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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 ...
British Champion Jockey, Silvester De Sousa has been granted a licence by the Hong Kong Jockey Club to ride from August 20 to February 20, with the season kicking off at Sha Tin on September 11. The Brazilian has ridden 67 winners in Hong Kong previously, including the 2018 Hong Kong Cup aboard Glorious Forever, as well as landing the Longines International Jockeys' Championship the same year. ...
Well loved in the community and dedicated owner-breeder Dr. Catherine Wills has died aged 71 after a long battle with cancer. Enjoying success as a breeder in notable races across Britain, Ireland, France and the States, her runners carried the blue-and-white cross-belted colours of her famous philanthropist father Sir David Wills whose broodmares she inherited upon his death in 1999. Among them ...
France Galop's Director of Racecourses and Training Centres Matthieu Vincent died at the end of last week, the organisation announced. He was 56. “It is with deep emotion that we learned of the death of Matthieu Vincent, Director of the Racetracks and Training Centres of France Galop, who died this morning at the age of 56,” France Galop announced via Twitter. “We extend our sincere condolences ...
Hackwood Stakes winner,Minzaal is being prepared by leading English trainer Owen Burrows for a trip to Deauville on the cards before Haydock A winner of the Gimcrack Stakes at York as a two-year-old, the Mehmas colt missed most of his 3YO season before providing a reminder of his talent with a pair of placed efforts at both Listed and Group One level in the autumn. He then recorded another ...
Top Australian trainer Michael Freedman hopes to give star mare Forbidden Love a wide berth land a slot in The Everest this year as his multiple Gr.1 winner prepares for a potential early spring return next week. Forbidden Love is targetted A$250,000 Gr.2 Missile Stakes (1200m) and took important strides towards the spring opener with The Invitation (1400m), worth A$2m also an appealing target ...
Leading Australian sprinter Artorius will remain in Europe for a crack at another Group One having run with great credit in the July Cup. Sam and Anthony Freedman’s speedball backed up his excellent run when third in the Platinum Jubilee at Royal Ascot by filling the same spot behind Alcohol Free in Saturday’s July Cup at Newmarket. The decision has now been taken to remain in the Northern ...
Preakness winner Early Voting had his first serious workout alongside stablemate Zandon in preparation for Gr.2, Jim Dandy, a nine-furlong test for sophomores. The colts trained by four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown, are scheduled to run in the US$600,000 feature as a steppingstone to the Travers. Jeff Drown’s Zandon went five-eighths solo in 1:01.95 under exercise rider Kriss ...
