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This day 21st August in horse racing news history From the extensive Horse Betting news archives we present the all the thoroughbred racing action in Australian and overseas racing news in history. Delve in and enjoy our walk back in horse racing time. Horse Racing Tips 58 mins ago Today’s horse racing tips & quaddie selections | August 21, 2024 Six horse racing meetings are scheduled for around Australia today, on Wednesday, August 21. Check out HorseBetting’s free betting tips … Read More Australia horse racing news 1 hour ago Today’s horse racing bookmaker promotions & bet returns | 21/8/24 Explore exclusive bonus and money back offers for HorseBetting customers with the best horse racing bookmakers on Wednesday, August 21, … Read More Horse Racing Tips 1 year ago Randwick-Kensington betting preview & tips – August 23, 2023 The Kensington circuit at Randwick hosts seven races this Wednesday, and HorseBetting has you covered with free betting tips and … Read More Horse Racing Tips 1 year ago Sandown Lakeside races tips & quaddie | Wednesday, August 23 The Lakeside track at Sandown will host an eight-race card on Wednesday afternoon. HorseBetting’s Ciaran Jackman presents his preview and … Read More Australia horse racing news 1 year ago Night meetings to finish earlier in Victoria Racing Victoria has announced on Monday that meetings held at night outside of the daylight savings period will finish earlier … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 1 year ago Sam Collett returning home on working holiday Sam Collett will brave New Zealand’s winter for a fortnight to catch up with family and friends and will be … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 1 year ago White Noise signals spring intent Last start Group 3 Easter Handicap (1600m) winner White Noise made an emphatic start to his latest campaign with a … Read More Australia horse racing news 1 year ago Deserved Stakes success for Savannah Cloud Savannah Cloud scored a well-deserved black-type victory in a thrilling finish of the Listed Regal Roller Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield … Read More Australia horse racing news 1 year ago Craig Williams lauds ‘awesome’ Giga Kick Craig Williams has publicly lauded the impressive jump out performance of Giga Kick, tagging the multiple Group 1 winner as … Read More Australia horse racing news 1 year ago Albury races moves to Narrandera amid poor weather forecast An impending bout of adverse weather has forced Racing New South Wales to take decisive action. The decision has been … Read More Horse Racing Tips 1 year ago Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | August 21, 2023 Two horse racing meetings are scheduled around Australia today. See the top tips and quaddie selections for free here at … Read More Horse Racing Tips 1 year ago Ballarat betting tips & quaddie selections | Tuesday, August 22 The synthetic track at Ballarat is set to host an eight-race program on Tuesday afternoon. Check out HorseBetting’s free tips … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 2 years ago Ominous return for Virtuous Circle Three-year-old colt Virtuous Circle narrowly prevailed in the Hugh Wallace-Smith Handicap (1500m) at The Valley on Saturday, to make the … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 2 years ago Zelenski finds winning groove The Ken Rae and Krystal Williams-Tuhoro stable enjoyed another successful day out on their home patch at Ruakaka when they … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 2 years ago Lickety Split starts spring campaign in style Last season’s Group 1 Sistema Stakes (1200m) winner Lickety Split showed she will be a force to be reckoned with … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 2 years ago Phelan opens solo training account with wily stayer The Shaun Phelan-trained Hit The Road Jack showed his staying prowess when landing a captivating edition of the Ruakaka Cup … Read More Horse Racing Tips 2 years ago Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | August 21, 2022 Nine horse racing meetings are scheduled around Australia today. See the top tips, best odds and quaddie selections for free … Read More Horse Racing News 2 years ago Phil D’Amato issues warning to Del Mar Oaks field about Bellabel Phil D’Amato has issued a warning to the Del Mar Oaks field when talking about Bellabel’s chances – she can … Read More Horse Racing Tips 3 years ago Sale betting tips, value bets & quaddie | Sunday, August 22 What Sale Races Where Sale Racecourse – 1227 Maffra-Sale Rd, Sale VIC 3850 When Sunday, August 22, 2021 First Race … Read More Horse Racing Tips 3 years ago Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | August 21, 2021 Horse racing around the country sees 13 meetings being held around the country on this Saturday afternoon, headlined by the … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 3 years ago Defibrillate a boost for locked down Kiwi owners Matamata trainer Graham Richardson may not have any horses in New Zealand racing this weekend as a result of COVID-19 … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 3 years ago Brownes continue Aussie raid Cambridge trainers David and Emma-Lee Browne are thanking their lucky stars they made the decision to head to Victoria with … Read More Australia horse racing news 4 years ago Jay Ford grabs Group 1 chance on The Bostonian Best known for his association with brilliant speedster Takeover Target, Jay Ford returns to the Sydney arena to link with … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 4 years ago Sharrock holds strong hand at Matamata New Plymouth trainer Allan Sharrock heads to Matamata on Saturday with three strong chances as he looks to maintain his … Read More Australia horse racing news 4 years ago Sir Barnabus on Queensland Cups trail The Toowoomba and Queensland Cups are options trainer Jason Edwards will pursue with Sir Barnabus if he can maintain winning … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 4 years ago Sherrif back in town Talented six-year-old Sherrif heads off on a journey on Saturday that could yet see him tackle the Group 1 Livamol … Read More Australia horse racing news 4 years ago Gytrash, Fasika impress in barrier trial Adelaide sprinter Gytrash has passed his first serious test racing in the Sydney direction with a stylish barrier trial performance … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 4 years ago Great Northern aspirations with Wise Men Say Wanganui trainer Raymond Connors has taken out two of the last three editions of the Great Northern Steeplechase (6400m) with … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 4 years ago Stallion Parade cancelled The gavelhouse.com Waikato Branch New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Association stallion parade planned for this weekend (August 22/23) has been cancelled … Read More Australia horse racing news 4 years ago OTI’s Cup hopes step out around the globe Terry Henderson’s OTI Racing has key runners all over the world this weekend, including former English stayer Young Rascal at … Read More Australia horse racing news 4 years ago Coolmore confirm death of Atlantic Jewel Coolmore Australia has confirmed former star mare Atlantic Jewel has died shortly after giving birth to a foal by US … Read More Australia horse racing news 4 years ago McDonald in Sweet position at Randwick The first Group One meeting of the season is shaping to be a happy hunting ground for top jockey James … Read More Australia horse racing news 4 years ago Flying Award kicks off Guineas campaign Danny O’Brien is set to make a big impact over the carnival and Flying Award is one of three horses … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Trip to Sandown pays off for Matthew Dale Shangani Patrol has made the trip to Sandown worthwhile for Canberra trainer Matthew Dale with his win in the Long … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Annarbor does it in style with Sandown win Tony Noonan is not renowned for backing up his horses, but after a win at Cranbourne Annarbor has recorded a … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Well-bred Lakia in frame for spring riches Co-trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have landed an early double as part of a treble at Canterbury that could … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Linda Meech escapes injury in Sandown fall Linda Meech has walked back to the jockeys’ room unaided after a fall in a race at Sandown … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Cummings resets spring path for Vegadaze Unhappy with the racing manners of Vegadaze, Anthony Cummings has sent the sprinter for a brief farmstay to reboot his … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Cahill works Magic for upset Ipswich win Jockey Michael Cahill has continued his impressive winter carnival form to bring off an upset win on Magic Trick at … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago New recruit gets Pride’s tick of approval Group placegetter Mandylion has impressed new trainer Joseph Pride ahead of her debut for the stable at Randwick … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Lady Lupino begins spring path at Valley Lady Lupino placed in a Group One race as a two-year-old and trainer Danny O’Brien is hopeful the filly can … Read More Australia horse racing news, New Zealand horse racing news 5 years ago Baker-Forsman arsenal building ahead of Australian raid Cambridge trainer Murray Baker knows what it takes to plunder marquee races in Australia and the astute horseman, who trains … Read More New Zealand horse racing news 5 years ago Promising dawn to new season for Ritchie Promising galloper Dawn Patrol made a pleasing start to the new season for trainer Frank Ritchie, deadheating his 880m trial … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Hawker Hurricane to resume at The Valley Three-year-old Hawker Hurricane will make his return to racing in the Listed McKenzie Stakes at The Valley having been gelded … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Rawiller returns to Group 1 fold for Godolphin Group One racing will return to Randwick for the first time this season and comeback jockey Nash Rawiller