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Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale (Book 1) did amazingly well with over 128 horses selling for a total of US$49,775,000, with eight horses bringing in US$1 million or more. Larry Best’s OXO Equine paid US$1.95 million for Gr.1 winner and millionaire Concrete Rose and $1.9 million for Indian Miss, the dam of champion Mitole who is in foal to Into Mischief, to acquire the two most expensive ho ...
Cornerstone Stud is pleased to announce the arrival of our new Stud Manager Ross Fuller from South Africa with his partner Carla Greppi (Vet Nurse). We are very excited to welcome them to the team as we forge into 2021 and beyond. Ross previously developed and managed Mrs. Rupert's Drakenstein Stud and then more recently took charge of the Kieswetter's Ridgemont Stud. Ross left his indelible stam ...
After the iconic Breeders Cup Weekend, Gr.1 winner Lady Prancealot's sold to Shadai Farm (Japan) for US$ 1.6 million at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. With only 17 American runners, Sir Prancealot' has delivered 10 winners of which 9 have progressed onto Stakes performances on the fast, tight turning turf tracks of Santa Anita, Del Mar, and Keenland and of those 3 fillies have perfor ...
Todd Pletcher, one win away from 5,000 as a trainer, could achieve the milestone during the two days of the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland if he doesn't do it sooner at another track. The 53YO has the favorite in the first race Nov. 5 at Gulfstream Park West, where William Ziemba and Elyse Mach's Seize the Hay races in a maiden claimer, and he runs seven horses at Keeneland Nov. 6. Three of those Mut ...
Knicks Go has two wins in allowance company this year but is a seriously dangerous contender in the Big Ass Fans Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Gr.1 for Korea Racing Authority and trainer Brad Cox. The Breeders' Cup is an opportunity for the 4YO son of Paynter to show he never lost the grade 1-quality brilliance he showed at 2. With trainer Ben Colebrook, Knicks Go won first time out by 3 1/2 lengths as ...
Run for the first time at Flemington on Oaks Day, the $250,000 VRC Inglis Bracelet (1600m) drew a competitive field of mares with victory going to talented 4YO Pierro mare Rocha Clock, who made it a race to race double for her trainer John O’Shea. O’Shea also won the previous race, the VRC Off the Track Subzero Handicap (Benchmark 90) for all greys, with European import Berdibek (Fr), who carried ...
Willie Pike finished off his extended stay in Victoria with a most popular win when he guided home the hot odds-on favorite Written Beauty in the final race on Oaks Day on Thursday. Pike has been stationed in Victoria since mid-August primarily to ride the six visiting horses owned by prominent Western Australian owner Bob Peters but ended up winning a number of big races for other stables, inclu ...
Cousins Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig have scored their first Gr.1 win together as training partners after Damien Oliver guided Personal to victory in the $1 million VRC Kennedy Oaks (2500m) on Thursday. The original partnership of Hayes, Hayes, and Dabernig was restructured at the start of the season with the departure of principal David Hayes to Hong Kong, and after some close calls in G1s in rece ...
Not A Single Doubt’s Golden Slipper-winning son Farnanand the recently crowned 2019/20 Champion 2YO of the Yearopened his US$2.5 million juvenile career with a brilliant debut win at Canberra on 17 November. That was followed by success in the Wyong Magic Millions 2YO Classic RL “Adrian and I were very proud of him taking out the award,” says Gai Waterhouse. Jockey Hugh Bowman summed up Farnan’s ...
Trainer Rob Heathcote is careful when talking about his cherished stable star, Rothfire. “His prospects of returning to racing are guarded, with a long rehab period of 9 months he is a 50/50 chance of returning to full athletic function again. Fingers crossed.” Heathcote told Racenet his Gr. winner had so far recovered well from leg surgery “The surgeon, Randwick Equine specialist Hayley Lang, wa ...