With one of the world’s truly great racing festivals, the Breeders Cup meeting, taking place at Keeneland this Friday and Saturday, a number of stallions look set to enjoy potential big pay days.
Top priced yearlings have a variable history, to say the least, in terms of top level success. Sarah Whitelaw reviews the best of 2015
Drakenstein’s Tapit colt (#207) being offered later today on the National Yearling Sale should attract plenty of attention after this interesting news
Tapit’s record-breaking year could not stop Coolmore’s Galileo from claiming his third consecutive title as the TDN Leading North American and European Sire, while leading European third-crop sire was Duke of Marmalade who produced seven 2014 graded stakes winners
Links between thoroughbreds and endangered species are rare but one exists with Collingwood Stud’s Sognatrice and a Cape Mountain Zebra foal
Plenty of horses racing in different countries at similar periods share names, but it is hard to think of another recent incident when two identically named horses won feature races on one weekend!
Beyond the pending investigations, things ended well enough for the Bass-Robinson yard when the improving Rainbow Lorikeet stamped her Paddock Stakes prospects with a gutsy victory under a top-notch ride by Aldo Domeyer
