Month: November 2023

Classic Winner Mawj to Winter in Dubai

Classic winner Mawj (Ire) (Exceed and Excel {Aus}) will be prepared for a winter campaign in Dubai, trainer Saeed bin Suroor said. The 3-year-old filly, who won the G1 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in May and the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland last month, finished second in Saturday's GI Breeders' Cup Mile behind Master of the Seas (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}).

“She ran a huge race and we thought she was going to win, but she was beaten by a good horse, also a Godolphin horse, and I'm happy for Charlie [Appleby],” bin Suroor commented. “Our filly is tough and hard and it was the first time she ran with the colts. She proved herself good enough to be with them.

“Oisin [Murphy] gave her a very good ride, he did everything right and she ran a huge race. Now she is going back to Dubai and we'll try and find a race for her, maybe the [G1] Jebel Hatta and then the [G1] Dubai Turf. After that we'll find races for her in the UK and Europe. I think a mile is her best trip, but sometimes it can be hard to find races for her. I know she won over nine furlongs at Keeneland, but at the mile I think she is at her best.”

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Beholder’s Daughter Tamara Exits Breeders’ Cup With Splint Fracture; No Surgery Required

One of the heaviest favorites of the two-day Breeders' Cup World Championships, 4-5 chance Tamara disappointed when finishing seventh in the NetJets Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita on Friday.

Owner/breeder Spendthrift Farm reported on social media Monday that the 2-year-old daughter of Hall of Famer Beholder exited the race with a fracture to the splint bone in her left hind limb. The injury will not require surgery, but the filly will need time to heal.

“She will get some much deserved rest as she recovers,” the Spendthrift Farm post reads.”

Trained like her famous dam by Richard Mandella, Tamara won on debut at Del Mar and then earned her place in the Juvenile Fillies with a dominant 6 3/4-length victory in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante.

Beholder is a four-time Eclipse Award winner who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2022. She won Breeders' Cup Races in 2012 (Juvenile Fillies), 2013 (Distaff), and 2016 (Distaff), and earned $6,156,600 from 18 wins in her career.

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Breeders’ Cup Winner Auguste Rodin Among Nominees For Cartier Horse Of The Year

Nominations are announced today for the 33rd Cartier Racing Awards, which will be presented at the Dorchester Hotel in London on the evening of Thursday, November 9.

Four contenders for the Cartier Horse Of The Year include unbeaten Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Ace Impact and Auguste Rodin, who completed a Classic double in the Betfred Derby and Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby in addition to taking the Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes.

Mostahdaf, successful in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes and Juddmonte International, and Paddington, whose haul of four G1 wins in 2023 included the Coral-Eclipse and Qatar Sussex Stakes, are also in contention for the evening's main equine award.

In addition to the Cartier Horse Of The Year award, there are seven other equine categories – the Cartier Older Horse, the Cartier Sprinter, the Cartier Stayer, the Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt, the Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly, the Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt and the Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly.

The non-equine award presented during the ceremony is the Cartier/The Daily Telegraph Award of Merit, which goes to the person or persons who, in the opinion of the 16-strong Cartier jury, has done the most for European racing and/or breeding either over their lifetime or within the past 12 months.

The nominations for the 2023 Cartier Racing Awards are:

Cartier Horse of the Year

  • Ace Impact
  • Auguste Rodin
  • Mostahdaf
  • Paddington

Cartier Older Horse

  • Hukum
  • Inspiral
  • Mostahdaf
  • Westover

Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt

  • Ace Impact
  • Auguste Rodin
  • Big Rock
  • Paddington

Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly

  • Blue Rose Cen
  • Mawj
  • Tahiyra
  • Warm Heart

Cartier Sprinter

  • Art Power
  • Highfield Princess
  • Live In The Dream
  • Shaquille

Cartier Stayer

  • Continuous
  • Courage Mon Ami
  • Quickthorn
  • Trueshan

Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt

  • City Of Troy
  • Henry Longfellow
  • Rosallion
  • Vandeek

Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly

  • Fallen Angel
  • Opera Singer
  • Porta Fortuna
  • Ylang Ylang

About the Cartier Racing Awards

The Cartier Racing Awards were established in 1991 to reward excellence in horseracing. There are eight equine awards – the Cartier Horse Of The Year, the Cartier Older Horse, the Cartier Sprinter, the Cartier Stayer, the Cartier Three-Year-Old Colt, the Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly, the Cartier Two-Year-Old Colt and the Cartier Two-Year-Old Filly.

European horseracing's top awards are delivered through a tried and tested combination of points earned by horses in Pattern races (30%), combined at the end of the season with the opinions of a panel of racing journalists/handicappers (35%) and votes from readers of Racing Post and The Daily Telegraph (35%).

In addition to the equine awards, the Cartier/Daily Telegraph Award of Merit goes to the person or persons who, in the opinion of the 16-strong Cartier Jury, has/have done the most for European racing and/or breeding either over their lifetime or within the past 12 months.

The 33rd Cartier Racing Awards will be presented at the Dorchester Hotel in London on the evening of Thursday, November 9.

A full list of previous winners at the Cartier Racing Awards can be accessed here.

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Accredited Thoroughbred Sanctuary: Glen Ellen Vocational Academy Receives Repeat Grants

The Glen Ellen Vocational Academy, Inc., Northern California's only Thoroughbred retirement sanctuary and rehabilitation facility, has again received grants from the Brennan Equine Welfare Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (BEWF) and from Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA).

Founded in 1995 Glen Ellen Vocational Academy, Inc. (GEVA inc.) is an equine sanctuary accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries (GFAS) and Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA). GEVA was founded primarily to provide refuge for off the track Thoroughbreds (OTTBs) and to train people to work with horses in a skilled, safe, and caring manner. The

Brennan Equine Welfare Fund has again awarded GEVA a grant to help with the maintenance of the 30 horses at the farm. GEVA is most grateful for the many years of support received from BEWF through its generous grants.

GEVA also thanks Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) for a grant for 2023. TCA grants are made “to provide a better life for Thoroughbreds, both during and after their racing careers by supporting retirement, rescue and research and by helping the people who work with them.” GEVA, which has received grants from TCA for many years, uses the funds to maintain the horses living on the farm in Glen Ellen, which owner Pam Berg, a prior racing steward, built decades ago, seeing the need for future care of off the track Thoroughbreds when they could no longer race long before “aftercare” was widely considered an important part of a horse's life.

“We are one of the few accredited equine sanctuaries in the country, and we appreciate the support we have received from the BEWF and TCA,” said Berg. “The grants are given solely for the hay, feed, veterinary and farrier needs of the horses.”

Although GEVA was also founded as a bilingual vocational school, funding was never received for that or a therapeutic program for veterans. “Horses are so therapeutic in so many ways” and Berg believes they would be beneficial for not only veterans, but also first responders after the now annual devastation from the wildfires.

GEVA needs good volunteers and paid workers in various capacities and can be contacted at gef@vom.com or through www.glenellenfarms.com/GEVA. GEVA also gratefully accept donations through PayPal, check, or cash and would especially like to thank the Village Market for allowing GEVA to place its donation boxes on their check-out counters for the past several years. That has been most helpful!

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