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Ashford Stud's American Triple Crown winners American Pharoah and freshman sire Justify are leading the sire standings by average following the first two 2YO in training sales of the year. American Pharoah led his sire class at the end of 2021 by cumulative progeny earnings with more than $20 million and by a number of black-type stakes winners with 22. The 10YO son of Pioneerof the Nile has ...
The legal team for trainer Bob Baffert filed a motion April 4 to withdraw its pursuit of a preliminary injunction related to his two-year ban from participation in racetracks owned by Churchill Downs Inc. Defense counsel for CDI and CDI CEO William Carstanjen and CDI board chairman R. Alex Rankin, the two executives also named in the two lawsuit, have indicated, according to the motion, no ...
Golden Slipper heroine Fireburn will try to emulate the likes of Pierro, Sebring, and Dance Hero on Saturday in adding the Inglis Sires' to her CV and her trainer Gary Portelli said she has come through her win in brilliant order. Earlier in the season, much of the talk surrounding Portelli's juveniles were about his colt Sejardan, but the Warwick Farm-based trainer noted he hadn't been ...
Trainer Francis Finnegan has been found guilty by the Victorian Racing Tribunal of the two charges he contested over the concealed identity of horse No Frontiers. The charges relate to a jumpout at Cranbourne on April 20 last year when No Frontiers, who was ridden by Ben Thompson, participated, as well as a Three-Year-Old Maiden race at Bairnsdale on May 3, which No Frontiers won. In their ...
Before Master Fencer, Japan's last Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve Gr.1 participant, competed in the 2019 classic, the colt was quarantined in Chicago before traveling to Keeneland and later Churchill Downs. This year's Japanese representative, Teruya Yoshida's Crown Pride, has taken an earlier and more direct path, having already flown to the United States from Dubai, where he ...
Two-time Gr.1 winner Gufo is scheduled to make his first start of the 2022 season in the $200,000 Pan American Stakes Presented by Rood & Riddle Gr.2 on April 2 on the Gulfstream Park turf. The 5YO son of Declaration of War will make his first start since an off-the-board finish in the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf Gr.1 on Nov. 6 at Del Mar. In Saturday's 1 1/2-mile turf test for older horses, ...
Claims brought in a Texas federal court to stop the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act from going forward were dismissed on March 31 by U. S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix. The lawsuit, filed by the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association and joined by affiliated HBPAs, sought to have the court enjoin enforcement of the Act as unconstitutional. The HBPAs argued that ...
76YO Eddie Barker’s dream of training his first Kentucky Derby starter has almost certainly been dashed. Barker told that Shipsational, the Derby prospect he longed for through a 28-year career as a conditioner, was withdrawn from consideration from Saturday’s $1 million Florida Derby because of inflammation in his right ankle. The problem was discovered Tuesday afternoon as the promising New ...
Attorneys for the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission pushed back in a Tuesday court filing against Bob Baffert’s attempt to convince the Kentucky Court of Appeals to stay his 90-day suspension. The KHRC's response to Baffert’s request for relief, which he filed after a circuit court judge found he was not entitled to a stay, asked the appeals court to uphold the lower court's ruling. The KHRC ...
Mick Price's plan for I'm Thunderstruck to enjoy a stress-free day at the races ahead of Saturday week's $5 million Seppelt Wines All-Star Mile (1600m) was achieved at Sandown Hillside on Wednesday. I'm Thunderstruck and Our Playboy had an exhibition gallop at the mid-week city fixture, with Jamie Kah partnering I'm Thunderstruck with his All-Star Mile rider Jye McNeil absent from the meeting ...
Flemington has long been a playground for the Cummings family, but it could be the scene of a sibling rivalry this weekend, as brothers James and Edward Cummings prepare to clash in the Gr.1 Australian Cup. The pair's late grandfather Bart won a record 13 Australian Cups in his illustrious career, while the fifth-generation trainers are each looking to claim their first wins in the race. James ...
A stylish debut performance by a two-year-old filly at Randwick on Saturday marked the first Southern Hemisphere success for Haunui Farm shuttle stallion Ribchester. Godolphin's Plymstock began her career on the perfect note in the Heineken 3 Handicap (1000m), sprinting impressively from near the back of the nine-horse field to score by just under a length for jockey Tim Clark. The James ...
