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Darley Offers four Godolphin's Champions to Australian breeders in 2021. The move is headlined by Bivouac, Exceed And Excel’s World Champion sprinter, who will be joined by three outstanding shuttle sires: Pinatubo, Ghaiyyath, and Earthlight, every one of them a Champion. They boast 12 Gr.1 victories and join Darley Australia just 12 months after the arrival of fellow Champions Too Darn ...
Australian Racing Hall of Famer Let’s Elope, who completed the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double in 1991, has earned induction to the New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame. Let’s Elope will take her place alongside fellow Melbourne Cup-winning New Zealand-bred greats of the turf including Carbine (1890), Phar Lap (1930), Rising Fast (1954), Might And Power (1997), and Ethereal (2001), at the Hall of ...
Valiant Stud owner Fergal Connolly has just the one stunning entry for Inglis Easter to be offered under the Valiant Stud banner. From the second Australian crop of Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (USA), Lot 442 is the first foal of stakes-winning Poet’s Voice (GB) mare My Country, whose next two dams are by champion sires Danehill and Shirley Heights. My Country had plenty of dash and ...
A dual Gr. I winning mare Srikandi, who was knocked down to Tom Magnier for A$2 million at the 2019 Inglis Chairman’s Sale, produced her first winner in March. Trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, 3YO Snitzel filly Heroes was a crowd favourite when resuming from a spell in the 1000m maiden at Gosford and saluted in style. Fourth and third at her only previous outings last year, Heroes was ridden ...
Global powerhouse Coolmore showed some of their might when they went to US$2.6 million for Lot 28 a colt by Darley stallion Nyquist to top The Gulfstream Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select 2YO in Training Sale. Fasig-Tipton reported 66 horses sold from 105 offered (a larger number of horses were withdrawn from the original catalogue of 186 individuals) for gross receipts of US$25,040,000. The average ...
Willow Park stud is no stranger to sale-topping drafts. Willow Park will offer a bumper draft of nine at next week’s Easter Yearling Sale, of which Glenn Burrows finds it hard to pick just one highlight. Their 2021 draft includes nine yearlings, one Lot 299 out a very speedy Stakes-winning sprinting mare Exclusive Lass by Champion sire Snitzel. “The colt, who is the mare’s second foal is closely ...
Inglis' Chairman Sale is headlined by Gr.1 superstars In Her Time, Celebrity Queen, Pippie and Danzdanzdance, Gr.1 Blue Diamond runner-up Lankan Star, multiple Stakes-winning 2YO Mildred and Courchevel - the Snitzel half-sister to champion mare Winxwho carries a Capitalist pregnancy – as confirmed entries for the sale, setting the scene for another outstanding renewal. They will be joined by ...
Horse Racing Ireland owner relations manager Aidan McGarry has been named as the new general manager of Navan racecourse, and is set to take over the reins next week. The development comes as the Meath track's current boss Peter Killeen retires from a 40-year career in Irish racing, although he will remain an independent director on the board of the Association of Irish Racecourses. HRI chief ...
Haqeeqy will be the highest profile of the first runners to operate under the new joint John and Thady Gosden training arrangement when he lines up in the March 27 Unibet Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster. Earlier this month, five-time champion John Gosden confirmed he would become the highest profile trainer to operate under a shared license when his son Thady's BHA paperwork was completed. The ...
Retired jockey Larry Melancon, the seventh leading jockey by wins and stakes wins in Churchill Downs history, died March 25 at his home in Louisville, Ky., according to the Louisville track. He was 65. The former rider's health had declined in recent years after suffering a stroke in 2017. A Louisiana native, Melancon retired from riding in 2010 after a successful career in which he won 2,857 ...
Charles Fipke's homebred grade 1 winner Unbridled Forever was euthanized March 17 following complications due to injuries suffered during foaling that required surgery, the owner/breeder's bloodstock adviser Sid Fernando disclosed on Steve Byk's "At The Races" radio program. The 10-year-old daughter of Unbridled's Song out of Kentucky Oaks winner Lemons Forever delivered a colt March 15 ...
Chuwa Wizard (JPN) - The sole Japanese contender cantered for half a lap on the dirt track with his regular work rider Kota Kato on board. Gifts of Gold (IRE) - Trainer Saeed Bin Suroor said of his Red Sea Turf Handicap winner: "He had a prep run here over 2000m before Saudi. People were asking me why are you running him over 3200m, he’s a 2000m horse. But in my mind I knew this was the right ...
