Pre-Sale Breeders’ Cup Ticket Registration Opens

While tickets go on sale to the general public Apr. 22, fans can register for pre-sale access to tickets for this year's Breeders' Cup championship weekend at Del Mar at BreedersCup.com/2024. A broad range of seating options for the event were unveiled Tuesday at BreedersCup.com/Tickets.

The Breeders' Cup returns to Del Mar for the third time Nov. 1-2. Ahead of championship weekend, Breeders' Cup and Del Mar will invest more than $5 million to create new seating areas and expanded hospitality offerings, including construction of a luxury chalet that will provide approximately 700 premium dining seats, the addition of more than 1,000 temporary box seats, and enhanced culinary activations.

“Del Mar is a fantastic partner in hosting the World Championships, showcasing the highest levels of international Thoroughbred racing while providing a tremendous hospitality experience,” said Drew Fleming, President & CEO of Breeders' Cup Limited. “We look forward to our domestic and international fans returning to the San Diego area to enjoy everything the local community and World Championships have to offer.”

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Unraced Laurens Colt Among John Dance’s Horses to be Sold at Tattersalls

First Ambition (GB), a colt by Invincible Spirit (Ire) and the first foal of the six-time Group 1 winner Laurens (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), is among a sizeable number of horses owned by John Dance's Coverdale Stud to be catalogued within the Castlebridge Consignment draft for an extended Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up and Horses-in-Training Sale. 

A record number of 195 lots in the horses-in-training section means that the auction will now start with an evening session on Wednesday, May 1 at 5pm. The sale continues on Thursday morning at 9.30am with the breeze-up section to follow.

Around 50 horses from the Castlebridge draft are from Dance's operation, with some of them having raced last year under the names of Coverdale Stud or Titanium Racing Club and others still unraced. 

Andrew Mead, a director of the Castlebridge Consignment, said, “The Castlebridge Consignment have 71 entries in the Tattersalls Guineas Horses-in-Training Sale, now scheduled for the 1st and 2nd May, a number of which are being sold by Coverdale Stud. Whilst several of the horses are proven high-class performers, none of the horses have raced recently due to the personal circumstances of the owner. The majority are well-bred, unraced or lightly-raced horses with considerable untapped potential and all from this owner will be sold as 'out of training'. Castlebridge will be consigning from the Highflyer barns at Tattersalls and welcomes inspections and vettings at the sales.”

Owner and breeder John Dance was arrested last April and is involved in an ongoing Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation into allegations of fraud and money laundering involving his company WealthTek LLP. Under the name of an associated company, Vertem Asset Management, Dance sponsored the G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy at Doncaster between 2018 and 2022. 

Following his arrest and the subsequent freezing of his assets, Dance's horses were initially not allowed to be entered for races, but in May the British Horseracing Authority granted permission for them to run under the name of Coverdale Stud or Titanium Racing. 

First Ambition (lot 151) is among the unraced three-year-olds for sale at Tattersalls, while Tribal Rhythm (GB) (Ulysses {Ire}) (lot 118), a half-brother to Group 1-winning sprinter Bradsell (GB), was placed twice in three starts for Dance's former trainer James Horton last year and is also entered for the sale.

Among the 202 juveniles catalogued for the breeze-up section is a Mocklershill-consigned colt by Wootton Bassett (GB) out of the former champion three-year-old filly Peeping Fawn (Danehill) (lot 353). The mare's four winning offspring include September (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}), who was beaten a nose by Laurens when runner-up in the G1 Fillies' Mile. 

Willie Browne's Mocklershill operation will also offer a Quality Road colt out of treble Group 1 winner Alice Springs (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) (lot 232).

Among the leading graduates of the Guineas Breeze-up Sale is the top-class stayer Trueshan (Fr) (Planteur {Ire}), who was bought by Highflyer Bloodstock for 31,000gns and went on to win three Group 1 races for Alan King.

The catalogues for the Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up and Horses-in-Training Sale are now available online. 

 

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Siyouni’s Narkez A New TDN Rising Star

It was only a matter of time before Andre Fabre unveiled a new bright prospect among his 2024 crop of 3-year-old Classic aspirants and it was during Tuesday's meeting at Saint-Cloud that the Chantilly maestro delivered one of the first. Producing a power-packed performance in testing conditions, Nurlan Bizakov's homebred colt Narkez (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}–Nazym {Ire}, by Galileo {Ire}) earned TDN Rising Star status in the card's often-informative mile conditions event, the Prix Comrade, to prompt Prix du Jockey Club talk.