will be … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago New CT scanner to detect equine injuries Racing Victoria has announced a number of new veterinary initiatives ahead of the arrival of a large contingent of international … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago River Racer starts Magic Millions build-up Trainer Les Ross won’t chase a wet track in Sydney for noted mudlark River Racer in preference to starting a … Read More Australia horse racing news, Japan horse racing news 5 years ago Japanese star poised to contest Cox Plate Connections of Japanese mare Lys Gracieux have accepted an invitation to run in the Cox Plate after approval was granted … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Challenge to cobalt rules to resume soon Gold Coast trainer Kelly Doughty will continue her fight against a conviction in a cobalt case which again will bring … Read More Australia horse racing news 5 years ago Ten acceptors for Group One Winx Stakes A field of 10 has accepted for the Winx Stakes, the first Group One contest of the Australian racing season … Read More France horse racing news, United Kingdom Horse Racing News 5 years ago Enable looks unstoppable in Yorkshire Oaks A field of four will run in the Yorkshire Oaks headed by Enable who is aiming for a sixth consecutive … Read More Australia horse racing news 6 years ago Multiple Group One winner Jameka retired Connections of Jameka have made the decision to retire the multiple Group One-winning mare … Read More Australia horse racing news 6 years ago Tim Clark reunites with Shoals in trial Sydney jockey Tim Clark has made the trip to Victoria to ride Shoals in a Cranbourne barrier trial in preparation … Read More Australia horse racing news 6 years ago Harper’s Choice to head to Wyong Cup Premier’s Cup Prelude winner Harper’s Choice will be diverted to the Wyong Cup rather than run at Rosehill … Read More Australia horse racing news 6 years ago San 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The postponement of Tuesday’s trials at Foxton … Read More Australia horse racing news 6 years ago Mr Sneaky on path to Group One handicap The McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley will be the launching pad for Mr Sneaky on his path towards another crack … Read More Australia horse racing news 6 years ago Full field for Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury A full field will run in the Listed Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury with Godolphin’s Flow the favourite in early markets … Read More Australia horse racing news 6 years ago Hikaya chasing Melbourne win at Sandown After a maiden win at Gawler, the Tony McEvoy-trained Hikaya will chase a Melbourne city win at Sandown over 1400m … Read More Australia horse racing news 6 years ago Chautauqua to have race day trial Racing NSW stewards have given permission for Chatauqua to run in a race day barrier trial as connections pursue his … Read More Australia horse racing news 6 years ago Report into NZ racing to be released A report into the New Zealand racing industry by John Messara will be released at a public meeting in Hamilton … Read More Australia horse racing news, Horse Racing News 7 years ago Pariah opens as favourite for San Domenico Stakes The resuming Blue Diamond Stakes runner-up is the bookies’ favourite for the group three title at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Racing in Victoria in a healthy state: RV Racing Victoria chief executive Giles Thompson has delivered some healthy news about the state of Victorian racing … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Another Sin could jump to stakes company Trainer Brett Cavanough will mull over whether to run Another Sin at Group Three level or stick to the Highway … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Houtzen in easy Gold Coast trial win Magic Millions Classic winner Houtzen has tuned up for her first Melbourne start with an easy win in a Gold … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Cup program still on for Red Cardinal Deposed Melbourne Cup favourite Red Cardinal remains on track despite his fifth in the Prix Kergorlay at Deauville … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Lindsay Park’s two-state three-year-olds The Lindsay Park stable will do its best to split its team of three-year-olds with multiple entries at Moonee Valley … Read More Horse Racing News, New Zealand horse racing news 7 years ago Date with Written Tycoon looms for retired Charmont Trainer Bob Emery has spoken of the mare’s often-frustrating career as she embarks on life after racing … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Garrard to resume at Moonee Valley Trainer Trent Busuttin is hoping a decision to save Garrard for a 1200m-event at Moonee Valley, rather than a stakes … Read More Horse Racing News, New Zealand horse racing news 7 years ago High expectations for OTI filly Aloisia With a pair of top-tier tests looming, trainer Terry Henderson believes the “very smart” filly could do something special … Read More Horse Racing Tips 7 years ago Sandown racing form, odds and free tips, Wednesday August 24 PUNTERS get the chance to see some quality up-and-coming types at Sandown this Wednesday. It may be a midweek card, … Read More Horse Racing News, New Zealand horse racing news 7 years ago NZ racing wrap: Hastings return for undefeated Jessiegee While a talented galloper did the job for Glen Boss at Kranji, one of New Zealand’s top jumpers came to … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Is it time to re-evaluate the world’s best racing rankings? Is Winx the world’s number one racehorse? Has Arrogate passed its prime? See what Twitter had to say about a … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Scales Of Justice settled at Warrnambool Leading Perth horse Scales Of Justice has settled in to his new environment at Warrnambool ahead of his Melbourne spring … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Apprentices escape serious injury in falls Apprentices Jean Van Overmeire and Ashleigh Borg appear to have escaped serious injuries in falls at Kembla Grange and Hawkesbury … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Houtzen in easy trial win at Gold Coast Star Queensland filly Houtzen has had an easy barrier trial at the Gold Coast, leading all the way to win … Read More Horse Racing News 7 years ago Marmelo wins Kergorlay, Red Cardinal 5th Marmelo has won the Group Two Prix Kergorlay at Deauville in which Melbourne Cup favourite Red Cardinal has finished fifth … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Wells lands a second Grand National chase Wells has backed up his Grand National Steeplechase win of 2014 with a dominant display of jumping at Ballarat … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Ken’s Dream firms for Group 1 Caulfield Guineas KEN’S Dream remained unbeaten for champion trainer Darren Weir when it won the McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Katie Walsh has tough day at Ballarat Katie Walsh has failed to finish the course in three of the four jumps races she contested on Grand National … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Harmless fall for Katie Walsh at Ballarat Katie Walsh walked back to the jockeys room after a tumble from race favourite Fledged in a steeplechase at Ballarat … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Winx’s stablemates looking for limelight Trainer Chris Waller will unveil more of his Group One contenders over the coming weeks including Tsaritsa and Mackintosh … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Almoonqith starts Cups tilt at Caulfield Imported galloper Almoonqith begins his tilt at the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup in the Heatherlie Handicap at Caulfield … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Winx’s stablemates looking for limelight Trainer Chris Waller will unveil more of his Group One contenders over the coming weeks including Tsaritsa and Mackintosh … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Zanteco jumps to another feature win The Darren Weir-trained Zanteco has won his third straight feature jumps race, taking out the J J Houlahan Hurdle at … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Long awaited return for Eagle at Caulfield Tony McEvoy will let Alpine Eagle decide his spring carnival path after he makes his return at Caulfield … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Brisbane mare Hidden Pearl Sydney bound Hidden Pearl will head to Sydney for a Group Two race after registering her second Brisbane win from two starts … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Pinecliff a change in training for Begg Former Sydney trainer Grahame Begg has had to adapt his training methods after 25 years based at Randwick … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Seaburge to make return in McNeil Stakes Three-year-old Seaburge resumes in the Group Three McNeil Stakes as he begins a path towards the Group One Caulfield Guineas … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Oink to prepare for Rose in Brisbane Trainer Kelly Schweida is likely to give Oink his lead-up run to the Golden Rose in Brisbane rather than Sydney … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Scottish confirmed for Caulfield Cup SCOTTISH has been confirmed to run in the 2016 Caulfield Cup after winning the Group 3 Strensall Stakes at York … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Order Of St George wins St Leger Trial Melbourne Cup favourite Order Of St George has won his second successive Irish St Leger Trial at the Curragh … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Scottish on track for Caulfield Cup A Group Three win at York has revived Caulfield Cup ambitions for Godolphin-owned Scottish trained by Charlie Appleby … Read More Horse Racing News 8 years ago Buffering wins Qld’s Horse of the Year Buffering has been named Queensland’s Horse of the Year for the fifth time for his three Group One wins during … Read More Horse Racing News 9 years ago Godolphin pair on trial for 2015 Golden Rose TWO Godolphin three-year-olds are on trial for the Group 1 Golden Rose this Saturday when they run in the Up … Read More View the full article

