Month: July 2022

Fasig-Tipton’s NY-Bred Catalogue Available

Fasig-Tipton, which this week released the catalogue for its select Saratoga Sale, has also made the New York-Bred Yearlings catalogue available. The sale has 283 yearlings entered for the Aug. 14-15 event, which will take place in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion in Saratoga. The Sunday session will begin at 7 p.m. with the Monday session scheduled for noon.

“The New York-Bred Yearlings sale annually offers the best of the New York-bred crop, and this year's catalogue is very strong in terms of sire power and quality individuals,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “Over $60 million will be distributed in purse money, incentives, and awards for New York-breds this year. In addition, there are new purse enhancements and incentives for the New York Stallion Stakes Series and New York-Sired bonus programs that will go into effect next year. This is a very exciting time to own a New York-bred.”

The catalogue, which features GISW Americanrevolution (Constitution) on the cover, is ready online and will also be available in the Equineline sales catalogue app. Print catalogues are also available.

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Purse Complaints Lead Trainers To ‘Vote With Their Feet’ In England

No runners were declared for a 10-furlong novice race on Saturday's card at Newbury Racecourse in England, reports BBC, despite 13 horses being entered in the contest. According to trainer Ralph Beckett, president of the National Trainers' Federation, the lack of declarations was not an organized action by the NTF, but horsemen were admittedly frustrated by the race's purse.

“£6,500 (about US$7,700) for a novice race at a Grade One track on a Saturday is a disgrace,” Beckett told BBC. “Furthermore, when the race conditions were published a month ago, it was published at £5,300 (about US$6,280). It was only upped on Monday and that was too little, too late.

“Horsemen are independent people and are fed up with the derisory prize money on offer in general – and in this instance, they decided to vote with their feet.”

The other six races on the Saturday card have combined purses of £400,000 (about US$474,722), including the featured Super Sprint Stakes worth £200,000 (about US$237,361).

“We have to run the racecourse on a sustainable basis and we have committed to return to overall 2019 prize money levels this year, despite having lost £2.4m in 2020 and barely breaking even last year as a result of Covid,” Julian Thick, chief executive of Newbury Racecourse, told BBC. “Given this background, it's disappointing this has happened and at a time when the industry needs to pull together.”

Read more at BBC.

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‘No Greater Reward’: Melbourne Cup-Winning Rider Recounts Humanitarian Trip To Ukraine

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Craig Williams recently joined his Ukrainian-born wife Larysa, their four children, and his parents for a humanitarian trip to deliver aide across Ukraine. Williams recounted the life-changing trip to the Thoroughbred Racing Commentary.

After raising over $300,000 from the racing industry and other Australians, Williams and his crew were able to take over 2,000 pounds of trauma and survival kits to distribute across the war-torn Ukraine. They also purchased four vehicles in Poland for the trip, which have since been repurposed as ambulances on the front lines.

“Of course I was worried about my children's safety,” Williams told TRC. “But by being able to show them that things are dangerous and life is not easy, they now realize that it's not whether you've won that G1, whether you have so much money in the bank or are healthy.

“It's about doing the right thing and helping save lives, even though you are 15,000km away. When I explain how grateful people in Ukraine are to the people of Australia, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I can't put into enough words the satisfaction this trip has given me.

“There is no greater reward than being able to save someone's life. They are fighting the war for the rest of Europe and the world. It's right over wrong and good over evil.”

Read more at the Thoroughbred Racing Commentary.

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