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Bloodstock agent Mike Ryan signed the $1-million winning ticket on behalf of e Five Racing when Good Magic (Curlin) sold at the 2016 Keeneland September Yearling Sale and promptly saw his faith rewarded as the colt put forth a memorable career, capped by a championship season as a juvenile in 2017. Having won the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile during his initial campaign for e Five and his breeder, Stonestreet Stables, high hopes followed the handsome chestnut into his 3-year-old season, where he parlayed a win in Keeneland's GII Toyota Blue...

On the face of it, Bulletin was old news. Silks, trainer and sire all straight off the conveyor belt: WinStar and partners; Todd Pletcher; and the Breeders' Cup legend that is City Zip. Look beyond his breeder's registration as CresRan LLC (KY), however, and you will discover that the winner of the inaugural Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint nowhere generated more pride, and heartwarming memories, than in Oklahoma. For the breeder's trophy was presented to Ran Leonard, who owes both his first name and his passion for the racehorse to his...

This year's G2 Queen Mary S. winner Signora Cabello (GB) (Camacho {GB}) has been added to the Tattersalls December Mares Sale and will be offered as a wildcard on Dec. 4 as lot 1908A. Signora Cabello was purchased privately by Phoenix Thoroughbreds after winning the Listed Marygate Fillies' S. on May 18, after which she won the Queen Mary for Phoenix and Zen Racing. She followed up with another win in the G2 Prix Robert Papin and was second, beaten 3/4 of a length, by Pretty Pollyanna (GB) (Oasis Dream...

'Johnny, Johnny, Johnny' rang out the chant from a throng of joyful owners as the G1 Victoria Derby winner Extra Brut (Aus) (Domesday {Aus}) was led back in to the Flemington mounting yard. It was the kind of reception the Irish jockey John Allen could only have dreamt about when he left Cork seven years ago after answering an advertisement for jump jockeys in Australia. There has been a number of jockey crossovers from the jumps to the Flat in recent years, including Graham Lee, Timmy Murphy, PJ McDonald and...

The juvenile colt Federal Case (Gemologist) (hip 3495) lit up the ring at Keeneland November Tuesday, topping the closing session of Book 5 when selling for $650,000 to bloodstock agent Jacob West, who was acting on behalf of Robert and Lawana Low. A total of 244 horses sold during Tuesday's session for a gross of $6,337,000, an average of $25,971 and a median of $12,000. Forty-nine horses failed to meet their reserves for a buyback rate of 16.72%. Throughout the first nine days of selling at KEENOV, 2,049 Thoroughbreds have...

For the fourth time in five years, a horse trained by John Gosden has taken the top honour as Europe's Horse of the Year at the Cartier Awards in London. On Tuesday night, it was the 3-year-old colt Roaring Lion (Kitten's Joy) who earned the award over three of his stablemates-Cracksman (GB) (Frankel {GB}), Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) and Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire})-as well as Alpha Centauri (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire})-on the merit of wins in the G1 Coral-Eclipse, G1 Juddmonte International, G1 Irish Champion S. and G1 Queen...

Kentucky Racing Acquisition, LLC, a new company co-founded by Ron Winchell and Marc Falcone, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase all the assets of Kentucky Downs from parent company Kentucky Downs Partners, LLC, the investment group that has owned the racetrack since 2007. The co-founders of KRA are well-known within the horse racing and casino gaming industries. Ron Winchell oversees his family's Winchell Thoroughbreds, a prominent racing and breeding operation located in Lexington, Ky. that currently owns more than 120 horses and recently campaigned 2017...

Bungle Inthejungle (GB) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}), whose current tally of 24 winners is joint-second only to No Nay Never on the first-season sires table, jumps to €12,000 next year at Rathasker Stud. He had stood at €5,000 his previous four years at stud. Bungle Inthejungle's first crop includes a pair of stakes winners: the G3 Molecomb S. winner Rumble Inthejungle (Ire), and Italian listed winner Sopran Artemide (Ire). "Bungle Inthejungle exceeded expectations with his first crop of runners in 2018," said Rathasker's Maurice Burns. "When we purchased 'Bungle' he...

"Fair warning--are you sure madam? Last time then. Sold on the telephone for £860,000." A Galileo (Ire) yearling? No--Girl With Balloon, a spray paint and acrylic on canvas, mounted on board, in the artist's frame. The highest price ever achieved for a work by the famed, if anonymous, graffiti artist Banksy, at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Auction last month. What can horse racing learn from the booming global art market which reached record sales of $63.7 billion in 2017 (up 12% from 2016), a figure that is set to be surpassed...

MG1SW Nathaniel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire})--Magnificent Style, by Silver Hawk), who just sired his second Group 1 winner with God Given (GB), will stand for an increased fee of £25,000 at Newsells Park Stud in 2019. The dual-Group 1 winner and English/Irish highweight's masterpiece is the dual G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Enable (GB), who became the first horse to capture the Arc and GI Breeders' Cup Turf in the same year earlier in the month. A half-brother to two Group 1 winners, Nathaniel has 12 black-type winners to...

From a stallion viewpoint, the results at the recent Breeders' Cup were remarkably even-handed, with the 14 Breeders' Cup contests falling to the progeny of 14 different stallions. Several of these stallions have built enviably good records at the Breeders' Cup contests, none better than the evergreen More Than Ready. His son Roy H's repeat victory in the GI Sprint was the stallion's sixth success, the other four all having come on turf. More Than Ready is one win ahead of Galileo (Ire), who had been responsible for four winners...

Alpha to omega, A to Z: few men can have achieved as exhaustive a grasp as David Ingordo of what turns an unbroken Thoroughbred into a champion. Or make that Z to A. For in Zenyatta (Street Cry {Ire}) and now Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky), an agent who is still only 42 can be credited with finding two Breeders' Cup Classic winners as yearlings in nine years. Zenyatta he famously picked out for just $60,000; Accelerate, also at the Keeneland September Sale, for $380,000. Anyone familiar with this intense and...