San Isidro

Sunday's G1 Longines Grand Premio Latinamericano at San Isidro will be an inaugural World Pool event and this will be the first time global betting will be engaged across three continents on a single weekend, the Hong Kong Jockey Club announced Thursday. The HKJC confirmed that while the local tote in Argentina will not commingle internationally, other partners' pools from the likes of Australia, France, North America and Hong Kong will be joined up by World Pool. The Latin American Group 1 contest will close a major weekend of World...

The first automatic fees-paid berth to the 2022 Breeders' Cup will be handed out this Saturday in Argentina when the G1 Gran Premio Internacional Carlos Pellegrini, also known as the 'South American Arc', is run at the historic Hipodromo de San Isidro. The winner will punch their ticket to the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Turf, to be held in 2022 at Keeneland. Contested over 2,400 meters, about 1 1/2 miles, on the massive San Isidro turf course with about a three-furlong stretch run, the Pellegrini was won last year in...

ARGENTINA, ALMOST 5 MONTHS WITHOUT RACING AND THAT IS NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM TO SOLVE Being almost five months without racing is a fact sufficiently relevant to explain the financial crisis faced by the Argentine racing community. However, that alone does not fully explain the risks that all stakeholders are facing in the months ahead. As we explained in the past in this newsletter, the purse structure of Argentine racing is substantially made by the contributions coming from proceeds from slots. At Palermo Racetrack, located in the city of Buenos...