April, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Racing Cancelled At Auteuil Due To Wage Dispute

Jumps racing at Auteuil Racecourse in France was cancelled on Sunday due to an industrial dispute between France Galop employees and trade union members. The eight-race card included a listed race and a pair of Grade 2 races. The disagreement led to a demonstration in the parade ring. Although an emergency meeting was called to resolve the issue, a resolution was not reached and later talks between the two parties were also unsuccessful. After these efforts failed, the meeting was abandoned.

“It's very frustrating for me and for everybody, a lot of these trainers have come a long way,” French Champion Jumps Jockey James Reveley told Sky Sports Racing.

“We don't really know when they're going to run the meeting or whether it's going to be later on in the week, but it requires so much organisation and it's just really frustrating.

“You get used to it and in fairness I've been over here a while and you just have to deal with it, it's a shame as there's other ways of making things happen.

“I heard they're wanting a 4%, I don't know if that's true but it is hard for people to make ends meet, I suppose, with inflation at the moment.

“Today was a big day with horses having their prep races for the big weekend, the top 4-year-old chase was today and they won't want to put it too far back or too close to the big meeting.”

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Owner Anthony Sets Oaklawn Single-Season Earnings Record

John Ed Anthony of Hot Springs, Ark. set a single-season Oaklawn record for purse earnings by an owner when Plainsman finished third in Saturday's $1 million Oaklawn Handicap (G2) for older horses.

Plainsman, who is trained by two-time Eclipse Award winner Brad Cox, collected $100,000 to push Anthony's purse earnings at the meet to $1,810,587, according to Equibase, racing's official data gathering organization. Saturday marked Day 59 of the scheduled 66-day meeting (Dec. 3-May 8).

M and M Racing (Mike and Mickala Sisk) set Oaklawn's previous single-season record for purse earnings by an owner ($1,782,351) in 2019.

Anthony, who races under the Shortleaf Stable banner, was poised to break the record after Greatheart earned $54,000 with a maiden special weights victory Friday for trainer John Ortiz. That purse money boosted Anthony's meet total to $1,710,587, meaning he needed a top three finish by Plainsman – Shortleaf's lone entrant Saturday – to eclipse M and M Racing.

Saturday's milestone came two months after Anthony established a record for career victories by an owner at Oaklawn, 270, when the Ortiz-trained Rolling Fork captured an Arkansas-bred allowance race Feb. 26. The late Sharon Hild recorded 269 victories at Oaklawn. Greatheart represented Anthony's 276th Oaklawn victory and meet-high 16th in 2021-2022.

“He's had an incredible meet and I'm sure he's sad to see it coming to end,” Cox said late Saturday afternoon. “Big meet for him, earnings-wise and win total. Obviously, supported Arkansas racing for a long, long time and he deserves to be a leading owner.”

An octogenarian, Anthony recorded his first Oaklawn victory Feb. 16, 1972. Then racing as Loblolly Stable, Anthony topped all owners in purse earnings at Oaklawn in 1980 ($289,230), 1981 ($281,831), 1987 ($547,810), 1991 ($400,877), 1992 ($597,152) and 1993 ($618,789), according to the track's media guide.

M and M Racing also set a single-season record for victories by an owner in 2019 (61), with its vast operation built largely on the claim box. M and M
Racing started a staggering 220 horses during the 57-day meeting in 2019. Conversely, Plainsman represented Anthony's 70th starter at the 2021-2022 meeting.

In addition to 16 victories, Anthony has 10 seconds and 10 thirds. He also tops all owners at the meet in stakes victories (three). Plainsman won the $600,000 Razorback Handicap (G3) for older horses Feb. 12. Gar Hole became the meet's first four-time winner with a victory in the $150,000 Nodouble Breeders' for Arkansas-bred sprinters March 5 and Whelen Springs won the $150,000 Rainbow for 3-year-old Arkansas-bred sprinters April 9. Ortiz trains Gar Hole and Whelen Springs.

Shortleaf entered Sunday as the nation's third-leading owner this year in purse earnings with $1,724,450, according to Equibase.

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Deneuve Takes The Eye In “Alpha Centauri” Maiden

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Monday's Observations features a daughter of MGSW & G1SP Actress (Ire) (Declaration of War).

4.45 Naas, Mdn, €16,000, 2yo, f, 5f 205yT
DENEUVE (IRE) (No Nay Never) debuts in the maiden won in recent times by the subsequent Group 1 winners Alpha Centauri (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) and Fairyland (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) and is the first foal out of the dual group 3 scorer and G1 Phoenix S. third Actress (Ire) (Declaration of War). Coincidentally runner-up in this to Alpha Centauri in 2017, her May-foaled daughter represents the same Ballydoyle stable whose two recent winners earned 'TDN Rising Star' status.

6.45 Naas, Mdn, €12,500, 3yo, f, 10fT
CHAMPAGNE (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) makes her debut for Ballydoyle in Susan Magnier's pink second-string silks, but is as significant a blueblood as has been seen so far in 2022 as a daughter of the famed Red Evie (Ire) (Intikhab). The June-foaled full-sister to Found (Ire) and Best In the World (Ire) encounters another newcomer of note in Vimal Khosla's Fennela (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}), a Jessie Harrington-trained half-sister to Lord Shanakill (Speightstown) and Galileo's Forever Together (Ire) and Together Forever (Ire).

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KY Derby Contender White Abarrio Pleases In Gulfstream Breeze

C2 Racing Stable LLC and La Milagrosa Stable LLC's White Abarrio breezed five furlongs in company at Gulfstream Park Sunday morning in preparation for a scheduled start in the May 7 Kentucky Derby (G1).

Working for the second time since impressively winning the April 2 Curlin Florida Derby (G1) by 1 ½ lengths, the 3-year-old son of Race Day completed five furlongs in 1:00.04 after passing workmate Stormy Pattern (1:01.04) nearing the wire. The Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained colt galloped out six furlongs in 1:12.58. (Click here to watch a video of the workout.)

“It went good. I got him in :59 (4/5). They got him in a minute. He worked with that horse before the Florida Derby, two weeks out,” Joseph said. “We kept everything the same, the same workmate, a similar pattern two weeks out. That time he ran a 1:02. This time he ran a little faster than a minute. Last time he galloped out in 1:13. This time he galloped out in 1:12.”

White Abarrio was purchased by his current connections after debuting at Gulfstream Sept. 24 with a 6 ¾-length triumph. He went on to win an optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream by four lengths five weeks later. White Abarrio concluded his 2021 campaign with a third-place finish in the Nov. 27 Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) at Churchill Downs behind Smile Happy and Classic Causeway.

The Joseph trainee was impressive in his 3-year-old debut at Gulfstream Feb. 5, capturing the Holy Bull (G3) by 4 ½ lengths ahead of Simplification, who went on the win March 5 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth (G2) in White Abarrio's absence. The Race Day colt rallied from off the pace to defeat Charge It in the Florida Derby.

Joseph has trained one Kentucky Derby starter, Ny Traffic, who finished eighth in a September edition of the 2020 Run for the Roses.

“You just try to keep an even keel. It's a long way to go in horse racing terms – 13 days,” Joseph said. “You just want to get through everything and ship up there fine and go into the race the best we can.”

White Abarrio is scheduled to breeze a half-mile next Sunday before shipping to Churchill Downs the following day.

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