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A colt foal by Walk In The Park (Ire) (lot 378) set a new Goffs foal record during the second day of the December NH Foal Sale when selling for €160,000 to Nicky Bertran de Balanda as NBB Racing. The colt is out of the winning jumper Holy Virgin (Fr) (Saint Des Saints {Fr}), herself a half-sister to Grade 1 chase winner Top Notch (Fr) (Poliglote {GB}) and the G2 Prix de Malleret heroine Never Forget (Fr) (Westerner {GB}). "He's very nice, the one I liked most in the sale,"...

Dual champion sire Frankel (GB) sired his 100th group/graded winner with Lake Victoria (Ire) in the G3 Sweet Solera Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. He accomplished that feat in only 3,144 days, a new record, and faster than fellow Juddmonte-bred Danehill, Deep Impact (Jpn), Galileo (Ire), and Dubawi (ire). Juddmonte's general manager UK, Simon Mockridge said, "Frankel and his record-making achievements seem to know no bounds. Frankel excels physically and mentally in all that he does--from racehorse to stallion, and simply in his day-to-day routine. What a privilege it is...

Drakenstein Stud's One World (SAf) broke the South African record for individual winners by a first-crop stallion when third-time starter One Party (SAf) became the 8-year-old stallion's 23rd winner Saturday over 1450 metres at Turffontein. The previous record was set by One World's own sire Captain Al (SAf) during the 2004-2005 season. Bred by Klawervlei Stud, One World was trained for a partnership by Vaughan Marshall and won 10 times from 14 trips to the races, including a pin-up performance in the Grade 1 Sun Met (2000m) in 2020, following...

EPSOM, UK--Just when we thought there was nothing new to say in praise of Aidan O'Brien, up he jumps to break a 159-year-old record for the number of British Classic winners by a trainer. It took the previous record-holder John Scott 36 years to amass his 40, and O'Brien has reached his tally of 41 in just 23. After an opening brace in 1998, when King Of Kings (Ire) won the 2000 Guineas and Shahtoush (Ire) gave the trainer the first of his 10 Oaks victories, the Ballydoyle maestro had...