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Balding puts Item away for the season
Andrew Balding says Item is unlikely to race again this year and will stay in training in 2027 to explore a mile and a half, while Kalpana holds her Arc engagement and Blue Bolt goes to the Sun Chariot.
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Eighteen million dollar yearlings in one Keeneland session
A Gun Runner colt out of Twenty Carat led the opening session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale at 2.8 million dollars, one of eighteen yearlings to make seven figures on a day that produced the highest average and median in the sale’s history.
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Amphitrite’s unbeaten daughter Monroe Walk takes the Rose Stakes
Monroe Walk, out of the 2018 Thousand Guineas winner Amphitrite, made it four from four in the Group 2 Rose Stakes at Hanshin and holds a berth in the Shuka Sho.
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Aidan O’Brien reveals a low-grade infection at Ballydoyle
Aidan O’Brien has disclosed a low-grade infection running through Ballydoyle for the last couple of months, after Christmas Day coughed on the way to the start of the St Leger and Constitution River was beaten in the Irish Champion Stakes.
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Keeneland September opens on a market its sellers call an all time high
The 83rd Keeneland September Yearling Sale opens on Monday afternoon with 4,642 yearlings catalogued across twelve sessions, and the consignors working Book 1 say trade has been brisk and the market is at its peak.
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Sheza Alibi wins the Makybe Diva, the first mare since Southern Speed
Sheza Alibi beat Autumn Boy by two and three quarter lengths in the Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington, the first mare to win the race since Southern Speed in 2012.
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Saffie Osborne becomes the first woman to win a British Classic
Highwayman won the 250th Betfred St Leger at Doncaster under Saffie Osborne, the first woman to ride the winner of a British Classic, beating his Joseph O’Brien stablemate Enceladus by two and a half lengths.
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Notable Speech ends Deterministic’s run in the Woodbine Mile
Notable Speech wins a second straight Woodbine Mile for Godolphin and ends Deterministic’s six race winning run, taking a fees paid place in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Keeneland.
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Bella Nipotina has her first foal, a Zoustar colt
The 2024 Everest winner, bought for $4.2 million at last year’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale, has produced a Zoustar colt at Longwood Thoroughbred Farm, the first foal of her career.
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Forever Young takes his first look at the rebuilt Belmont
Forever Young cleared quarantine at Belmont Park on Thursday and galloped once around the rebuilt track, a week out from the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup on the new Belmont’s opening day.