2,000 Guineas winner Kameko will be retired to stand at Tweenhills, home of the Qatar Racing stallions, at the end of 2020. Kameko was the fastest ever winner of the 2,000 Guineas and Qatar Racing’s third European Gr.1 Classic winner after Simple Verse and Just The Judge. He was also an impressive winner of the Gr.1 Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes at two and successfully gave weight to world-class ...
Star Witness added a new stakes-winner to his tally at Sha Tin on New Year’s Day when Explosive Witness landed the Gr.3 Bauhinia Sprint Trophy. The 6YO gelding sired by Widden Stud’s ever-reliable sire won on debut at Moonee Valley in 2017 for the Greg Eurell stable before being sold to Hong Kong where he has raced ever since. Trained by Caspar Fownes, Explosive Witness has built a good record in ...
New stallion and American Triple Crown hero American Pharoah has done amazingly well at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Sale with outstanding Southern Hemisphere yearlings. With a 86% clearance rate American Pharoah yearlings sold for a total of A$3,845,000 with the highest-priced yearling selling for A$625,000. Now back in North America following the fourth season at Coolmore Australia, American P ...
On Boxing Day she won the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie with Concert Hall, and on Wednesday the Graeme and Debbie Rogerson-trained Beauden won the Taupo Cup (2000m) emphatically in front of a bumper crowd. The son of Bullbars began well from barrier six for jockey Ryan Elliot to settle outside early pacemaker Mongolianconqueror. Elliot let his charge loose at the 600m marks and he quic ...
The auction is show-stopping affair has once again the crème of the ‘early fast’ type yearlings. In seven heart-stopping days of trade at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale that kicks off on Jan. 12, the bloodstock world's attention will be focused on a catalogue of potential future stars of the sales ring, racecourse, and breeding ranks. Although the Queensland border is closed to indiv ...
Sharjah Longines Racecourse staged its final meeting of 2020 on Saturday afternoon, saving the best to last, the only Thoroughbred contest, the HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Cup, concluding the card. A 2000m handicap, it looked ultra-competitive on paper, but in reality very few of the 11 runners ever managed to get seriously involved with Edaraat making the running stalked by Tailor’s Ro ...
The final UAE race meeting of 2020 was at Abu Dhabi on Sunday, highlighted by the Listed 1600m Abu Dhabi Championship, restricted to 3YO and won relatively comfortably by Mujeeb under Fabrice Veron. Having his third start for Eric Lemartinel and his main patron, HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the homebred grey colt had made a winning debut here in the capital in early November, but was th ...
Racing at Meydan on Thursday evening was officially highlighted by the Dubai Creek Mile presented by Longines, a 1600m Listed contest which provided a finish meriting its status with Thegreatcollection landing the spoils and probably the fourth horse to lead in the final 200m. As expected, Capezzano and Royston Ffrench led from the outset, stalked by Secret Ambition and Salute The Soldier, the th ...
The William Street Syndicate’s managing owners, Michael Ramsden and Michael Clemenger announced the retirement of the 8YO Lope de Vega gelding, trained by Anthony and Sam Freedman who was last seen when finishing ninth in the Darley Sprint Classic, beaten almost nine lengths by Bivouac. The decision sees the curtain drop on the gelding’s decorated career which saw him win 10 races, gather A$8.2m ...
Gr.1 Breeders' Cup Classic (1988) winner Awesome Again died Dec. 15 at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm at the ripe old age of 26 from unknown causes. The Canadian-bred son of Deputy Minister sired four Breeders' Cup winners. Bred and campaigned by Frank Stronach, Awesome Again had an exemplary résumé as both a racehorse and a stallion. He broke his maiden at Hollywood Park in just his se ...