Jockey Ferrin Peterson suffered a broken collarbone when the horse she was riding, Chargina (Fed Biz), broke down in the third race at Thistledown Tuesday. Peterson was taken by ambulence to the nearby Cleveland Clinic for precautionary X-rays, where she was diagnosed with the break. Chargina suffered a catastrophic injury and was euthanized. The incident occured near the half mile pole, and another horse, Sushi Q (Palace), stumbled over her and unseated her rider, Roberto Perez. Both Perez and his mount were uninjured. “They took X-rays and I have a broken collarbone,” said Peterson. “I'm going for a CT scan as well, but I didn't hit my head.” Peterson said she was experiencing some shoulder pain, and that she needed to consult with doctors to determine whether surgery was needed before she would know how much time off the injury would require. The 32-year-old Peterson has won 26 wins in 2024, riding primarily in Ohio and Kentucky. She is both a licensed veterinarian and a jockey. The post Peterson Breaks Collarbone in Thistledown Spill appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

After becoming the new No. 1 in the poll last week, she added 10 points—and two first-place votes—to her advantage over No. 2 Senor Buscador. View the full article

The 4-year-old son of Violence last out won the John A. Nerud Stakes (G2) at seven furlongs, the same distance as the Forego Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.View the full article

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The €2.3 million Arqana May Breeze-Up Sale purchase Ruling Court is out to give Charlie Appleby a first win in the Aug. 21 Acomb Stakes (G3), the opening juvenile contest of the Ebor festival at York.View the full article

