Bugley Stud

Anthony Penfold, the longtime racing and bloodstock manager for Prince Fahd Salman who also operated his own Bugley Stud and worked as a independent bloodstock agent, has died age 74. Penfold's early ventures in the bloodstock industry included forming Goodwood Bloodstock Agency with former jump jockey John Woodman in 1972. Penfold began working for Prince Fahd in 1983 and was retained on a full-time basis in 1985, a role that he held until after Prince Fahd died in 2001. Prince Fahd was a son-in-law of Prince Khalid Abdullah of Juddmonte...

Joseph O'Brien trainee Velocidad (GB) (Gleneagles {Ire}) took the eye when making an impressive winning debut tackling six furlongs at Fairyhouse last month and doubled up in style to claim a first black-type score over the same trip in Sunday's G2 Airlie Stud S. at The Curragh. Racing a shade keenly in second after breaking third of the four runners, the 85-40 second choice loomed large on the bridle at the quarter-mile marker and kept on strongly once seizing control soon after to comfortably account for Coolmore and Westerberg's Yet...