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After their final starts North American champion and classic winner Essential Quality and Gr.1 winner, Maxfield will join the Darley Stallion roster at Jonabell, the farm announced Oct. 25. "To have both Essential Quality and Maxfield coming to Jonabell is as exciting as it gets. And to have accomplished what they did as homebreds in the colors of Godolphin makes it even that much more meaningful ...
Trainer Steve Asmussen had won the Frizette Stakes at Belmont Park three times before this year, winning impressively with My Miss Aurelia (2011), Nickname (2015), and Wicked Whisper (2019), all of whom went on to successful racing careers, with My Miss Aurelia winning the Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies en route to being voted champion 2YO filly. His fourth winner in the Frizette, Echo ...
As one of the leading consignors at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sales for almost 20 years, there is a certain level of expectation about the Highclere Stud draft. This time, there will be no shortage of poignance either, with an Almanzor half-brother to champion miler Palace Pier among 23 individuals under inspection. hat Kingman colt, sold here for 600,000 guineas (US$824,859) thr ...
Now, more than ever before, there is a genuine scarcity factor around yearlings by Galileo. Prospective purchasers will have 14 lots by the 12-time champion sire to choose from Oct. 5 at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, including a particularly well-credentialed youngster from the Cumani family's Fittocks Stud. The colt is the third foal out of Koora, a homebred daughter of Pivota ...
Hugh Bowman went home to his family on Saturday night as only the fourth jockey in Australian history to have won 100 times at Gr.1 level. But all his 6YO daughter Paige wanted to know – and it wasn’t that – way if he had a trophy for her. As she jumped enthusiastically into his arms, Hugh assured her that indeed he did have one. “It’s all very humbling to be honest, at my stage of life, whether ...
Joe Tizzard is confident last season's disappointing campaign at Venn Farm can be left in the past, with a wealth of untapped equine potential in the wings and Brendan Powell joining a team of top riders at the yard's disposal. Powell is to be given "plenty of rides" as he, alongside Harry Cobden and Jonjo O'Neill Jnr, will share the majority of jockey duties for the Dorset stable. Robbie Power h ...
Flemington would be split into five sections under the bold plan tabled by the Victoria Racing Club to have up to 11,500 spectators on course for this year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival. The club, which wrote to members on Wednesday outlining its initial Cup Carnival crowd plan which was tabled to the Victorian State Government, would need to use the 'full expanses of Flemington' to house those patron ...
The momentum generated at the early yearling auctions continued unchecked during day one of the Tattersalls Ireland September Sale in Newmarket Sept. 21 as a £130,000 (US$177,812) son of No Nay Never headed a buoyant market. Johnny Collins and Tom Goff, stationed at opposite ends of the Park Paddocks ring, tried hard to secure the Castlehyde Stud-consigned youngster (Lot 217), but it was Adam Dri ...
Thoroughbred racing and breeding have lost Mike Recio, a consignor and bloodstock agent who loved the industry and loved the people tied to the industry even more. Co-founder of South Point Sales, Recio died Sept. 16 in Lexington after an illness. He was 46. The son of respected Ocala, Fla., horseman Bill Recio, Mike Recio had been involved in Thoroughbred racing and breeding for the majority of ...
The 2021 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale at Karaka in November will showcase its customary quality cross-section of local and international stallions, including some of the biggest names from across Australasia – and a titan of the northern hemisphere. One of the world’s all-time great racehorses, Frankel won all of his 14 starts – 10 of them at Group One level, and all of them with brea ...