Sent off the 3-1 second favourite behind stablemate Supercooled (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), the half-brother to the G3 Musidora S. winner Nausha (GB) (Kingman {GB}) who had got off the mark in impressive fashion at Clairefontaine in October was held up in third early by Mickael Barzalona. In front from the turn for home, the chestnut proved relentless as Supercooled arrived for a friendly tussle that was quickly settled. At the line, his margin was 6 1/2 lengths and going ever outwards, with the well-regarded Henri-Alex Pantall-trained course-and-distance winner Kiaro (Fr) (Guignol {Ger}) beaten 15 lengths in total in third.

Mathieu Le Forestier, racing-manager of Sumbe, said of the winner who was second to his owner-breeder's highly-touted Ramadan (Fr) (Le Havre {Ire}) at Chantilly in September, “He has clearly taken a big step forward during the winter–today the opposition was serious and he did it very well. He's a handy colt, professional and diligent and we'll have the choice of keeping him over this trip or lengthening him now. The options are now open, but we're going to take time to discuss them with the rest of the team. There's no reason why he shouldn't perform as well on good ground.”

Narkez, who becomes the 11th TDN Rising Star for Siyouni, represents the same cross as the heavyweights St Mark's Basilica (Fr) and Sottsass (Fr) and adds to the tally of the sire's former Rising Stars which include St Mark's Basilica himself, Paddington (GB) and Tahiyra (Ire). He is currently the last known foal out of the unraced dam, who alongside the aforementioned Nausha has also produced the strong-staying G3 March S. runner-up Nagano (GB) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}). She is a daughter of Brigid (Irish River {Fr}), whose line of top-class descendants include Sadler's Wells's group 1-winning juveniles Listen (Ire) and Sequoyah (Ire), as well as the sire Henrythenavigator and Galileo's Cliffs Of Moher (Ire) and Magician (Ire).

2nd-Saint-Cloud, €28,000, Cond, 3-26, 3yo, c/g, 8fT, 1:50.20, hy.
NARKEZ (FR), c, 3, by Siyouni (Fr)
     1st Dam: Nazym (Ire), by Galileo (Ire) 
     2nd Dam: Brigid, by Irish River (Fr)
     3rd Dam: Luv Luvin', by Raise A Native
Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, €37,000. O-Nurlan Bizakov; B-Sumbe (FR); T-Andre Fabre. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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Sales Companies Jointly Announce Strengthened Medication Policies

Enhanced medication policies will be in effect at all the major auctions in the U.S. beginning July 1, leading North American sales companies Keeneland Association, Fasig-Tipton Company and Ocala Breeders' Sales Company jointly announced Tuesday morning. The changes were made in an effort “to safeguard the welfare of the horse while creating greater clarity and consistency among the nation's three major U.S. Thoroughbred auction houses,” according to the release, and are the result of meetings between the three companies begun last October at the behest of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.

The new rules enhance current medication policies, reducing the number of permitted therapeutic medications while increasing the number of prohibited medications to include all substances currently banned under HISA's Anti-Doping and Medication Control program. The penalties for violation of rules will also be increased.

Keeneland President and CEO Shannon Arvin, Fasig-Tipton President Boyd T. Browning Jr. and OBS President Tom Ventura said in a joint statement:

“We continue to refine our policies with the goals of protecting the well-being of the horse and providing our customers with transparency and the best opportunity for success at the race track. Horse safety and welfare must be a collaborative effort across our sport, which includes the sales ring. We take our leadership roles toward that mission seriously and remain united in our advocacy to serve the best interest of the horse.”

Among the listed highlights of the new medication reforms: no non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may be administered to a horse within 48 hours of an under-tack performance; no NSAID may be administered to a horse after 6 p.m. the day prior to sale; NSAIDs permitted for use on the sales grounds are Phenylbutazone (Bute), Flunixin Meglumine (Banamine) and Ketoprofen (Ketofen), at or below manufacturer's recommended dosage (MRD). Only one such NSAID can be administered at any one time (stacking is prohibited).

No corticosteroid may be administered to a horse within 48 hours of an under-tack performance. No corticosteroid may be administered to a horse within 24 hours of the start of the session in which that horse is scheduled to sell.

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