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Osare (Medaglia d'Oro), a half-sister to champion and all-time leading North American money earner Arrogate, showed speed from her inside draw and finished full of run to capture the Dueling Grounds Oaks Wednesday at Kentucky Downs. Debuting with a late-running fourth on the Tampa turf Apr. 15, the dark bay moved forward with the addition of blinkers to break her maiden going 10 furlongs June 21 at Belmont. Second behind returning GIII Glens Falls S. heroine Lady Montdore (Medaglia d'Oro) before being disqualified to sixth Aug. 6 at Saratoga, Osare was...

Trainer John Gosden confirmed on Wednesday that 'TDN Rising Star' Lah Ti Dar (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) will head to Saturday's G1 St Leger rather than Sunday's G1 Prix Vermeille in France. Though she has had a somewhat interrupted 3-year-old campaign, Lah Ti Dar is a perfect three-for-three, including a 10-length score in the Listed Sir Henry Cecil Galtres S. last out on Aug. 23 off a four-month break. The Lord Lloyd-Webber colourbearer is the 2-1 second choice for the Leger with William Hill, behind Aidan O'Brien's Kew Gardens (Ire) (Galileo...

Cheveley Park Stud has purchased G3 Molecomb S. winner Rumble Inthejungle (Ire) (Bungle Inthejungle {Ire}). Cheveley Park will race the 2-year-old colt in partnership with Rebel Racing Premier syndicate and he will continue to be trained by Richard Spencer. Rumble Inthejungle won on debut at Salisbury on May 17 before finishing two lengths adrift of Shang Shang Shang (Shanghai Bobby) when fourth in the G2 Norfolk S. at Royal Ascot. Rumble Inthejungle bounced back to win the Molecomb on Aug. 1. Cheveley Park Stud Managing Director Chris Richardson said, "We...

The opening of the new Curragh Racecourse will be a highlight of the 2019 Irish racing season, and a full slate of fixtures at that course features on the 2019 Irish Fixture List. The Curragh will host 19 meetings in a much-changed configuration next year. The Curragh season will start on Saturday, Apr. 13, and the three-day Guineas Spring Festival will take place Friday, May 24 to Sunday, May 26 with a Group 1 race each day. The Irish Derby festival will be held over a Thursday to Saturday in...

By Jessica Martini, Brian DiDonato and Christie DeBernardis LEXINGTON, KY - The second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale proved to be a barn burner, a day filled with rapid-fire million-dollar transactions concluding with a sparkling 20.75% buy-back rate Tuesday in Lexington. A pair of yearlings by War Front topped the session, with a colt by the Claiborne stallion bringing a final bid of $2.4 million from Coolmore's M.V. Magnier, while Godolphin went to$1.75 million for a daughter of the sire. In all, eight yearlings sold for seven figures...

Whitham Thoroughbreds LLC's MGSW McCraken (Ghostzapper-Ivory Empress, by Seeking the Gold) has been retired from racing and will stand at Airdrie Stud in 2019, it was announced Tuesday. The 'TDN Rising Star' retires with overall earnings of $869,728 and a record of 6-1-3 from 14 lifetime starts. A Janis Whitham homebred trained by Ian Wilkes, McCraken was undefeated in three starts as a juvenile, including victories in the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. and Street Sense S. at Churchill Downs. He kicked off his 3-year-old campaign in 2017 with a...

Multiple highweight and MG1SW Order of St George (Ire) (Galileo {Ire})--Another Storm, by Gone West) has been retired, Racing Post reported Tuesday afternoon. The 6-year-old entire was due to contest the G1 Irish St Leger on Sunday, but trainer Aidan O'Brien opted to call time on the three-time Group 1 winner's career. "We've decided to retire Order of St George," O'Brien told Racing Post. We did not want to be greedy and risk him on Sunday. It's nothing serious, just age has caught up with him, and we thought it...

With the minor matter of preparing Europe's best miler Alpha Centauri (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) for potentially her fifth Group 1 win in succession this Saturday in the Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron S., one would think that prospect would be monopolising the thoughts of her trainer Jessica Harrington. Far from it, as her multitasking abilities also include hatching and rolling out an exciting racing investment opportunity ahead of the yearling sales at Goffs and Tattersalls. Harrington, in conjunction with her son-in-law Richie Galway, bloodstock agent Patrick Cooper and Elaine 'Legs' Lawlor...

by Jessica Martini, Brian DiDonato and Christie DeBernardis LEXINGTON, KY - A $2.2-million colt from the first crop of Horse of the Year American Pharoah garnered top billing during the first session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale Monday. A total of 138 head changed hands for gross receipts of $48,620,000. The average was $352,319 and median was $260,000. The RNA rate was 34.91%. Last year's super-select Book 1 took place over one day, while this year's Book 1 has been spread out over four days with significantly more horses...

The great debate of late in horse racing is whether not having sports betting at bricks and mortar racetracks will help or hurt handle. With the first meaningful set of data now available, the answer is neither. The 2018 meeting at Monmouth Park, the second racetrack in the country to offer sports betting, concluded Sunday and the numbers show a pattern that suggests there was little to no crossover between sports bettors and horseplayers. Average total daily handle for the entire 52-day meet was $3,383,872, 2.1% off of last year's...

Taylor Made Sales Agency and Haras de Gouffern will jointly present a quality yearling consignment at the Arqana August Yearling Sale in Deauville annually beginning in 2019. The news follows last week's announcement that Taylor Made is offering a European consignment at the Tattersalls December Breeding Stock Sale. Taylor Made and Haras de Gouffern intend to present a quality group of yearlings with a blend of European and American bloodlines. Toward that goal, they have signed on Cathy Barry to be the yearling manager at Gouffern. The American sales agency,...

There's been plenty of discussion about the significant renewal in the French stallion ranks over the last decade and a pleasing factor of recent results, both in the sales ring and on the racecourse, is that two stallions of rising repute are both associated with a stud which was very much to the fore the last time the French stallion scene was in its pomp. Within a fortnight in the summer of 2009, Haras du Quesnay lost both Highest Honor (Fr) and Anabaa. The former, who died at the age...