The Fasig-Tipton October Digital Sale closed the evening of Oct. 8 with 240 horses sold for $4,947,500. The sale, which closed over two days Oct. 7-8, offered horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares, yearlings, and weanlings. Stifled Heiress (Hip 242), in foal to Leinster , topped the sale when sold for $470,000 to Pursuit of Success…
Godolphin picked up where they left off on Day 1 by securing a son of Frankel for 2.2 million guineas (US$3,096,013, 1 guinea=US$1.41) during the opening hour of selling at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Oct. 8. The opening session saw Sheikh Mohammed’s operation invest 9.3 million guineas on 10 yearlings, and the ruler…
Gal in a Rush and Ms. Tart have different connections and train at separate racetracks hundreds of miles apart. But when it’s time to race, the two female sprinters regularly land in the same spot. On Oct. 11 at Woodbine in the six-furlong Ontario Fashion Stakes (G3), they are scheduled to meet for the sixth time…
Trainer Aidan O’Brien has entered four fillies in the Oct. 10 Fillies’ Mile (G1) at Newmarket Racecourse, with the Prestige Fillies Stakes (G3) and Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1) winner Precise set to be joined by Moments of Joy , Sugar Island , and Composing . Precise is currently the 10-1 second favorite for next year’s One Thousand Guineas (G1)…
The Tattersalls October Yearling Sale opened with a flurry of activity from American buyers. The second of three days comprising the prestigious sale’s Book 1 had a similar theme Oct. 8 as Determined Stables again made the single-biggest purchase among buyers visiting the Newmarket, England, auction from the United States. Working with bloodstock agent David…
The red-hot Miguel Clement barn sends out the improving Into Mischief filly Love Cervere for her graded debut in the $175,000 Glen Cove Stakes (G3T) for 3-year-old fillies Oct. 11 at Aqueduct Racetrack. Clement rides a wave of momentum entering the Glen Cove, having landed a graded stakes double last weekend at the Big A…
Stewards in Kentucky have issued jockey Luan Machado a suspension of three race days for careless riding during the $650,000 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) Oct. 3 at Keeneland, which led to the disqualification of Percy’s Bar . Machado was aboard the first-under-the-wire finisher, who was disqualified and placed second for veering out under left-handed urging and fouling Tommy…
Narukami jumped out of the gate and right to the lead in the Japan Dirt Classic Oct. 8 at Oi Racecourse and never surrendered the advantage on the way to a 3-lengths victory over Natural Rise . The strong showing denied Natural Rise a sweep of the Japanese Dirt Triple Crown. The tour de force performance…
A lawsuit filed against jockey Luan Machado for poor riding after he finished second in a race at Churchill Downs last November was dismissed by Jefferson Circuit Court in Louisville, Ky. Judge Jennifer Wilcox found as a matter of law the claims asserted by owner Gray V Train Racing and breeder Westbrook Stables are too speculative; and…
Hong Kong superstar Ka Ying Rising had his first official Australian trial less than two weeks out from the Oct. 18 The Everest, and trainer David Hayes is confident the world’s top-rated sprinter will be ready for his AU$20 million target. In a star-studded 1,000-meter (about five-furlong) heat at Randwick Oct. 7, the gelding finished third…
