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Keeneland has cataloged 4,509 horses for its 2018 November Breeding Stock Sale, which will run Nov. 5-16. The catalogue is available online and the print version will be mailed out the week of Oct. 15. The 4,509 horses in the November Sale catalog include 2,257 broodmares and racing or broodmare prospects, 1,788 weanlings, 453 horses of racing age and 11 stallions. Two horses are late entries to the auction. "The strong global appeal of the November Sale sets it apart from all other breeding stock sales," Keeneland Vice President of...

The unique open stretch of the renovated ParisLongchamp will not be utilised during the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Tromphe weekend on Oct. 6-7, France Galop announced on Tuesday. The decision was made due to concerns that the ground conditions would be affected for Sunday's card by Saturday's racing action. The rail will be set at 16 metres on Oct. 6, with the true rail being used the day after, which will see six Group 1 races contested on a six-metre wide strip of fresh ground. "It is our duty...

Tapwrit (Tapit--Appealing Zophie, by Successful Appeal), winner of last year's GI Belmont S., has been retired from racing and will take up stud duties at Gainesway next year. He will stand his initial season at a fee of $12,500. Purchased by Bridlewood Farm, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, and Robert V. LaPenta for $1.2 million at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale, Tapwrit captured the Pulpit S. at Gulfstream Park as a 2-year-old. At three, he set a new stakes record when winning the GII Tampa Bay Derby and, after a troubled sixth-place...

The story goes that when the great Frankel arrived at Banstead Manor Stud towards the end of 2012, one of the stud's other top stallions, the champion 2-year-old and sprinter Oasis Dream, was so affronted by the media attention lavished on the newcomer that he sulked for a couple of days. So how must Uncle Mo feel now that his rival stallions at Ashford feature not just one Triple Crown winner in American Pharoah, but two, thanks to the recent arrival of Justify? Fortunately, Uncle Mo is making sure that...

KILL, Ireland—The whirr of an incoming helicopter will have been music to the ears of a number of participants on the sales ground at Goffs on Monday afternoon. Just after lunch, Sheikh Mohammed and his entourage touched down at Kildare Paddocks after spending a morning nearby at his Kildangan Stud. It's the first time since 2005 that the sheikh has been present for Ireland's premier yearling sale and, after his spending spree at Keeneland's September Sale and more modest participation at Tattersalls Ireland last week through agents Anthony Stroud and...

By Amy Lynam Joe Foley has always been ahead of the curve. Irish Champions Weekend, now the jewel in Irish racing's crown, was dreamt up by the master of Ballyhane Stud, and he drew up plans for the Irish Stallion Trail on the back page of a sales catalogue at Goffs four years ago. Foley also had bullish conviction that his stallion Dandy Man (Ire), was the next big thing. The son of Mozart (Ire) sired Weatherbys Super Sprint victor Peniaphobia (Ire) and the Listed Windsor Castle S. winner Extortionist...

Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum's Vale Dori (Arg) (Asiatic Boy {Arg}), who had a perfect season stymied by a pair of memorable battles with champion Stellar Wind (Curlin) in Grade I races last summer, made it back to the winner's circle for the first time in over a year with a confident victory in the GI Zenyatta S. at Santa Anita Sunday as stablemate and 1-9 favorite Abel Tasman (Quality Road) never issued a serious rally and finished a dull fifth. Dismissed at 11-1, Vale Dori shadowed pacesetting longshot...

He was the huge square peg trying to force his way into an impossibly small round hole. The field for the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup included horses from Chad Brown, Todd Pletcher, Aidan O'Brien, Saeed bin Suroor and their owners, Phoenix Thoroughbreds, the Coolmore team, Calumet Farm and Godolphin. That doesn't even include the multiple Grade I winner and defending Gold Cup champion Diversify (Bellamy Road), who is trained by Rick Violette, Jr. Did any of them even know who Uriah St. Lewis is? They do now. St. Lewis...

With over $15 million in progeny earnings worldwide this year, Kitten's Joy is right up there in elite stallion company with the likes of Galileo (Ire), Tapit, Deep Impact (Jpn), et al; in fact, he currently sits behind only Dubawi (Ire) by worldwide progeny earnings in 2018. What separates Ken and Sarah Ramsey's 'self-made' stallion from that trio, however, is that he stands for a fee of only $60,000. And, unlike the previously mentioned stallion royalty, his stock don't usually make the headlines in the sale ring. Rather, they reserve...

Responsible for four of the last seven winners of the G2 Beresford S. prior to Sunday's renewal, Japan (GB) added to Galileo's tally as he edged out fellow Ballydoyle trainee Mount Everest (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in a bobber at Naas. Destined to go to Coolmore after the exploits of his full-brother Sir Isaac Newton (GB) for the stable, the bay who is also a full-sibling of the high-class Secret Gesture (GB) was secured for 1.3million gns at Tattersalls October and after an introductory seventh over this mile trip at The...

It's been a breakthrough year for Ed Walker, who has led something of a peripatetic life in his training career to date but is now firmly settled at Kingsdown Stables in Upper Lambourn. The move18 months ago was a homecoming of sorts as the 35-year-old grew up close by. "As the crow flies, my family lives a mile away from Andrew Balding's house at Kingsclere, so it's really Andrew's fault I'm in this mess," says Walker with a smile. While trainers at all levels have different kinds of pressure as...

Hronis Racing's Accelerate (Lookin at Lucky) continued his domination of the handicap division Saturday with his third straight win at the highest level in Santa Anita's GI Awesome Again S., a "Win and You're In" for the GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs Nov. 3. A bit restless in the gate, Accelerate broke a step slower than the rest from the outside stall in this six-horse test. The 1-5 favorite quickly got his hooves beneath him and caught up to the field in just a few strides, running two-wide...