DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Thirteen horses were entered Monday in the Group 1, $10 million Dubai World Cup, while the other eight stakes races on Saturday’s program were drawn with post positions assigned as final preparations ramped up for the richest race card on the planet. If there was a surprise among the entries […]
ANIMAL KINGDOM REPORT: OUT OF QUARANTINE, AMERICANS HIT THE TRACK…Team Valor’s Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) emerged at 6:45 a.m. and was absolutely full of himself. With high action, the 2011 GI Kentucky Derby winner was all about getting down to business and likely went fast enough to record a time under normal American training conditions. Alice Clapham was aboard Animal Kingdom, and she had […]
ANIMAL KINGDOM TURNS IN BULLET 5/8THS BEFORE FLIGHTA little more than 24 hours after turning in his final American breeze ahead of the G1 Dubai World Cup Mar. 30, Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz})departed his stall at Palm Meadows Training Center and was scheduled to arrive in Dubai Wednesday, five years to the day that he was foaled. The striking chestnut worked five-eighths […]
ANIMAL KINGDOM, OTHERS READY FOR DUBAI FLIGHTChampions Animal Kingdom, Royal Delta, and Trinniberg lead an eight-horse American delegation set to fly to the United Arab Emirates, leaving Florida at approximately 9 p.m. EDT on March 19, for races on the $27 million Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) program March 30. Once they arrive, they will join multiple grade I winners Dullahan and Little Mike, who have been training at […]
BOURBON BAY LOOKS FOR THIRD SAN LUIS REY WINBourbon Bay makes his 7-year-old debut March 16 in a race he has won twice before, the San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT) on the grass at Santa Anita Park. A fixture in the Southern California turf division at longer distances since 2010, Bourbon Bay won the 1 1/2-mile San Luis Rey with a big stretch run last year […]
ROSARIO TO RIDE ANIMAL KINGDOM IN DUBAITrainer Graham Motion confirmed March 13 that Joel Rosario will have the return mount aboard Animal Kingdom in the $10 million Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) on March 30. Motion had been critical of Rosario’s first ride aboard Team Valor International’s winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) in the $300,000 Gulfstream Park […]
BOURBON BAY LOOKS FOR THIRD SAN LUIS REY WINBourbon Bay makes his 7-year-old debut March 16 in a race he has won twice before, the San Luis Rey Stakes (gr. IIT) on the grass at Santa Anita Park. A fixture in the Southern California turf division at longer distances since 2010, Bourbon Bay won the 1 1/2-mile San Luis Rey with a big stretch run last year […]
ANIMAL KINGDOM ‘ANGRY AND HUNGRY’ AFTER LOSS TO POINT OF ENTRYGraham Motion reports that 5-year-old Animal Kingdom is “angry and hungry” following his loss to Point of Entry in Saturday’s G1 Kitten’s Joy Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap. “I thought it was a good run. I think Joel (Rosario) was worried the speed was a little slow, so he moved a little early, which cost us […]
ANIMAL KINGDOM VS. POINT OF ENTRY IN GP TURFTeam Valor International’s 2011 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Animal Kingdom will start for the first time since his thrilling runner-up finish in the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. IT) when he takes on top turf contender Point of Entry and four others in the $300,000 Kitten’s Joy Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (gr. IT) on Feb. […]
ANIMAL KINGDOM EARNS BULLET IN JAN. 14 MOVEAnimal Kingdom turned in a bullet, five-furlong breeze Jan. 14 at Palm Meadows Training Center as the 2011 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner moves a step closer to his 2013 racing debut. Working for the second straight Monday and the fifth time since Dec. 11, Animal Kingdom completed five furlongs in 1:02.08 on the […]
