Month: March 2023

Moyglare Matings Include Baaeed Debut for Search For A Song

Following news that last season's Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Homeless Songs (Ire) is working up to an early seasonal debut, her owner-breeder Moyglare Stud has released the farm's mating plans for 2023, with her dam Joailliere (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) set for a return visit to Frankel (GB), the sire of her illustrious daughter. The 10-year-mare, herself a Listed winner, produced a filly foal from the first crop of St Mark's Basilica (Fr) on February 17.

She is not the only one of the Moyglare matriarchs to be heading to Juddmonte's Banstead Manor Stud. The Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Sonaiyla (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) delivered a Frankel colt last week and she will pay him a return visit, while the winning Galileo (Ire) mares Espoir d'Soleil (Ire) and Federica Sophia (Ire) are both bound for Kingman (GB). The former produced a Starspangledbanner (Aus) colt in February.

In many ways, Polished Gem (Ire) (Danehill) and her offspring have become Moyglare's signature family in recent years, and three of the celebrated mare's daughters are among the 39-strong broodmare band in Ireland, along with a number of grand-daughters. Amma Grace (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a stakes-winning full-sister to the Group 1 winners Search For A Song (Ire) and Kyprios (Ire), is set to visit Wootton Bassett, while the recently retired Search For A Song is booked to Baaeed (GB) in his first season. Their half-sister, the Group 2 winner Sapphire (Ire) (Medicean {GB}), dam of the aforementioned Federica Sophia, is currently in foal to Palace Pier (GB) with her 2023 mating to be confirmed. Two more of Sapphire's daughters reside in the broodmare band: Acqua Di Gioia (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will be among the first group of mares sent to Coolmore freshman Blackbeard (Ire). She foaled a filly by Space Blues (Ire) on February 21. Her half-sister, the Group 2-placed dual winner Kiss For A Jewel (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), is also Coolmore-bound and will be bred to St Mark's Basilica, having foaled a colt by Dark Angel this season.

 Blackbeard's sire No Nay Never is also being supported with the dual Group 3 winner Making Light (Ire) (Tamayuz {GB}) from the family of Irresistible Jewel (Ire), whose Group 3-winning daughter Mad About You (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}) is heading to Sioux Nation. In turn, Mad About You's stakes-placed daughter, A Ma Chere (Ire) (Kodiac {GB), will visit Dark Angel.

All Our Tomorrows (Ire) (Kingman {GB}) and Liber Nauticus (Ire) (Azamour {Ire}), two mares who joined Moyglare from the dispersal of the stock of Ballymacoll Stud, will be covered by Dubawi (Ire) and Siyouni (Fr) respectively this season. All Our Tomorrows, a grand-daughter of Hellenic (GB), already has a yearling filly by Dubawi and lost her foal this year, while Liber Nauticus was not covered last year but has a yearling daughter by Sea The Stars (Ire).

In his second season at Dalham Hall Stud, Palace Pier will be sent the Moyglare duo of Lilli Milena (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) and her dam Terrific (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), the latter a sister to the Group 1 winners Jan Vermeer (Ire) and Together (Ire).

Another dual Group 3 winner, Carla Bianca (Ire) (Dansili {GB}), is currently in foal to Sea The Stars (Ire) and heading to Lope De Vega (Ire), while her Listed-placed daughter by Dubawi, Emilie Gray (Ire), has a date with Saxon Warrior (Jpn). The Deep Impact (Jpn) theme continues in the mating of the Listed-placed Titanium Sky (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), who is booked for a visit to Lanwades for Study Of Man (Ire).

Florence Camille (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), a winning full-sister to the Cheshire Oaks winner Thoughts Of June (Ire), will visit Derrinstown's newcomer Minzaal (Ire) after she delivers her foal by Starspangledbanner, and Rose De Pierre (Ire), a dual Listed-winning daughter of Dubawi and the Irish St Leger runner-up Profound Beauty (Ire), is in foal to Camelot (GB) and will be covered by Sea The Stars.

The unbeaten Tocco d'Amore (Ire) (Raven's Pass), who hails from the Kilcarn Stud family of Flame Of Tara (GB), was covered last year by Caravaggio in the States, where she also has a yearling colt by Uncle Mo, and she heads to New Bay (GB).