One of the first indicators as to how strong the middle tiers of the European yearling market will be this autumn was provided at the V2 session of the August Sale at Arqana where a Starspangledbanner (Aus) filly led the way at €115,000 when sold to Arthur Hoyeau. The filly was consigned by Charles Brière's Fairway Consignment and was one of only two yearlings to break the six-figure barrier, the other being a Siyouni (Fr) filly that was sold to Nicolas de Watrigant on behalf of Al Shaqab Racing for €100,000. Tuesday's top lot was bred by Tony Parker at his Haras de Quétiéville. She is out of a sister to the former basketball player's French 1,000 Guineas heroine Mangoustine (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}). A 79% clearance rate, which was down 6% on this corresponding sale last year, followed on from the 6% drop in the August Sale. The average fell by 14% and the aggregate by 19% to €4.523 million. The median was also down by €3,000 to €27,000. “The day ended with very satisfying results, following on from an historic year in 2023,” read an Arqana statement on behalf of Freddy Powell and Olivier Delloye. “With 80% of horses sold and an average price of €33,000, this sale was one of the best v.2 sales since its creation. This sale is now well established in the yearling sales calendar and the very good turnout from French trainers is testament to this, and we would like to thank them warmly. Many of the yearlings sold today will remain in training in France and we wish them every success in the ARQANA Series next year!” Brière had strong representation in both sales and described trade as “patchy”. He also revealed that the breeze-up buyers, who accounted for just four of the horses sold at the August Sale, were not as active this year which ultimately proved bad for business. “I'm delighted with that price for the Starspangledbanner,” Brière said. “Obviously she is by the right sire and we sold the sister here last year for €105,000. The high end of the market, I wouldn't say that it is easy, but it's strong. The lower end of things was much more difficult and I think we have been missing a lot of breeze-up buyers here over the past few days. That makes a bit of a difference. French trainers are usually a little bit more active at V2 than at August Sale, which we saw today, but the breeze-up people buy quite a lot of horses between €50,000 and €100,000 and you could see that they weren't here this year.” He added, “It wasn't easy for the breeze-up handlers this year. You know, if they don't sell their horses, they need to be more careful going forward. There are more sales coming and this is only the first one so we will see how the next few weeks go but I think it's definitely gone very selective. I think it will be more difficult at the lower end this year. Last year, we saw a bit of a drop in Britain and Ireland but we were actually okay in France. Everywhere is the same. Look, it's not dramatic–I think the clearance rate was up to 79% when I last checked-and we still need to be positive. The sales have been so strong for the last few years, maybe we have to be realistic in this industry to what is going on in the world.” All told, Fairway sold nine of the 11 yearlings offered at an average of €37,556. The outfit sold five of the six yearlings offered at the August Sale for an average of €108,000. Brière, who has spent time working with Coolmore, Castlebridge and even Peter O'Callaghan in Kentucky, says that he remains positive about the health of the market at every level in France. “It can be very hard to decide what you are going to do next. Do you buy higher quality horses for the top end which seems to be as strong as ever? Then if you are a breeder, you need to decide whether you go to the big stallions who obviously cost a lot of money. I only have 10 mares on the farm and I do a lot less pinhooking nowadays than I did before. I've started to buy a few more mares for myself and my clients.” He added, “There are lots of positives. The French premiums mean that, if you don't sell, at least you still have a chance of getting a bit of money back on the racetrack. The other good news is that there seem to be some nice sires coming through. The progeny of Armor (GB) and Victor Ludorum (GB) seemed to sell well here this week so there are positives as well.” First Galiway For Emmet Mullins The secret has long been out that the dominant National Hunt trainer Willie Mullins is a big fan of Galiway (GB). Not only has Galiway proved to be a source of top-notch talent on the Flat, with Sealiway (Fr), Sunway (Fr) and even Mullins's high-class Vauban (Fr), but many of his stock have done well over jumps. Grand National-winning trainer Emmet Mullins, a nephew of the champion handler, went to €80,000 to secure his first ever Galiway. The colt was offered by Haras de la Cauviniere and was reported by Mullins to have been purchased with a Flat career in mind first and foremost. He said, “I thought he was one of the nicest horses here today-a nice stamp of a horse with a good pedigree. He could be a dual-purpose type and the sire is doing well. It's a good cross with Galiway and Kendargent (Fr), as we saw with Gala Marceau (Fr).” Mullins added, “I haven't had a Galiway before so it's nice to land one. He should make up into a nice backend two-year-old and that will all stand to him if he does end up going jumping further down the line. But we'll give him every chance on the Flat first.” Dream Debut For Hestia Sebastian Defontaine of Hestia Farm spoke of the heightened importance to his debut draft of yearlings at Arqana on the eve of the sale. He and his wife Camille are expecting their first child together in November meaning good results in the ring would be timely. The couple couldn't have dreamed of a better start when their Armor (GB) colt that was picked up for just €13,000 in December was knocked down to Al Shaqab Racing for €55,000 while their €10,000 Goken filly sold to Federico Barberini for €15,000. Armor proved himself a fast and precocious two-year-old for Al Shaqab, winning the Molecomb Stakes and finishing third in the Middle Park before retiring to stud at Haras de Bouquetot. His first crop seems to have been well-received by the market this week, with six yearlings selling for an average of €47,000. Commenting on his excellent pinhook with the progeny of Armor, Defontaine said, “Very happy. We bought the Armor with some friends and everything went well so everybody is happy. The horse looked great and I am very happy that he will stay in France because I really want to see him run. It's a great result for us but, not even the money, getting a bit of success can only be a help for business.” Menuisier Adds 85k Armor Filly To His Shopping List David Menuisier set out on assembling a bunch of early two-year-olds for next season when snapping up a half-sister to his Golden Mile winner Toimy Son by Armor. Conscious that he can sometimes be pigeon-holed as an exceptional trainer of only stayers, Menuisier is keen to attract some sharper, quicker horses to his stable and the Armor filly is from a family he knows well. He said, “I bought Toimy Son at the Arqana Sale a couple of years ago and he needed a bit of time to adapt to England. He has turned a corner this year and won the Golden Mile at Goodwood the other day. This half-sister to him seems to be a quality filly and is precocious. That is what I am looking for because I have a tag on my face that says I only train stayers!” He added, “I am trying to have a few sharper types to tackle the early two-year-old races next year. I think she is exactly in that range. She has been bought by pretty much the same partnership who own Toimy Son. It's a nice group of friends and we get on really well so it's a pleasure.” Talking Points Armor may not have been on many people's radar heading into the sale but his stock was bought by some shrewd judges here on Monday and he could well be something of a surprise package. At just €5,000, Armor might be a decent source of speed for breeders who can't afford access to the Scat Daddy line. The French-based trainers didn't appear to be too active at August which may have been one of the reasons why trade was down, but the domestic handlers supported V2 quite strongly. Jean-Claude Rouget, who recently announced that he was joining forces with Jerome Reynier next year, was the busiest trainer. In fact, Rouget was listed as the buyer of five yearlings for €222,000 which made him the strongest buyer at the sale. The Premier Yearling Sale at Doncaster and the Somerville Sale at Tattersalls should provide a proper insight into the strength of the market later this month. It will also be interesting to track whether the strong US buying bench that was so notable during the August Sale will continue on to the Book 1 and the Orby. John Stewart could be an important player. Through Resolute Racing, Stewart spent just shy of €2 million on three yearlings. He could prove to play a leading role at the top yearling sale markets in Britain and Ireland. BUY OF THE DAY LOT 370, filly by Sioux Nation There may not have been a huge representation from the breeze-up fraternity but Glending Stables got up and running for the new season with lot 370 and the €48,000 that Roderic Kavanagh forked out through agents Peter and Ross Doyle made a lot of sense. A daughter of a listed-placed Pivotal mare, who has already produced two winners, including the black-type performer Bakhchisaray is sure to have been on many buyers' lists given how well Sioux Nation has done on the track and in the ring. A late May foal, the Sioux Nation filly will need to thrive in order to be ready in time for the breeze-ups, but she couldn't have gone to a better nursery with Glending's roll of honour headed by the brilliant dual Group 1 winner Vandeek. Quite a leggy filly, who looks as though she could blossom over the coming months, it wouldn't be any surprise to see Kavanagh and his team turn their €48,000 outlay into six figures at the Tattersalls Ireland breeze-up sale next year. If they got a dream run, who knows, she could even be the type to come back to Arqana for the breeze-up sale in May. She looks well bought. The post Starspangledbanner Filly Tops V2 at 115K as Key Figures Dip at Arqana appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Kentucky Downs Vice President of Racing Ted Nicholson may have the easiest job in racing, which he'll readily admit. Thanks to the popularity of the Historical Horse Racing Machines, he's got a boatload of money to spend. Every year, it's the same thing…he has to decide where and how to spend millions of dollars. How do you divide up the money and which races deserve a purse increase? “Business has been very strong on the gaming side,” said Nicholson, this week's Green Group Guest of the Week on the TDN Writers' Room Podcast presented by Keeneland. “So we continue to elevate our goals. First our plan was to get graded races. I think there was a number of years where we weren't getting the respect that we thought we deserved from the graded stakes committee. The money helps. We've seen that over the last few years. We now have nine graded races. And now it's just a matter of us elevating our game to the point where we're going to start getting more Grade I's.” The purses, in a word, are staggering. Total purses at the meet add up to $37 million, there are seven races worth $2 million or more and 15 of 18 stakes offered at the meet are worth at least $1 million. Maidens run for $170,000. The purse for the GIII Nashville Derby will be $3.1 million, which makes it, after the GI Kentucky Derby, the richest race run in the state of Kentucky. (Non-Kentucky-breds run for less money than Kentucky-breds, but the pots for horses bred in other states or countries are still very lucrative). Horsemen from around the world have caught on and so have the bettors. With races with rich purses and full fields, Kentucky Downs offers one of the best betting products in the U.S. “As far as the handle goes, it has been growing every year,” Nicholson said. “I've been here 10 years now and every year we've gone up in handle. Last year we did $84 million in seven race days. I'm hoping this year we will reach $90 million, which would be outstanding. It's a great thing when you have a great product that people notice. Over the years, more and more, everybody has circled us on the calendar. It's a real challenge for horseplayers.” Kentucky Downs still does not have a grandstand and the atmosphere is much like what you see at a hunt meet. But track management has also tried to improve upon the customer experience every year. “We built a brand new pavilion for the horsemen,” Nicholson said. “That's right there next to the other finish line pavilion. It's big, it's tall, it's expansive. I think people are going to really, really enjoy it. We also added a suite that will be just to the south or further down the stretch from the chalet. So we're always trying to improve the property and improve the experience for the guests.” In our breeding spotlight section, we took a look at the WinStar stallion Life Is Good. Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders' Association, West Point Thoroughbreds, WinStar, XBTV.com, and Stonestreet Farm, the team of Zoe Cadman, Randy Moss and Bill Finley took a detailed look at Saturday's GI Travers S., taking a deep dive and going over the entire fields. The boys, Moss and Finley, picked the filly, Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna). The girl, Cadman, said she'll be rooting for Thorpedo Anna, but made Dornoch (Good Magic) her official pick. The team also previewed the four other graded stakes races on the Saratoga card and handicapped the GII Pat O'Brien S., which features two stars in The Chosen Vron (Vronsky) and Senor Buscador (Mineshaft). It looks like Rich Strike (Keen Ice) will now be retired after failing to fully come back from a string of injuries. So where will he stand at stud? Moss picked Japan; Cadman picked New York. To watch the podcast video, click here. For the audio-only version, click here. The post Ted Nicholson Joins TDN Writers’ Room Podcast appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Wednesday's Observations features a 1.2 million euro Arqana August graduate Silver Peak (Dubawi). 17.50 Kempton, Novice, £9,900, 2yo, 7fT SILVER PEAK (FR) (Dubawi {Ire}) was the second-highest-priced colt at Arqana Deauville August when selling to Godolphin for €1.25million and Charlie Appleby deems it time to unveil him at a track that he favours for his better types. Out of a half to Kingman's triple group 1-winning Poule d'Essai des Poulains hero and sire Persian King (Ire), he encounters Juddmonte's fellow newcomer Detain (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), a John and Thady Gosden-trained half-brother to the stable's dual group winner Arrest (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) who broke his maiden here two years ago. HOW THEY FARED 14.58 Deauville, Mdn, €30,000, 2yo, c/g, 6fT Repole Stable's 280,000gns Craven Breeze-Up acquisition Benny The Waiter (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}), a half-brother to this term's G2 King Edward VII Stakes runner-up and Wednesday's G2 Great Voltigeur Stakes nominee Space Legend (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), was without cover throughout this heavy-ground debut and ran on in the closing stages to finish sixth. 18.30 Wolverhampton, Mdn, £6,300, 2yo, f, 7f 36y (AWT) Enclosure (GB) (Ulysses {Ire}), the daughter of the G1 Matron Stakes heroine Echelon (GB) (Danehill) and half-sister to the G1 Falmouth Stakes and G1 Sun Chariot Stakes winner Integral (GB) (Dalakhani {Ire}), never threatened and finished sixth. The post Wednesday’s Observations: Dubawi’s 1.25M Arqana August Graduate Debuts at Sandown appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

