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Haydock 4.35 Finest Sound – win bet.
Doncaster 4.10 Cometh The Man – win bet.
Month: April 2021
Amanda Zetterholm Appointed Goffs New French Agent
Goffs appointed Amanda Zetterholm to the role of French Agent. Since 2012, Zetterholm served in client relations, nominations and, most recently, as assistant racing manager with H.H. Aga Khan Studs in France. She also previously worked with leading jumps trainer David Cottin in Chantilly and is a former assistant to trainer Mike De Kock. Zetterholm will commence her new role May 1.
“Her experience and network of clients further strengthens our roster of international agents and follows the recent appointments of Jacob West and Mark Richards as U.S. and British Agents, respectively,” said Goffs Group Chief Executive Henry Beeby said. “Amanda's focus will be on converting the increasing interest in Irish sales from France into greater attendance by French buyers at Kildare Paddocks, primarily for the Orby and November Sales as well as promoting our flagship National Hunt sales. ”
Beeby added, “We would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Gavin Hernon over the last number of years as our French agent and wish him further success in his burgeoning training career.”
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It’s Margarita Time
Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith's As Time Goes By (American Pharoah) has been progressing steadily since last fall and will try to collect her first black-type badge in Saturday's GII Santa Margarita S. at Santa Anita.
Third in her career debut sprinting at Del Mar last August, the daughter of MGISW Take Charge Lady (Dehere) returned to finish second to stablemate Himiko (American Pharoah) after setting the pace in the early going at Santa Anita in October. A four-length winner going six panels at Los Alamitos Dec. 13, the half-sister to 3-year-old champion colt Will Take Charge (Unbridled's Song) and GISW Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy) galloped home an eye-catching nine-length winner stretching to a mile in a Santa Anita allowance Jan. 17. Stepping up for the Mar. 13 GI Beholder Mile, the Bob Baffert trainee found only champion Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil) too good, finishing second by 2 3/4 lengths. Mike Smith, aboard for her latest trip to post, retains the call.
Alice Bamford and Michael Tabor's Harvest Moon (Uncle Mo) reeled off four consecutive wins in 2020, including Del Mar's GIII Torrey Pines S. at a mile and the 8 1/2-furlong GII Zenyatta S. at Santa Anita. Fourth after disputing the early pace in the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff over nine furlongs at Keeneland, she resurfaced with a fourth, beaten seven lengths, in the aforementioned Beholder Mile. Regular rider Flavien Prat returns to ride the Simon Callaghan trainee Saturday.
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American Mike Tops Cheltenham Sale
American Mike (Ire) (Mahler {GB}) (lot 8), the 20-length winner of a maiden point-to-point at Cork on Apr. 10, topped the Tattersalls Cheltenham April Sale relocated to Newmarket on Friday when selling to Bective Stud and Gordon Elliott for £195,000. Elliott, who is currently serving a six-month ban from training after a photo of him sitting astride a dead horse surfaced on social media in March, signed alone or in partnership for three of the top four lots at the sale.
American Mike was sold by Monbeg Stables, and Elliott also signed for the sale's second-top lot, Cool Survivor (Ire) (Westerner {GB}) (lot 29) (£175,000), who won the second division of American Mike's maiden race, and fourth-top lot Ash Tree Meadow (Fr) (Bonbon Rose {Fr}) (lot 21) (£135,000) from that draft, the latter in conjunction with Aidan O'Ryan. Splitting those was Coachman (Fr) (Maresca Sorrento {Fr}) (lot 25), who was scooped up by Marcus Collie and Oliver Signy Racing for £140,000.
The final horse to reach six figures was Milestone Stables's Chianti Classico (Ire) (Shantou) (lot 17), an Apr. 11 maiden point-to-point winner at Tipperary who cost Aiden Murphy and Kim Bailey £105,000.
Upon conclusion of trade, 32 horses were sold on Friday from 35 offered for £2,148,000, at an average of £67,125 and a median of £52,500.
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