After winning his seventh straight Belmont training title with a record 47 wins, Chad Brown figured to be slow coming out of the gate at Saratoga. The trainer has not missed a beat in first 20 days of the Spa season.
Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) winner Rich Strike took another step in his preparations for the Aug. 27 Runhappy Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.
After winning his seventh straight Belmont Park training title with a record 47 wins, Chad Brown figured to be slow coming out of the gate at Saratoga. The trainer has not missed a beat in the first 20 days of the Spa season.
Trainer Tom Amoss secured his 4,000th win when Reeves Thoroughbred Racing's Isolate posted a gate-to-wire score Aug. 10 in the $135,000 Tale of the Cat Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
Donato Lanni landed Hip 213 for an undisclosed client Aug. 9 at The Saratoga Sale.
Naval Crown helped turn the final day of Royal Ascot Godolphin blue as the 33-1 shot beat stablemate Creative Force by a neck in a dramatic photo-finish to the £1m Platinum Jubilee Stakes.
Ten years after the mighty Frankel stormed to four-length win in the Queen Anne Stakes, comparisons between the two colts are inevitable, but dismissed by the Baaeed team.
A huge roar grew as tiny Hollie Doyle steered 8-1 chance Bradsell to triumph at Royal Ascot, the perfect victory on a fizzing, popping day on these green acres of sun-baked Berkshire.
Coroebus was made to pull out all the stops to supplement his 2000 Guineas triumph with victory in a thrilling renewal of the St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Harry Dunlop will stop training at the end of the flat season, with his main reason being the "current economic climate".
Little Big Bear is favourite for the 2,000 Guineas after winning the Phoenix Stakes, while GB & Ireland win the Shergar Cup.
After winning his seventh straight Belmont training title with a record 47 wins, Chad Brown figured to be slow coming out of the gate at Saratoga. The trainer has not missed a beat in first 20 days of the Spa season.
Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) winner Rich Strike took another step in his preparations for the Aug. 27 Runhappy Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.
After winning his seventh straight Belmont Park training title with a record 47 wins, Chad Brown figured to be slow coming out of the gate at Saratoga. The trainer has not missed a beat in the first 20 days of the Spa season.
Trainer Tom Amoss secured his 4,000th win when Reeves Thoroughbred Racing's Isolate posted a gate-to-wire score Aug. 10 in the $135,000 Tale of the Cat Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
Donato Lanni landed Hip 213 for an undisclosed client Aug. 9 at The Saratoga Sale.
Trainer Chad Brown talks about Regal Glory and her personal significance to owner Peter Brant and his connection to late breeder Paul Pompa.
Hall of Fame trainer signed ticket on colt consigned as Hip 114 at The Saratoga Sale.
West Point Thoroughbreds, Woodford Racing, and 3C Stable partnered on the filly.
On the second day of selling at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., 10 yearlings broke the seven-figure ceiling, selling to nine different entities.
Trainer Charlie Appleby believes the first chance for 2,000 Guineas winner Coroebus to race around a bend in Tuesday's St James's Palace Stakes will work in his favour.
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Saturday's meetings at York, Sandown, Chester, Bath, Worcester, Leicester and Hexham.
Frankie Dettori is having a think and a giggle about other members of royalty. He is at his favourite spot, racing's palace in Ascot. They are mostly about his mate, the Queen.
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Friday's meetings at York, Sandown, Goodwood, Newton Abbott, Aintree and Chepstow.
The Queen's racing manager, John Warren, says she could have a bumper 11 runners at Royal Ascot after her trainers planned a potent Platinum Jubilee year challenge at the meeting.
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Thursday's meetings at Newbury, Nottingham, Haydock, Yarmouth and Uttoxeter.
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Wednesday's meetings at Haydock, Yarmouth, Kempton, Hamilton and Fontwell.
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Tuesday's meetings at Brighton, Salisbury, Chelmsford City and Wetherby.
The prospect of Cazoo Derby winner Desert Crown racing on and tackling some of the biggest international prizes has been mooted by Bruce Raymond, racing manager to owner Saeed Suhail.
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Monday's meetings at Windsor, Lingfield, Southwell and Pontefract.
Saturday at Saratoga, In Italian led all the way to win the Diana Stakes (G1) by 1 1/2 lengths over Technical Analysis and favorite Bleeker Street. Also on the card, Mo Strike won the Sanford Stakes (G3) for the juveniles. Get the results, charts, and photos here.
Classic Causeway was an upset winner in the Caesars Belmont Derby Invitational (G1) over favorite Nations Pride. Also on the card, McKulick won the Belmont Oaks Invitational (G1), Dynamic One won the Suburban Stakes (G2), and Hot Peppers won the Victory Ride Stakes (G3). Get the results, charts, and photos for all 4 races here.
