Thoroughbred trainer Colin Sherwood, a native of Perth, Western Australia who won the 1960 G1 Railway S. with Wesmaster, died Sept. 29 in Safety Harbor, FL., after a brief illness. He was 90.
Sherwood enjoyed considerable success on the racetracks of his homeland for 15 years before becoming a bloodstock agent in the early 1970s, exporting racehorses and stallion prospects to horsemen in Singapore, Southeast Asia, Japan, South Africa and the United States. He returned to racing in the late 1980s and resumed training, competing in the mid-Atlantic region before establishing his base at Tampa Bay Downs, where he retired in 2013.
Survivors include his daughter Margo Flynn, his daughter-in-law, Jane Cibelli; a granddaughter, Amanda Creel; grandson-in-law James Jewhurst; and great-grandson Ben Jewhurst. He was predeceased by his parents, George and Eileen Sherwood.
Donations may be made to Thoroughbred Retirement of Tampa, Inc.
With three weeks remaining in the 2021 horse racing season in Colorado at Bally's Arapahoe Park, racetrack management has announced that all overnight purses will be increased for the third time this season, and the purses for two of the track's marquee Thoroughbred stakes races will be raised as well.
All overnight races will have their purses raised by $2,000 each starting with the racing program on September 29. In addition, the purse for the Gold Rush Futurity for 2-year-olds over 6 furlongs that will take place on closing day, Saturday, October 16, will see its purse increased from $35,000 to $100,000. The Butch Gleason Classic for older horses at 1 1/8 miles that will also be run on closing day will now be a $50,000 race, having been increased from $20,000. Nominations for those two stakes races will close on Thursday, October 7.
Racing for the remainder of the 2021 season will take place on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, as well as a special closing day Saturday card on October 16. First post time each day will be at 1 p.m.
This week will feature the return to Colorado of three-time Darley Award Horse of the Year Paddys Day in Thursday's Emirates Breeders VIP Stakes. Paddys Day, now 10 years old, debuted at Bally's Arapahoe Park in 2014 and has since gone on to win 22 stakes races at 12 racetracks in seven U.S. states, as well as the United Arab Emirates.
This Friday will be the Colorado Day of Champions run in association with the Colorado Thoroughbred Breeders Association with five stakes races for Colorado-breds, as well as an open allowance race at the end of the card featuring eight-time Arapahoe stakes winner Collusionist.
There will be a horse sale presented by Vaughn Long, Auctioneers, LLC for weanlings, yearlings, horses of racing age, and breeding stock on Friday, October 8.
In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Chukyo and Nakayama Racecourses. A trio of American-bred runners takes their place in a field of 18 for Sunday's Sprinters' S. at the latter venue as Group 1 racing returns to Japan for the first time since late June:
Saturday, October 2, 2021 9th-NKY, Â¥30,400,000 ($271k), Allowance, 2yo, 2000mT BEYOND THE FATHER (JPN) (c, 2, Curlin–Galileo's Song {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) is the first foal from his multiple Grade III-placed dam, a $1-million purchase by Shimokobe Farm with this colt in utero at Keeneland November in 2018. Galileo's Song is a half-sister to Magnificent Song (Unbridled's Song), who came from 11th and last to validate favoritism in the 2006 GI Garden City Breeders' Cup S. on the grass at Belmont Park. Beyond the Father debuted with a five-length victory on the dirt at Niigata Aug. 7 (see below, gate 7), but tries the turf this time around. Mirco Demuro has a return call. B-Shimokobe Farm
Sunday, October 3, 2021 2nd-NKY, Â¥9,680,000 ($86k), Maiden, 2yo, 1600mT SEA VIXEN (f, 2, Into Mischief–Sly Warrior, by First Samurai) has burned money as the favorite in her first two trips to the races, each over the metric seven furlongs, finishing a debut third at Sapporo Aug. 22 before improving one spot at that track Sept. 5. A $130,000 KEESEP yearling turned $500,000 OBS March breezer, the bay is out of a half-sister to MSP Pull Dancer (Pulpit), the dam of the versatile MGSW & MGISP Good Samaritan (Harlan's Holiday) and GSW Brave Nation (Pioneerof the Nile). The filly's third dam Emmaus (Silver Deputy), a half-sister to Caress (Storm Cat) and Bernstein (Storm Cat) et. al., produced Horse of the Year Wise Dan's sire Wiseman's Ferry (Hennessy). Breeze Easy acquired the filly's dam for $50,000 in foal to Kitten's Joy at Fasig-Tipton November in 2017. B-Breeze Easy LLC (KY)
4th-CKO, Â¥13,400,000 ($120k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1800m ARME MATE (c, 2, Frosted–G Note, by Medaglia d'Oro) breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 flat at this year's OBS April Sale and was hammered down for $210,000. The New York-bred is out of a daughter of these breeders' GSW Seeking the Ante (Seeking the Gold), whose MSW daughter Mineralogist (Mineshaft) bred SW Can You Diggit (Tiznow). The Bromans acquired the colt's multiple Grade I-winning third dam Antespend (Spend A Buck) for $900,000 at Keeneland April in 1997 and from her, bred Friends Lake (A.P. Indy), winner of the 2004 GI Florida Derby. B-Chester & Mary Broman (NY)
STRIKE RICH (JPN) (c, 2, American Pharoah–Opulence, by Giant's Causeway), a half-brother to Japanese winner Fort Wadsworth (Verrazano), is the first Japanese-foaled produce for his dam, an unraced daughter of Eclipse Award and GI Belmont S. winner Rags To Riches (A.P. Indy). Third dam Better Than Honour (Deputy Minister), the $14-million mare, also produced Rags To Riches's Belmont-winning half-brother Jazil (Seeking the Gold); GSW/G1SP Casino Drive (Mineshaft); SW Man of Iron (Giant's Causeway); and the dam of GISW Streaming (Smart Strike) and SWs Treasuring (Smart Strike) and Cascading (A.P. Indy). B-Mishima Bokujo