What happens in the Aug. 21 Juddmonte International (G1) could well define City of Troy in the minds of many. A victory will elevate him and further diminish his defeat in the Two Thousand Guineas (G1) and underwhelming success in the Eclipse (G1).View the full article

The top four finishers of the Chicago Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs last month meet again, along with runners from Chad Brown, Todd Pletcher, and Bill Mott View the full article

Recent graduates of the sale include: Big City Lights, a multiple stakes winner of more than $416,000 and winner of the Palos Verdes Stakes (G3), as well as Bus Buzz, Crazy Hot, Last Call London and Lite Ranchin Kid, among others. View the full article

Forty-five days after the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declared that the Horseracing and Safety Integrity Act (HISA) is unconstitutional because its enforcement provisions violate the private non-delegation doctrine, both the HISA Authority and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) petitioned for a rarely granted “en banc” procedure that asks for a rehearing before all 17 of that court's judges instead of just the panel of three that issued the July 5 opinion. The HISA Authority's Aug. 19 filing asked for the rehearing based on three main points: 1) The panel's decision “explicitly creates a circuit split” with the Sixth Circuit federal appeals court, which in 2023 opined that HISA is constitutional; 2) The panel's “facial constitutional ruling is wrong” and was based on hypothetical actions that the HISA Authority has never invoked upon any covered person, and 3) The Fifth Circuit's unconstitutionality decision “would dismantle a federal regulatory regime that two Congresses and [presidential] administrations have embraced.” The 3 1/2-year-old underlying lawsuit that led to the Fifth Circuit's opinion was spearheaded by the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (NHBPA) and 12 of its affiliates. On Tuesday, Eric Hamelback, the chief executive officer of the NHBPA, told TDN that he didn't believe the en banc petition would prove fruitful for the defendants. “This extends the stand-down by a short additional period, nothing more,” Hamelback wrote in an email. “We remain confident in the panel's unanimous opinion and its comprehensive reasoning.” The HBPA plaintiffs have years of judicial precedent on their side to back up the unlikelihood that the Fifth Circuit will grant the en banc hearing. That means the petition could end up being just a legal formality to exhaust every procedural option at the appeals court level before the HISA Authority and the FTC ask the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve the division of opinions between the Fifth and Sixth circuits. A United States Court of Appeals (USCA) explanatory page about how en banc requests work stated that the granting of that type of rehearing is “rare” at the federal level. “The Federal Circuit grants few petitions for rehearing each year,” the USCA explanation stated. “These petitions for rehearing are rarely successful because they typically fail to articulate sufficient grounds upon which to grant them.” The Fifth Circuit's most recently published annual report gives statistics about its recent history of handling en banc hearing requests. In each of the last six years (2018-23) the Fifth Circuit has heard between 5,700 and 7,400 appeals each year. The number of en banc rehearings it granted during that time frame ranged between four and 10 per year. In the most recent court year (July 1, 2022-June 30, 2023), the Fifth Circuit started the judicial calendar with 35 en banc requests pending from the previous year. It then took in 203 new en banc petitions over the course of the judicial year. At the end of the term, only nine rehearings before the full panel of judges were granted. In a separate case initiated by different plaintiffs, on Mar. 3, 2023, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled that a change of language in the HISA law at the end of 2022 was sufficient to alleviate any concerns over constitutionality. Back in April 2023, when the states of Oklahoma, West Virginia and Louisiana petitioned the Sixth Circuit for an en banc rehearing after that panel upheld HISA's constitutionality, none of the 28 judges on that circuit even requested a vote on the suggestion for a rehearing. Those plaintiffs then petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case, but that request, too, got shot down. But it's important to note that at the time the Supreme Court opted not to take up the Sixth Circuit petition (June 24, 2024), the Fifth Circuit had yet to issue its unconstitutionality ruling. So if the HISA Authority and the FTC fail in their bid to get the en banc rehearing, the Supreme Court might be more inclined to hear the case considering there is now a conflict between two federal appeals courts on the issue of HISA. When the Fifth Circuit issued its July 5, 2024, opinion, it disagreed with the district court on only the enforcement aspect of HISA. “We agree with nearly all of the district court's well-crafted opinion,” the Fifth Circuit opinion stated. “Specifically, we agree that the FTC's new rulemaking oversight means the agency is no longer bound by the Authority's policy choices. In other words, the [2022 Congressional] amendment solved the non-delegation problem with the Authority's rulemaking power… “We disagree with the district court in one important respect, however,” the Fifth Circuit opinion continued. “HISA's enforcement provisions violate the private non-delegation doctrine. The statute empowers the Authority to investigate, issue subpoenas, conduct searches, levy fines, and seek injunctions–all without the FTC's say-so. That is forbidden by the Constitution. We therefore DECLARE that HISA's enforcement provisions are facially unconstitutional on that ground. In doing so, we part ways with our esteemed colleagues on the Sixth Circuit.” The HISA Authority's en banc petition on Monday framed its argument like this: “This proceeding involves a question of exceptional importance for at least three reasons. First, as the panel acknowledged, its conclusion that HISA's enforcement provisions violate the private-non-delegation doctrine conflicts directly with the considered decision of a unanimous Sixth Circuit. “Second, the panel's facial constitutional ruling–resting entirely on '[s]uppos[itions]' and 'hypothetical[s]–conflicts with recent Supreme Court precedents… “Third, in Plaintiffs' own words, this proceeding concerns the constitutionality of a federal law raising 'important matters of law and policy,' with significance extending 'beyond just the immediate parties.'” The HISA Authority's en banc petition continued: “All agree on the high stakes.” The Authority's petition further stated that the Fifth Circuit's unconstitutionality opinion “endangers horses, jockeys, and the industry that cherishes them.” It also underscored that “HISA's implementation over the last two-plus years–governing over 100,000 industry participants (horses and people)–has already yielded 'significant improvement'” while alleging that “the panel decision threatens to reverse that progress and disrupt over two years of reforms to which virtually the entire industry has now adjusted.” The Authority's en banc petition stated that the record on this facial challenge “lacks any evidence of specific enforcement activity against Plaintiffs' members” and alleged that the Fifth Circuit “relied heavily on HISA provisions that have never been invoked against anyone.” According to the petition, “The Authority has not, for example, filed a single 'suit to enjoin violations' or issued a single 'subpoena.'” The post HISA Authority, FTC, Want ‘En Banc’ Hearing to Reconsider Fifth Circuit Unconstitutional Opinion appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. 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One of the first indicators as to how strong the middle tiers of the European yearling market will be this autumn was provided at the V2 session of the August Sale at Arqana where a Starspangledbanner (Aus) filly led the way at €115,000 when sold to Arthur Hoyeau. The filly was consigned by Charles Brière's Fairway Consignment and was one of only two yearlings to break the six-figure barrier, the other being a Siyouni (Fr) filly that was sold to Nicolas de Watrigant on behalf of Al Shaqab Racing for €100,000. Tuesday's top lot was bred by Tony Parker at his Haras de Quétiéville. She is out of a sister to the former basketball player's French 1,000 Guineas heroine Mangoustine (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}). A 79% clearance rate, which was down 6% on this corresponding sale last year, followed on from the 6% drop in the August Sale. The average fell by 14% and the aggregate by 19% to €4.523 million. The median was also down by €3,000 to €27,000. Brière had strong representation in both sales and described trade as “patchy”. He also revealed that the breeze-up buyers, who accounted for just four of the horses sold at the August Sale, were not as active this year which ultimately proved bad for business. “I'm delighted with that price for the Starspangledbanner,” Brière said. “Obviously she is by the right sire and we sold the sister here last year for €105,000. The high end of the market, I wouldn't say that it is easy, but it's strong. The lower end of things was much more difficult and I think we have been missing a lot of breeze-up buyers here over the past few days. That makes a bit of a difference. French trainers are usually a little bit more active at V2 than at August Sale, which we saw today, but the breeze-up people buy quite a lot of horses between €50,000 and €100,000 and you could see that they weren't here this year.” He added, “It wasn't easy for the breeze-up handlers this year. You know, if they don't sell their horses, they need to be more careful going forward. There are more sales coming and this is only the first one so we will see how the next few weeks go but I think it's definitely gone very selective. I think it will be more difficult at the lower end this year. Last year, we saw a bit of a drop in Britain and Ireland but we were actually okay in France. Everywhere is the same. Look, it's not dramatic-I think the clearance rate was up to 79% when I last checked-and we still need to be positive. The sales have been so strong for the last few years, maybe we have to be realistic in this industry to what is going on in the world.” All told, Fairway sold nine of the 11 yearlings offered at an average of €37,556. The outfit sold five of the six yearlings offered at the August Sale for an average of €108,000. Brière, who has spent time working with Coolmore, Castlebridge and even Peter O'Callaghan in Kentucky, says that he remains positive about the health of the market at every level in France. “It can be very hard to decide what you are going to do next. Do you buy higher quality horses for the top end which seems to be as strong as ever? Then if you are a breeder, you need to decide whether you go to the big stallions who obviously cost a lot of money. I only have 10 mares on the farm and I do a lot less pinhooking nowadays than I did before. I've started to buy a few more mares for myself and my clients.” He added, “There are lots of positives. The French premiums mean that, if you don't sell, at least you still have a chance of getting a bit of money back on the racetrack. The other good news is that there seem to be some nice sires coming through. The progeny of Armor (GB) and Victor Ludorum (GB) seemed to sell well here this week so there are positives as well.” First Galiway For Emmet Mullins The secret has long been out that the dominant National Hunt trainer Willie Mullins is a big fan of Galiway (GB). Not only has Galiway proved to be a source of top-notch talent on the Flat, with Sealiway (Fr), Sunway (Fr) and even Mullins's high-class Vauban (Fr), but many of his stock have done well over jumps. Grand National-winning trainer Emmet Mullins, a nephew of the champion handler, went to €80,000 to secure his first ever Galiway. The colt was offered by Haras de la Cauviniere and was reported by Mullins to have been purchased with a Flat career in mind first and foremost. He said, “I thought he was one of the nicest horses here today-a nice stamp of a horse with a good pedigree. He could be a dual-purpose type and the sire is doing well. It's a good cross with Galiway and Kendargent (Fr), as we saw with Gala Marceau (Fr).” Mullins added, “I haven't had a Galiway before so it's nice to land one. He should make up into a nice backend two-year-old and that will all stand to him if he does end up going jumping further down the line. But we'll give him every chance on the Flat first.” Dream Debut For Hestia Sebastian Defontaine of Hestia Farm spoke of the heightened importance to his debut draft of yearlings at Arqana on the eve of the sale. He and his wife Camille are expecting their first child together in November meaning good results in the ring would be timely. The couple couldn't have dreamed of a better start when their Armor (GB) colt that was picked up for just €13,000 in December was knocked down to Al Shaqab Racing for €55,000 while their €10,000 Goken filly sold to Federico Barberini for €15,000. Armor proved himself a fast and precocious two-year-old for Al Shaqab, winning the Molecomb Stakes and finishing third in the Middle Park before retiring to stud at Haras de Bouquetot. His first crop seems to have been well-received by the market this week, with six yearlings selling for an average of €47,000. Commenting on his excellent pinhook with the progeny of Armor, Defontaine said, “Very happy. We bought the Armor with some friends and everything went well so everybody is happy. The horse looked great and I am very happy that he will stay in France because I really want to see him run. It's a great result for us but, not even the money, getting a bit of success can only be a help for business.” Menuisier Adds 85k Armor Filly To His Shopping List David Menuisier set out on assembling a bunch of early two-year-olds for next season when snapping up a half-sister to his Golden Mile winner Toimy Son by Armor. Conscious that he can sometimes be pigeon-holed as an exceptional trainer of only stayers, Menuisier is keen to attract some sharper, quicker horses to his stable and the Armor filly is from a family he knows well. He said, “I bought Toimy Son at the Arqana Sale a couple of years ago and he needed a bit of time to adapt to England. He has turned a corner this year and won the Golden Mile at Goodwood the other day. This half-sister to him seems to be a quality filly and is precocious. That is what I am looking for because I have a tag on my face that says I only train stayers!” He added, “I am trying to have a few sharper types to tackle the early two-year-old races next year. I think she is exactly in that range. She has been bought by pretty much the same partnership who own Toimy Son. It's a nice group of friends and we get on really well so it's a pleasure.” Talking points Armor may not have been on many people's radar heading into the sale but his stock was bought by some shrewd judges here on Monday and he could well be something of a surprise package. At just €5,000, Armor might be a decent source of speed for breeders who can't afford access to the Scat Daddy line. The French-based trainers didn't appear to be too active at August which may have been one of the reasons why trade was down, but the domestic handlers supported V2 quite strongly. Jean-Claude Rouget, who recently announced that he was joining forces with Jerome Reynier next year, was the busiest trainer. In fact, Rouget was listed as the buyer of five yearlings for €222,000 which made him the strongest buyer at the sale. The Premier Yearling Sale at Doncaster and the Somerville Sale at Tattersalls should provide a proper insight into the strength of the market later this month. It will also be interesting to track whether the strong US buying bench that was so notable during the August Sale will continue on to the Book 1 and the Orby. John Stewart could be an important player. Through Resolute Racing, Stewart spent just shy of €2 million on three yearlings. He could prove to play a leading role at the top yearling sale markets in Britain and Ireland. Buy of the day There may not have been a huge representation from the breeze-up fraternity but Glending Stables got up and running for the new season with lot 370 and the €48,000 that Roderic Kavanagh forked out through agents Peter and Ross Doyle made a lot of sense. A daughter of a listed-placed Pivotal mare, who has already produced two winners, including the black-type performer Bakhchisaray is sure to have been on many buyers' lists given how well Sioux Nation has done on the track and in the ring. A late May foal, the Sioux Nation filly will need to thrive in order to be ready in time for the breeze-ups, but she couldn't have gone to a better nursery with Glending's roll of honour headed by the brilliant dual Group 1 winner Vandeek. Quite a leggy filly, who looks as though she could blossom over the coming months, it wouldn't be any surprise to see Kavanagh and his team turn their €48,000 outlay into six figures at the Tattersalls Ireland breeze-up sale next year. If they got a dream run, who knows, she could even be the type to come back to Arqana for the breeze-up sale in May. She looks well bought. The post Starspangledbanner Filly Tops V2 At 115k As Key Figures Dip At Arqana appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

