Today's Edition

There's been much consternation over whether women are given enough chances in the racing world, but striking a positive blow for females in bloodstock is the new consigning team of Mimi Wadham and Violet Hesketh, collectively known as WH Bloodstock. The pair, both 27, met while on the Godolphin Flying Start course, which has been the launchpad for many a successful career in racing and bloodstock since its inception 15 years ago. After dismissing early fleeting thoughts to become bloodstock agents, Wadham and Hesketh opted for a different route within...

Grade III stakes winner Cover Song (Fastnet Rock {Aus}--Misty for Me {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) will become the first mare in foal to Dubawi (Ire) to ever sell at the Fasig-Tipton November sale when she is offered Nov. 4. Cover Song will also be the first to sell of a dispersal of owner Bobby Flay's European-based bloodstock, the remainder of which will be offered at the Tattersalls December Breeding Stock Sales. Cover Song will be consigned to Fasig-Tipton November by Elite Sales, while Baroda & Colbinstown will handle a consignment...

      Khalid Abdullah's femme fatale Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) may have already had more than a fair amount of advantage over her rivals prior to Thursday's draw for the G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, but the gulf was widened further as she was allotted a highly favourable stall six position. With positive vibes flowing from Clarehaven Stables following the defending champion's smooth defeat of Crystal Ocean (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in the Sept. 8 G3 September S. on Kempton's Polytrack, the portents for a repeat of the...

Normandy Farm homebred Daddys Lil Darling (Scat Daddy-Miss Hot Salsa, by Houston) will be offered as a broodmare prospect at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton November Sale. The 4-year-old, heroine of the 2017 GI American Oaks at Santa Anita, will be consigned by Gainesway. "A top physical to complement her proven Grade I ability, Daddys Lil Darling will appeal to all buyers looking for an outstanding young broodmare prospect," said Michael Hernon, Gainesway's Director of Sales. Daddys Lil Darling, trained by Ken McPeek, also won the 2016 GII Pocahontas S. at Churchill...

The sudden death during training hours this summer of Bobby Abu Dhabi (Macho Uno) was a tragic incident. Connections lost a horse they loved. Racing lost one of its sprint stars. His death, however, opens a window into a still relatively obscure corner of equine fatalities. While Bobby Abu Dhabi was originally reported to have suffered cardiac arrest, it was later reported he died of other causes. What this confusion betrays are some common misunderstandings surrounding "sudden deaths," namely that the term comprises a variety of different health issues and...

Whoever comes out victorious in Saturday's GI Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland and punches their ticket to the GI Breeders' Cup Mile in the Win and You're In event will have thoroughly earned it, as 14 horses, with hardly a hopeless longshot among them, clash in one of the deepest Grade I's of the year. Last year's runner-up is back to contest the million-dollar event in Terry Hamilton's stalwart Heart to Heart (English Channel). Run down by a half-length in the 2017 renewal, the bay was off the board in...

Fairyland (Ire) (Kodiac {GB})'s victory in the G1 Cheveley Park S. and Jash (Ire) (Kodiac {GB})'s second in the G1 Middle Park S. could quite easily be a watershed moment for their sire Kodiac, the younger three-parts brother of top-class sire Invincible Spirit (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}). These two excellent juveniles--plus six other group performers, including G2 Mill Reef S. winner Kessaar (Ire) and G3 Prix Eclipse hero Sporting Chance (GB)--are from his first crop produced from significantly better mares, his fee having risen from €10,000 in 2014 to €25,000...

KILL, Ireland—It's rare in the racing world that everything goes exactly according to plan, but in the case of the sister to Investec Oaks winner Forever Together (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), there was no deviation in the widely-read script which had her billed as the star performer of the Goffs Orby Sale. The Vimal and Gillian Khosla-bred daughter of Galileo and Green Room (Theatrical {Ire}), with the elegance and athleticism to match her top-drawer page, can for now hold the accolade of being the highest-priced yearling in the world this year,...

Gary and Mary West's West Coast (Flatter--Caressing, by Honour and Glory), a two-time Grade I winner and the reigning Eclipse Award-winning 3-year-old male, will retire to stud at William S. Farish's Lane's End Farm for the 2019 breeding season. A son of Carl Pollard's 2000 champion 2-year-old filly Caressing and bred in the name of his CFP Thoroughbreds, West Coast fetched a bid of $425,000 from the Wests' bloodstock agent Ben Glass at the 2015 Keeneland September sale, a price that ranked as the joint second-highest of 42 yearlings by...

ELMONT, N.Y.--When Barry Schwartz homebred Voodoo Song (English Channel) first came to the Linda Rice barn in the summer of 2017, he had just one win from six starts and had been off the board in his last three efforts. Since then, Rice has turned the chestnut from a mediocre dirt sprinter to a Grade I-winning turf horse, who is headed to Keeneland Saturday for the GI Shadwell Turf Mile and is also possible for the Breeders' Cup. In the beginning of his career, Voodoo Song had been running mostly...

During the upcoming fall meet to be held Oct. 5-27, Keeneland will unveil BETology 101 and 201 sessions, a new fan education program for beginner- and intermediate-level fans, and will expand outreach to patrons on the ground/ "These initiatives build on our signature BETology program to provide short-form betting content to the thousands of enthusiastic fans who visit Keeneland each," Christa Marrillia, Keeneland Chief Marketing Officer, said. "True to its founding mission, Keeneland is committed to investing in the growth and development of the sport of racing and we believe...

KILL, Ireland—It was always likely to be a head-to-head contest between two extremely well-related Galileo (Ire) fillies to take top billing at Goffs and the first to take to the stage, the sister to Coolmore's treble Group 1 winner Alice Springs (Ire), duly holds that honour—for now—as the dust settles on a buoyant first day of trade at the Orby Sale. A bid of €2 million from Phoenix Thoroughbreds' principal Amer Abdulaziz was what it took to ensure that the chestnut daughter of Aleagueoftheirown (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) (lot 165)...