September, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Indiana’s 2022 Fall Mixed Sale Catalog Now Online

The catalog for the 2022 Indiana Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association Fall Mixed Sale is now online, featuring 115 horses on offer.

The auctions will take place Saturday, Oct. 15 in the receiving barn at Horseshoe Indianapolis in Shelbyville, Ind., beginning at 1 p.m. Eastern. It will be immediately followed by a paddock sale for horses of racing age.

This year's main catalog features 88 yearlings, 13 broodmares, 12 weanlings, and one juvenile. The vast majority of the catalog's young horses are Indiana-breds, with a handful of additional Kentucky-breds.

Indiana stallions with young horses in the catalog include Charming Kitten, Europe, Forever d'Oro, Harry's Holiday, Lantana Mob, Looking Cool, Notional, Pass Rush, Pataky Kid, Prayer for Relief, Qafeef, Santiva, Shagaf, Skylord, Slope, Storm's Eye, Taprize, Turbo Compressor, and Unbridled Express.

Stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the catalog include Charming Kitten, Copper Bullet, Enticed, Flameaway, Force the Pass, Maximus Mischief, Qafeef, Shagaf, and World of Trouble.

To view the online catalog, click here.

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Will Flightline Run Next Year? Farish Weighs In

While a decision regarding whether or not superstar Flightline (Tapit) will buck industry trends and return to the races next year as a 5-year-old will not be made until after the Breeders' Cup, co-owner Bill Farish said he is open to the idea of bringing the horse back for a 2023 campaign.

Farish is just one of five owners, but his opinion could carry more weight than that of his partners. Farish is the general manager of Lane's End Farm, where Flightline will stand at stud after his racing career is over. Perhaps more so than anyone else in the group, he has more to gain by Flightline being sent off to stud, where he can make far more money than he could racing.

Even so, Farish understands that this decision involves more than just the bottom line.

“We are all racing fans and we all want to do what is good for the sport,” he said of the ownership group. “That weighs into this. When you get a horse who is this unique those aspects become bigger. He's such a unique talent that everybody would like to see him run multiple times next year and have a full season and maybe even go overseas. But it is a tough decision when you have a horse that may be as valuable as anything that has gone to stud in decades.”

The other owners are Siena Farm LLC, Summer Wind Equine LLC, West Point Thoroughbreds and Hronis Racing. Appearing on a recent edition of the TDN's Writers' Room podcast, Kosta Hronis said he was in favor of bringing Flightline back next year and said there was a “great possibility” that he will have a 5-year-old campaign.

“All the owners love racing,” Farish said. “There's nothing more fun than what happened at Del Mar the other day in the Pacific Classic. Everybody is a fan at heart. In a perfect world we'd keep racing him. But there are other things to weigh when making that decision.”

Farish said that the plan is for the owners to huddle after the Breeders' Cup and hash out Flightline's future.

“We have a pretty large ownership group and we've all agreed that we would discuss this after the Breeders' Cup and see where we are. It's really hard to say definitively what is going to happen,” he said.

The decision could come down to a vote among the owners, but Farish doesn't think that will be necessary.

“I think there will be a discussion and hopefully we will all agree as to what the right thing to do is,” he said. “I guess it could come down to a vote if there is a lot of disagreement, but I don't think that will be the case.”

When Flightline does retire, Lane's End will be his new home. As good as Lane's End's stallion roster is, on the day he arrives Flightline will be the farm's biggest star.

“We are very, very excited that he will stand at our farm,” Farish said. “We've been fortunate enough to have had some pretty special horses retire to the farm over the years. So, it's not a completely unique situation for us. This is what we are in it for. But this horse seems to be taking things to a whole another level.”

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Nostrum’s Mettle To Be Tested At HQ

Newmarket's three-day Cambridgeshire festival features 10 black-type heats, reaching the high plateau of Saturday's G1 Cheveley Park S. and G1 Middle Park S., and opens Thursday with the four-runner G3 Tattersalls S.–also known as the Somerville Tattersall S.–the highlight of day one. Sir Michael Stoute has not won this contest since 1994, when Annus Mirabilis (Fr) (Warning {GB}) joined the race's honour roll, and the veteran trainer relies on Juddmonte's homebred Nostrum (GB) (Kingman {GB}–Mirror Lake {GB}, by Dubai Destination), who has been rerouted from last week's cancelled Listed Flying Scotsman S., in his attempt to bridge a 28-year gap. The March-foaled bay powered to a 'TDN Rising Star' rosette with a scintillating display over this seven-furlong trip at Sandown in July and makes his eagerly awaited return coming back off that three-length tally.