It's the surprises that keep us interested in pedigrees, and that applies as much to people as to horses. Cogburn, who recently sprinted to a world record in the GI Jaipur Stakes, is out of a mare by Saintly Look. Saintly Who? A son of Saint Ballado, and winner of the GIII Lecomte Stakes in 2003, Saintly Look covered a couple of small books in Indiana, in 2008 and 2009, and was then sold for $17,500 at the Keeneland November Sale. Cogburn's dam In a Jif was among nine named foals in his second crop. Eventually resurfacing at another farm in the state, Saintly Look seems to have had three named foals in 2014, another eight in 2015, and then disappeared from production altogether. “Saintly Look!” exclaimed Sally Lockhart's husband Jimmie when she brought the mare home. “Saintly Look doesn't belong in our broodmare band!” “I didn't know who the hell Saintly Look was,” admits Sally, looking back. “I'd love to tell you that we'd spent days researching In a Jif, but it wouldn't be true. I just saw this pretty mare walking up through the chute and when I looked at the catalogue page, she was in foal to Not This Time. And at the time, I just had an infatuation with that horse.” At the start of the year, indeed, she had been proud that their Ballyrankin Farm had been the very first to deliver a foal by Not This Time. And now that his second crop was imminent, she was stretching to sweep up unwanted seasons at a bargain rate. “But that's how we've made our money,” she explains. “That's been our livelihood, breeding nice-looking mares to cheaper horses. We can't afford expensive mares, so we try and buy ones that might have nice foals. That's the only way we can do it–and one of ours had the highest-priced Known Agenda last year, another the highest Modernist.” It so happened that this pretty mare was being sold through James Keogh, with whom the Lockharts have a relationship going back over 20 years. “In fact, I think it's fair to say that if James hadn't helped me out with boarders, we wouldn't even have the farm now,” Sally acknowledges. They know him as few others. They even know a scruffy, sweating Keogh, who toils towards the immaculate presentation both of his horses and his own wardrobe, on sales day. And they know the horseman so respected that a couple of years ago, he judged at the Dublin Horse Show. And there he was, watching this mare on the rostrum, scowling. “James had a horrible face on him while she was up there,” Sally says with a chuckle. “So I walked up and said, 'What's wrong with her? Why isn't she making anything?' And he said, 'There's nothing wrong with her. I don't know why she's not bringing more.'” So Sally just went right ahead and bought the mare for $26,000. After all, In a Jif had won seven of 18 starts, including a sprint stakes on the Turfway synthetic. Even before she had the docket in her hands, however, Sally was already worrying about what Jimmie was going to say. “I thought, I'm going to be in so much trouble,” she recalls. “So I signed in some fake name. And I wasn't even at the vanning desk before Jimmie called me. And he was like, 'What the hell!? Did you just buy a mare?' And I looked around to see who had ratted me out.” “Nobody,” confirms Jimmie. “I just recognized the fake name.” Of course he did. Because if you think Cogburn's dam has a surprising sire, then how about the woman who found her? For when Sally signed the docket in the name of Bellary Bay Bloodstock, she was borrowing the title of a novel by her father John Brennan. Never heard of him, maybe? A bit like Saintly Look? Except he's on many a bookshelf, especially back in Europe, under the nom de plume of John Welcome. Besides his occasional collaborations with Dick Francis, he wrote old-school thrillers, plus biographies of Fred Archer and, in the classic Neck Or Nothing, Sceptre's trainer Robert Sievier. “He was a lawyer in Wexford, but always wrote books on the side,” Sally explains. “And he dedicated the one called Bellary Bay to me. It was about World War I in Kerry, where he had a house. He always wrote under a pseudonym because he thought that if anybody knew who was writing these books, he couldn't be a very good attorney. So he wanted to stay under the radar.” But it was an incidental benefit of her upbringing by this remarkable man that ultimately determined the course of Sally's life. “We always had animals at home,” she says. “I mean, we had 40 acres, and always had hunt horses, event horses, cattle, chickens. My sisters and I, we all rode growing up: Pony Club, hunting, all that sort of stuff.” Their own place was called Hermitage and, by the time Sally was naming a Kentucky farm, that name was already taken! But one of her favorite Pony Club events as a child was held at a place called Ballyrankin, and it is the old Irish road-sign that hangs on their gate today. There was a long and winding road to be followed first, of course. And probably things would never have played out the way they did but for the eventing fall in which the 18-year-old Sally injured her back. Told that she couldn't ride for six months, she went to muck stalls at Coolmore for a breeding season–and liked it so much that she returned the following year. “I would have stayed riding event horses in Ireland, if I hadn't hurt my back,” she says. “But when Coolmore sent me over here, I just never went home. Life was good, I was making a bit of money, it was all a lark.” For many years she worked in the office at Brookdale, right through the days of Deputy Minister, Silver Deputy and Forest Wildcat. In the meantime, she met Jimmie, who was running one of the broodmare barns at Airdrie. Later he spent three years at Ballindaggin Farm for John Williams, and also did a stint at Stonereath. But around the turn of the century, the Lockharts decided they had enough experience to start a place of their own. They leased a couple of other sites, before settling where they are now on the Georgetown Road. “We own bits and pieces of 20 mares, and we're a commercial breeder,” Jimmie sums up. “Our plan is to have early foals that are strong and mature for November. That's our big sale.” Keeneland November was duly on the agenda for the Not This Time foal delivered by In a Jif. And albeit Sally's own attempt to remain incognito had entirely failed with her husband, they maintained the “fiction” when the mare duly foaled the following March, registering the breeder as Bellary Bloodstock. “I was so nervous until she had a colt,” Sally confesses. “But then I thought, 'Thank God, I'm off the hook.' That was just lucky, of course. But he was a really straightforward, easy keeper. And the mare the same: pleasant, sensible. I wish we could tell you we saw a champion coming. But there was nothing fancy about him. “It's like Old Tom Cooper used to say. He was a friend of my father, and took me under his wing when I first came over here. 'Sally,' he told me. 'You just need to look them in the eye. That's really all you need to do, figure out what's going on in their head.' Stands to reason, doesn't it?” Naturally selling through Keogh, the colt brought $52,000 from Clarmont Bloodstock before a topsy-turvy pinhook cycle. Ultimately, he ended up racing for a partnership of Clark Brewster with Corinne and William Heiligbrodt, who sent him into training with Steve Asmussen. As a juvenile, Cogburn impressed in a Churchill maiden just a couple of days before In a Jif's next foal, a Classic Empire filly, surfaced deep in the September sale and made $110,000. She, too, won a Churchill maiden the following June–by which time Cogburn had just finished second on his graded stakes debut. “And Taylor Made came knocking on the door,” Sally says. “I mean, she was empty, and we weren't going to be able to afford to breed her back to Not This Time. So we agreed to a private sale.” Obviously the price would be higher still, now that Cogburn has proved a revelation for the switch to turf. But the Lockharts' business is one that demands pragmatism, and a hunch won't always pay off the way it did with Not This Time. “We have sometimes fallen victim to fashion,” Jimmie says. “Sometimes it can come back and bite you when you're in the wrong year. Stallions used to get two or three years, but now it's almost down to one cycle. Things have become very, very fashion-driven.” Their three principal clients have usefully contrasting agendas: one joins them in selling weanlings at the November sale; another breeds strictly to race; another operates in between. On the whole, however, the Lockharts find that the same treatment benefits all young stock the same. “Except that the clients who breed to race don't believe in corrective surgeries,” Jimmie notes. “Their horses are not manipulated. Other than that, we raise them all pretty much the same–they're wintered the same, housed the same–until the sale horses, at the appropriate time, go into their prep. The breeding to race, of course, gives you the luxury of breeding to whatever horse you want. But that's a long game, and an expensive one.” The Lockharts believe sufficiently in their groundwork to have done well buying back fillies raised at Ballyrankin, off the racetrack, to breed. But they will also keep monitoring lesser fillies, to reserve them a home if in any way uncomfortable with where they have ended up. The compassion remains, then, however tough the environment can sometimes be. Sally was one of the first women to join the Irish diaspora in the Bluegrass. “The business was definitely male dominated in those days, though I'm not sure I ever really noticed,” she says. “I mean, it still is, or when you stop and think about. Maybe it was harder, as an employer, to get staff that respect you in this line of business. But I think that just takes time.” Certainly she felt no sentimental disappointment when both their children embarked on different careers. It's a tough vocation, after all, especially in the foaling season when Sally and Jimmie take alternate nights on call. “We foal out 50 to 60 every year,” Sally says. “I do enjoy that side. Obviously there's the tough ones that go wrong, and those wear on you. But those mares are my friends, and that's how I treat them. They work hard for you in that foaling barn. But I think the magic lasts longer for me than for Jimmie!” “I won't lie,” he concurs. “It's magical in January, but come May, it's torture. I'm ready for it to be over.” Both, however, share the sense of fulfilment when horses graduate from their program to excel on the track. “We've had plenty of good racehorses come off the farm before this one,” notes Jimmie. “Ollie's Candy (Candy Ride {Arg}) won a Grade I, and ran at the Breeders' Cup twice, and we'd raised her for Paul and Karen Eggert. Turnerloose (Nyquist) won the [GII] Rachel Alexandra. And years ago, we had Square Eddie (Smart Strike) that won the [GI] Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland and ran second at the Breeders' Cup.” The latter offered the Lockharts early reassurance that they knew what they were about, but will always particularly linger in Sally's memory as he kicked her in the head as a yearling. But even after cashing out the mare, nothing exceeds the pride the couple can justifiably take in having raised the four-legged lightning bolt who has already earned a place at WinStar on retirement. “He's some kind of fast, isn't he?” says Sally. “Who would ever have thought? Maybe we won't ever get another Cogburn in our lifetime. But it was the right thing to do, to sell the mare at the time we did. And to have been riding on those coattails, it's nice.” And while she has found herself a long way from “the tang of turf smoke that hung all about their homesteads great or small”–as her father wrote of nostalgia for the old country–then here, also, is exactly what he described in Bellary Bay: “good country for horse-rearers, too, with its rich pastures set on limestone.” Home and away have transposed, by this stage, but the endeavor and the rewards remain the same. “We're all just trying to make a living of it,” Sally says with a shrug. “It's long days, sometimes long nights. But that's just the way it is. It's a way of life.” “And it's great when you feel you've accomplished something,” adds Jimmie. “Even if part of it was by luck. Because if you don't believe in yourself, believe that you can make a difference, you're in the wrong line of work. So, yes, something like this does give you a sense of pride.” The post Cogburn’s Dam a Welcome Surprise to Lockharts appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The 2024-25 Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park, the winter home of the top horses, horsemen, and jockeys in the world, will play host to a total of 66 stakes races—30 graded—totaling $15.025 million.View the full article

Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course announced Aug. 20 Hugh Drexler as its new director of racing and Candy Wetzel as assistant director of racing.View the full article