Favorite Bound for Nowhere rallied to win the Highlander Stakes (G2) by a length over Arzak and White Flag. Also on the card, Lady Speightspeare and Crystal Cliffs won in a dead heat in the Nassau Stakes (G2), Rondure won the Marine Stakes (G3), and Souper Hoity Toity won the Selene Stakes (G3). Lady Speightspeare gave trainer Roger Attfield his 2000th career victory. Get the results, charts, and photos for all 4 races here.
Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park, favorite Pebble Beach drew off by 2 1/2 lengths to win the $1 million Pepsi North America Cup over Beach Glass and longshot Frozen Hanover. There were 5 other stakes on the card including the Fan Hanover Stakes won by Treacherous Dragon and the Roses Are Red Stakes won by Test of Faith. Get the results, charts, and photos for all 6 races here.
Post positions were drawn June 14 for the $1 million Pepsi North America Cup for the 3-year-old pacers to be held at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday. Elimination winner Pebble Beach chose post 5 and is the 8-5 favorite. Get all the horses, morning line odds, and post positions here.
Saturday at Belmont, Mo Donegal drew away in the stretch to win the Belmont Stakes by 3 lengths over filly Nest and Skippylongstocking while Derby hero Rich Strike finished 6th. Get the results, chart, and photos here.
There were eight other stakes on the 2022 Belmont undercard, including the Metropolitan Handicap (G1), Manhattan Handicap (G1), Just a Game Stakes (G1), Acorn Stakes (G1), Ogden Phipps Stakes (G1), and Woody Stephens Stakes (G1) won by Flightline, Tribhuvan, Regal Glory, Matareya, Clairiere, and Jack Christopher. Get the results, charts, and photos for all eight races here.
Friday at Belmont Park had 5 stakes races: the New York Stakes (G1) won by Bleecker Street, the True North (G2) won by Jackie's Warrior, the Belmont Gold Cup Invitational (G2) won by Loft, the Bed o'Roses Invitational (G2) won by Bella Sofia, and the Intercontinental Stakes (G3) won by Caravel. Get the results, charts, and photos here.
Friday morning at Belmont Park, three of the Belmont Stakes horses were out on the main track. Check out photos and comments for We the People, Rich Strike, and Creative Minister.
The Belmont Stakes Festival kicked off on Thursday with three stakes races, the Wonder Again Stakes (G2) won by Consumer Spending, the Astoria Stakes won by Devious Dame, and the Tremont Stakes won by Two of a Kind. Get the results, charts, and photos here.
Since last summer, the New York Racing Association (NYRA) has trialed on thousands of runners a discreet sensor technology capable of detecting minute changes in a horse's gait at high speed.
Called StrideSAFE, the biometric sensor mechanism slips into the saddle cloth and works like a traffic light signal, providing a green for all-clear, an amber for possible warning (light amber better than dark amber), and a red for possible danger.
The ultimate aim of StrideSAFE–a focus of discussion during the recent Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit–is to detect soundness problems undetectable to the naked eye before they turn potentially catastrophic. Nearly 6,500 races later, the results are in.
Of the 20 horses...
Editor's note: Ethics is a critical reflection on how we should act and why from a moral point of view. Animal ethics studies how and why we should take nonhuman animals into account in our moral decisions. Because of public pressure and increased understanding on the sentient nature of animals, use of animals in sport and entertainment is being questioned in a way like never before. In this new series, Equine Ethics, Diana Pikulski, a former criminal defense attorney and Executive Director of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, takes a look at the ways that people in racing are changing long-standing practices for the betterment of the horse.
Savvy Racing was launched by Rhett Fincher and his late wife Theresa in 2018 as their concept to train and race Thoroughbred racehorses to success in an ethical manner. Fincher is not new to racing. In fact, he was born into it. His father, Leroy Fincher, was a jockey and now trains racehorses and his mother, Leslie...
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Ed & Susie Orr picked up Impressor (Classic Empire), bred by Chester & Mary Broman, for $335,000 out of April's OBS Sale following a breeze in :10 flat. Out of the GISP mare Misty Rosette (Stormin Fever), Impressor is a half-brother to six winners including Mr. Beer Goggles (Unbridled's Song) who earned nearly $300K. Misty Rosette is a full-sister to GSW Storm Wolf and a half-sister to none other than Littleprincessemma (Yankee Gentleman), who produced Triple Crown hero American Pharoah (...
A total of 16 yearlings have been supplemented to the Texas Summer Yearling Sale, slated for Aug. 29 at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas.
“The interest in our sale has been strong since we released our catalog late last month,” said TTA Sales Director Foster Bridewell. “These additions only help boost our sale and we're thrilled to offer these additional yearlings later this month.”
