Intraday News Archive

BREEDERS' CUP CONTRIBUTES $3.5 MILLION TO NTRA

FAVORITE TRICK TRUMPED IN ARKANSAS DERBY

LIL'S LAD OUT OF DERBY

FULL BROTHER TO HANSEL SETS KEENELAND RECORD

The Curragh plays host to Saturday's biggest race, as the Coolmore contingent's Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) looks to add to his G1 English 2000 Guineas score in the Irish equivalent... A number of major GI Belmont S. contenders drilled yesterday for the "Test of the Champion," as Frosted (Tapit) and the Todd Pletcher-trained troika of Carpe Diem (Giant's Causeway), Materiality (Afleet Alex) and Madefromlucky (Lookin At Lucky) all worked at Big Sandy... Plus all the day's major racing news from every corner of the globe, and a look ahead to...

"INDIAN" ATTACKS AT SANTA ANITA DERBY

KENTUCKY DERBY NOTES

Dual classic winner American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) returned to the track at Churchill Downs Thursday for the first time since his victory in the GI Preakness S. May 16...In Europe, the field was drawn for the G1 Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas headlined by Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who will break from stall two...Also, Srikandi (Aus) (Dubawi {Ire}) headlines a full field of 16 in Saturday's G1 Doomben 10,000...All that and more in today's TDN!

Ending weeks of speculation, it was announced Wednesday that GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. hero American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) would stand at Ashford Stud at the conclusion of his racing career. He joins fellow 2-year-old champs Lookin at Lucky, Uncle Mo and Shanghai Bobby at the nursery... Dean Towers has a TDN Op/Ed in light of the somewhat disappointing viewership of last weekend's Preakness and there's plenty of news from Europe, where a Derby winner has been removed from stud duties for the balance of the season....

The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale concluded with record average and median Tuesday in Timonium, Maryland. Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini has all the top stories from the record-breaking sale. Bill Oppenheim takes a peak at the TDN Year-to-Date General Sire List as well as the Classic picture. Plus, Daithi Harvey looks at the relatively short, yet successful history of the Goresbridge Bloodstock Sales. All that and much more in today's TDN.