Sacred Kingdom should have little trouble maintaining his position as the world's top-rated sprinter at Sha Tin on Sunday when he faces seven rivals in the five-furlong $576,000 Centenary Sprint Cup, a Hong Kong Group 1 contest that is the first leg of the Champion Sprint Series.
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Jockey Kieren Fallon was given an 18-month suspension by French racing authorities on Friday for his second cocaine offense within a year. The worldwide ban will begin on Feb. 2 and last until Aug, 2, 2009, when the Irish rider will be 44 years old.
The Newmarket, England-based auction house Tattersalls has privately purchased a minority stake in Australia's William Inglis and Son sale company.
The companies did not disclose the price or the percentage of the Tattersalls share, calling it "a significant minority stake" in a joint announcement. The two companies would continue to operate autonomously but would join forces in market development.
Asiatic Boy will start out on the road to the Dubai World Cup in Thursday night's Group 3, $200,000 Al Shindagha Sprint at Nad Al Sheba, where he will face A.G. Vanderbilt winner Diabolical, one of the many stakes winners Godolphin has added to its stable in the past year.
The six-furlong Al Shindagha seems an unlikely stepping-stone for the 1 1/4-mile World Cup on March 29, but Asiatic Boy's trainer, Mike de Kock, is unfazed by the cut back in distance for his Argentine-bred, who is slated for an American campaign later this year.
Nownownow, winner of the first running of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Monmouth Park in October, will soon leave the United States to join trainer David Wachman in Ireland for a tilt at the European classics, according to a report in the French racing daily Paris-Turf.
Nownownow, a son of Whywhywhy, is owned by Fabien Ouaki, who races in America under the nom de course Fab Oak Stable. Nownownow was trained for his Breeders' Cup race by Francois Parisel only because his original trainer, Patrick Biancone, is under suspension through next October.
The brief racing marriage of trainer Andre Fabre and owner the Aga Khan came to an end on Sunday when the Aga Khan announced that he was removing all 30 of the horses he has in training with Fabre, France's perennial champion trainer.
Citing "operational disagreements," the Aga Khan's racing manager, Georges Rimaud, said that the horses, all of them culled from the stock of the late Jean-Luc Lagardere, which the Aga Khan bought in 2005, would leave Fabre's Chantilly stable this week and be distributed among Alain de Royer-Dupre, Guy Henrot, and Jean-Claude Rouget.
Good Ba Ba and Viva Pataca will go head to head at Sha Tin on Sunday in the $1 million Stewards Cup, a one-mile Hong Kong Group 1 contest that serves as the first leg of the Hong Kong Triple Crown for older horses.
The winner of the Hong Kong Mile on Dec. 9 over a classy international field that included Creachadoir and Darjina, Good Ba Ba is in search of his third consecutive victory for trainer Andreas Schutz and will be piloted by regular rider Olivier Doleuze.
The owner of Colonial Downs has put the Virginia racetrack and its nine offtrack betting facilities up for sale, citing the inability to offer casino-type gambling at the track.
Jacobs Entertainment, which is based in Golden, Colo., and owns several small gambling operations in Colorado, Nevada, and Louisiana, announced this week that it had hired Libra Securities to take offers for the properties. Colonial Downs, which opened in 1997, is located in New Kent, Va.
NEW YORK - The World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings, recognized throughout the world save North America as the definitive ordering of Thoroughbred meritocracy, threw up the usual number of surprises when revealed this past Tuesday.
While arguing with Manduro's selection as the highest-rated horse in the world would be a risky project in light of his perfect season, with Group 1 victories at a mile, 1 1/8 miles, and 1 1/4 miles, plus a Group 2 score at 1 1/2 miles, there is plenty of room for debate below the champion's rating of 131.