Trainer Graham Motion reported via Twitter that Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) winner Animal Kingdom completed a four-furlong gallop in :52 Thursday, May 9 at Lambourn. Animal Kingdom, by Leroidesanimaux, is preparing for a start at Royal Ascot, most likely in the June 18 Queen Anne Stakes (Eng-I), a one-mile race. Team Valor and Arrowfield Stud’s Animal Kingdom also is entered in […]
She’s back and better than ever, if Hessonite’s seasonal debut in the Beaugay Stakes is any indication. Last of six in the 2012 Beaugay on yielding turf before going on to win four stakes and a second straight New York-bred title, Hessonite ($9.80) turned in an exhilarating performance in this year’s edition to inhale the […]
Jockey John Velazquez, who rode Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) to victory in the 2011 GI Kentucky Derby, will be aboard the colt when he makes his career finale at Royal Ascot in June, Team Valor International has announced. Velazquez has a history of success at Royal Ascot, having ridden at the meeting in 2000, 2009, […]
Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Animal Kingdom and Java’s War, who is being pointed to this year’s Louisville classic, are among the U.S.-trained horses being considered for Royal Ascot. On Wednesday, April 24, Royal Ascot announced early entries for its seven group I races that will be contested from June 18-22. […]
FAIR HILL, Md. – While Graham Motion was back at his Fair Hill training center base Friday morning overseeing his large stable, his mind rarely wanders far from England, where his prized pupil Animal Kingdom is preparing for what is expected to be his final race at the Royal Ascot meeting in June. What has […]
The Dubai World Cup (Gr. 1, 2000m) winner Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux)is more likely to contest the Queen Anne Stakes (Gr. 1, 1m) rather than the Price of Wales’s Stakes (Gr. 1, 1m2f) at Royal Ascot in June. “Your mile at Ascot is much more grueling than a mile in the States and a mile and […]
ARCADIA, Calif. – Bourbon Bay, the winner of the San Juan Capistrano in 2010 and 2012 at Santa Anita and five other stakes in Southern California, has been retired, trainer Neil Drysdale said. Drysdale had Bourbon Bay nominated for Sunday’s $150,000 San Juan Capistrano Handicap, but decided to end the career of the 7-year-old gelding […]
Classic winner and champion Animal Kingdom will stand for Aust$38,500 (about $40,000 in United States funds) when he enters stud this year at John Messara’s Arrowfield Stud in Australia. Animal Kingdom, the 2011 winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) who last month impressed with a victory in the $10 million […]
Hip 51, by Unbridled’s Song, fetched $700,000 from Irish bloodstock agent John McCormack. A daughter of Unbridled’s Song brought the highest price so far at the Keeneland April 2-year-olds in training sale when she fetched $700,000 from Irish bloodstock agent John McCormack. Consigned by Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables on behalf of an undisclosed Denali Stud […]
Darley has acquired a 29% interest in Dubai World Cup (UAE-I) and Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Animal Kingdom, Arrowfield Stud and Team Valor International announced April 3. As a result, Animal Kingdom will stand in the Northern Hemisphere at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. The son of Leroidesanimaux will stand in the […]
