St Nicholas Abbey looked decidedly dull in his return to the races at the Curragh on Sunday as he plodded home a well-beaten third in the 1 1/4-mile Alleged Stakes, a listed race worth $56,400.
The World Thoroughbred Rankings Committee doesn’t think much of what transpired at Meydan on Dubai World Cup Night last week, preferring to award interim highweight honors for races between Oct. 1 and March 27 to the Australian sprinter Black Caviar.
Reve d’Essor, the Japanese 2-year-old filly champion who would have started as the short-priced favroite for next Sunday’s Japanese 1000 Guineas, will be sidelined for at least six months after suffering a leg fracture during a workout in the past week.
St Nicholas Abbey, the 2009 European juvenile champion, makes his long-awaited return to the races at the Curragh on Sunday when he goes in the Alleged Stakes, a 1 1/4-mile listed contest valued at $56,700.
Two European-trained horses are under consideration for the Kentucky Derby – War Pact and Master of Hounds.
Ramon Dominguez has been handed a two-day suspension by stewards at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai for his ride on Gio Ponti in the $10 million Dubai World Cup. Dominguez will serve his days April 6-7, according to his agent, Steve Rushing.
The Japan Racing Association’s Aid for Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake program conducted between March 19 and 27 resulted in public donations of 44,735,867 yen ($542,735), the association reported Wednesday.
Change comes slowly to British racing, but the start of the new turf flat season on Wednesday at Catterick brought two long-overdue innovations to the sport.
Japanese emotions ran high at Meydan on Saturday as Victoire Pisa and Transcend gave racing fans in the country so hard hit by a devastating earthquake this month something to cheer about with a one-two finish in the $10 million Dubai Wolrd Cup.
Long before he won the 2008 Japan Cup on Screen Hero or this past Saturday’s $10 million Dubai World Cup on Victoire Pisa, jockey Mirco Demuro spent part of the summer of 2001 riding at Del Mar, trying to achieve a career goal
