Wed, 03/29/2023 - 14:30
AUSTRALIA THURSDAY ADVANCE By Steve Andersen There were high expectations for Hosier in the $1.27 million Big Dance Stakes in Australia last November, until he broke slowly and was rushed into content
Skip to main content
Create Your DRF Account
New to DRF?
Everything you could possibly
need in one place
need in one place
Register
Don't have an account?
Register Here
DRF Past Performances
There may be a runner in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 6 who has never raced beyond a mile or appeared in a group or graded stakes.
Brave Emperor, a winner of 5 of 7 starts in Britain and France, is the current co-leader in the European qualifying series that offers one invitation to the runner with the most points.
Brave Emperor is one of two Triple Crown nominees in Saturday’s $123,000 Cardinal Condition Stakes at a mile on the synthetic surface at Chelmsford City Racecourse northeast of London, the final race in the European qualifying series.
Mr Brightside was 19-1 when he won his first Group 1 in the Doncaster Mile at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, last year.
Despite losses in six subsequent appearances in Group 1 races, the 5-year-old Mr Brightside will start favored in a field of 20 in the $2.6 million Doncaster Mile on Friday evening.
Mr Brightside ended a six-race losing streak since the Group 2 Feehan Stakes in September with a half-length victory in the $3.32 million All-Star Mile at Moonee Valley Racecourse on March 18.
The Poacher is winless in two starts in Australia this year, but has shown signs in those losses of the form that made him a four-time winner in 2022.
If The Poacher continues to improve, the timing could not be better.
A winner of 4 of 9 starts, The Poacher will start as a slight favorite in a $66,900 handicap at seven furlongs at Newcastle Racecourse on Wednesday evening that is the final qualifying race for a restricted race worth $344,900 at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on April 8.
First Force, who finished no closer than ninth in his first three appearances in Grade 1 sprints, ended a 13-race losing streak since July 2021 with a shocking win in Sunday’s Grade 1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen at Chukyo Racecourse in Japan.
First Force ($90) closed from the middle of a field of 18 to win the $2.52 million Takamatsunomiya Kinen at six furlongs by a length over 5-1 Namura Clair. Travesura (56-1) closed along the rail to lead briefly in the stretch and held third, finishing 1 1/2 lengths behind First Force.
The 5-year-old gelding Reliable Dude has failed to live up to his name, going winless in his last 18 starts since June 2021 in Australia.
That trend may change when Reliable Dude starts in a handicap at 1 1/4 miles at Kembla Grange Racecourse on Monday evening. Reliable Dude was beaten a nose in a handicap at 1 1/4 miles at Hawkesbury on March 14, the closest he has come to a win since last March.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Lord North resides in England, housed at the Clarehaven Stables of trainer John Gosden. But his true domain is the Meydan turf course. After winning the $5 million Dubai Turf in 2021 and dead-heating for first in the race last year, Lord North notched a third win on Saturday, beating onrushing Danon Beluga by three quarters of a length in this Group 1 race over 1,800 meters.
Seven-year-old Lord North is a gelding. The way he’s going, it’s not crazy to think he could return for still another Dubai Turf.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A half-hour later, a Japan-based horse named Ushba Tesoro would win the $12 million Dubai World Cup. The race Equinox won, the Group 1, $6 million Sheema Classic, offered half the World Cup purse, but no one in their right mind would suggest Equinox is half the horse.