Black Caviar extended her unbeaten streak to 24 races by winning the Group 1 William Reid Stakes by four lengths over 50-1 pacesetter Karuta Queen on Friday at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Australia.
Thirteen horses are expected to be entered next week in the $10 million Dubai World Cup, the March 30 centerpiece of what figures to be an outstanding night of racing in the desert.
Lord Kanaloa, who won Grade 1 and Group 1 races for sprinters in Japan and Hong Kong last fall, can win his fourth consecutive race in Sunday’s Group 1 TakamatsunomiyaKinen at Chukyo Racecourse in Japan.
Fields for the 2013 Dubai World Cup card on March 30 at Meydan. Watch and wager on DRF.com.
Purses at Royal Ascot, England’s most prestigious flat-race meeting, have been increased 11 percent, to a record level of approximately $7,550,000 for the five-day meeting from June 18-22.
Black Caviar may go off at career-low odds of 1-25 when she attempts to stretch her unbeaten streak to 24 races in Friday’s Group 1 William Reid Stakes at Mooney Valley Racecourse in Australia.
From a victory in a novice hurdle in January 2011, Bobs Worth has risen dramatically through England’s steeplechase rankings. Friday, he won the most prestigious chase in England, the $830,500 Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Jockey J.T. McNamara was taken to a hospital in nearby Bristol, England, after suffering serious injuries in a fall at Cheltenham Racecourse on Thursday.
A year ago, Solwhit was sidelined with a tendon injury. Thursday, he won the richest three-mile hurdle race of the year in England in the $410,000 World Hurdle at Cheltenham Racecourse.
Little Mike will return to turf racing for the Dubai World Cup Card on March 30, according to Carlo Vaccarezza, who bred Little Mike and whose wife, Priscilla, owns the Breeders’ Cup Turf winner.
