Today's Edition

The latest and possibly the best off the top-class production line of Dar Re Mi (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}), TDN Rising Star Too Darn Hot (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) significantly enhanced his reputation when stamping his authority on Saturday's G3 188bet Solario S. at Sandown. Showing familial power from the outset when a seven-length winner over a mile here Aug. 9, the bay was keen early under restraint in third as the unbeaten Listed Chesham S. winner Arthur Kitt (GB) (Camelot {GB}) took up the running. Shaken up straightening for home, the...

Putting himself into an elite category when scoring by seven lengths on debut over six furlongs at The Curragh last Saturday, TDN Rising Star Ten Sovereigns (Ire) (No Nay Never) returned to the same course and distance to dominate the G3 John Sisk & Son Round Tower S. in the manner of a high-class performer. Striking an imposing figure over this trip, the bay who is undoubtedly Ballydoyle's best juvenile to be seen so far in 2018 has an air of Fasliyev or Johannesburg about him and he is moving...

BADEN-BADEN, Germany—Leading honours at the BBAG Yearling Sale were split between a Sea The Stars (Ire) filly and a Siyouni (Fr) colt from two of Germany's leading stud farms, each of whom sold for €280,000 and will be trained in England. Tom Goff of Blandford Bloodstock is a regular visitor to BBAG's main auction and made his presence felt relatively early when winning the bidding battle for Lot 76, Gestut Etzean's Sea The Stars daughter of the former German champion juvenile and G2 Diana Trial winner Monami (Ger) (Sholokhov {Ire})....

Even though 'TDN Rising Star' Chasing Yesterday (Tapit) has been shipped cross-country for Saturday's GI Spinaway S., three of the five fillies signed on for the GI Del Mar Debutante have legitimate claims to become marquee horses now and into the near future. Bellafina (Quality Road) gets the nod on experience, even if she is the one of the 'big three' to not have broken her maiden first time out. The $800,000 Fasig-Tipton March juvenile ran well, but not well enough, to be second on her July 4 debut at...

What have Jeffrey Fell, Martin Pedroza and Donnie Meche accomplished that Mike Smith has not? And what can Lou Rondinello and Joe Pierce, Jr. claim to have accomplished that Bob Baffer cannot? Neither Smith nor Baffert, each of whom had a productive Travers weekend, has ever won Saratoga's GI Spinaway S., but that could very well change in the span of 83 or so second this weekend when the two Hall of Famers team with Summer Wind Equine's aptly named Chasing Yesterday (Tapit). The Spinaway is a 'Win and You're...

Group 1 sire Medicean (GB) (Machiavellian-Mystic Goddess, by Storm Bird) has died suddenly at Cheveley Park Stud at age 21 from a suspected heart attack. Racing as a homebred for Cheveley Park with trainer Sir Michael Stoute, Medicean made his debut in April of his 3-year-old year and picked up two wins from three starts at conditions level before finishing third behind Giant's Causeway in Royal Ascot's G1 St James's Palace S. After again finishing third behind that rival in the G1 Sussex S., Medicean picked up a win in...

Emerging from Goodwood's G3 Oak Tree S. with much credit when fourth there from a tough draw, Lael Stable's One Master (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) had things fall right in Thursday's G3 Coolmore Stud Fairy Bridge S. and duly annexed the Tipperary contest for a first pattern-race win. It is a measure of the regard in which the homebred is held by William Haggas that she was favourite when fourth in Lingfield's G3 Chartwell Fillies' S. over seven furlongs May 12 and when third in the G3 Ballyogan S. over...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY--Barclay Tagg hasn't done much claiming since back he was just getting his career off the ground in the 1970s, but the Classic-winning conditioner dropped the right slip earlier this meet when he picked up Cassies Dreamer (Flatter) for $50,000 on behalf of Rusty Jones's Turf Stable Racing and Hayward Pressman. An $85,000 OBS June acquisition off a :10 1/5 breeze, the juvenile filly debuted for Loooch Racing Stables and trainer Anthony Quaratolo in the Saratoga mud Aug. 3, scoring by 2 1/4 lengths before heading back to...

BADEN-BADEN, Germany—There are plenty of yearlings by higher-profile stallions selling today at BBAG's major sale of the year but few which should command as much attention as Gestut Rottgen's half-brother to the last two G1 Deutsches Derby winners, Windstoss (Ger) (Shirocco {Ger}) and Weltstar (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}). Offered as lot 202 and already named Worrick (Ger), the colt is a son of Kamsin (Ger), the former German champion 3-year-old who stood at Rottgen for his first five years at stud and last season moved to the jumps division of...

Some sports stars wear their fame and legend like a second skin, familiar and comfortable--one gifted to them by a kind of divine birth-right. Tom Brady's five Super Bowl rings. Serena Williams' 23 Grand Slams. The trophies on the shelf speak not so much of human sweat and toil as of some rare and anointed stuff of the soul to which only they are privy. Other successful athletes, however, must routinely deliver their pound of flesh to receive the accolades due them. Week in, week out, home runs are whacked...

DONCASTER, UK--Trevor and Libby Harris produced the Goffs Premier Sale's top lot two years ago and there was a sense of deja vu as the couple's Lordship Stud offering delivered the highest point of the second afternoon's trade. That particular £280,000 individual turned out to be Yafta (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}), recent winner of the G3 Hackwood S. for Richard Hannon and Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, and pattern race dreams will undoubtedly be held by the new connections of his close relative. On that same day at Doncaster in 2016,...

Multiple Grade I winner Accelerate (Lookin at Lucky--Issues, by Awesome Again) will stand at Lane's End Farm at the conclusion of his racing career, the farm announced Wednesday. "Accelerate has proven to be the best mile and a quarter horse in training in America," said Lane's End's Bill Farish. "In his five starts this year, he's won four, including three Grade Is and has run three of the five fastest Beyers all year: 115, 111, 110." Campaigned by Hronis Racing and trainer John Sadler, Accelerate was most recently a romping...