second for John Dunn with Hadron Collider running into third after being three back the fence for Olivia Thornley. It was Chase A Dream’s 10th win in just 15 starts. In Race 9, the star-studded Get Cup Week Tickets At Addington.co.nz Handicap Pace Republican Party backed up his win in the Hannon Memorial. Trained by Cran and Chrissie Dalgety, and driven by son Carter, Republican Party won a stirring finish from the always game Charlie Brown and Don’t Stop Dreaming, who produced a top performance fresh up off 20 metres. Alta Meteor who enjoyed the trail behind the pace-setting Tact McLeod stuck on for fourth. The night’s richest race (Race 10) was the $200,000 NZB Harness Million 2YO Colts and Geldings Mobile Pace and hot favourite Marketplace was in a league of his own. The Regan Todd-trained two-year-old was three wide before finding the front and after being attacked mid race was still too good in a hugely impressive display. Post race driver Craig Ferguson summed it up succinctly – “that was unbelievable that run” It was Marketplace’s fourth win in eight lifetime starts and as commentator Matt Cross said : “he’s the best two-year-old in the country!” View the full article

By Adam Hamilton Leap To Fame’s $1m IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup quest is not over, but it is hanging by a thread. The champion Aussie pacer was sensationally scratched this afternoon from tomorrow night’s $300,000 Group 1 Victoria Cup at Melton where he was a dominant $1.20 favourite. Trainer-driver Grant Dixon confirmed the five-year-old was battling “a virus of some sort.” It ruined his chance to become only the second pacer to win Australia’s pacing “Gland Slam” – the Victoria Cup, Hunter Cup, Inter Dominion and Miracle Mile. The only horse to win all four is Kiwi-bred and former WA-trained champion Preux Chevalier way back in 1984-85. But the broader issue is the impact the setback has on Leap To Fame’s preparation for what would be his first trip to New Zealand. Leap To Fame was the $1.60 NZ Cup favourite before this health setback. He is now at $2.50, equal with Merlin. As it stands, he is still booked on a flight from Sydney to Auckland and then down to Christchurch on November 3. The IRT New Zealand Trotting Cup is nine days later, on Tuesday, November 12. But owner Kevin Seymour admitted the trip was now in serious doubt. “It’s not looking good, no,” he said. “We looked at the Victoria Cup as not just an important race itself, but also crucial to his preparation for a tough race like the 3200m of the NZ Cup. “Now he’s missed this and some work as well, we may not be able to get the right preparation for him. “It’s just devastating to miss the Victoria Cup after we took the step of taking him down by road when we couldn’t get a suitable flight and now we’re in a tough spot for the NZ trip, too. “We have never and will never take any risk at all with this horse. He’s a once in a lifetime horse, one Kay (Seymour’s wife) and I have spent 50 years in this game waiting for. “As disappointing as it is to miss this race, we’ll pull the pin on the NZ trip as well, if that’s what is best for the horse.” Dixon added the next few days would decide the NZ trip. “It’s not looking good, put it that way,” he said. “But let’s see how he is over the next two or three days and see what lead-up racing we might be able to get into him in Sydney.” Dixon said $3.2 million-earner “didn’t seem himself” early today, prompting him to call the vet. “It’s nothing bad, but the vet said he’s about 80 per cent and we could still probably run him, but we’re never going to take any risk at all with a horse like him,” he said. “It’s a virus of some sort. You could tell just by looking at him, he didn’t quite seem himself. “It’s huge disappointment after coming all this way (from Brisbane by road), but we’ve been really lucky with illness and injury throughout his career so far. It’s horses for you, I guess.” View the full article

Promising colt Scary is delivering on the promise he showed trainers Emma-Lee and David Browne from the time he entered their Pakenham stable. The Group One-bound son of Rich Hill Stud resident stallion Shocking impressed his expatriate New Zealand conditioners with his talent and attitude and that has shone through this preparation. Scary was unplaced on debut before he finished runner-up at Geelong, went one better in hollow fashion at Sale and last time out he bridged the gap to black-type company when third in the Listed Super Impose Stakes (1800m). The three-year-old’s performance at Flemington confirmed he was on target for a return visit in November and a crack at the Gr.1 Victoria Derby (2500m). “He’s a really nice colt with a lovely nature, just an uncomplicated horse,” David Browne said. “He’s always showed us a lot and we were pretty happy with his run the other day from the wide draw when we had no choice but to ride him back. “He finishes off very well and ran the quickest last 800, 600 and 400m of the race.” Scary will have his final lead-up in the Gr.3 Sportsbet Classic (2000m) at Caulfield on Saturday week. “He’ll go for the 2000 metre three-year-old race and then it’s two weeks into the Derby, as long as he steps right up again and comes through the race well,” Browne said. “We don’t think he’ll have any trouble getting the Derby trip and he’s got a good turn of foot.” Scary is raced by his Queensland-based breeders Brian and Greta Webb, who have an interest in Shocking. “We’ve always had horses for them, they have been great supporters of ours for a long time and looked after us really well,” Browne said. Scary is a son of the unraced Reliable Man mare Never Ever, who has an unraced two-year-old filly by Shocking and is due to foal again to the two-time Group One winner. Never Ever is from the family of Sir Vigilant, who won an edition of the New Zealand St Leger when the 2800 metre feature carried Group One status and his half-brothers Vizier and Bugatti were also stakes winners. View the full article

