August, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Team Ladies The Big Winners In The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup

Team Ladies accumulated 78 point to just edge Team Rest of the World by five points to take the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup at Ascot on Saturday.

Hollie Doyle and Saffie Osborne each rode two winners on the day, and Doyle scored points with each of her five rides, resulting in her first Alistair Haggis Silver Saddle, awarded to the day's leading rider. Her points total for the day stands at 48.

After winning with The Very Man (Ire) (Jeremy) and Regal Empire (Ire) (Farhh {GB}) in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Stayers and the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Classic respectively, Doyle said, “I haven't won the Alistair Haggis Silver Saddle before, so it's great to have that on my CV. I got to ride in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup first when I was an apprentice, and it let me showcase myself on a wider stage internationally.

“I rode a winner for Clive Cox and I ended up riding out and had quite a few winners for him–I actually rode him a listed winner–so something really did come of that opportunity, and I think it is important in that regard. It's a very good meeting and Ascot do a great job.”

Osborne was successful aboard Scampi (GB) (Nayef) in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Challenge and Dark Trooper (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Sprint. Hayley Turner, the most successful jockey in the history of the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup, captained the Ladies Team but was unable to add to her cumulative 322 points.

She said, “It has been good fun again and it is nice to have all the family here. This has been the best Ladies team we have ever had–I did not get any points at all and they carried me. It has been great fun and I hope I can do this for many years.”

Kazuo Yokoyama won the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Dash with Rogue Lightning (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}), which helped boost Team Rest of the World to second with 73 points. Perotto (GB) (New Bay {GB}), with Thore Hammer Hansen aboard, won the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Mile with Team Europe accumulating 54 points. Team Great Britain and Ireland was fourth with 35 points.

Nick Smith, Director of Racing and Public Affairs at Ascot Racecourse, said, “It has been another brilliant Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup, with the competition going all the way to the final race. It was fantastic to see Alistair Haggis Silver Saddle winner Hollie Doyle and debutante Saffie Osborne ride doubles to land the competition for the Ladies, their fourth success in the last eight renewals.

“We were also thrilled to see international success for Kazuo Yokoyama, which will have been hugely popular in Japan, and delighted that Thore Hammer Hansen rode a winner after stepping in so late in the day.

“Andrew Balding takes home £12,500 for his yard as the leading trainer on the day and, once again, we are hugely grateful to all the trainers and owners for supporting this unique event. There has been more than £500,000 on offer to participants today, which we wouldn't be able to do without the sponsors Dubai Duty Free, so a huge thanks goes to them for their continued to long-standing support.”

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New York-Breds Take Center Stage at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – After an electrifying renewal of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearling Sale just five days ago, the action returns to the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion Sunday evening for the company's New York-Bred Yearlings Sale. Bidding begins at 7 p.m. with a session of 100 catalogued yearlings and is followed Monday by a session of a further 264 yearlings which begins at 12 p.m.

“People seem very eager to buy horses,” Don Robinson said between all-shows at his Winter Quarter Farm consignment Saturday morning. “Hopefully it carries over from the main sale–sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.”

Winter Quarter will offer 10 yearlings at the two-day auction, including fillies by Bernardini and Not This Time and colts by More Than Ready and Malibu Moon, as well as one from the first crop of GI Kentucky Derby winner Authentic, who has gotten off to a fast start in the sales ring.

“We have always done very well bringing Kentucky-raised New York-breds to the sale,” Robinson said. “People like them and we've sold pretty well here.”

The New York-Bred Yearling catalogue includes half-siblings to a pair of 2-year-olds who won on debut at the racetrack just across the street from the sales pavilion. Four Star Sales offers a half-brother by Vino Rosso to Miss d'Or Cherie (Bolt d'Oro), who was a three-length winner Thursday, and Straight Line Equine Sales offers a half-sister by Vekoma to Trust Fund (Practical Joke), who graduated at the Spa Friday. Both were running in special weight races worth $88,000, while New York-breds competing in open company are eligible for bonus purses during the Saratoga meet.

The purses available to New York-breds provides a major draw for buyers, Pat Costello of Paramount Sales confirmed.

“The New York program is very good right now,” Costello said.

“I think the maidens over there run for big purses and with the new program, if they run in open company and win they get an extra 30%. That helps as well. So, to have a New York-bred across the road here is huge.”

Paramount will offer 17 yearlings at the upcoming auction and Costello expects strong demand for the right horses.

“I think it's going to go down to the good horses,” he said. “If you pass the muster, I think you'll be in great shape and if you don't, it won't be pretty.”

Indian Creek, which sold a $3.2-million son of Into Mischief during last week's select sale, returns with 10 New York-bred yearlings.

