Cheltenham Festival 2022: Energumene wins Champion Chase after Shishkin is pulled up
Energumene wins a dramatic Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival after favourite Shishkin is pulled up.
Month: March 2022
Del Mar Ship & Win Returns Richer Than Ever in ’22
Del Mar will offer its richest “Ship and Win” bonus when the program, designed to encourage out-of-state horses to compete in California, returns for its 12th year at the oceanside oval's summer meeting. This year's program offers a $5,000 starter bonus and a 50% purse supplement for any dirt runner. Turf horses earn a $4,000 starter fee and a 40% purse bonus.
The purse bonuses extend to additional starts at the summer meet and are designed to increase all purses won by first through fifth finishers. Further, should a 'S & W' horse be claimed out of its first outing and subsequently run back at the meet, the original owner will receive all bonuses.
“This has proven to be an exceptional program for Del Mar and California racing,” said David Jerkens, a Del Mar vice president and its racing secretary. “We strengthen our fields each summer with “Ship & Win” horses and the majority of them stay on and race in the state. Our local owners and trainers bring us the bulk of these out-of-state runners and our partnership with Santa Anita on this has worked very well.”
Thoroughbred Owners of California Chairman Gary Fenton added, “This has been an across the board winner for California. My two favorite aspects are always that a) our owners are the biggest recipients of the bonus and b) there is a benefit to the entire ecosystem as up to 10% of Santa Anita's field size is made up of 'Ship & Win' graduates. There isn't a more lucrative way to bring horses to California.”
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Shah Fires Early with $1.2M Buy at OBSMAR
Fresh off a $600,000 purchase for a Bolt d'Oro colt on Day 1 at the OBS March sale Tuesday, Kaleem Shah came out firing Wednesday, securing Hip 318 for a cool $1.2 million moments after the start of the second day of the sale. Consigned by Ciaran Dunne's Wavertree Stables, the son of More Than Ready worked an eighth in :9 4/5 during Sunday's final breeze session. Out of the Indian Charlie mare Broad Spectrum, the bay is a half-brother to SW Broad Approval (Carpe Diem).
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“A Stake in Stardom” Initiative Unveiled by America’s Best Racing
America's Best Racing, a multimedia fan development and awareness-building platform formed by The Jockey Club (TJC), has launched a new initiative designed to introduce racing to new fans. Named “A Stake in Stardom,” the program has tabbed brand ambassadors Sarah Cline and Joey Mulinaro to go behind the scenes as partial owners of 3-year-olds in partnership with West Point Thoroughbreds. Cline is best known as a TikTok influencer and Mulinaro is a former Barstool Sports contributor and impressionist. Each will receive a minority ownership stake in Giant Game (Giant's Causeway) and Vinco (Quality Road), respectively.
“This is a tremendous opportunity to reach and attract new fans to racing, enabling them to experience the sport and lifestyle of Thoroughbred racing like never before,” said Stephen B. Panus, president of TJC Media Ventures Inc. “By providing the brand ambassadors with an ownership stake in the racing career of the horses, everyone will have an inside, all-access look into a horse's preparation, care, and competitions, from stable to starting gate, through the unique lens and perspectives of Sarah Cline and Joey Mulinaro. We're incredibly grateful to Terry Finley and West Point Thoroughbreds for their collaboration with America's Best Racing and for helping to amplify the message that horse racing is truly a sport for everyone.”
Giant Game, third in the GI TVG Breeders' Cup Juvenile, was most recently off the board in the Mar. 12 GII Lambholm South Tampa Bay Derby, while Vinco–a $1.5 million 2-year-old at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale–was second in a Jan. 22 Fair Grounds maiden and also off the board in a subsequent try.
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