The British Horseracing Authority will double the amount of out-of-competition samples it tests for illegal medications in 2014 under a revision of its drug-testing policies spurred by a set of anabolic steroid scandals this year, the BHA announced earlier this week.
Orfevre, the Japanese star who was second in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in each of the last two years, ended his racing career with an emphatic victory in Sunday’s $4 million Arima Kinen at Nakayama Racecourse.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club rolls out the red carpet for international shippers to the Hong Kong International Races, but Sunday’s Grade 1 contests at Sha Tin continued to be inhospitable to overseas runners.
A top-notch international contingent – perhaps the best ever – has shipped to Hong Kong for the four Group 1 races on Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse, but the big Hong Kong races have so far proven elusive targets for international shippers.
The British Horseracing Authority announced Wednesday that trainer Gerard Butler has been suspended five years for administering steroids to nine of his horses.
Belshazzar, a Grade 3 winner in Japan earlier this year, won the richest race of his career in Sunday’s $2,655,577 Japan Cup Dirt at Hanshin Racecourse. Pants On Fire, a five-time stakes winner in the United States, finished last of 16 after becoming upset in the starting gate.
Pants On Fire, winner of the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby in 2011 and four other stakes, makes his international debut in Sunday’s $2,655,577 Japan Cup Dirt at Hanshin Racecourse.
Gentildonna held off a late threat from Denim and Ruby to become the first repeat winner of the $4,713,337 Japan Cup at Tokyo Racecourse on Sunday.
Gentildonna, the 2012 Japanese Horse of the Year, tries to become the first repeat winner of the $4,713,337 Japan Cup at Tokyo Racecourse on Sunday.
Johns Spirit closed from last in a field of 20 to win the richest race of his career in Saturday’s $256,000 Paddy Power Gold Cup at Cheltenham Racecourse, the first major race of the 2013-14 jump season.
