#US RACING – Breeders’ Cup Classic and Kentucky Derby winner Authentic retired

Authentic, the Breeders’ Cup Classic and Kentucky Derby winner, has been retired to B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., where he will stand in 2021 for a fee of US$75,000 standing and nursing. “Authentic is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of horse, and Mr. Hughes is very proud that we are able to share him […]

#US RACING: Disqualified Kentucky Derby winner Maximum Security retired

VERSAILLES, Ky. (AP) — Maximum Security, disqualified after crossing the finish line first in the 2019 Kentucky Derby, has been retired to stud. The 4-year-old colt ended his career with a fifth-place finish in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic last weekend at Keeneland. He won 10 of 14 starts and had career earnings of […]

Weekend gallops to notice

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Quickgallop.com continues to provide the exercise of horses over the weekend days of Saturday (November 7) and Sunday, November 8. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2020 ANOTHER AFFAIR & Cantered (WP) CHACE THE GREAT & Galloped ridden – Straight 4F 48.0 KING ARTHUR Hacked LOVER’S STRIKE Cantered/Paced 5F 1:11.3 MARQUESAS Galloped easy 5F 1:03.4 […]

#US RACING: Breeders’ Cup betting earnings dive by 8 per cent

Total all-sources handle for the two-day Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Keeneland Race Course was US$160,472,894, the sixth-highest total since the Breeders’ Cup expanded to a two-day event in 2007 and an eight per cent decrease from the 2019 record handle of US$174,000,574 at Santa Anita. The two-day total handle represented a seven per cent […]

#US RACING: Breeders' Cup replacement riders thrive after virus changes

When Colin Keane got a last-minute mount on Tarnawa in the Breeders' Cup Turf because regular jockey Christophe Soumillon tested positive for the coronavirus, he called training great Dermot Weld to ask for a plan. "He said, 'We could be on the phone for half an hour trying to make a plan, but it mightn't […]