Hardened Foe On Show

Nostrum encounters just three opponents, but competition is fierce with the presence of a stakes-winning duo placed at Group 2 level, namely Karl Burke trainee Holloway Boy (GB) (Ulysses {Ire}) and Godolphin's Victory Dance (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}). Both won their June 18 debut, Holloway Boy in Royal Ascot's Listed Chesham S. and Victory Dance in a novices' heat at the town's July course, with the former subsequently posting a second in July's G2 Vintage S. at Goodwood. The latter has since followed up a G2 Superlative S. second with a win in the Listed Denford S. at Newbury. “Victory Dance is in good order and has experience and strong group-race form under his belt,” said Charlie Appleby, who seeks a third straight edition alongside William Buick in the wake of their triumphs with La Barrosa (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) and recent GI Woodbine Mile hero Modern Games (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}). “We are looking forward to him returning to group company and feel he should be very competitive.”

Unlikely Upset

Paul Kwok and Angel Li's rank outsider Abravaggio (Ire) (Caravaggio), ninth on debut at Great Yarmouth last week, is a graduate of the WC Equine academy which once housed this term's Listed City Walls S. victrix and G3 Prix du Petit Couvert third Royal Aclaim (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}). However, he is unlikely to spring an upset for George Margarson's nearby yard.

Rockfel Tops Friday's Bill

While Thursday's additional stakes action consists of the two-mile Listed Rose Bowl S. and Listed Criterium de Lyon in France, Friday's programme includes a quintet of black-type contests at HQ, headed by the G2 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Rockfel S. over seven furlongs. One dozen juvenile fillies have been declared with John and Thady Gosden trainee Commissioning (GB) (Kingman {GB}), who is out of a half-sister to G1 Irish Derby and G1 St Leger hero Capri (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), set to depart from stall one as the likely favourite. The card also features the seven-furlong G2 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Joel S., with Hambleton Racing's in-form Tempus (GB) (Kingman ({GB}), successful in last month's G3 Sovereign S. and G3 Prix Quincey, allocated gate one in a field of seven.

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Vadeni to Arc; Sweet Lady to Ascot

The Aga Khan's leading 3-year-old Vadeni (Fr) (Churchill {Ire}) looks set to be seen next in the G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, it was confirmed on Wednesday.

Winner of the G1 Prix du Jockey Club and G1 Coral-Eclipse, the Jean-Claude Rouget-trained colt was most recently third behind Luxembourg (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) when sent off as favourite for the G1 Irish Champion S. It appeared after that race that Vadeni would swerve the Arc, which has been won by his owner-breeder on four occasions, most recently with Zarkava (Fr).

However, Georges Rimaud, manager of the Aga Khan Studs in France, announced that a decent forecast for Paris for the first weekend of October had swung the balance in favour of the Arc over Britain's G1 Champion S.

“All things being well, Vadeni will run in the Arc next weekend,” he said.

“Hopefully the ground will be suitable in Paris as that is an element of importance for this horse. He doesn't need good ground as such, but he doesn't need to have it very slow or deep or challenging.”

Asked whether the fact that Baaeed (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) is now being aimed at a career finale in the Champion S. had swayed the decision, Rimaud added, “When making these decisions you put all the elements on the table.

“Baaeed not running in the Arc has been discussed, but it is not the primary concern. We really feel this horse needs the right ground and feel he is more likely to have what he needs in Paris rather than in Ascot. It is dependent on the forecast and things may change.”

Proven over 10 furlongs, Vadeni will be stepping up to a mile and a half for the first time in the Parisian showcase.

Rimaud said, “We will find out on the day about the distance, but we feel that with his pedigree, and his dam being by Monsun (Ger), and his sire being by Galileo (Ire), there is no evidence that he cannot stay.

“We feel he has performed very well over the mile and a quarter, but we are happy to try. Vadeni doesn't have to travel, he's at home and we'll give it a shot.”

One horse Vadeni will not now have to face at Longchamp is recent G1 Prix Vermeille winner Sweet Lady (Fr) (Lope De Vega {Ire}). Her owners Francis and Benjamin Teboul of Gemini Stud told Jour de Galop that after consultation with her trainer Francis Graffard they had opted to send the 4-year-old to Ascot for the G1 QIPCO British Champion Fillies and Mares S., giving Sweet Lady an extra two-week break between engagements.

Graffard will be represented in the Arc by the Australian 11-time Group 1 winner Verry Elleegant (NZ) (Zed {NZ}).

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