Jasper Great, 10th of 11 in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar last November, is a projected starter in Saturday’s $280,580 Fukuryu Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan, the final qualifying race in that nation’s series for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 7.
The Japanese long have coveted an elusive win in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. For now, they seem intent on winning another Group 1, 1 1/2-mile turf race, one in which they have multiple successes, the $6 million Sheema Classic, the supporting feature on the Dubai World Cup card Saturday at Meydan Racecourse.
Police in France and two other European countries on Tuesday took 27 people people involved in horse racing into custody in an investigation centered on the use of illegal substances, according to multiple media reports.
Marabi is 3-5 to win Friday’s Group 1 William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne and extend her unbeaten record to eight races.
The horse came from Russia, the jockey from Sardinia, the jockey's agent from Baltimore. It is quite the unlikely assemblage of personal histories that just might come together and win the $1 million UAE Derby here Saturday.
Twice in the 25-year history of the Dubai World Cup has an American horse shipped early to Dubai, starting in a February prep before running in the World Cup itself – Curlin in 2008 and California Chrome in 2016. Now it's Hot Rod Charlie's Turn.
Course experience may boost Halo Warrior when the 5-year-old gelding makes his sixth career start at Albury Racecourse in Australia in Thursday’s Barlens City Handicap at about six furlongs. Halo Warrior has won 3 of 5 starts at Albury, including a six-furlong handicap on Feb. 10.
The top-rated horse in America will break from post 1 Saturday night at Meydan Racecourse, where Life Is Good can provide trainer Todd Pletcher with his first Dubai World Cup win.
After a good third in his Hong Kong debut in a six-furlong handicap at Sha Tin Racecourse on Feb. 20 and the benefit of a recent workout from the gate, Copartner Fionn will be a factor in his second Hong Kong start, a Class 3 handicap at about a mile on Wednesday at Happy Valley Racecourse.
Logan Street Lion has won consecutive starts in seven-furlong handicaps at Sandown Park in Melbourne, easily handling a jump to a tougher handicap group in the second of those wins. Wednesday, Logan Street Lion will have his seventh start, and will face an even better set of rivals in yet another seven-furlong handicap at Sandown.
