Happy Boy looked like the second coming of the Darley Arabian at Nad Al Sheba on Thursday night, as the 5-year-old Brazilian-bred gray cruised to a nine-length victory in Round 1 of the Group 3, $200,000 Maktoum Challenge.
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Manduro was declared the world Thoroughbred champion of 2007 on Tuesday as he was awarded a highweight rating of 131 in the World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings by a global panel of handicappers.
Breeders' Cup Classic winner Curlin and Epsom Derby winner Authorized tied for the world 3-year-old title at 129, and the undefeated New Approach was named European juvenile champ with a rating of 126.
Jorge Ricardo became the first jockey in history to ride 10,000 winners on Wednesday when he rode five horses to victory at San Isidro Racecourse near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ricardo set the mark in the 11th race on the card, the Premio Le Exima, a 5 1/2-furlong dirt allowance in which he rode Membresia to a half-length victory.
George Moore, one of the greatest jockeys in Australian racing history, died in Sydney on Tuesday at the age of 84.
The winner of 119 Group 1 races, an Australian record, Moore won five AJC Derbies, two Victoria Derbies, two Cox Plates, and two Golden Slippers. In two stints in Europe, he won the 1959 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Saint Crespin and the French Derby on Charlottesville in 1960. In 1967 he won both the 2000 Guineas and the Epsom Derby aboard Royal Palace, as well as the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes on Busted and the 1000 Guineas aboard Fleet.
Even without the recent Japan Cup winner, Admire Moon, or last year's winner, Deep Impact, Sunday's $3 million Arima Kinen still rates as the race of the year in Japan.
Nakayama racecourse just east of Tokyo will be the scene of a family duel between half-brother and half-sister as Daiwa Major and Daiwa Scarlet square off in the 1 9/16-mile Grade 1 contest.
Godolphin continued its worldwide raids on the best horses in training when it purchased Literato, winner of the Champion Stakes, for what the horse's breeder, Aliette Forien, termed "a big price."
Godolphin, Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum's elite racing operation, announced the transaction Sunday.
The purse of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe will be raised next year to $5.8 million as part of a sponsorship agreement with the Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club, the administrator of French racing announced Thursday.
The five-year deal will make the Arc's purse the the second-highest in the world for Thoroughbred racing, behind the $6 million for the Dubai World Cup. In 2007, the Arc purse was approximately $2.9 million.
Doctor Dino sent Dylan Thomas to an ignominious career-closing defeat at Sha Tin on Sunday with a thoroughly decisive victory in the $1.8 million Hong Kong Vase on a day when ace miler Ramonti stretched his speed to win the 1 1/4-mile Hong Kong Cup and Sacred Kingdom was crowned king of the world's turf sprinters in the Hong Kong Sprint.