CategoriesNews SportsGodolphin and British trainer Charlie Appleby have made the Summer Stakes (G1T) and Natalma Stakes (G1T) at Woodbine a point of emphasis over the past half-dozen years, winning each race twice. As grade 1s worth CA$500,000, they are rewarding, but as part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In, they offer the […]
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CategoriesNews SportsGeorge Murphy revealed Sept. 2 that White Birch will miss the remainder of the season after picking up an injury to his hock. The Tattersalls Gold Cup (G1) winner, unbeaten in three starts this year, was being aimed at the Sept. 14 Irish Champion Stakes (G1). “Unfortunately, it looks like White Birch will miss the rest […]
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CategoriesNews SportsThe Kentucky Downs meet has made more than a splash on the racing calendar for Kentucky-breds racing for the lucrative purses supported by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund. However, not to be slept on is how much the base purses have risen thanks to the state’s historical horse racing machines. The story of the meet’s richest […]
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CategoriesNews SportsGetting the jump on the opposition leaving the turn in the CA$125,000 Toronto Cup Aug. 31 at Woodbine, Chiefswood Stables’ homebred Piper’s Factor defeated favored Swift Delivery , the 3-year-old owned in part by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce via a Team Valor International partnership. BloodHorse: NFL Superstar Travis Kelce Joins Ownership of Swift Delivery Piper’s […]
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CategoriesNews SportsFor match race spoilers, the emotional and long overdue major victory of Pinstriped (Street Boss ) in the Aug. 31 Memsie Stakes (G1) at Caulfield will live long in the memory. Melbourne’s traditional first top-tier spring race, contested at 1,400 meters (about 7 furlongs), was hyped as a two-horse battle between seasoned group 1 scorer Pride Of […]
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CategoriesNews SportsDelegates to the 40th Asian Racing Conference heard a world’s worth of accents in delivering mostly positive reports on the status of racing in member jurisdictions on the second day of meetings Aug. 29 in Sapporo, Japan. The more than 800 delegates digested glowing rundowns from jurisdictions such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab […]
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CategoriesNews SportsIt’s a good bet that fans of pop megastar Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, will be cheering for Swift Delivery Aug. 31 in the $125,000 Toronto Cup Stakes at Woodbine. On Aug. 27, Barry Irwin, founder and CEO of Team Valor International, who owns the gelding in partnership with […]
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CategoriesNews SportsMention Canadian breeding and thoughts immediately turn to the pint-sized patriarch Northern Dancer and all the wonderful horses his owner E.P. Taylor bred from him at Windfields in Oshawa: Nijinsky, Storm Bird, The Minstrel and so on. Nothing wrong with being associated with those titans of the turf, but there is more to the Canadian […]
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CategoriesNews SportsDrew Fleming, chairman and CEO of Breeders’ Cup Limited, deftly turned a routine question about fan development into a glowing promotion for November’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships in the opening session of the 40th Asian Racing Conference. As a member of the first panel, Fleming addressed some 800 delegates from racing jurisdictions from the Middle […]
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CategoriesNews SportsThe head of the Asian Racing Federation says dissension within the horse racing industry is damaging to the sport, calling out as examples interstate battles in Australia, disjointed efforts in Great Britain, and opposition in the United States to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority. Speaking at the opening business session at the 40th Asian Racing […]
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