Month: April 2021

Amateur Jockey Lorna Brooke Dies After Fall; First British Rider Killed In Racing Accident Since 2005

Amateur jockey Lorna Brooke died in the hospital on Sunday, reports The Guardian, succumbing to injuries she sustained in a fall at Taunton Racecourse on April 8. The 37-year-old is the first jockey killed in a racing incident in Britain since 2005, when Tom Halliday fell at Market Rasen.

Racecourses around Britain observed a moment of silence on Monday, and jockeys wore black armbands.

Brooke was aboard Orchestrated, a horse trained and owned by her mother, Lady Susan Brooke, when she was unseated at the third fence on the course. She was treated on track before being airlifted to Southmead Hospital, where she was treated for suspected spinal injuries. Following complications, Brooke was placed into an induced coma, from which she never emerged.

The amateur jockey had ridden in over 400 races, mostly for her mother, piloting 17 winners in Britain and Ireland since 2001.

Read more at The Guardian.

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Janae Delivers Malibu Moon Colt At Safari North Farm As Part Of National Museum of Racing’s Foal Patrol Season 4

Janae, a 6-year-old mare owned by Susan Moulton, delivered a colt by Malibu Moon on April 17 at Moulton's Safari North Farm as part of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's Foal Patrol Season 4.

This is the fourth and final foal of the season delivered on Foal Patrol. Both the mare and foal are healthy and doing well.

A bay daughter of Closing Argument out of the Petionville mare Debs Pet, Janae was bred in Louisiana by Jim and Sue Harris. Janae, who won twice in seven starts in her racing career, previously produced a filly by Mizzen Mast in 2019 and a filly by Daredevil in 2020.

Along with Janae, Foal Patron Season 4 features the mares Miss Always Ready (Three Chimneys Farm), Miss Chapin (Mill Ridge Farm), and To the Moon Alice (Old Tavern Farm), all of whom previously foaled this season.

Foal Patrol is a one-of-a-kind interactive web project that features a collection of live cameras where people can view real-time streams of mares and their foals. The live camera feeds will be available according to each horse's daily schedule, set by the farm. The cameras will be active for Season 4 through June. For more information, please visit www.foalpatrol.com.

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Jockey Gaffalione, Entire Casse Team Has Been High On Soup And Sandwich Since The Beginning

Though he'll be riding Live Oak Plantation's Soup and Sandwich for the first time in the Kentucky Derby on May 1, jockey Tyler Gaffalione has been following the 3-year-old's races since the very beginning.

“I've been following this horse since his first race,” Gaffalione said in an interview with Jennie Rees for the Kentucky HBPA. “He just, his stride looks effortless. He covers a lot of ground, he was still green that day, he swapped leads a couple times, but he kind of reminded me of a Gun Runner early in his 3-year-old year. He had a lot of raw talent but hadn't really figured it out yet.”

The son of Into Mischief won on debut Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park, dominating by 7 1/4 lengths for trainer Mark Casse.

“I texted Mark after the race that day, and said, 'If it ever comes up, I'd love the chance to ride this horse,'” said Gaffalione. “We weren't able to hook up until now, but I mean, this is the one you want! Everything's just kind of falling into place.”

In his second career start, on Feb. 24 at Tampa Bay Downs, Soup and Sandwich bested a three-horse field in his first start around two turns. From there, Casse was confident enough to send the colt into the Grade 1 Florida Derby, where he ran a big second behind Known Agenda despite not switching leads in the stretch.

“I've got to give a lot of credit to Nick Tomlinson at Palm Meadows,” said Casse's assistant, David Carroll. “Nick loved this horse before he ever ran, even though he said he was very immature. He showed that in his first race and even his second race, so he's learning on the job, so to speak… You have to think that having run just three races, there's a lot more upside to him. His race in the Florida Derby was very, very good, but he didn't switch leads, showed true greenness, and had every chance to give it up, but he didn't.”

Gaffalione got a chance to ride Soup and Sandwich in the morning for the first time on Saturday, breezing five furlongs at Churchill in :59 4/5.

“I loved every bit of it,” the jockey said. “He's got a beautiful stride, he just covers a lot of ground and just keeps finding more.

“There's just an aura about him. (Nice horses) have a different, I guess you would say 'class,' about them. They know they're a nice horse and they have a lot of confidence in themselves, and you can really feel that.”

Out of the winning Tapit mare Souper Scoop, Soup and Sandwich is a second-generation homebred for Charlotte Weber's Live Oak Stud. His name is a play on her heritage, since her grandfather is the Campbell Soup founder John T. Dorrance and she serves as a board trustee of Campbell Soup Company.

Soup and Sandwich is one of two likely Kentucky Derby starters for Mark Casse in 2021. The second is Helium, undefeated winner of the G2 Tampa Bay Derby, who will be partnered by Julien Leparoux.

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