Things to know today
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Keeneland’s eleventh session sold 257 yearlings for 6,086,500 dollars on Friday, a gross 9.54 percent below the corresponding session last year, when 301 sold for 6,728,200 dollars. The average rose 5.95 percent to 23,683 dollars and the median 13.33 percent to 17,000. A filly from the first crop of Arcangelo topped the day at 170,000 dollars, bought by Donato Lanni from Penn Sales. Eleven sessions have grossed 531,986,000 dollars from 2,595 head, up 4.95 percent (Paulick Report) |
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Nitrogen made all in the Beldame at Belmont on Friday, winning by two and three quarter lengths in 1:48.36 for a mile and an eighth, Jose Ortiz riding for Mark Casse and D. J. Stable, who bred her. Donor Advised was second and Boutwell Time a distant third. The win took last year’s Eclipse Award winning three-year-old filly past three million dollars, and she is already qualified for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff through the Ogden Phipps (America’s Best Racing, Horse Racing Nation) |
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First Dude has died at 19 at Double Diamond Farm, the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association announced on Thursday. Florida stallion of the year in 2017 and 2018, he sired 16 black type winners, among them the 2018 champion female sprinter Shamrock Rose. He raced as a homebred for Donald Dizney with Bob Baffert, won the Hollywood Gold Cup and was placed in five Grade 1 races, the Preakness, Belmont and Travers among them (Thoroughbred Daily News) |
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Trainer Jose Silva Jr faces a maximum of a lifetime ban and a 50,000 dollar fine under a notice of violation posted on the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority’s rulings site on 11 September, charging five rule breaches arising from an investigators’ search at Canterbury Park. The Minnesota Racing Commission board of stewards suspended him the same day pending that process. No hearing has been scheduled and no hearing has concluded (Thoroughbred Daily News) |
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The Euro and Mideast Road to the Kentucky Derby opens today with two one mile turf races for two-year-olds, the 156,500 dollar Royal Lodge at Newmarket and the 134,500 dollar Beresford at the Curragh, each paying points of ten, five, three, two and one to the first five home. The series runs to the UAE Derby at Meydan on 27 March and can send up to two horses to the 153rd Kentucky Derby on 1 May (Paulick Report) |
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Atitlan runs for Richard Mandella in the John Henry Turf Championship at Santa Anita today, a mile and a quarter on turf. His first twelve starts were for John Shirreffs, who died in February at 80, and he is the first horse Mandella has trained for the owner John M. B. O’Connor. Atitlan was second in the Del Mar Handicap last month, a neck behind Test Score, with Atomic Age and Mondego back for the rematch (Paulick Report) |
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