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A seven-race thoroughbred card at Meydan on Thursday kicks off the festival weekend followed by the meetings at Al Ain on Friday and Jebel Ali on Saturday and reaching a climax when Abu Dhabi stages their biggest meeting on Sunday. The Gr.1 Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Jewel Crown for the Purebred Arabians takes the spotlight in the capital’s meeting that also includes the National Day Cup ...
The Inevitable may have earned a trip to Dubai after unleashing his trademark turn of foot to take his stakes tally to five in Wednesday’s Listed Jacksons Security Newmarket (1200m) at Launceston. Ridden by David Pires for Scott Brunton, the 7YO son of Dundeel ran down stablemate First Accused by half a length with a further three-quarter length back to Alpine Wolf in third. The Inevitable ...
Alcohol Free, sold for 5.4 million gns on Tattersalls earlier this week, is set to race on in Australia where the four-time Group One winner will join the training partnership of Sydney legend Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott. The 4YO daughter of No Nay Never, who raced in Europe for owner Jeff Smith and trainer Andrew Balding, was the star attraction as she entered a sales ring that was standing ...
Annabel Neasham believes Laws Of Indices is the perfect horse to represent Australia when he takes on the mighty Golden Sixty in the Gr.1 Hong Kong Mile Chris Waller-trained Comin’ Through, unplaced four years ago in the same race, was the last Australian horse to attempt the Mile. Former Irish-trained Laws Of Indices, a Gr.1 winner in France in last year’s Prix Jean Prat, joined Sydney-based ...
After a stellar 2YO campaign in which he won the Gr.1 Golden Rose in Sydney in September and finished a good fifth in The Everest in October, star 3YO Jacquinot has returned to work to begin preparation for two major Gr.1 Melbourne features in February. The victory at the Golden Rose Stakes by Jacquinot spurred a deal worth an estimated US$15 million between the NSW breeder Widden Stud and Qatar ...
On November 29 in England, at the age of 21, Ouija Board passed away, a report in Thoroughbred Daily News states. She was a two-time champion grass mare in North America. Ouija Board, a son of Cape Cross and a daughter of Welsh Pageant's Selection Board, won ten races, nine of which were stakes, and brought in a total of $6,312,552. She took first place in both the 2004 VO5 Breeders' Cup Filly ...
Day Two of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale on November 29 saw the sale of two-time Gr.1 winner Saffron Beach for 3,600,000 guineas ($4,520,718) to Prince Faisal bin Khalid bin Abdulaziz's Najd Stud. The filly is staying with trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam so she can reach her international goal. Chapple-Hyam remarked, "It's a tremendous delight and a big honour, and we've got a fantastic winter ...
Michael Donohoe of BBA Ireland, accompanied by Yuesheng Zhang of Yulong Investments, bid US$6,781,077 in front of an awestruck Park Paddocks auditorium for the daughter of No Nay Never, Alcohol Free. The underbidder was M.V. Magnier of Coolmore, who was standing among the crowd in the crowded gangway. At the 2017 December Sales, Coolmore's Magnier paid 6,000,000 gns for Marsha, making her the ...
On its 25 race days in 2023, the world-famous British racetrack Ascot will award a record £17 million (US$20.4m) in prize money. This includes the lucrative industry-owned British Champions Day card at the end of the season, but not the five-day Royal Ascot meeting in June. The £17 million sum is an annual increase of £1.33 million (8.5%) compared to 2022 figures, and the £9.52 million prize ...
Japan Cup hero Vela Azul has won four races and placed third twice in six starts since making his grass debut in March of this year, continuing the incredible success of the Kingmambo line in Japan, a cause championed by the remarkable King Kamehameha. The Japanese Derby winner Eishin Flash is the sire of 5YO entire, whose American sire King's Best failed to produce a stakes winner from any of ...
After winning the Queensland Group One last month, trainer Rob Heathcote has decided not to continue Rothfire's Western Australian campaign in the lucrative Gold Rush in Perth next month. With his fifth-place finish in Saturday's Gr.1 Winterbottom Stakes, he will be returning to Queensland later this week. We're taking the prudent course of action and spelling him after he experienced the really ...
On Friday at Meydan, Antonio Fresu rode three winners for trainer Musabah Al Muhairi. Emdakam, Vasari, and Street Mood are the products of a successful jockey-trainer partnership. The Italian and Tadhg O'Shea were locked in a tight struggle for the jockey's title last season, with the Irishman eventually pulling away to win his 10th title. Fresu won the fourth race on Emdakam and the featured ...
