September, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Palace Sold to Saudi Arabia

Palace (City Zip–Receivership, by End Sweep), his sire’s only multiple Grade I winner currently at stud, has been sold to continue his career in Saudi Arabia. The deal was brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock.

Trained for the majority of his racing career by Linda Rice, Palace raced at a top level into his 6-year-old season and was a leading sprinter of 2014, with victories in the GI A. G. Vanderbilt H. and GI Forego S. at Saratoga. He retired to Spendthrift Farm with 12 wins from 30 starts and earnings of $1,586,550.

From two crops of racing age, Palace is the sire of 37 individual winners, including the stakes-winning Chacha Real Smooth and Auberge, runner-up to Bast (Uncle Mo) in this year’s GII Santa Ynez S., and who cost $570,000 at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.

City Zip’s ‘TDN Rising Star’ Improbable made Saturday’s Awesome Again S. his third top-level success of 2020 and fourth overall.

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Palace Sold To Stand In Saudi Arabia

Palace (City Zip – Receivership), the only multiple Grade 1 winner by City Zip at stud, has been purchased to continue his stud career in Saudi Arabia in a deal brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock.

Palace previously stood at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky. In two crops of racing age, he is the sire of 36 winners including stakes scorer Chacha Real Smooth and the Grade 2-placed Auberge, herself a $570,000 2-year-olds in training purchase.

Palace was a hard-knocking, popular New York sprinter who dominated the 2014 Saratoga meeting for trainer Linda Rice when sweeping the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap in a time of 1:08.58 for six furlongs and the G1 Forego Stakes, the latter by close to four lengths.

He also won the G2 True North Stakes at Belmont Park and the G3 Aqueduct Fall Highweight Handicap at Aqueduct.

In all, he won 12 of 30 starts for approximately $1.6 million in earnings.

Bred by the Peter J. Callahan Revocable Trust, Palace is out of seven-time winner Receivership, an End Sweep half-sister to Grade 2-winning 2-year-old French Park.

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Turf Paradise Submits Proposal For 84-Day Winter Meet — With Conditions

The standoff between Arizona horsemen and Turf Paradise continues to evolve. A letter published by Thoroughbred Daily News last week from Turf Paradise states the track will seek live race dates from Jan. 2 to May 1, 2021, 84 cards total, at the next racing commission meeting on Oct. 8.

In return, the track expects the Arizona Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (AZHBPA) to refund the $2.1 million the organization took from the Turf Paradise horsemen's account after AZHBPA asserted it was the rightful owner of the money.

AZHBPA is also asked to approve both imports and exports of the Turf Paradise signal through the end of the proposed meet.

A spokesman for AHBPA told the TDN the second request is not a dealbreaker, but the first one could be problematic. The horsemen's group believes it controls money allocated to the horsemen's purse account, according to a prior arbitrated settlement. The track believes the money should be controlled by a group of horsemen who run specifically at Turf Paradise, not the statewide horsemen's group.

The Paulick Report's Ray Paulick provided his perspective on the ongoing disputes between the state's primary track and its horsemen's group in this op/ed last week.

Read more about the latest developments at Thoroughbred Daily News

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Nando Parrado Camp Opts for Lagerdere

Marie McCartan’s Group 2 winner Nando Parrado (GB) (Kodiac {GB}), runner-up in the G1 Darley Prix Morny at Deauville on Aug. 23, will step forward in the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at ParisLongchamp on Sunday. The G1 Dewhurst S. had been the plan, but the Paris region has more rain in the forecast, and the course is already rated soft. The Clive Cox trainee won the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot.

“With the [wet] forecast, he’s actually going to travel to France on Sunday for the Lagardere,” Cox told Sky Sports Racing. “He did a really good job winning the Coventry, and at that stage we were intent on looking further with him, and he then finished second in the Morny.

“The prospect of easy ground has lured us that way–and I’m very much looking forward to it, because he’s in excellent form. The extra furlong will be really interesting, and I’m convinced it will be well up his street. We think and awful lot of him. He’s got a lot of class.”

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