A top five consignor last year on this list, Denali Stud has commandeered the top post with five Graded stakes winners this year from our sales program.
Team Valor International’s Animal Kingdom, winner of the Vinery Racing Spiral S.-G3, was the voter’s 14th choice in the Thoroughbred Times Triple Crown poll which closed March 28 after its eighth week of voting. While the Leroidesanimaux (Brz) colt has yet to race on dirt, he overcame a troubled trip on Turfway Park’s synthetic Polytrack […]
Favored Doubles Partner closed with a rush in the final yards to snatch victory by a neck over Rahystrada in the $125,000 Tampa Bay Stakes (gr. IIT) on the turf March 19 at Tampa Bay Downs. Julien Leparoux drove the 4-year-old son of Rock Hard Ten to victory in a blanket finish for trainer Todd […]
Repole Stable’s unbeaten champion Uncle Mo, an easy winner in his 2011 debut in Saturday’s $100,000 Timely Writer Stakes at Gulfstream Park, emerged as the favorite in the second of three pools of Churchill Downs’ 2011 Kentucky Derby Future Wager. The results of the second pool (March 11-13) validated the acknowledged status of America’s reigning […]
Barry Irwin, co-founder and chief executive officer of Team Valor International, has raced his fair share of star Thoroughbreds, from champions Irridescence (SAf) and Ipi Tombe (Zim) to 1989 Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) winner Prized to 1997 Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up Captain Bodgit. But Team Valor has yet to nail down a European classic win. […]
Come Saturday afternoon, the focus of an industry will longingly will turn from somber economic prospects to the warmth and promise of Gulfstream Park. All eyes will be focused on the seemingly invincible one—the horse, the myth, the legend himself, Uncle Mo. The sport’s once and perhaps future king is expected to make his three […]
The connections of Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) favorite UNCLE MO announced Feb. 22 his debut will be the $100,000 Timely Writer Stakes March 12 at Gulfstream Park. Following a strong five-furlong breeze on Feb. 20 at Palm Meadows, trainer Todd Pletcher and owner Mike Repole said Uncle Mo would point toward […]
Denali sold Champion UNCLE MO continued to work in preparation for his season debut with a five-furlong workout at Palm Meadows. Breezing five-eighths of a mile in 1:01.40, it was the seventh of 22 timed moves at the distance. Under consideration for the 1 1/16-mile Tampa Bay Derby (G2) or the Timely Writer S. at […]
Denali raised and sale graduate, KATHMANBLU solidified her position among the nation’s top three-year-old fillies with a workmanlike 1 ¼-length win the Grade III Rachel Alexandra S. at the Fair Grounds. Racing fourth KATHMANBLU and jockey Julien Laparoux collared the leaders at the top of the stretch. “I thought I had everyone all the way […]
PREACHTOTHECHOIR, dam of FREE ENTRY, was consigned to the 2007 Keeneland November sale. Ned Moore nabbed her for $40,000 with FREE ENTRY in utero, purchased for South American client Raul Lottero. Two weeks later the first foal out of PREACHTOTHECHOIR, Thunders Dove won impressively in a Belmont allowance. Even better she won four straight for […]
