The ground could play a key role in Sundays Prix de lArc de Triomphe at Longchamp, where the going was officially described as very soft on Tuesday, a day when Epsom Derby winner Authorized headed a list of 15 possible runners for the 1 1/2-mile Group 1 race.
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Britain's leading racing daily, The Racing Post, has been sold to FL Partners, an Irish private equity investment firm, for approximately $342 million. The paper was sold by the Times Mirror Group, which had been behind a short-lived American racing paper, The Racing Times, in 1991.
The new owner has named Alan Byrne as the Racing Post's new chief executive and editor-in-chief. Byrne, who had been editor of the Post from 1993 to 2002, has been serving as a consultant to Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin Racing.
Ramonti looks to have sealed champion miler honors in Europe with a gutsy win in Saturday's Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot.
Benefitting from a tactically aware ride from Frankie Dettori, the Godolphin-owned Ramonti defeated Excellent Art, the 9-5 favorite, by a half-length.
Dettori sat in second on the 5-1 winner, as Excellent Art's Aidan O'Brien-trained stablemate Duke of Marmalade set a good pace. When Dettori asked his mount to quicken in the straight, Ramonti took up the running 1 1/2 furlongs out and responded well.
The mystery is over. George Washington's next start is likely to be the 1 1/4-mile Champion Stakes at Newmarket on Oct. 20. So said his trainer, Aidan O'Brien, on Friday, one day after the name of the two-time European champion was left out of the entry box for Saturday's one-mile Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
O'Brien also mentioned the Breeders' Cup Mile as a possible next start for George Washington.
NEW YORK - Incest is an ugly word, descriptive of a practice well deserving its cultural taboo. In the Thoroughbred world it is usually referred to in its euphemistic form, inbreeding, a term more generally employed to note the presence of an ancestor who appears more than once in a horse's first five generations.
George Washington will very likely miss his intended engagement in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, putting his participation in the Breeders' Cup Mile on Oct. 27 in doubt.
The defending QE II titleholder was all but declared out of that Group 1 mile by trainer Aidan O'Brien, who said on Wednesday that his probable runners would be Excellent Art, winner of the St. James's Palace Stakes, and Duke of Marmalade, runner up in the Champion Stakes.
Shuttle stallions quarantined in Australia's Eastern Creek facility near Sydney have been released after an extended stay of nearly two months, but the country's first-ever equine influenza outbreak, which began in their ranks, continued to disrupt the Australian Thoroughbred industry.
The trial of Kieren Fallon and five accused associates on race fixing-charges began at the Old Bailey courthouse in London on Monday as lawyers presented their opening arguments in a case that is expected to last until January.
Six times the champion jockey in Britain, the 42-year-old Fallon was present at the first-day proceedings. He has been charged with conspiracy to defraud Betfair customers in a series of races between December 2002 and September 2004.
Literato continued his winning ways at Longchamp on Saturday with a comfortable weight-giving victory in the Group 3, $112,000 Prix du Prince d'Orange.
Handily placed in fifth place early by jockey Christophe Lemaire, Literato cruised to the lead at the three-sixteenths pole, crossing the line three-quarters of a length in front of Indian Choice as the 1-2 favorite. It was another neck back to Anabaa's Creation, with All Is Vanity fourth.