American graded winner Sharp Susan helped Australia’s Inglis Easter broodmare sale kick off with a strong “super select” session Tuesday when she topped the three-day auction’s opener at about $1,092,000.
Pimpernel, a stakes winner in England last year and stakes placed in Dubai earlier this year, may start favored in a wide-open running of the Group 3 Nell Gwyn Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Newmarket, England on Wednesday.
Dabirsim suffered the first loss of his career when run down by Dragon Pulse in the late stages of the Group 3 Prix Fontainebleau on Sunday at Longchamp
Neptune Collonges won Saturday’s Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in England by a nose over Sunnyhillboy, a race marred by the deaths of two runners, including favored Synchronised.
The 30-1 outsider Master of Design caught Rain Affair in the final strides to score an upset win by a head in Saturday’s Group 1 T.J. Smith Stakes at Randwick Racecourse in Australia.
Frankel now is considered very unlikely to make his intended 2012 debut in the Lockinge Stakes on May 19 at Newbury after suffering an injury – perhaps striking his foreleg with his hind hoof – while training Wednesday.
Dabirsim, the multiple Group 1 winner who captured all five of starts last year at age 2, is set to make his 3-year-old debut in the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau on Sunday at Longchamp.
Synchronised can become the first horse since Golden Miller in 1934 to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand National in the same year when he starts as the 164-pound highweight in Saturday’s Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in England.
Adam’s Peak, a graded stakes winner at 2 but winless in his only start this year, and Cosmo Ozora, the upset winner of a Grade 2 race last month, start in Sunday’s $2.5 million Japanese 2000 Guineas at Nakayama Racecourse, the first leg of Japan’s Triple Crown.
Undefeated champion Frankel hurt himself during a Wednesday workout at Newmarket in England, but his connections deemed the injury “superficial.”