Group One-winning Australian sprinter Uncommon James could be in line for a trip across the Tasman to contest the Gr.1 Telegraph (1200m) and Gr.1 Sistema Railway (1200m) in January. Uncommon James is the winner of six of his 16 starts and more than A$1.4 million in prizemoney, headed by a brilliant victory over Lofty Strike and Asfoora in the Gr.1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) in Melbourne in February of last year. Eagle Farm trainer Matt Hoysted considered a trans-Tasman raid earlier in the Cable Bay gelding’s decorated career, and the newly increased prizemoney for New Zealand’s summer sprint features, along with the $1 million in bonuses associated with the brand-new Sport Nation Champion Sprint Series, have made it an even more compelling option in 2024-25. The Telegraph will be run for a stake of $550,000 at Trentham on January 4, with the Railway shifting from New Year’s Day to the Karaka Millions meeting on January 25 and now boasting $700,000 in prizemoney. “Taking him across to New Zealand is actually an idea that I’ve had in the back of my mind for quite a lot of his career,” Hoysted said. “I was strongly considering it in the prep before he won the Oakleigh Plate. At that stage, I was sort of thinking about all the options we had available to try to give him a chance at that Group One level. It didn’t work out back then, and he went on to win the Oakleigh after that. But it might be more of an option this time around. “Coming into the twilight of his career now, it might be a nice way to allow him to continue to race and be competitive at that sort of level. “That new bonus series in New Zealand makes it a more attractive option as well. I train a few horses for Ladbrokes here in Australia, and they’ve been telling me about some of the exciting new initiatives that Entain has introduced in New Zealand. It’s definitely given us something to think about.” Uncommon James was last seen on a racetrack in June, finishing seventh behind I Wish I Win in the Gr.1 Kingsford-Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle Farm. The six-year-old’s New Zealand mission will depend on a pair of Queensland sprinting assignments in November. “He’s currently building towards his first jumpout here on Tuesday, and then he’ll have another jumpout a fortnight after that,” Hoysted said. “The plan at this stage is to run him in the Swiss Ace (1000m) and the George Moore Stakes (Gr.3, 1200m). We want to make sure that he’s come up well and is going well enough in this preparation. “If he puts in a couple of good performances and shows us that his heart is still in it, we’ll be pretty keen to take him over to New Zealand.” View the full article

Ashburton couple Sarah and Chris Green and business partner Ger Beemsterboer have experienced plenty of highs in racing under their Barneswood Farm banner, but this weekend could prove to be the pinnacle in their racing endeavours. The trio sponsor the feature race at their home track on Saturday, the Gr.3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m), while at Caulfield, their Group One winner Desert Lightning will come up against farm graduate Orchestral for the first time in the Gr.1 Toorak Handicap (1600m). The pair were two of the most exciting horses in New Zealand last summer, with Desert Lightning winning the Gr.1 TAB Classic (1600m) at Trentham in December before taking out the inaugural $1 million Aotearoa Classic (1600m) at Ellerslie at the Karaka Millions meeting in January, where a race later Orchestral was victorious in the Karaka Millions 3YO (1600m). She went on to win the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m) and Gr.1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000m), giving the Greens and Beemsterboer a memorable start to the season. Bred by Barneswood Farm, Orchestral was sold to Cambridge trainers Roger James and Robert Wellwood through Haunui Farm’s 2022 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale draft for $625,000. A year prior, Barneswood Farm were doing the purchasing at the sale, and went to $150,000 to secure Desert Lightning out of Little Avondale’s Book 1 draft. Desert Lightning has taken them on a great ride, while they have also enjoyed watching Orchestral perform to the highest standard on both sides of the Tasman, and they are looking forward to seeing them clash for the first time this weekend. “To have both of them in the race is pretty special,” Sarah Green said. “For me that (Australia) is the pinnacle of racing, so I am very excited about it.” While Green said there is no feeling like winning with your own horse, she gets great satisfaction out of seeing a horse she bred perform so well for her owners, and also add to the family’s pedigree page, with Barneswood Farm continuing to breed from her dam Symphonic, who has a full sister to Orchestral at foot. “It is great to see something you bred get the race for their owners and trainers, and we are proud that we have bred them ourselves,” Green said. With commitments on both sides of the Tasman on Saturday, the Greens have had to split up this weekend, with Sarah Green being the sole representative in Melbourne to cheer on their horses. “My husband is at Ashburton to present the trophy there and I can’t wait to see both of the horses in the Toorak, it’s going to be pretty special,” she said. It’s been a whirlwind couple of days for Green, who spent less than 24 hours at home following a trip to America, before jumping back on a plane to head to Melbourne. “I just landed back last night from America where we were visiting our son, who lives in Idaho,” Green said. “We also went to Wyoming, Montana, and all over, it was a big road trip and it has been fantastic. We landed home yesterday and I got up at 4am this morning to fly over (to Melbourne).” Prior to heading to the United States, the Greens were able to take in Desert Lightning’s victory in the Gr.3 Sandown Stakes (1500m), and they are hoping he can put in a repeat performance on Saturday for trainers Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman. “We saw the race before we left, so it was a very exciting way to start the holiday,” she said. “He will do his best (on Saturday).” Green enjoyed her last visit to Caulfield in March where alongside family and friends she watched Desert Lightning compete in the A$3.75 million All-Star Mile (1600m), but she said it will be a completely different experience on this occasion. “We had all of our family and friends with us that day. It means so much to me to have them with us,” Green said. “I am just here on my own this time, so it seems a bit strange.” Desert Lightning is currently a $6.50 third favourite for the Toorak with TAB bookmakers, behind Another Wil ($2.90) and Antino ($4.80), while Orchestral is on the fifth line of betting at $11. View the full article