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Lingering issues with the turf and ongoing uncertainty for participants has prompted Racing Victoria, Country Racing Victoria, and the Seymour Racing Club to announce a complete reconstruction of the much-maligned country track. Seymour has encountered regular issues around stability and consistency of year-round performance following a $6 million redevelopment in 2015-16, drawing criticism and f ...
Enver Jusufovic is trying something different with stable favourite Neighbourhood as both trainer and horse chase a maiden Stakes win in Friday’s Standish Handicap (1200m) at Flemington. The Gr.3 feature only recently came onto the radar for the talented five-year-old, who was set to be aimed at black-type mares races during Tasmania’s Summer Carnival. But so slick was her piece of work earlier i ...
John McArdle is happy to take a patient approach with the summer campaigns of Hydro Star and Drone Strike, who could both be scratched from Caulfield on Saturday. The talented 3YO feature in the final field for the Erin Coldham Handicap (1100m) but their Mornington trainer said neither were certainties to race first-up. There is an option for Drone Strike to be saved for a race down the straight ...
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 ...
Tapizar, a 12YO son of Tapit who was set to be shipped to Japan to stand stud at Yushun Stallion Station for the 2021 season, was euthanized after an accident in his stall at the Gainesway quarantine barn earlier this month. The Group One winner was scheduled to travel in mid-January. Tapizar is the sire of Monomoy Girl, a seven-time Group One winner and 2018 champion 3YO filly whom Spendthrift F ...