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The Singapore Derby-Queen Elizabeth II Cup winner Top Knight, who finished third in Saturday's $1 million Gr.1 Singapore Gold Cup over 2,000m, is a reserve for the HK$25 million Longines Hong Kong Mile. The Sprint and Mile are two of the four annual Hong Kong International Races. The other two are the HK$28 million Longines Hong Kong Cup over 2,000m and the HK$20 million Longines Hong Kong Vase o ...
Leading Hong Kong trainer John Size will welcome talented three-year-old Bourbonaire to his stable after his purchase out of Stephen Marsh’s Cambridge barn. The son of Darci Brahma has had just five starts for a win and second placings in the Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m), Gr.2 Sarten Memorial Stakes (1400m), and Gr.2 Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m). Purchased out of Little Avondale Stud’s 20 ...
Group 1 star Behemoth is set to return to work next week as connections eye massive autumn for the South Australian. The five-year-old was a dominant figure during the spring, winning the Gr.1 Memsie Stakes and Gr.1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes before contesting The Everest. After a quick break in the paddock, Grand Syndicates' Sam Lyons said Behemoth would now work towards Caulfield's Gr.1 Futurity ...
Gr.1 winner-Alligator Blood has a new home in Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott's racing stables. Waterhouse confirmed they had secured the star 4YO on social media, with owner Allan Endresz telling Racing.com the decision was a “no brainer”. The final sealer, which made it really quick to make the decision and not sit and wait, was Gai’s tenacity. She’s a true blue Alligator Blood, ...
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne and fellow hoop Ben Allen have been suspended for their rides in the same race at Kyneton on Tuesday. Payne and Allen were outed for eight meetings each after both pleaded guilty to careless riding. Payne, onboard Sotirio, permitted her to mount to shift out near the 200m when not sufficiently clear of Loudspeaker, who was tightened for room between Sot ...
The four-day Tattersalls December Foal Sale got off to a solid start on an opening day with a son of IFFRAAJ topping proceedings at 57,000 guineas on a day that saw six lots sell for 40,000 guineas or more. The turnover fell narrowly short of last year’s opening session despite offering 18% fewer foals, whilst the average and median rose significantly by 16% and 60% respectively. Iffraaj Colt Sel ...
Part-owner, and breeder of the Listed Ballarat Cup (2000m) winner Irish Flame, originally is still very much a Taranaki girl. She may have lived on the Central Coast of New South Wales for 40 years but Margaret Reid, the So much so that the green and brown colors that Irish Flame races in feature a stylized logo of Mount Taranaki and the nearby Waiwhakaiho river. She shares those colors with her ...
Grant Pritchard-Gordon, a regular purchaser at Southern Hemisphere sales over the years, celebrates two extraordinary racing wins by recent graduates of his Badgers Bloodstock. Gr.1 VRC Oaks winner Personal (3f Fastnet Rock x Personify) was bred and sold by Cressfield, but her mother caught the eye of Badger’s Bloodstock a long time before that. At that same 2008 Inglis breeding stock sale, Badge ...
David Ellis and his Te Akau Racing Syndicates owned Imperatriz overcame a wide drawn and heavy 10 ground to score a short neck win on debut in the 1000m juvenile contest as the favourite at Otaki. David bought the I Am Invincible 2YO filly for A$360,000 at Magic Millions from the Bhima Thoroughbreds draft and she is the second foal and first winner for Berimbau a Group II placed Shamardal (USA) m ...
After his extraordinary recent performances, Gr.1 winning Bivouac has been elevated to the rank of the world’s joint-highest rated sprinter along with Classique Legend who is in preparation for the Gr.1 Hong Kong Sprint, where he is favourite to win. Nature Strip remains on the 124 he earned for his T.J. Smith Stakes triumph while Sir Dragonet is equal 28th in the world after rising to 121 follow ...