Breaking his maiden in a Tokyo 2000-metre newcomers' race at first asking Oct. 9, Rey de Oro made it two on the bounce with a tally over that trip transferred to a firm Nakayama turf course Dec. 3. Heavily favored testing the waters in group company for the first time, the Carrot Farm colorbearer was [...]

5th-FG, $38K, MSW, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 4:21 p.m. EDT Originally a $110,000 KEENOV weanling turned $435,000 KEESEP RNA yearling, FINEST (Scat Daddy) commanded $535,000 at OBSMAR, after breezing a furlong in :9 4/5. Racing for the Coolmore contingent of Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith, the Wesley Ward trainee fired a bullet sprinting [...]

Testing the waters at the Group 1 level for the first time in Trentham's NZ$200,000 G1 Captain Cook S., Aide Memoire (NZ) (Remind) handled the step up in class admirably, delivering the goods by 1 1/4 lengths over Authentic Paddy (NZ) (Howbaddouwantit) Saturday. The 12-1 shot was part of a four-horse charge to the lead, but [...]

A winner of the 2015 G1 Captain Cook S., Julinsky Prince (NZ) (Darci Brahma {NZ}) aims for a title defense in this year's edition for trainer Fraser Auret, who will also send out the up-and-coming mare Aide Memoire (NZ) (Remind). Also victorious at the highest level in the 2015 Windsor Park Plate, Julinsky Prince (NZ) [...]

8th-AQU, $69K, Alw/OC, NW2X, ($62.5K), 3yo/up, 1m, 3:43 p.m. EDT MATT KING COAL (Cool Coal Man), who was sidelined by a hairline fracture to his pelvis after finishing fourth in the GI Wood Memorial S. Apr. 9, returns to the races for Lady Sheila Stable and trainer Linda Rice in the penultimate race of Aqueduct's [...]

Shinichi Yamashita's Mont Saint Legame (Jpn) (Came Home) earned 40 points in the first qualifying race of Japan's “Road to the Kentucky Derby” in the 1600-metre Cattleya Sho at Tokyo Racecourse Saturday. A winner over that trip when unveiled in the mud in a newcomer race there Oct. 9, the son of three-time Grade I [...]

6th-AQU, $60K, MSW, 2yo, 1m, 2:47 p.m. EDT OPPORTUNITY COST (Tapit), who brought $420,000 as a KEENOV weanling, makes his debut in a loaded Aqueduct maiden for Gainesway Stable and trainer Todd Pletcher Sunday. Out of GIII Rampart S. runner-up Beloveda (Ghostzapper), who is a half-sister to GSW Golden Mystery (Awesome Again), Opportunity Cost also [...]

1st-WO, MSW, $55.9K, 2yo, f, 5f(AWT), 1:00 p.m. EDT Robert Tiller saddles TWO TRIBES (Union Rags) in her maiden voyage for owner/breeder Frank Di Giulio, Jr. The dark bay is a daughter of Canadian champion sprinter Indian Apple Is (Indian Charlie), who was a MSW and MGSP at Woodbine. TJCIS PPs 3rd-CD, MSW, $58K, 2yo, [...]

The second and final day of selling at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale of 2-Year-Olds concluded at Karaka Thursday, with gross, average and median ahead of the figures from the 2015 record-breaking sale, although it must be noted, with a greatly expanded 2016 catalogue. A total of 294 horses sold for a [...]

9th-CD, $60K, Alw (NW2X), 2yo, f, 1mT, 5:00 EDT GALE FORCE (Giant's Causeway), a winner of the 1 1/16-mile GIII Mazarine S. over the Woodbine all-weather at first asking Oct. 8, returns for trainer Mark Casse and Dixiana Farms in this turf bow. A daughter of Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill (Point Given), [...]

La Diosa (NZ) justified her 6-4 favoritism and ran out a 1 1/2-length winner of the NZ$300,000 G1 Gavelhouse.com 44th New Zealand 1000 Guineas at Riccarton Park Saturday. The dark bay gave her sire, globetrotting champion So You Think (NZ), his first Group 1 winner and it was also the first for regular pilot Racha [...]

The 1600-metre G1 Gavelhouse.com New Zealand 1000 Guineas, the second leg of the NZB Filly of the Year Series, sees 11 line up for a chance at Classic glory in the Riccarton Park feature on Saturday. Favored La Diosa (NZ) (So You Think {NZ}), a half-sister to 2002 1000 Guineas heroine The Jewel (NZ) (O'Reilly [...]