Every week, the TDN posts a round-up of the relevant Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) related rulings from around the country. Among this week's rulings, trainer Odin Londono has been suspended for 18 months and fined $12,500 as a result of his trainee Private Drive testing positive for Diisopropylamine, a banned substance, when winning at Mahoning Valley Feb. 14 this year. The Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit (HIWU) classifies Diisopropylamine as a vasodilator, which is a substance that dilates the blood vessels to allow blood to flow more freely through them. Diisopropylamine is also found in several everyday items like tobacco and beauty products, and hand sanitizer. Veteran trainer Nancy Summers has been suspended 45 days and fined $1,000 due to what an internal adjudication panel describes as “many instances of miscommunication” between Summers and HIWU investigators about the whereabouts of her truck. In short, on Jan. 17 HIWU investigators conducted a search of Summers's Sunland Park barn, at the end of which, they asked to search her personal vehicle. Summer told them her vehicle was not there, the panel writes. Later that day, however, the investigators saw Summers drive away from the barn in a white pick-up truck–what led to the crossed lines of communication. It eventually transpired that Summers's driver and handyman Jeff Hawkins had taken the truck to Home Depot to purchase materials for Summers during the time of the barn search, before later dropping the truck off, according to the adjudication panel. “Based on the information provided to this panel, it is fair to determine that Ms. Summers bears no significant fault or negligence and that her overall testimonies, evidence, character references, and previous history as a Thoroughbred trainer are significant indicators that she was not attempting to be intentionally deceitful to HIWU investigators,” the panel writes. Indeed, the panel notes that Summers “had previously never been sanctioned for a medication violation or a possession of prohibited substance violation.” The panel added, however, faults Summers for “failing to provide complete information” to investigators. “Specifically, Ms. Summers should have been more forthcoming regarding Mr. Hawkin's significant involvement when asked about the whereabouts of her truck on March 20th 2024.” NEW HISA/HIWU STEWARDS RULINGS The following rulings were reported on HISA's “rulings” portal and through the HIWU “pending” and “resolved” cases portals. Resolved ADMC Violations Date: 08/19/2024 Licensee: Lynn Rarick, trainer Penalty: 7-day period of Ineligibility for Covered Person, beginning on August 20, 2024; Disqualification of Covered Horse's Race results, including forfeiture of all purses and other compensation, prizes, trophies, points, and rankings and repayment or surrender (as applicable); a fine of $1,000; imposition of 1.5 Penalty Points. Admission. Explainer: Medication violation for the presence of Dexamethasone—Controlled Medication (Class C)—in a sample taken from Calzone, who won at Canterbury Downs on 7/4/23. Date: 08/16/2024 Licensee: Angel Sanchez Pinero, trainer Penalty: A fine of $500; imposition of 1.5 Penalty Points. Admission. Explainer: Medication violation for the presence of Camphor— Controlled Medication (Class C)—in a sample taken from Brother Showtyme on 7/18/24. Date: 08/16/2024 Licensee: Dan Ward, trainer Penalty: A fine of $500; imposition of 1.5 Penalty Points. Admission. Explainer: Vets' list medication violation for the presence of Dexamethasone—Controlled Medication (Class C)—in a sample taken from Kobla Mas on 7/4/24. Date: 08/15/2024 Licensee: Ralph D'Alessandro, trainer Penalty: Disqualification of Covered Horse's Race results, including forfeiture of all purses and other compensation, prizes, trophies, points, and rankings and repayment or surrender (as applicable); a fine of $500; imposition of 1.5 Penalty Points. Admission. Explainer: Medication violation for the presence of Betamethasone— Controlled Medication (Class C)—in a sample taken from Production Credit, who won at Finger Lakes on 6/12/24. Date: 08/15/2024 Licensee: Billy Christian, trainer Penalty: Disqualification of Covered Horses' Race results, including forfeiture of all purses and other compensation, prizes, trophies, points, and rankings and repayment or surrender (as applicable); a fine of $500; imposition of 1.5 Penalty Points. Treated as 1 violation with Olivian under 09/08/23 HISA Guidance. Final decision of HIWU. Explainer: Medication violation for the presence of Acetaminophen (Paracetamol)—Controlled Medication (Class C)—in a sample taken from Abraaj Mirage, who won at Emerald Downs on 6/28/24, and in a sample taken from Olivian, who won at Emerald Downs on 6/9/24. Date: 08/15/2024 Licensee: Shawna Christian, trainer Penalty: Disqualification of Covered Horse's Race results, including forfeiture of all purses and other compensation, prizes, trophies, points, and rankings and repayment or surrender (as applicable); a fine of $500; imposition of 1.5 Penalty Points. Final decision of HIWU. Explainer: Medication violation for the presence of Acetaminophen (Paracetamol)—Controlled Medication (Class C)—in a sample taken from Rhodium Runner, who won at Emerald Downs on 6/2/24. Date: 08/14/2024 Licensee: Nancy Summers, trainer Penalty: 45-day period of Ineligibility for Covered Person, beginning on August 15, 2024; a fine of $1,000. Final decision by Internal Adjudication Panel. Explainer: Refusal/failure to cooperate promptly and completely with HISA/HIWU under the ADMC Program Rules. Date: 08/14/2024 Licensee: Odin Londono, trainer Penalty: 18-month period of Ineligibility for Covered Person, beginning on May 10, 2024; Disqualification of Covered Horse's Race results, including forfeiture of all purses and other compensation, prizes, trophies, points, and rankings and repayment or surrender (as applicable); a fine of $12,500. Admission. Explainer: Medication violation for the presence of Diisopropylamine—a banned substance—in a sample taken from Private Drive, who won at Mahoning Valley on 2/14/24. Pending ADMC Violations 08/20/2024, Richard Sillaman, trainer: Pending medication violation for the presence of Phenylbutazone—Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Levisa on 7/21/24. 08/20/2024, Luis Duco, trainer: Pending vets' list medication violation for the presence of Acepromazine—Class B controlled substance—in a sample taken from Dulce Ambicion on 7/16/24. 08/19/2024, John Shirreffs, trainer: Pending vets' list medication violation for the presence of Oxycodone and Omeprazole—Class C controlled substance—in a sample taken from Momad on 7/15/24. 08/15/2024, Gerald Butler, trainer: Provisional suspension for the possession of a banned substance; Two acts of retaliation and threats/intimidation. Violations of Crop Rule One important note: HISA's whip use limit is restricted to six strikes during a race. Hawthorne Alex Centeno – violation date August 15; $250 fine and one-day suspension Horseshoe Indianapolis Joseph Romero – violation date August 19; $250 fine and one-day suspension Santa Rosa Santos Rivera – violation date August 16; $250 fine and one-day suspension Saratoga Joe Bealmear – violation date August 16; $500 fine and one-day suspension The post Weekly Rulings: August 15-21 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