Asked if she expected to see the electricity from the select sale carry into the New York-bred auction, Indian Creek's Sarah Sutherland said, “I hope so. I think if it does, that will be fantastic. It was just an absolutely electric environment at the first sale. I would not expect it to be exactly the same, but I hope we see the same support with the vetting and the process the whole way through here.”

With 364 yearlings, this year's New York-bred catalogue is the largest it has been in recent years. Sutherland is taking a wait-and-see approach as to how the added numbers will affect the end results.

“I think we will have to wait to see what the sale tells us,” Sutherland said. “Our numbers, personally, are about the same as they always are up here. [The larger catalogue] probably does make me a little bit apprehensive. But I'd love to see everybody do well and maybe the additional horses will work for everybody that way. It's been a few years since they've done that, bumped the numbers. I'm curious to see what happens. But there are a lot of people here, so there may be plenty of people for all the horses.”

The New York-bred sale has shown dramatic growth over the last decade and its 2022 renewal produced its highest-ever gross when 188 yearlings sold for $20,175,000, and its second-highest average and median.

“The New York program just seems to get better and better,” said Sutherland. “The quality of horses up here improves every year. And it's great racing. You're seeing nice New York-breds running in open company as well. I think that's a testament to the strength of the program. We sell a lot of horses for breeders and it's great to bring them here and to have them stay in New York. This is a perfect venue for us.”

While end-users tend to dominate both Saratoga sales, last year's New York-bred sale was topped by a son of Arrogate who brought a sale-record $700,000 final bid from Tom McCrocklin, as agent for Champion Equine, just days after his full-brother Cave Rock impressed on debut at Del Mar. The colt returned to sell for $1.05 million at this year's OBS March sale. Eaton Sales will offer a half-sister by Improbable to last year's sale topper late in Monday's session of the auction.

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First-Crop Sire Watch: 2023 Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale

Following is a list of stallions whose first crops of yearlings are represented in the upcoming Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearling Sale, including the number of horses cataloged and the farm where the stallion is currently advertised.

Offerings from the debut crop of a stallion are often met with a commercial premium from buyers at auction. A stallion's stud fee is often at its highest during their first season, increasing the initial investment, and the natural intrigue of a blue-sky prospect often put a unique spotlight on the rookie sires at any given sale.

Here are the opportunities to get in on the ground floor with a first-year stallion at this year's Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Sale.

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Apprentice Olver Finding Success At Monmouth In First Full Season As Jockey

Madison Olver set two reachable goals for herself in 2023, her first full year as a jockey. One was to be the leading apprentice rider at Monmouth Park this summer. The other was to win a stakes race.

The 24-year-old is well on the way to achieving the former and is a couple of second-place finishes shy of attaining the latter.

“I'm pleased with the meet I'm having so far at Monmouth Park,” said Olver. “I've noticed business starting to pick up. When you're new to a place it can be tough to break in. But (agent) Shawn Klotz and I kept grinding away.

“Things seem to be going well right now. I have a lot of barns willing to support me.”

Olver heads into the weekend with a 14-9-9 line from 69 mounts at Monmouth Park. That puts her in ninth in the track's rider standings. It's a significant accomplishment for someone who had just 38 mounts coming into the year.

Overall, she has 26 wins in a riding career that began last year at Aqueduct.

“It's a game of perseverance and learning and patience and discipline,” she said.

Olver, a native of Fort Collins, Colorado, and a graduate of Colorado State University, still faces plenty of challenges in trying to establish herself. While she is scheduled to ride in five races on Sunday's 10-race card at Monmouth Park she is not in either stakes race that day – the $100,000 Select Stakes and the $100,000 Oceanport Stakes.

In the only two stakes mounts in her career so far, Olver has a pair of second-place finishes, both aboard Super Chow this summer at Monmouth Park.

“You're always proving yourself,” she said.

As a female rider the challenges can be more difficult, even though only one female rider (Ferrin Peterson in 2020) has won more races at a Monmouth meet than Olver since 2013.

“There are a lot of female riders at Monmouth Park, but it can still be difficult as a female rider,” she said. “I still think a lot of people aren't used to it. Monmouth Park is one of the places that is the most open to it.

“I think there are a lot of people willing to give you that first chance to ride for them, but I'm not sure you always get the benefit of the doubt sometimes.”

Olver is one of seven female jockeys to have ridden at Monmouth Park this summer.

She became part of that list almost by accident, not deciding until she graduated high school that becoming a jockey was something she wanted to do.

“I've been riding horses my whole life, but I actually learned about how to race horses when I studied in France,” said Olver, who will be a bug rider through February. “It wasn't until after I graduated college that I thought about it seriously. I wanted to get my degree but I also wanted to become a jockey. Until I graduated high school it was not something I thought about or knew was within the realm of possibility.”

Olver can't envision herself doing anything else now.

“I just want to keep learning, keep gaining experience, and continue to make good connections,” she said. “I am willing to put in the work to be successful.”

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