Sakheer (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}), the new stallion at Ballyhane Stud for 2025, will stand at a fee of €6,500 on Live Foal terms. He will cover a maximum of 140 mares. The G2 Mill Reef Stakes winner, who raced for KHK Racing, arrived at the farm in Leighlinbridge recently.  “Everyone on the farm loves him, [...]

Kia Joorabchian has submitted an offer to buy Freemason Lodge, the long-term base of retiring trainer Sir Michael Stoute, the Amo Racing founder told the Nick Luck Daily Podcast on Tuesday. Stoute brought a training career spanning more than five decades to an end when he saddled his final runner at Yarmouth last week and [...]

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Peter Douglass of Ten Twenty Racing has pledged an initial $1,000 to LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers, plus an additional $500 every time one of the Ten Twenty horses wins a stakes race. Since founding Ten Twenty Racing just a few years ago, Douglass's horses have earned nearly $1 million on the racetrack. The stable [...]

A pair of horses have been supplemented to the Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age Sale, which will be held Thursday in Lexington. Supplemented to the one-session auction are: Rosato (Gift Box), a 2-year-old filly who scored a five-length victory at Churchill Downs six days ago in a starter allowance race and is consigned by [...]

Go Bears Go (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}), winner of the Group 2 Railway Stakes, has been retired by Kia Joorabchian's AMO Racing to stand in partnership with Reddy and Linda Coffey at Springfield House Stud in 2025.  The third AMO Racing-owned horse to retire to stud this autumn, Go Bears Go will embark on his [...]

The top lot on the second day of the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale came late in the session when Aisling Noone and Simon Cavanagh of Drumloose Stables went to €54,000 for the Harzand (Ire) colt (lot 416) consigned by Garryrichard Stud. “As soon as we saw him we fell in love with him,” [...]

Facteur Cheval (Ire) (Ribchester {Ire}) is being targeted at the G1 Al Maktoum Challenge at Meydan on Friday, January 24, according to Fred Heyman, who was recently named president of Team Valor International. Trained by Jerome Reynier for Team Valor, Facteur Cheval is no stranger to Meydan, having made the breakthrough at the top level [...]

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-bred horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Tuesday's Observations features a half-brother to a leading member of this year's Classic generation. [...]

Bentley Combs, who has served as an assistant to trainer Chad Brown since last March, has resumed training on his own and his new solo operation will have its first starter when he saddles City of Clouds (City of Light) in the ninth race Friday at Churchill Downs. Combs ran his own barn from 2017 [...]

The Racing Together Webinar Series returns on Thursday, November 14 with a look back at National Racehorse Week and how it has become a community outreach success story. The webinar will be hosted by Sally Lyons from Great British Racing (GBR), who will be joined by guests including Richard Phillips, the originator of the idea [...]

Newsells Park Stud has released its stud fees for next season, with Classic sire Nathaniel (Ire) receiving an increase to £20,000 and last year's Poule d'Essai des Poulains runner-up Isaac Shelby (GB) being introduced at £7,000. Perhaps best known as the sire of the dual Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and triple King George VI [...]