The Cartier Racing Awards were created in 1991 to honour achievement in horseracing. Horses can win one of eight trophies the Cartier Horse of the Year Award, the Cartier Older Horse Award, the Cartier Sprinter Award, the Cartier Stayer Award, the Cartier 3YO Colt Award, the Cartier 3YO Filly Award, the Cartier 2YO Colt Award, and the Cartier 2YO Filly Award. The 32nd Cartier Racing Awards will ...
Overpass, a stable favourite trained by Bjorn Baker, will be competing in the $1 million feature race at The Hunter meeting in Newcastle this weekend. The 4YO didn't embarrass itself by finishing sixth in The Everest, behind Giga Kick, and then midpack in the $10 million Golden Eagle. He hasn't aged a bit, and he still looks great. There's no denying this is a challenging competition, but the ...
Shadwell's Nunnery Stud will charge a fee of £80,000 a year to stand Baaeed, a six-time Gr.I winner and the highest-rated turf horse in the world in 2018. Baaeed, the best son of Sea the Stars, has won 10 of 11 races and is now charging a price of €180,000 at Aga Khan Studs' Gilltown Stud. "Baaeed's fee reflects his current status as the champion turf horse in the world for 2022," said Stephen ...
On Wednesday at Riccarton, Listed Riccarton Park Function Centre Welcome Stakes was held, and Sky on Fire, ridden by visiting Sydney jockey Josh Parr, won the race for trainer Mark Walker. Despite receiving good pressure from stablemate Rubicon Crossing, the Exceed And Excel filly was able to go on and win the first juvenile stakes race of the season, with the well-related Snitzel filly ...
While Mornington trainer Rob Blacker would have preferred Harry Coffey to stay on Skyphios for Saturday's 3YO Cranbourne Classic, he has no complaints about the replacement rider. Mark Zahra, winner of the Melbourne Cup, will ride the son of Fiorente for the first time in the $175,000 contest. After hearing that Coffey would be riding the Patrick Payne-trained Dunkel in the 2025-meter race, ...
According to his lifelong owner Bridget Eukers, the former racehorse Dead Solid Perfect passed away on November 8. This winter, Dead Solid Perfect gained notoriety as possibly the oldest living Thoroughbred in the United States. He was 39. For the first half of 2022, Eukers' horse, now named "Rush" in his second life as an off-track Thoroughbred, was in good health, she reported on November 9. ...
After his father, Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, won two Breeders' Cup races on 5 November at Keeneland with Godolphin's Cody's Wish in the Big Ass Fans Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (Gr.1) and Juddmonte's Elite Power in the Qatar Racing Breeders' Cup Sprint (Gr.1), on 11 November, Mott's son Riley won his first race as a trainer with Unifying, who led throughout in the sixth race at Churchill Down. ...
Book 3 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale opened for business on November 10, and there was no letup in activity throughout the day. Hip 1050 was the day's highlight thanks to Lane's End's consignment of the young Honor Code mare Brockovich. Agent Jody Huckabay brought in $450,000 for the 3YO mare who was sold while pregnant to first-year sire Charlatan. There were 338 horses up for ...
Zoustar, sire of this year's Champion European 2YO Filly Lezoo, will return to the Northern Hemisphere for another shuttle season at a price of £30,000, as revealed by Tweenhills Stud. “We're extremely excited to welcome Zoustar back to Tweenhills for his fifth northern hemisphere covering season, said David Redvers. "He has got off to a fantastic start with his first European runners, which ...
While Joe Pride frets over a start for his sprinter The Hunter at Newcastle on Saturday, he is prepping Brutality, the defending champion of the Villiers Stakes, for two $1 million races a week apart. Pride hopes to run Brutality in a race at Newcastle, and if he does, he aims to run the gelding again next Saturday in The Gong, a $1 million race at Kembla Grange. "I'm hoping he gets a start at ...
On Friday, the seven-race dirt card at Meydan Racecourse returns with several potential stars of the Dubai World Cup Carnival. Race 5's featured Nakheel Handicap is a affair with a purse of AED105,000. Nine horses have entered the race. One of them is Meshakel, who, after winning by seven and a quarter lengths at a mile distance in March of 2021, drew attention as a possible contender for the ...
In Saturday's A$1 million The Hunter at Newcastle, New Zealand, trainer John O'Shea is hopeful for his promising galloper Waihaha Falls (NZ) (Sacred Falls). The son of Sacred Falls, who is now 5YO, is nominated by trainer John O'Shea for the Karaka 2023 Benchmark 88 Handicap on the same card as The Hunter, where he is now ranked 22nd in the order of entry among a total of sixteen runners. After ...