Intraday News Archive

It was another day of robust selling at the Gold Coast as Magic Millions continued Thursday, but whereas Wednesday's opener was highlighted by the exploits of the young guns, yesterday's trade featured offspring of the outstanding Redoute's Choice (Aus) at the top of the sales sheets and buyers familiar to most. Kelsey Riley is on hand with the full wrap. The 2015 Dubai International Racing Carnival also kicked off Thursday, with Zabeel International Racing's Surfer (Distorted Humor) landing the night's big prize in the G2 Al Maktoum Challenge-R1 over the...

Continuing a good day for both her first-season sire and her consignor, Lot 143, a filly by Sepoy out of the stakes-winning Celebrity Girl (Aus) (Starcraft {NZ}), notched the highest price of the opening session of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale late in the afternoon when she was purchased for $850,000A by Michael Wallace. The filly was consigned by Mill Park Stud, and underbidders included American Jon Kelly.

The Eclipse Awards finalists were announced yesterday and it was no surprise that GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner Bayern (Offlee Wild), GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit) and GI Breeders' Cup Turf victor Main Sequence (Aldebaran) were named as the finalists for Horse of the Year. We have the full list of finalists for all 17 categories of the Eclipse Awards, which will be held Jan. 17 at Gulfstream Park. In Australia, the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale got off to a strong...

Keeneland puts its April 2-Year-Old sale on hiatus, while continuing ethics probes will keep trainer Steve Asmussen's name off the Hall of Fame ballot in 2015 and Terry Finley files a 12-page protest against NYTHA election results. Plus, the Southern Hemisphere yearling sale season gets underway Wednesday and Kelsey Riley discovers the Magic Millions line up is as good as gold. All that and much more in today's TDN!

The Magic Millions Yearling Sale kicks off Wednesday and we have all the information you need to know before the sale begins...Ben Massam chats with trainer Wayne Catalano about the upcoming seasonal debut for his exciting sophomore filly West Coast Belle (Tapit)...Plus, Andrew Caulfield looks at the lineage of GII Jerome S. winner El Kabeir (Scat Daddy) in this week's Pedigree Insights. All that and more in today's TDN.

Shrinking Violet (Congaree) won the first graded stakes of her career for owner/trainer Wesley Ward in Sunday's GII Monrovia S. at Santa Anita, while connections look forward to future engagements with Saturday's stakes-winning sophomores at Gulfstream Park. Kelsey Riley examines Australia and the shuttle effect and Aidan O'Brien is honored at the Moyglare dinner for his historic third straight G1 Epsom Derby win in June. All that and much more in today's TDN!

It was a busy day on the stakes front for newly turned 3-year-olds boys and girls, on dirt and on turf, short and long and on either seaboard. At Aqueduct, TDN Rising Star El Kabeir (Scat Daddy) displayed a new dimension in taking the GIII Jerome S., while in California, Regis Farm's Seduire (Elusive Quality) was pedal to the metal in landing the GII Santa Ynez S. Nat Rea's operation was also represented by a new Rising Star at the Fair Grounds, while a pair of Eclipse Award candidates turned in...