Breeders’ Cup has assigned its director of racing and nominations to work in Europe for six months this year, the organization announced on Friday, underlining its efforts to drum up participation from overseas horsemen and seek new growth in foreign betting markets.
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More of That, a 6-year-old gelding making his fifth start, scored a minor upset in Thursday’s $457,000 World Hurdle at Cheltenham, holding off a sustained threat from the previously unbeaten mare Annie Power in the three-mile race.
More of That, ridden by Barry Geraghty for trainer Jonjo O’Neill, won by 1 1/2 lengths as a 15-2 shot over Annie Power, the 11-8 favorite. At Fishers Cross, a 9-1 chance, finished third in the field of 10.
Bob’s Worth will be a strong favorite to win the $913,000 Cheltenham Gold Cup for the second consecutive year on Friday, and give trainer Nicky Henderson a third win in the last four years in the prestigious steeplechase race.
As of Wednesday, Bob’s Worth was the 13-8 favorite to win the Gold Cup, run over 3 1/4 miles and 22 fences. Bob’s Worth, a 9-year-old gelding by Bob Back, will be ridden by regular rider Barry Geraghty in a field of 14.
The Gold Cup is the leading race of the fourth and final day of the National Hunt festival at Cheltenham.
Big Buck’s won the three-mile World Hurdle at Cheltenham Racecourse for four consecutive years from 2009-12 before being sidelined with a tendon injury in late 2012. More than a year after the injury was detected, the 11-year-old Big Buck’s is back racing, and back at Cheltenham in western England for Thursday’s $457,000 World Hurdle.
There are doubts that Big Buck’s can be as effective as he was during an 18-race winning streak that began in January 2009 and ended with a third in his comeback race, the three-mile Cleeve Hurdle at Cheltenham on Jan. 25.
Sire De Grugy, a winner of eight of 11 career starts in steeplechases, is favored to win the richest race of his career in Wednesday’s $581,000 Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham Racecourse in western England.
An 8-year-old gelding, Sire De Grugy was the 9-4 favorite Monday for the Champion Chase, the top race of the year for two-mile steeplechasers in England. The Champion Chase, which drew a field of 11, is the featured race on the second of four consecutive days of Cheltenham’s National Hunt Festival.
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Other than Shea Shea’s successful return to action in the Meydan Sprint, and, to a slightly lesser extent, Vercingetorix’s victory in the Jebel Hatta Stakes, the results of the Super Saturday card at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai did little to bring into focus the blurry picture still being projected of the March 29 Dubai World Cup card.
No horse has won more Grade 1 races than Hurricane Fly, the 10-year-old hurdler from Ireland.
From November 2008 until January of this year, Hurricane Fly has won 19 Grade 1 races for hurdlers in England and Ireland. By comparison, John Henry won 16 Grade 1 races in the early 1980s, the same number that the British steeplechase horse Kauto Star won in the late 2000s.
Two of Hurricane Fly’s wins were the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham, a race he is favored to win for the third time Tuesday.
The growing influence of South African racehorses in Dubai has never been more evident than on the Super Saturday program at Meydan, where South African-breds are entered in all seven of the Thoroughbred stakes and should be favored to win four of them.
Huge fields – if not horses especially well known in North America – abound on the so-called Super Saturday card March 8 at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai.
The eight-race card, drawn Tuesday, includes preps for all the major races on the March 29 Dubai World Cup program and is headlined by the Group 1, $400,000 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3, the final local stepping-stone to the $10 million Dubai World Cup.