The Supplement Catalog features yearlings bred in Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Texas, including a Texas-bred filly by first-crop stallion Vino Rosso, winner of the
GI Breeders' Cup Classic. Additionally, a full-sister to 2021 Texas Two-Year-Old Colt/Gelding Champion Tengo Mis Papeles (My Golden Song) will be offered as Hip 223.
The interactive catalog, including the supplements (Hips 213-228), is available now at www.ttasales.com. The complete catalog...
During one of the most politically polarizing times in our country's history, Congress passed the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act of 2020 (HISA) with bipartisan support. What did this rare display of unity say about the health of the Thoroughbred racing industry? To say it kindly: the industry needed help. HISA handed over the reins for regulating Thoroughbred safety and anti-doping and medication control matters to a private, self-regulatory organization named the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (Authority). Before HISA, Thoroughbred racing in the United States was regulated by a patchwork of individual state racing commissions with different, and often conflicting, rules. HISA represents a significant change for an industry used to parochial and inconsistent governance–and even more disorderly enforcement. Perhaps more important, HISA is the solution to stop horse racing from going the way of the circus and dog racing, as many commentators and animal rights...
Barbados Blue (Ire) (Getaway {Ger}) (lot 8) topped the Tattersalls Online August Sale on Wednesday, selling for 90,000gns to Richard Venn Bloodstock. In foal to Golden Horn (GB), the Crimbourne Bloodstock-consigned 8-year-old sports wins on the Flat, over hurdles and jumps, and was second in the Listed Lady Godiva Mares' Novices' Chase. She is also a half-sister to More Buck's (Ire) (Presenting {GB}), a listed-chase winner.
A breeding right in successful Flat stallion Showcasing (GB) was offered as lot 34, and made 60,000gns on a bid from Tinnakill House Stud. Hyde Park Stud shelled out 17,500gns after the sale for a breeding right in Group 1 sire Aclaim (Ire) (...
Florida horse country is near synonymous with yearlings, training farms, and the promise a young horse brings to the legions of supporters behind it. With hotly contested claims as to who exactly holds the title of 'Horse Capital of the World', diehard Lexingtonians more than willing to defend their claims to the ends of time, some tend to get too caught up in splitting hairs. Regional markets can, and do play, a prominent role in building dynasties. They provide a foundation without which the industry could not stand; at least, not on sure footing.
One could start listing off famous Kentucky-breds and run out of daylight before the list ended; such is the privilege of the Bluegrass state. However, Florida lays claim to its own slices of history, and most notably, perhaps, would be their impact not just on pedigrees but on track annuals as well. Horses like 'The Good Doctor', Dr. Fager; the unfortunately infamous Foolish Pleasure; Triple Crown hero Affirmed; 14-length...
Four-time Group 1 winner State Of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) will head to Sunday's G1 Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville instead of next week's G1 Juddmonte International, according to trainer Joseph O'Brien. The 4-year-old's international tour kicked off with a win in the GI Saratoga Derby Invitational S. last August, and he shipped Down Under and captured the iconic G1 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on Oct. 23. Next was a 3/4-length win in the G1 Prix Ganay at ParisLongchamp on May Day prior to a solid third in the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup back in Ireland later that month. State Of Rest ran out a one-length victor in the G1 Prince Of Wales's S. at Royal Ascot in his latest start.
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Gwen Monneraye and Lucie Lamotte, collectively known as La Motteraye Consignment, have come a long way since setting up their business in December 2009 with €92 in their pocket.
Less than a decade later they topped France's premier yearling sale in 2018 when selling a Dubawi (Ire) colt out of Just The Judge (Ire) for €1.4 million, and at this year's Arqana August Sale their draft is headed by another yearling with two Classic-winning parents. The Sea The Stars (Ire) filly, who will have the lot number 234 attached to her rump as she circles the ring in Deauville, is the first foal of the G1 Prix de Diane winner Channel (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}).
“She's very exciting, and it's exciting that people trust us for this kind of thing. She wasn't raised at our farm, she came to us for the prep,...
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – During an electrifying session of bidding Tuesday, the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearlings Sale produced 10 seven-figure yearlings–topped by a $2.3-million son of Gun Runner–and crashed records for gross, average and median.
“Rarely do you find me speechless,” Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning said Tuesday night. “We are blown away by the results. The energy, the excitement, it just feels so good from an industry perspective. The statistics are phenomenal. We averaged over $500,000 tonight and had 10 horses over seven figures. We shattered every record known to mankind. It is a really good feeling. It's not just for us. It is a really good vibrancy for the industry. We basically had two yearling sales so far this year and both of them have been really good....