Grade I Stars Head American Team

Moyglare Stud has nine mares in Kentucky led by Celestine (Scat Daddy), who won the G1 Just A Game S. among her three graded stakes victories, and Switch (Quiet American), victrix of the G1 Santa Monica S. and GI La Brea S. at Santa Anita. Celestine foaled a Curlin filly on February 24 and will be covered next by Gun Runner, while Switch has an Uncle Mo colt at foot and is booked to Not This Time.

Each of Coolmore's Triple Crown winners, American Pharoah and Justify, has a brace of Moyglare mares heading their way: Grade III-placed My Arch Enemy (Arch) and Listed winner Lia Marina (Uncle Mo) for the former and Sola Luna (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) and Gioia Stella (Medaglia d'Oro) for the latter. Another daughter of Arch, the GIII La Prevoyante S. winner Beautiful Lover, is booked to Uncle Mo.

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From COVID To HISA, Nebraska’s Tom Sage Back As ARCI Chair

Tom Sage, the executive director of the Nebraska Racing and Gaming Commission, is the new chairman of the Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI), the umbrella organization representing governmental regulators of horse and greyhound racing.

While ARCI chairs serve one-year terms, Sage actually has experience in the board's top spot. He first served as chairman in 2020. But with COVID wreaking havoc on the industry, Sage was awarded a subsequent term — and another that promises to be unprecedented and eventful.

This time, the racing industry faces seismic changes under the Horse Racing Integrity & Safety Act (HISA), which itself faces multiple legal challenges to the federal law that ceded to a private Authority some key roles previously the domain of state regulators. The court cases include a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling HISA unconstitutional, while the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled it constitutional.

“Our U.S. members face enormous problems caused by the uncertainty of the implementation of the Horseracing Integrity & Safety Act and its programs,” Sage said in addressing the ARCI. “… One of the original goals of the act was to have uniformity, clarity and simplification. Almost two years (into it), we have uncertainty and confusion, both coming at a considerable cost to this industry. HISA can work. Our president, Mr. (Ed) Martin, says it can. I'm not so sure.

“To do that, HISA at the very least would have to revisit how they have structured their program. What would be required? Admit there have been missteps. I'm not convinced they can do that. Perhaps the biggest question is whether Thoroughbred racing can afford and survive the HISA program. Or is there a better way to achieve the act's intention? There are states and racetracks considering the elimination of simulcast exports to free them from the regulatory burdens and HISA costs. I know that. One of my tracks, my state, is doing that right now. We're not simulcasting because of the costs and the fears. I also know – quietly – that there are other states considering the same. And these are states you'd never think would consider.

“If Thoroughbred racing opportunities diminish because of HISA, not only will the horsemen and those working at racetracks be impacted, so will the Thoroughbred breeders and the agriculture industry in our states. From where we stand, it is hard to watch… There's an expectation in some parts of the industry that all regulatory turmoil and new costs will result in fewer breakdowns, fewer equine deaths and apprehend more criminals. We'll see. We call it like it is, realizing not everyone will like what we say. To us, integrity counts more than narrative. Our agenda remains simple: To do the right thing.”

Sage thanked outgoing ARCI chair, Louisiana Racing Commission executive director Charles Gardiner III, along with the ARCI staff and the Nebraska commission and staff.

“This organization has been a beacon of animal wellness and integrity in our sport,” he said. “We consistently work to get it right, and never assume that improvements cannot be made…. We rise above the politics of the industry, and we are respectful for giving a fair assessment for every issue we encounter. Unlike some other organizations, everyone has a seat at our table.”

Under the ARCI, the board votes on a chair-elect, who assumes the chairmanship. The new chair-elect is Doug Moore, who was appointed to the Washington Horse Racing Commission's board after retiring as its executive director. Anthony Salerno of the Pennsylvania Racing Commission was selected treasurer, which puts him in line to be the next chair-elect.

Sage's career in horse racing began as a security officer in 1988 at Omaha's long-gone Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack. He graduated in 1991 from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a bachelor's of science in criminal justice, going to work for the Nebraska Racing Commission in 1993 as an investigator. A 1995 graduate of the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center, Sage was promoted to director of investigations in 2003, taking over as executive director of the racing commission in 2008.

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Big-Race Showdown: Expert Selections for Tampa Bay Derby

For the seventh year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2023 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2023 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The handicappers face off in what we like to call the “Big Race Showdown.”

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