Today's Edition

'TDN Rising Star' Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg}) handled two turns with ease and kept his perfect record in tact with yet another decisive victory Saturday in Santa Anita's GI American Pharoah S., previously run as the GI FrontRunner S. This was Game Winner's second success in a "Win and You're In" race and, with this score, he has stamped himself as the early favorite for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs Nov. 2. Entering off a pair of bullet works in Arcadia, most recently drilling a best-of-63...

Noel O'Callaghan's Tipperary-based Mountarmstrong Stud is well-accustomed to providing big results in a sales ring, and the team said they are very hopeful that their select draft of three yearlings at the Goffs Orby yearling sale on Tuesday and Wednesday will prove popular. It was back in 2015 that the Mountarmstrong-bred and consigned yearling filly by Frankel (GB) out of five-time Group 1 winner Alexander Goldrun (Ire) (Gold Away {Ire}) lit up the bid boards when selling to China Horse Club for €1.7-million, the second-highest price achieved at the sale...

Both unbeaten and carrying TDN Rising Star tags, Ten Sovereigns (Ire) (No Nay Never) and Jash (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) had a strong renewal of the G1 Juddmonte Middle Park S. between them at Newmarket on Saturday but there was no stopping a resurgent Team Ballydoyle and the operation's latest beau ideal duly prevailed. Registering the final part of a treble for the stable in the day's big races all ridden by Donnacha, the emphatic Aug. 25 Curragh maiden and Sept. 1 G3 Round Tower S. winner was sparking the kind...

This past June in the TDN, Chris McGrath wrote about the luck that first-time partners West Point Thoroughbreds and R.S. Evans had when their $230,000 2017 Keeneland September yearling purchase, now named Egyptian Storm, had when her then-unraced brother turned out to be the Triple Crown winner Justify (Scat Daddy). Since August 9, the daughter of Pioneerof the Nile has had four workouts at Saratoga. Christie DeBernardis caught up with Egyptian Storm's trainer Christophe Clement to get an update on her highly anticipated debut. TDN: Did you have a hand in...

Two years ago, Anna Sundstrom's Coulonces Sales was known as a very good French consignor. A lot can change in two years, and next week Sundstrom and the team at Coulonces head to the Goffs Orby sale, for the first time ever, with a reputation as a world-class organization thanks to the Group 1 exploits this term of its graduates Laurens (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) and Havana Grey (Ire) (Havana Gold {{Ire}). "Years like this, everything is falling into place," Sundstrom said last week on the phone from her car as...

Seven years on from her dam Wading (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) impressing on what would prove her career swansong in Newmarket's G2 Rockfel S., her daughter Just Wonderful (Dansili {GB}) cut a similar dash when dominating Friday's Shadwell-sponsored renewal. Only seventh in The Curragh's G1 Moyglare Stud S. 12 days earlier, the TDN Rising Star who had previously taken the G3 Flame of Tara S. over a mile there Sept. 1 raced under restraint on the far rail tracking Main Edition (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) throughout the early stages. Cajoled to that...

Heading into last October's GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, Lauren and Ralph Evans's 'TDN Rising Star' Diversify (Bellamy Road) was a relative unknown on the national racing scene. He took care of that with a game, wire-to-wire victory in the annual Belmont Fall Championship meet centerpiece, and a little less than a year later, he returns to defend his title as one of the leaders in the handicap division. Passing on a start in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic after his Belmont heroics, the gelding threw in uncharacteristic clunkers in...

Carl R. Moore's Finley'sluckycharm (Twirling Candy), winner of 11 of her 18 career trips to the post including this year's GI Madison S. at Keeneland, will be offered as a broodmare prospect at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale. She will be consigned by Taylor Made Sales.  A stakes winner and runner-up in the 2016 GI La Brea S., was a treble graded-stakes winner in 2017. Runner-up in her lone turf try to date in the Feb. 13 Mardi Gras S. in New Orleans, the 5-year-old fought on bravely for a nose...

From behind his Santa Anita desk, John Sadler mapped the world beyond the four walls of his office, pointing out, barn by barn, the route he took when assistant back in the 1970s to Dr. Jack Robbins, veterinarian extraordinaire who brought to equine medicine at that time what Don Henley and company brought to the West Coast rock scene. "We would start at Noble Threewitt's barn, great trainer and a good guy. Ralph West. Gene Cleveland. [Tom] Pratt was here, and in this barn here was Keith Stucki. Joe Arena....

While even a cursory period in the modern theatre of European racing can seem stretched out beyond its timeframe, the names Toronado (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire})--Wana Doo, by Grand Slam) and Olympic Glory (Ire) (Choisir {Aus}--Acidanthera {GB}, by Alzao) still rest in the forefront of the collective cortex of the sport's movers, shakers, fans and bettors. Their advanced athletic technique was complimented by the elan of Richard Hughes in the saddle and the positive results of that symbiosis were felt on several occasions in the early part of the decade....

A Classic victory is just the kind of endorsement every sales company hopes for ahead of the yearling sales season. When that firm just happens to be offering that Classic winner's full-sibling at its flagship sale, well, the marketing campaigns nearly write themselves. That's exactly what happened for Goffs on June 1 when Forever Together (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) posted an emphatic score in the G1 Investec Oaks. Eight weeks later, Goffs announced that it would offer her full-sister at its Orby yearling sale, which takes place in Kildare on Oct....

FAIRYHOUSE, Ireland—A bigger catalogue would always test the rise of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale, but as typical of Ireland's fastest growing yearling sale, many diamonds were to be found in County Meath this week. One of the featured jewels on paper was lot 491, a full-brother to dual Group 2 winner Adaay (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), offered by Brendan Holland's Grove Stud, who set a new September Sale record at €275,000. Bids came thick and fast for the strongly-built bay, with the finals blows dealt between Eamon Reilly of...