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Palace Sold To Stand In Saudi Arabia

Palace (City Zip – Receivership), the only multiple Grade 1 winner by City Zip at stud, has been purchased to continue his stud career in Saudi Arabia in a deal brokered by Chad Schumer of Schumer Bloodstock.

Palace previously stood at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky. In two crops of racing age, he is the sire of 36 winners including stakes scorer Chacha Real Smooth and the Grade 2-placed Auberge, herself a $570,000 2-year-olds in training purchase.

Palace was a hard-knocking, popular New York sprinter who dominated the 2014 Saratoga meeting for trainer Linda Rice when sweeping the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap in a time of 1:08.58 for six furlongs and the G1 Forego Stakes, the latter by close to four lengths.

He also won the G2 True North Stakes at Belmont Park and the G3 Aqueduct Fall Highweight Handicap at Aqueduct.

In all, he won 12 of 30 starts for approximately $1.6 million in earnings.

Bred by the Peter J. Callahan Revocable Trust, Palace is out of seven-time winner Receivership, an End Sweep half-sister to Grade 2-winning 2-year-old French Park.

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Turf Paradise Submits Proposal For 84-Day Winter Meet — With Conditions

The standoff between Arizona horsemen and Turf Paradise continues to evolve. A letter published by Thoroughbred Daily News last week from Turf Paradise states the track will seek live race dates from Jan. 2 to May 1, 2021, 84 cards total, at the next racing commission meeting on Oct. 8.

In return, the track expects the Arizona Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association (AZHBPA) to refund the $2.1 million the organization took from the Turf Paradise horsemen's account after AZHBPA asserted it was the rightful owner of the money.

AZHBPA is also asked to approve both imports and exports of the Turf Paradise signal through the end of the proposed meet.

A spokesman for AHBPA told the TDN the second request is not a dealbreaker, but the first one could be problematic. The horsemen's group believes it controls money allocated to the horsemen's purse account, according to a prior arbitrated settlement. The track believes the money should be controlled by a group of horsemen who run specifically at Turf Paradise, not the statewide horsemen's group.

The Paulick Report's Ray Paulick provided his perspective on the ongoing disputes between the state's primary track and its horsemen's group in this op/ed last week.

Read more about the latest developments at Thoroughbred Daily News

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Nando Parrado Camp Opts for Lagerdere

Marie McCartan’s Group 2 winner Nando Parrado (GB) (Kodiac {GB}), runner-up in the G1 Darley Prix Morny at Deauville on Aug. 23, will step forward in the G1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere at ParisLongchamp on Sunday. The G1 Dewhurst S. had been the plan, but the Paris region has more rain in the forecast, and the course is already rated soft. The Clive Cox trainee won the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot.

“With the [wet] forecast, he’s actually going to travel to France on Sunday for the Lagardere,” Cox told Sky Sports Racing. “He did a really good job winning the Coventry, and at that stage we were intent on looking further with him, and he then finished second in the Morny.

“The prospect of easy ground has lured us that way–and I’m very much looking forward to it, because he’s in excellent form. The extra furlong will be really interesting, and I’m convinced it will be well up his street. We think and awful lot of him. He’s got a lot of class.”

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Repairs Continue at Delta Downs, Racing Could Resume Late November

Officials at Delta Downs Racetrack Casino Hotel in Vinton, Louisiana, which suffered widespread damage during Hurricane Laura Aug. 27, report that they are working towards issuing a revised schedule for its 2020-2021 racing season and that live racing could resume by the end of November.

Based on the progress that has been made to date, racing officials are optimistic that horses might be able to return to the grounds to begin training in late October. Racing at Delta Downs was scheduled to take place Oct. 6, 2020 through Feb. 27, 2021, for a total of 84 dates. However, the ending date could be extended along with the total number of dates, pending approval from the Louisiana Racing Commission.

Steve Kuypers, Vice President & General Manager of Delta Downs, said: “Boyd Gaming and Delta Downs are committed to hosting a successful 2020-21 Thoroughbred meet here in Vinton, Louisiana.”

The region has been slow to recover from the hurricane. Track announcer Don Stevens tweeted Sept. 25 that his powered had just been restored after 28 days.

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