York's G1 Juddmonte International was designed to bring the very best to the famous Knavesmire venue and it has achieved that on Wednesday with City Of Troy (Justify) ready to rock and roll over the flat, fair mile-and-a-quarter. Due to a variety of factors beyond his control, Michael Tabor's 'Frankel' has probably yet to show his true material, with slow ground on Future Champions Day and in the Eclipse blunting his speed and heavy traffic on the contours at Epsom curtailing his impressive stride. There is a feeling that this combination of fast summer ground, extended 10-furlong trip and even terrain will serve as the key conditions for him to showcase the brilliance that John Magnier talked about having seen so often at Rosegreen but not yet fully on the track as he reflected on the colt's anti-climactic display at Sandown. It is worth reiterating his remarks here again. “The year is long and we'd just like to see him really run on his ground,” the Coolmore supremo stated. “What Aidan and Ballydoyle think about him and see in the morning is just incredible and we want people to see it, so hopefully it'll happen before the end of the year. I've been there watching him work and seen the times he does without being asked. We'll see what the next day brings.” Ryan Moore is giving all the right signals ahead of Wednesday. “Several have chances but, in terms of group 1 ability, I can't help feeling that the main players all have some sort of questions to answer and need to come up to City Of Troy's level,” he said. “It's a competitive renewal, but my horse sets a high bar that the rest have to try to reach.” Aidan O'Brien added, “What he has been doing has just been on raw ability,” he said. “We thought he was still green in the Derby and then we went to Sandown and we were happy there was plenty of time between Sandown and York to tweak a few things. The weather looks like it means the ground should be better than Sandown and York has a nice, long home straight that we hope will suit him given his stride.” Not So Friendly Rivalry… Whatever City Of Troy brings to the table in terms of class and aura, the Derby runner-up Ambiente Friendly (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) remains a formidable rival given how strongly he was moving along at Epsom entering the closing stages. The Irish Derby proved that a stiff mile-and-a-half test is not what he needs and he looks an ideal type for this race. Jockey Robert Havlin is of that opinion. “If you stopped both Derbys at the two-furlong marker, he's probably the only one still on the bridle so you would have to think that dropping back will help,” he said. “It looks like being the race of the season, so I'm really looking forward to it. I'd like to hope that he can reverse form. He's a really strong traveller with a very high cruising speed and he goes up through the gears on the bridle. I think the slick track and strong pace at York will play to his strengths and a big field is no problem, as he's not lazy. If a gap appears he's one that can instantaneously fill it, because he travels so well.” Can Calandagan? The Aga Khan and Francis-Henri Graffard have enjoyed a banner year up to now and given that Calandagan (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}) is a six-length winner of Royal Ascot's G2 King Edward VII Stakes there is no reason for him not to be here. That was over a fiercely-run stiff mile-and-a-half, however, and this trip on this track on this ground will demand more earlier speed which he may or may not possess in the requisite quantity. His G3 Prix Noailles and G3 Prix Hocquart wins over this kind of distance came on testing ground, so we will find out a lot more about him here. “He's ready for the next level and we'll see where we stand,” Graffard said. “The opposition is very strong, but I think York will suit him as it's a big, galloping track with a long straight compared to somewhere like Deauville.” Best Of The Elders… Ralph Beckett has dared again with Juddmonte's TDN Rising Star Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}), as he did at Ascot in the King George where he was rewarded his faith in spades. Back over the course and distance of her G2 Middleton Fillies' Stakes win in May, she adds depth to the contest as does the G1 Prince of Wales's Stakes runner-up Zarakem (Fr) (Zarak {Fr}). Trainer Jerome Reynier has the Arc in mind for the latter and said, “It is going to be a very strong test. Obviously, he ran a really good race at Royal Ascot and he showed he was able to deal with the fast ground at the highest level. We are going to wait at the back for some pace and hopefully we will be finishing as fast as the other day. He looks amazing and he's been training very well. We are really looking forward to seeing him again in England and his final target will be the Arc in early October and we thought this was the perfect race to use as a trial.” Shadwell's dual G2 York Stakes winner Alflaila (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) is three-from-four at this track, while Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum's Maljoom (Ire) (Caravaggio) has the class to win a race of this nature and if he can improve off his latest G1 Sussex Stakes second will be in the reckoning. “It was a massive run at Goodwood, where he was second to a Guineas winner and an exceptional horse and everyone was in agreement afterwards that the step up to a mile and a quarter would help him and was the next logical step,” jockey Tom Marquand said. Strong Voltigeur Boosts Opening Fixture… While the G2 Great Voltigeur Stakes is always a key pointer to the St Leger, the 12-furlong contest can sometimes suffer in the shadow of the card's feature race but this year is a very different proposition. In any other year, the Irish Derby winner would be expected to appear in the Juddmonte International but with Ballydoyle already running their best there Los Angeles (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) is in the group 2 with a penalty. Fast ground will serve as a new test for him here and Aidan O'Brien, who also saddles the G2 Queen's Vase winner and G1 Grand Prix de Paris runner-up Illinois (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), needs to confirm his stacked Leger pack. “There are lots of places he can go after it,” he said. “Obviously there's the Leger at a mile and six, he could go up to two miles or having won the Irish Derby, he could always go back to a mile and four. This race might help us decide where he goes.” Heading the opposition to the Ballydoyle duo is Mohammed Jaber's King's Gambit (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}), runner-up to Alflaila in a tactical renewal of the York Stakes last time. “He's done the donkey work in what I was told was the slowest run 10-furlong race at York ever, which was never going to suit him being a potential 12-furlong horse up against speedy 10-furlong horses,” trainer Harry Charlton said. “I thought he ran well and more than anything it gave us confidence that 12 furlongs would be within his compass because he was deeply relaxed, lobbing along in front when the others were keen,” he added. “It will be interesting how we get on as we are going in potentially against some stayers and he's the one coming up in trip. He might be the one with the speed and they will want to go a nice tempo, which he likes.” Holding Court… Wednesday's G3 Tattersalls Acomb Stakes could hardly be more intriguing, with Ballydoyle and Godolphin's impressive debut-winning TDN Rising Stars Ruling Court (Justify) and The Lion In Winter (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) out to prove their credentials. Ruling Court showed abundant pace at the close of his Sandown maiden and he could have a speed edge over The Lion In Winter with the latter potentially more of a middle-distance prospect. “We were obviously delighted with Ruling Court on his first start at Sandown and he has definitely come on for the run,” Appleby said. “We always felt that a nice, galloping track like York would suit and we go there with a horse who looked very exciting on his debut.” Aidan O'Brien has The Lion In Winter's next target already set in his mind. “He created a nice impression on his debut, it was a nice performance,” he said. “He is just ready to start again and we thought the experience of York would do him good. The track should suit him. We've got the Goffs Million possibly in our minds for him and the timing of this race and the experience he should pick up should help with that in mind.” Interestingly, the Gredleys' Wimbledon Hawkeye (GB) (Kameko) will offer perspective having run third in the G2 Superlative Stakes won by the Appleby stable star Ancient Truth (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), while Amo Racing's impressive Redcar novice scorer Diablo Rojo (Ire) (Pinatubo {Ire}) and Robert Barnett's Our Terms (GB) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who took Ascot's Crocker Bulteel Maiden, are other key players in a deep contest. The post ‘My Horse Sets a High Bar’: Moore Confident as City Of Troy Sits Big York Test appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby send out the two solid favorites in a field of six for the Sword Dancer Stakes (G1T) Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course.View the full article

Eight distaffers will contest Thursday's G1 Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks after two of the 10 overnight contenders were withdrawn before Tuesday morning's declaration stage. Valmont and Newsells Park Stud Bloodstock's G1 Irish Oaks heroine You Got To Me (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) is set to renew rivalry with Curragh runner-up Content (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). That Aidan O'Brien representative will be accompanied by stablemate and Irish Oaks 13th Port Fairy (Ire) (Australia {GB}). The latter had earlier accounted for the reopposing Lava Stream (Ire) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) in Royal Ascot's G2 Ribblesdale Stakes, where You Got To Me ran fourth. John and Thady Gosden are double-handed in the £500,000 feature and will rely on Emily Upjohn (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and Queen Of The Pride (GB) (Roaring Lion). The former makes her first visit to the Knavesmire since trouncing four rivals in the 2022 G3 Musidora Stakes while Queen Of The Pride comes back off a three-length victory in last month's G2 Lancashire Oaks at Haydock. The line-up is completed by Hughie Morrison trainee Mistral Star (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and Sheikh Juma Dalmook Al Maktoum's dual stakes-winning Sea Theme (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), from the William Haggas stable. The post Irish Oaks Heroine You Got To Me Among Eight Declared for Thursday’s Yorkshire Oaks appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer racing season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced offspring from a variety of top national outfits. Summer Breezes highlights debuting and stakes-entered 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, with links to their under-tack previews. Here are the horses entered for Wednesday at Saratoga: Wednesday, August 21, 2024 Saratoga 2, $90k, 2yo, (S), 6f, 1:44 p.m. ET Horse (Sire), Sale, Price ($), Breeze Sacrosanct (Honest Mischief), FTMMAY, 260,000, :10 C-Sequel Bloodstock, agent; B-Scherer/Radcliffe/Lady Sheila Saratoga 6, $90k, 2yo, f, (S), 1 1/16mT, 4:00 p.m. ET Grace and Grit (Munnings), OBSAPR, 350,000, :10 C-Niall Brennan Stables, agt; B-John Kimmel, agt. Nedlaw Stables The post Summer Breezes, Sponsored By OBS: August 21, 2024 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

The newest intake of Godolphin Flying Start trainees have begun their two-year training programme at Sheikh Mohammed's Kildangan Stud in Ireland. The class of 2024-2026 consists of trainees from America, Britain, France, Ireland and the Czech Republic and they will undergo training across the racing and bloodstock industry in Australia, America, Dubai and the UK. Godolphin Flying Start executive director Clodagh Kavanagh said,“We welcomed our 22nd Godolphin Flying Start class to Kildangan Stud last week. They are an enthusiastic group who are determined to forge careers in the thoroughbred industry. Their engagement and work ethic will stand to them as they progress through the Irish phase and beyond.” The 2024-2026 trainees are: Antoine Rozan, France Gabrielle Nebout, France Megan Bulbulia, Ireland Ivanna Dempsey, Ireland Rachael Doody, Ireland Tereza Pavlů, Czech Republic Adam Holland, UK Matthew Daubeney, UK Caroline Bunch, USA Matthew Browne, Ireland Grace Hamilton, USA Luke Kevin, Ireland The post Latest Godolphin Flying Start Course Underway appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Hugh Drexler has been appointed to the position of Director of Racing while Candy Wetzel will serve as Assistant Director of Racing at Mahoning Valley, the track announced Tuesday. Drexler will begin his duties Sept. 2, pending normal regulatory approvals. Drexler formerly served as the Racing Secretary at Thistledown in 2020/2021. The University of Arizona Racetrack Industry graduate has most recently been general manager of the North Dakota Horse Park where he has overseen racing, gaming and facilities for that organization. Drexler is a Level III accredited ROAP graduate and previously worked for Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course. “I'm excited to rejoin the Ohio Thoroughbred racing circuit and look forward to strengthening Mahoning Valley's position as a premier racing and entertainment destination,” said Drexler. Ohio native Wetzel, a member of the HGMVRC team since its opening in 2014 while working as a manager in the racing pari-mutuels area, most recently was a part of the team to implement sports wagering at the facility. Wetzel, a ROAP accredited racing official, hails from a family has been involved in Thoroughbred racing in Ohio for many years. “I am appreciative of this wonderful opportunity and look forward to my new role and being able to contribute to the continuing success of horse racing at Mahoning Valley,” said Wetzel. Robert Swedinovich, General Manager for HGMVRC, added, “We are glad to welcome both Hugh and Candy into our racing leadership positions. Both bring their own unique experiences and a passion for horse racing which should benefit HGMVRC and Ohio racing going forward.” The post Drexler, Wetzel Named to Mahoning Valley Racing Positions appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article