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A crowd of 10,000 vaccinated people will be allowed into Flemington to celebrate the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday. On Sunday it was announced Victorian residents are set to be given more freedoms on Friday just in time for the weekend prior to the Cup. It is huge news for locals, with many taking the opportunity at this time of year to stretch the Cup into a four-day weekend. It was announced ...
Jonker claimed the A$1 million Manikato Stakes under Daniel Moor who landed his third Group One win in the space of a month. The Queensland visitor went straight to the front from barrier four, although he had to endure considerable pressure to cross Lombardo and Crystal Bound in the first 200m of the race. Bella Nipotina loomed as the only challenge when Jonker put two lengths on the chasing ...
Franconia has been disqualified from a listed race she won at Newbury last year, having tested positive for ketamine which, a disciplinary panel has accepted, probably derived from recreational use of the drug by her groom. John Gosden, her trainer, was fined the unusually low sum of £500 (US$694) by the panel, which decided he had taken precautions to avoid such an eventuality but could ...
The Aga Khan Studs are pleased to announce that Francis-Henri Graffard will take over the training of the horses based at His Highness the Aga Khan’s private training centre at Aiglemont situated in Gouvieux, following the retirement of Alain de Royer Dupré at the end of 2021. Aiglemont is home to 80 to 90 Aga Khan bred horses and champions such as Zarkava, Dalakhani And Siyouni were all trained ...
Prince of Arran has been retired, denied his opportunity for a fairytale victory in this year's $8m Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) with the globetrotter failing new stringent pre-travel veterinary tests. Trainer Charlie Fellowes was preparing Prince of Arran for his fourth consecutive Melbourne Cup appearance after three successive placings in Australia's greatest race. Prince of Arran's racetrack ...
Essential Quality, the Belmont Stakes and the Runhappy Travers Stakes winner retained the No. 1 position for the third consecutive week in the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Rankings, a weekly poll of the top 10 horses in contention for the $6 million Longines Breeders' Cup Classic. This year's Longines Breeders' Cup Classic will be run at Del Mar in Del Mar, California, on Nov. 6 as the final ...
The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) could aim for crowds as large as 15,000 on Melbourne Cup day at Flemington following state government support. The Club originally applied for a maximum crowd of 5,000 for Australian racing's flagship race day on November 2 but a new application to the state government could see the attendance more than tripled, although officials at the VRC would not confirm exact ...
Korea Racing Authority's 5YO Knicks Go retained his No. 1 rating in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll for the seventh straight week as there were no changes in order and no starts among the overall Top 10. Flurry Racing Stables, Qatar Racing, and Big Aut Farms' 4YO filly Shesdaresthedevil moved into 11th in this week's poll following a victory in the Locust Grove ...
Thoroughbred racing and breeding have lost Mike Recio, a consignor and bloodstock agent who loved the industry and loved the people tied to the industry even more. Co-founder of South Point Sales, Recio died Sept. 16 in Lexington after an illness. He was 46. The son of respected Ocala, Fla., horseman Bill Recio, Mike Recio had been involved in Thoroughbred racing and breeding for the majority of ...
The sire of sires, Galileo, whose notable offspring include Nathaniel, Waldgeist, Found, Love, Magical, Highland Reel, Teofilo, Minding and many more, was euthanised at Coolmore on humane grounds due to a "chronic, non-responsive, debilitating injury to the near-fore foot". Magnier, owner of Coolmore Stud and many of Galileo's finest sons and daughters, said: "It is a very sad day, but we all ...
After winning £37.1m in prize money from over 4,000 rides, top jockey Neil Callan who is nicknamed 'Iron Man' will end an 11-year association with racing in Hong Kong, returning to Britain. The winner of 282 races, had a disappointing final year, having received a lengthy suspension for being disrespectful during a stewards' inquiry into alleged careless riding at Happy Valley in February. The ...
Singapore based Steven Burridge trained Mr Malek has finally started on the journey he was meant to when he won the 1600m Gr.2 Stewards’ Cup earlier this week. Initially trained by Lee Freedman, the athletic son of Swiss Ace was identified as Group race material from Day. Ultra-smart sprinter-miler got his first taste of champagne racing, when landing a third in the Gr.2 Singapore 3YO Classic ...
