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At this week's Karaka Ready To Run Sale in New Zealand, a colt sired by the highly rated Queensland stallion Heroic Valour was knocked down to Worldwide Bloodstock for $350,000 by his dam, a Magic Albert mare by the stallion Lassila. Among the races that Heroic Valour won as a 2YO in New Zealand are the Gr.1 Diamond Stakes and the Listed Matamata Slipper. As a three-year-old, Heroic Valour won a ...
According to reports from Windsor Park Stud, the Aypebe colt Turn Me Loose fetched the top price of US$500,000 at this week's Karaka Ready to Run Sale of 2YOs, selling to the bid of prominent Hong Kong trainer Casper Fownes. Two Turn Me Loose geldings were purchased by well-known Hong Kong trainers Jimmy Ting and Ricky Yiu for a combined $250,000, and a third gelding, a colt, was purchased by ...
Yonkers, trained by champion trainer Chris Waller, knows the going will be tough in tomorrow's Furphy-Railway Stakes, but he is confident in his chances. After competing in the Australian Cup and the Doomben Cup earlier this year, the gelding will attempt his third Gr.1 level race in the iconic Ascot mile. Yonkers seems to be enjoying his new home at Adam Durrant's stable, according to trainer ...
In the last session of the two-day New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale, Andrew Williams, a bloodstock agent based in Sydney, Australia, paid $550,000 to get Lot 307, a colt by Hellbent presented by Kilgravin Lodge. Williams commented, "I believed he was one of the standout horses of the sale." I have a lot of respect for the stallion Hellbent since he is an exceptionally swift-looking ...
The momentum gained from Day One's results continued to grow on Day Two as the market continued to show signs of being optimistic. NZB Managing Director Andrew Seabrook said, "At the end of the first day I was satisfied, and at the end of Day Two I was elated." "Today was one of the most successful Ready to Run Sale days I've been a part of in my 30 years in the industry. Amazing for a ...
Sheamus Mills, an ever-vigilant Australian buyer, was present on Thursday at the Keeneland November Horses Of Racing Age Sale, when he paid $140,000 for the GrIII-placed Declaration Of War (USA) filly Miss You Ella. (Lot 5131) Miss You Ella, the 3-time champion, comes from a long line of winners. Miss You Ella is a half-sister to the successful racehorse Newstome (Goldencents) and a daughter of ...
On Friday, the Warwick Farm barrier trials attracted a lot of attention thanks to the most expensive southern hemisphere filly by Justify out of a dual Gr.1 winner. There were five heats, and the filly Just Glamourous, by Justify and out of the Group One Guineas and Gr.1 Flight Stakes-winning Global Glamour, prevailed in Heat 11. At the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, the ...
Trainer Willie McCreery is confident that his single entrant, Ireland's Insinudendo, can bring Ireland its first victory in the race. This high-class 5YO, stall number seven, is a multiple Group winner and ran to a fantastic third-place finish in the Gr.1 Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot in her most recent outing. As McCreery puts it, "We were meant to come last year but ...
This Friday, the Sakhir International Racecourse will host the fourth annual £600,000 Bahrain International Trophy (1.05 pm). As a strong British challenger, Lord Glitters was a spectacular winner from dead last to first place a year ago. First, Fawzi Nass's new French hire, Dilawar, is quite exciting. Simsir re-signed with a local trainer for 2020. Dilawar's form in France is solid, with the ...
Rosie Jessop, who has been based in Bahrain for the past four years, won her first race of the 2022-23 season last Friday (the Bapco Cup race for locally-bred horses), and she plans to make it two in a row tomorrow (the Rashid Equestrian and Horseracing Club's 2,200m race, also for locally-bred horses) (REHC). The 33-year-old Jessop said, "It would be fantastic to win on consecutive weekends" in ...
The competitors in the prestigious Group Three Bahrain International Trophy, which will be held on Friday at the Rashid Equistrian and Horseracing Club (REHC) in Sakhir, have arrived in the country to finalise their preparations. Eleven horses from throughout the globe will compete in the highly publicised £600,000 contest. Owen Burrows' Alflaila, a progressive dual Gr.3 winner, will not be ...
On December 7 at Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Jockey Club announced that Jamie Kah and Jye McNeil would represent Australia in the Longines International Jockeys' Championship. On Saturday, the son of Savabeel will be ridden by the world's best jockey in the Gr.1 Singapore Gold Cup at Kranji, where he will be hoping to redeem himself following a close loss in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Cup. Sacred ...
