Leading Irish jockey Colin Keane will pick up the mount on Tarnawa in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Turf at Keeneland, reports At the Races on Twitter, because regular rider Christophe Soumillon has tested positive for COVID-19.
The Dermot Weld-trained 4-year-old daughter of Shamardal is listed at 6-1 on the morning line off an undefeated season in 2020; she won the G1 Prix Vermeille and the G1 Prix de l'Opera in France this year.
“It complicates things a little,” Weld said. “She takes a bit of knowing and he'd won two Group Ones on her. But that's the way it is.”
Soumillon was also listed to ride Order of Australia in the Mile for trainer Aidan O'Brien. No replacement has yet been named.
BREAKING NEWS: Christophe Soumillon has tested positive for COVID-19 and @ctkjockey will take his big-race ride on Tarnawa in the #BreedersCup Turf pic.twitter.com/oT9EHkUyQn
— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) November 6, 2020
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Early scratches for Friday's Breeders' Cup races at Keeneland have been announced by the racing office.
Wesley Ward trainee Amanzi Yimpilo (15-1) has been ruled out of the Juvenile Turf Sprint, allowing post position 15, Blame The Booze (30-1) to draw in. The 2-year-old son of Blame is also trained by Ward.
Also-eligibles Gypsy King and Trade Deal have been scratched.
Both also-eligibles were scratched from the Juvenile Turf, as well: Barrister Tom and Harlan Estate.
No changes were reported in the Juvenile Fillies.
Tetragonal (20-1), trained by Richard Baltas, has been ruled out of the Juvenile Fillies Turf, allowing Invincible Gal (30-1) to draw in for Graham Motion. Jose Ortiz will ride the 2-year-old daughter of Invincible Spirit from post 15, while Manny Franco will take over the mount on number 13, Union Gables (20-1), for trainer Todd Pletcher.
Also-eligible Snowfall has been scratched.
No changes were reported in the Juvenile.
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Researchers have found that horses understand much more about human intention than once thought. Drs. Miléna Trösch, Emma Bertin, Ludovic Calandreau, Raymond Nowak and Léa Lansade created a study that used three scenarios to test how well horses understand human intention, reports The Horse.
The team used 21 privately owned horses and introduced them to an unfamiliar person who had carrot slices. The person was behind a plastic window. In one scenario, the human had no intention of giving the carrot slices to the horse, moving them out of reach every time the horse reached for them. In the second study, the person tried to give the horse the carrots, but had trouble getting past the plastic barrier. In the third scenario, the person wanted to give the horse the carrots, but kept dropping them.
The study team discovered that the horse reacted differently based on the humans' intentions. This indicates that they understand human goals, even if humans failed to reach those goals. When the person tried to give the horse the carrots, the horses seemed to try to communicate with them and touched the plastic window separating them. When the human didn't have any intention of giving the horse the carrots, the horses essentially gave up, and spent more time looking away from the human and not facing them.
Until this study, it had not been scientifically proven that horses are capable of understanding human intention.
Read more at The Horse.
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