Today's Edition

Few owners can argue that their horse pulled off the most impressive effort at Saratoga Race Course this summer. Ray Mamone can make that case. After 42 years in the game, he has his first top-level horse in Imperial Hint (Imperialism), who might be the nation's top sprinter. Mamone is watching poetry in motion. After winning the GI Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga July 28 by sweeping by the field, Imperial Hint was sent to the lead by jockey Javier Castellano in the GI Vosburgh S. at Belmont Park...

When Sippican Harbor (Orb--Blossomed, by Deputy Minister) swept to victory in the GI Spinaway S. at Saratoga in August, it marked the first Grade I winner for the burgeoning broodmare band of Justin and Kalvert Spaeth. The Colorado-based couple will offer a half-brother to the Breeders' Cup-bound juvenile filly at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton October Sale. By Bodemeister, the yearling will sell as hip 217 from Gerry Dilger's Dromoland Farm consignment. "It was quite the race and we're thrilled with the way she performed," Justin Spaeth said of Sippican Harbor's 16-1...

Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), who on Oct. 7 defended her title in the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe with just one start in the interim, will have her third run of the season in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3. Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager to owner Khalid Abdullah, made the announcement on Tuesday and said further decisions on the 4-year-old filly's future would be decided after the Breeders' Cup. Enable, who has not lost a race since last April, also has last year's G1...

A trio of colts by first-crop sires were among four weanlings to crack the $100,000 barrier Monday at Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga Fall Sale, contributing to a record-setting day of trade in Saratoga Springs. Hip 180, a colt by Laboan (Uncle Mo) out of the Broken Vow mare Promising Vow, hammered for $140,000 to Bluewater Sales to top the sale, which saw a total of 115 offerings sell for a gross of $3,381,200. The sale's $29,402 average represented a 29.67% increase from last year's $22,674 average, while the median also rose from...

NEWMARKET, UK—England's Indian summer was washed away by Sunday's ceaseless rain and a similarly damp start to Monday but the wet and windy conditions did little to dampen buyers' ardour as Book 2 of the October Sale began its three-day run. In many ways, it picked up almost exactly where Book 1 left off, albeit at a more modest level. Newsells Park Stud is still out in front as the leading consignor, and the Maktoum family is collectively ensuring that the figures continue to read well during the second part...

Every year the freshman stallions face a desperate battle against time in their bid to make an impact before the yearling sales circuit gets fully under way in October. There are rich rewards for any which achieve that target, as was amply demonstrated last week. The quick-maturing No Nay Never, who was represented by his sixth black-type winner when All The King's Men made all in the Legacy S. at Navan two days ago, achieved a top-10 finish at last week's Book 1. He achieved an average of 331,000gns with...

Though she was a maiden when she was retired after five starts, Song of Bernadette caught the eye of partners Fred Hertrich and John Fielding when they thumbed through the pages of the 2014 Keeneland November catalogue. They liked that she was by Bernardini, that when you dug deep into her pedigree there was a lot to like, and that she had the type of looks and conformation that the partners desire. And, she didn't figure to sell for that much. When the hammer fell, they were the successful bidders,...

Here's a conundrum, given the recent contributions of Europe's premier yearling sale to a headlong rise in the global value of elite bloodstock. Because while Tattersalls Book 1 surpassed even some of last year's giddy returns, achieving fresh records in turnover and median, the fact is that prices-for its very wealthiest patrons—have actually come down three times in four years. For while both the backgrounds and aspirations of the game's biggest spenders remain international, what appears to be a single boom in the worldwide market also reflects local factors. The...

Dual-surface MGISW Catholic Boy (More Than Ready) returned to the worktab Sunday morning at Belmont, breezing five furlongs in company in 1:01.26 beneath Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano. Catholic Boy missed three days under tack last week due to a minor fever, which forced him to miss a scheduled work last weekend, according to trainer Jonathan Thomas. Sunday's move--his first since Sept. 30--put him back on track towards a potential bid at the Nov. 3 GI Breeders' Cup Classic, Thomas said. "I thought the work was executed perfectly," said...

When the story broke that Frank Stronach was suing his daughter Belinda in an attempt to retake control of the Stronach Group, most involved in the U.S. Thoroughbred business believed this was all about horse racing and who should be calling the shots, Belinda or Frank. However, it appears that one of the most contentious issues in the fight involves a cattle ranch. In the 1990s, Frank Sronach began buying property in Florida, eventually acquiring 95,000 acres. It was the first step in his dream of developing a huge cattle...

   Quest The Moon (Ger) (Sea the Moon {Ger}) registered a first stakes win for his Lanwades Stud-based freshman sire (by Sea the Stars {Ire}) when annexing Baden-Baden's G3 Zukunftsrennen last month and Eckhard Sauren's Noble Moon (Ger) (Sea the Moon {Ger}) doubled that tally in Germany's premier juvenile contest--Sunday's G3 Preis des Winterfavoriten--at Cologne. The homebred bay had claimed a neck verdict tackling the Rheinland venue's one mile course and distance in his Sept. 23 debut last time and pulled out all the stops for a career high here....

When trainer David Simcock decides to send one or more of his runners based at Trillium Place in Newmarket to Canada, it usually pays to pay attention. In 2014, the conditioner launched not one, but two successful raids on Woodbine, winning the GI Northern Dancer S. with his likable stayer Sheikhzayedroad (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and the GI Ricoh Woodbine Mile on the same program with the reliable Trade Storm (GB) (Trade Fair {GB}). Some five weeks later, Caspar Netscher (GB) (Dutch Art {GB}) continued the streak in the GII Nearctic...