Cheveley Park Stud Introduce Vandeek At £15,000 – Twilight Son Off The Roster
November 4, 2024
Dual Group 1-winning and unbeaten champion juvenile Vandeek (GB) (Havana Grey {GB}) will stand for £15,000 at Cheveley Park Stud in 2025. The highest-rated two-year-old in Britain last year, Vandeek rounded off a stellar campaign with victories in the G1 Prix Morny and the G1 Middle Park Stakes. He is now available to view by [...]
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“Exceptional Two-Year-Old” Sakheer To Stand At Ballyhane Stud
November 4, 2024
Group 2-winning juvenile and TDN Rising Star Sakheer (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) has been acquired by Ballyhane Stud and will take up stallion duties at the County Carlow outfit in 2025. Sakheer topped the Arqana Breeze-Up Sale in 2022 when bought by Oliver St Lawrence on behalf of KHK Racing for €550,000. He won his maiden [...]
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Eustace Keen For Docklands To Have Another Crack At Via Sistina
November 4, 2024
Trainer Harry Eustace says that he is eager for a rematch between his runner Docklands (GB) (Massaat {Ire}} and impressive Cox Plate winner Via Sistina (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). Docklands was beaten 11 lengths when fifth in the Cox Plate late last month, with the ex-British runner Via Sistina chalking up a fourth Australian Group [...]
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Dylan Davis, Chad Brown, Klaravich Clinch Titles at Belmont Big A Meet
November 3, 2024
Dylan Davis and Chad Brown have claimed individual meet titles for jockey and trainer, respectively, for the 2024 Belmont Big A fall meet while Klaravich Stables continued their domination of the owners' ranks, NYRA announced via release Sunday evening. Leading all jockeys with 44 wins, it is Davis's third individual title on the NYRA circuit [...]
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Breeders' Cup Follow-Ups: Sierra Leone Well, Future Plans TBA
November 3, 2024
GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner 'TDN Rising Star' Sierra Leone (Gun Runner) has come out of the marquee race in good order, according to Chad Brown, and will return to Kentucky Monday morning. “Everything's all good,” said assistant trainer Baldo Hernandez Sunday morning after showing the horse to the media. “He will ship tomorrow to [...]
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James Ryan Crowned Ireland's Champion Apprentice
November 3, 2024
James Ryan was confirmed as Ireland's champion apprentice on Sunday after his two closest pursuers in the title race, Adam Caffrey and Wayne Hassett, both drew a blank on the final day of the Flat season at the Curragh. Ryan topped the table with 33 winners when the action got underway on Sunday, two ahead [...]
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Generous Tipper Outlasts Tuscan Sky In Discovery Stakes
November 3, 2024
Breaking out of Kentucky for the first time, Generous Tipper (Street Sense) earned his first stakes win Sunday in taking the Discovery Stakes on the closing day at Belmont's Aqueduct meet. Sent off at 9-1, the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity third came in off a win over the distance at Keeneland Oct. 16. Enjoying a [...]
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Darley Sets Nyquist's Fee At $175,000 For 2025 Season
November 3, 2024
Nyquist will stand the 2025 season at Jonabell Farm for $175,000, Darley announced Sunday. The son of Uncle Mo, who stood last year for $85,000, sired his second GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Saturday when Immersive capped an undefeated four-for-four season. “When you speak of the best stallions right now in North America, Nyquist [...]
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Fantastic Moon to Retire to Gestut Ebbesloh after Japan Cup Swansong
November 3, 2024
Last year's Deutsches Derby winner Fantastic Moon (Ger) will stand at Gestut Ebbesloh next season, Nadine Siepmann, co-founder of ownership syndicate Liberty Racing, announced on Sunday. The son of Sea The Moon (Ger) will retire following his appearance in the G1 Japan Cup at Tokyo on Sunday, November 24. Fantastic Moon was bred by Philipp [...]
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Breeders' Cup Handle Up Over 2023, Third-Highest in History
November 2, 2024
Numbers have been released for the 2024 Breeders' Cup World Championships, with total all-sources, global common-pool handle for the two-day event at $179,218,631, marking a 1.7% bettering of the 2023 total handle. The 41st running of the Breeders' Cup was held Nov. 1-2 at Del Mar, while the 2023 event was held at Santa Anita. [...]
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Prat Edges Moore For Shoemaker Award
November 2, 2024
Edited Press Release Flavien Prat, who guided two horses to Breeders' Cup victories Nov. 1-2 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club during the World Championships, won the 22nd Bill Shoemaker Award as the outstanding jockey of the event. The Shoemaker Award goes to the jockey who rides the most winners in the 14 Championship races with [...]
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Citizen Bull And Immersive Relish Success After Friday's Breeders' Cup, East Avenue Will 'Move On'
November 2, 2024
The respective winners from Friday's GI FanDuel Breeders' Cup Juvenile–Citizen Bull (Into Mischief)–and the GI NetJets Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies–Immersive (Nyquist), will look down the road to their 3-year-old seasons with the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Kentucky Oaks the target. Trainer Bob Baffert said he knew that Citizen Bull was ready to take on [...]
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