Latrobe

One thousand winners and counting. Joseph O'Brien passed yet another important milestone in his training career on Saturday when Al Riffa (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) became his 1,000th winner in the opening seven-furlong maiden at the Curragh. And what style it was achieved in. Al Riffa, who emerged as a major eye-catcher when staying on for second in a Curragh maiden last month, showed the benefit of that initial outing to confirm himself a potential top-notcher in the making. It was just over six years ago when O'Brien enjoyed a...

After a brief hiatus during Royal Ascot, TDN Europe's weekly Q&A series is back with Real Madrid and Spanish football star Alvaro Odriozola telling Brian Sheerin all about his endeavours in racing so far, his friendship with Joseph O'Brien and his ambitions to own a "horse of a lifetime."  At just 25 years of age, Odriozola has already enjoyed a hugely successful career as a footballer and revealed how he adopts a similar mindset to racehorse ownership and breeding by saying "you have to dream big in order to get...

Online auction house Auctav held its inaugural sale this week, with 12 lots representing a mix of flat, jumping and trotting stock on offer. Seven lots were sold, with top billing going to a well-bred trotting filly foal by Facetime Bourbon out of Union d'Urzy for €121,000. A breeding right to 2018 G1 Irish Derby winner and first-season Haras d'Etreham sire Latrobe (Ire) was unsold at €12,000. The firm's next sale will be on Apr. 21. Auctav President Louis Baudron said, "This was a successful first for Auctav, and we...

A 2021 breeding right to G1 Irish Derby winner Latrobe (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) is among the 12 lots on offer for the inaugural Auctav online sale on Mar. 31. Racehorses, stallion shares, foals and 2-year-olds from the flat, National Hunt and trotting realms will be auctioned on the platform from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. French time. The offerings also include a broken-in filly from the first crop of Recorder (GB) (Galileo {Ire}).

It has been a year of change at Haras d'Etreham. In August it was announced that the farm's flagship stallion Wootton Bassett (GB) had been sold to Coolmore. The dominant Irish operation was wise to catch a rising tide but it is Etreham, and in particular Nicolas de Chambure, who must be credited with establishing the increasingly popular stallion.  If we accept the conservative estimate that only one in ten stallions really make it, then it is clear that finding Wootton Bassett's replacement will be no easy task. Perhaps Etreham...

Champion and MG1SW Almanzor (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), who will have his first 2-year-olds in 2021, leads the Haras d'Etreham roster at €30,000, the French stud announced on Sunday. Also a shuttle stallion to Cambridge Stud in the Southern Hemisphere, a 1/50th share in the Cartier champion 3-year-old colt of 2016 was bought for €310,000 at the Arqana Online Sale this past Wednesday and his yearlings have been well received, selling for up to €280,000. Joining him at €30,000 is  Persian King (Ire) (Kingman {GB}-Pretty Please {Ire}, by Dylan Thomas...

Latrobe (Ire) (Camelot {GB}-Question Times {GB}, by Shamardal), winner of the 2018 G1 Irish Derby for trainer Joseph O'Brien, will join Haras d'Etreham's roster of jumps stallions at Haras de la Tuilerie for 2021. After his Irish Derby win Latrobe would go on to be second in the G1 Irish St Leger and the G1 Mackinnon S. in Australia that season. He was a consistent pattern race performer in Europe last year at four, winning the G3 Ballyroan S. and placing in the G3 Alleged S. and G2 Curragh Cup....