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The partners Chester Thomas and Spendthrift Farm announced on Aug 24 that they have relocated their second-year stallion Mr. Money from Florida to Clear Creek Stud in Louisiana for the 2023 breeding season. "I just really like the way the Louisiana program is heading," the owner/breeder said. "I think Mr. Money has everything it takes to be a successful sire, and I believe having him at a top ...
Newgate Farm’s Henry Field said In The Congo is likely to target the feature Melbourne sprints this spring rather than be set for The Everest – unless Nature Strip shows he is vulnerable. “We haven’t ruled out The Everest with In The Congo but at the moment we prefer to head towards the Manikato Stakes,’’ Field said. “He will resume in the McEwen Stakes and then probably go to the Moir Stakes. ...
Goliath owner-breeder Bob Peters was yesterday named as Western Australia’s Breeder of the Year at the WA Thoroughbred of the Year award ceremony. Peters crowned a dominant season in his home state with victories in his cerise and white-crossed silks for Regal Power (Pierro) in the Kingston Town Stakes (Gr 1, 1800m), Western Empire (Iffraaj) in the Railway Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) and Graceful Girl ...
The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Artorius (Flying Artie) ended his time in Europe with a sixth-placed finish in yesterday's Prix Maurice de Gheest (Gr.1, 1300m) at Deauville for owners Newgate Farm and China Horse Club, in a stop-start race that saw the 4YO overrace in the early stages. Having left the Freedmans’ Mornington base back in June, the son of Flying Artie (Artie Schiller) ran a ...
Trent Edmonds never lost faith in he and his father Toby’s ability to train horses but Saturday’s shock Gr.2 Missile Stakes victory by Hard Empire helped remind the wider racing public that the Gold Coast-based pair know what they’re doing when they have the right stock. Soon after the 9YO gelding upset the likes of Group One-winning mare Forbidden Love. Trent posted on social media: “We haven’t ...
Dubai Racing Club has announced that Bhupat Seemar has been appointed as a trainer at Zabeel Stables after his highly successful 2021/22 UAE racing season which saw him saddle 47 winners. Seemar, 45, brings with him a wealth of experience to the role. Originally from India, he trained in the US as an intern at Taylor Made Farms and also enjoyed a spell as assistant to multiple Dubai World ...
Gr.2 winner Raclette has been supplemented to the G.1 Yorkshire Oaks, according to trainer Andre Fabre. The bay won the Listed Prix Melisande at ParisLongchamp two starts back in June, and triumphed in the G.2 Prix de Malleret in the colours of the late Prince Khalid Abdullah. The trainer also had an update on Gr.1 winner Mare Australis, who was unplaced in the G1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. He ...
Although True Valour lost to two-time Breeders' Cup winner Golden Pal by a head after setting the pace in the Gr.3 Troy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, the 8YO son of Kodiac showed owner J. Larry Johnson and trainer Graham Motion what they needed to see to give the world traveller his own shot in the Gr.1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland this fall. True Valour was 10th in the 2019 TVG ...
Once Again Goffs and the Dubai Racing Club will conduct the Dubai Breeze-Up Sale in 2023, following the success of the inaugural sale this March. The event will be held at Meydan during the Dubai World Cup meeting again next March and will be confined to a maximum of 69 2YO selected by the Goffs inspection team. The first Dubai Breeze-Up Sale in association with Goffs, the only sale of its kind ...
Prominent owner/breeder Lady Butter, a personal friend of the Queen, who attended her wedding, has died at age 97. Lady Butter, born Myra Wernher on March 8, 1925, was the daughter of Sir Harold Wernher, owner of Brown Jack and King George winner in 1960 Aggressor II, and Lady Zia Wernher, the great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia, owner of the Filly Triple Crown winner of 1955 Meld ...
Edward, son of multiple Gr.1 winning trainer Anthony Cummings and grandson of the ‘Cups King’ Bart Cummings, is out to give his family a fourteenth win in the race that stops the nation, should Duais salute on the first Tuesday in November. After the release of the nominations for the Cup last Tuesday, it’s Edward Cummings’ mare Duais who is the joint favorite for the race, sharing favouritism ...
The four-time Group One winner, State of Rest hopes to secure another Group One win in the Prix Jacques le Marois in France next week. Part-owner Henry Field thinks this could be the globetrotting stallion’s biggest test. With connections of many of Europe’s premier milers keen to avoid undefeated superstar Baaeed, who took his record to nine wins in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood recently, next ...
