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Chris Waller will be crowned the champion Gr.1 trainer in Australia, at the end of the season, for the 10th-consecutive season. Unfortunately with the exodus of stars from his stable at a time when, on the face of things, it doesn't seem like he will retain the crown next season as there doesn't appear a rush of likely replacements. Verry Elleegant's move to Europe spells the end of her ...
Connections of star sprinter Masked Crusader can sit back and watch the 2022 TAB Everest field take shape in front of them as the 2021 runner-up is the first horse secured for the sixth running of the A$15 million classic. The race isn’t run until October 15 but managing owner Rupert Legh said the gelding, who will be six when the TAB Everest is next staged, can spend 2022 aiming at one race ...
Kylie Bax is going down a familiar path with her latest Group One performer Aspen Colorado with the lightly raced filly joining Chris Waller’s Sydney stable. A model turned successful breeder and syndicator, Bax has high hopes the daughter of Proisir can further add to a family roll of honour that already features the well-performed mare Danzdanzdance. The Mastercraftsman mare was bought back at ...
Daniel Moor will make his riding return at Ladbrokes Park on Wednesday after arriving home from Hong Kong on Sunday. The 37YO spent the past two months riding in Hong Kong, but the Gr.1-winning jockey said newly introduced lockdowns and being away from family made the decision easy to come back. The (Hong Kong Jockey) Club was amazing, I can't think of anywhere else in the world where I have had ...
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 ...
