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Winner of the GII JP Morgan Chase Jessamine S. en route to victory in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and the GII Applachian S. over a yielding local course on seasonal debut this past spring, eFive Racing Thorougbreds' Rushing Fall (More Than Ready) was hammered at the tills and left little in doubt in Saturday's GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup to remain perfect over the Keeneland turf course. Mission Impassible (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Group 1-placed in France at two and a Group 2 winner this term, was...

Last month's G1 Flying Five S. winner Havana Grey (Ire) (Havana Gold {GB}-Blanc De Chine {Ire}, by Dark Angel {Ire}) will enter stud next year at Whitsbury Manor Stud. Whitsbury Manor Director Ed Harper said of the 3-year-old, "We've been following him ever since he won the [G3] Molecomb [S.] as a 2-year-old as he's such a strong individual with a big sales walk. After his Group 1 and Group 2 wins this summer, it was just a matter of whether we could afford him." "He's the fastest horse from...

Fears in the Lloyd-Webber-Gosden camp that the unseasonable balmy temperature would undermine Too Darn Hot (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) grew with every increase in fahrenheit ahead of Saturday's G1 Darley Dewhurst S., but the sensational TDN Rising Star duly proved impervious to any obstacle to achieving juvenile champion status. With Newmarket basking in the weird heat, it was expected that the dynamism that had marked his wins on rain-eased ground in the Sept. 1 G3 Solario S. and Sept. 15 G2 Champagne S. would be dumbed down in the strongest encounter...

Living up to its name and history, Saturday's GI Pattison Canadian International S. will play host to three quality Euro invaders in a competitive 11-horse renewal of the Woodbine fall staple. Leading the charge for the away team is Clive Washbourn's Thundering Blue (Exchange Rate). The modestly-bred gray failed to stand out in his first two seasons, but has developed dramatically in this 5-year-old campaign, annexing the G2 Sky Bet York S. July 28 before running a big third at 50-1 in the G1 Juddmonte International S. Aug. 22. Shipping...

No one needs to remind John Sadler that he is 0-for-41 in the Breeders' Cup, but reminded he will be. With the likely favorite in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic in Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky) and in the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile with Catalina Cruiser (Union Rags), Sadler's struggles on racing's championship day will be a major story leading up to the races, and one that he's going to have to explain over and over again. "I understand what a sportswriter's job is, they have to make the race...

Poet's Word (GB) (Poet's Voice {GB}-Whirly Bird {GB}, by Nashwan), the winner of this year's G1 Prince Of Wales's S. and G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S., has been retired from racing and will stand at Shadwell's Nunnery Stud. Poet's Word was second to standout 3-year-old Roaring Lion (Kitten's Joy) in the G1 Juddmonte International on Aug. 22 and trainer Sir Michael Stoute, who handled the 5-year-old for owner Saeed Suhail, revealed midway through September that Poet's Word had picked up an injury that would rule him out...

It was the old dilemma, really: heart versus head. Joe Minor adores the mare and it was always going to be a wrench to sell her. But sometimes fate just seems to be tapping you on the shoulder, giving you the kind of chance you really shouldn't have to think about. The fact is that a mare as young as Akron Moon (Malibu Moon) was hardly entitled to expect another update, with her daughter Bellafina (Quality Road) having already added a second Grade I success in the Chandelier S. since...

It was another episode of the O'Brien family show at Newmarket on Friday, as junior once again upstaged senior on the big stage courtesy of Chantal Regalado-Gonzalez's Iridessa (Ire) (Ruler of the World {Ire}) in the G1 bet365 Fillies' Mile. Upping her game after a latest third in Leopardstown's Listed Ingabelle S. over seven furlongs Sept. 15, the Piltown representative relished the extra trip to register a 14-1 upset from the Ballydoyle runner Hermosa (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). Always in striking distance of the leaders under Wayne Lordan, the bay wore...

First things first. Let's all take a deep breath. There will still be racing at Santa Anita, Gulfstream and Laurel Saturday and The Stronach Group (TSG) isn't going anywhere. Yes, Frank Stronach, 86, has sued his daughter, Belinda, in an effort to retake control of The Stronach Group. He is alleging that Belinda and TSG Chief Executive Alon Ossip have pulled a power play and have kicked him to the curb. The 73-page lawsuit that was filed by Frank Stronach in a Toronto court and first obtained by the TDN...

NEWMARKET, UK-Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale drew to a close in Newmarket on Thursday with a record aggregate and a much-improved year-on-year clearance rate, and an average and median that were largely on par with 2017 figures. At the close of three days' trade, 392 yearlings were traded from 456 offered for 106,503,000gns, up 4% from last year when 349 were sold for 102,290,000gns. The clearance rate was up to 86% from 79%-the highest at this sale in more than a decade. The median climbed slightly (2%)...

Confined to six furlongs so far, the Gredleys' Pretty Pollyanna (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) stretches out at Newmarket on Friday as she bids to re-assert her influence on the juvenile scene in the G1 bet365 Fillies' Mile. Suffering a potentially momentum-stopping defeat in the G1 Cheveley Park S. here 13 days ago, the homebred who is not bred to be a pure sprinter may find this extra distance the ideal scenario for expressing herself. There was enough in her seven-length success from a solid field in the July 13 G2...

They don't keep stats for this sort of thing, but there likely aren't an abundance of Thoroughbreds who yawn while getting saddled for a race in the paddock at Saratoga. There are likely way fewer yawners who then go on to win said race. How about ones who then win when the race is a Grade I? That's the obscure feat Lee Pokoik's Sippican Harbor (Orb) pulled off in the Sept. 1 GI Spinaway S. at the Spa, but if you listen to the filly's trainer Gary Contessa, or spend...