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QIPCO Announces British Champions Day Prize Money

Total prize money for the 10th QIPCO British Champions Day on Oct. 17 was cut to £2.5 million, QIPCO announced on Thursday. The purse reduction is a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but the raceday remains the richest in Great Britain. The G1 QIPCO Champion S. will be run for £750,000, while the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. sponsored by QIPCO will be £650,000. Both the G1 QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares and the G1 QIPCO British Champions Sprint S. will be conducted at £350,000 and the G2 QIPCO British Champions Long Distance Cup will carry a purse of £300,000. Races will close on Sept. 1.

“We are pleased to be able to stage a card worth £2.5 million on QIPCO British Champions Day despite our income streams being so negatively affected and the enormous challenges facing the sport currently,” said British Champions Series Chief Executive Rod Street. “QIPCO British Champions Day has seen some superlative performances over the past decade and it is hugely important to us that we continue to make running a horse on the day as attractive as possible. We are very grateful for QIPCO’s long-standing partnership of British Champions Series and British Champions Day which has enabled us to make this early commitment.”

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Friday Insights: Live Oak Homebred Debuts at the Spa

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Live Oak homebred TAPPINGINTOSUCCESS (Tapit) makes her first start for trainer Mike Trombetta. Out of multiple graded placed Slewfoundmoney (Seeking the Gold), the filly is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winning millionaire Awesome Slew (Awesome Again), as well as to graded placed Souper Lucky (Giant’s Causeway) and stakes winner He’s Bankable (Arch).

Leia Marie (Exaggerator) was the highest-priced filly from her Classic-winning sire’s first crop when she sold for $400,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale. Out of a full-sister to graded stakes winner Harlem Rocker (Macho Uno), she makes her first start here for George Bolton, Peter Leidel and Barry Lipman and trainer Doug O’Neill. TJCIS PPs

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Teri, Buster Brown Named Managers Of New York’s Edition Farm

Edition Farm located in Rye, N.Y. is pleased to announce that Teri and Buster Brown have arrived at the farm to serve as farm managers.

Teri and Buster have a lifetime of experience with horses and extensive experience managing horse farms In New York. They most recently managed two of New York's most important nurseries: Sequel New York since 2017 and Waldorf Farm for eight years prior to that.

Their time working together spans nearly four decades, with experience ranging from stallions and foaling to show horses and cattle.

Teri Brown got her start with horses in the 4-H program, and spent 12 years teaching horseback riding and horse care to the physically disabled before starting her farm management career in Arizona in 1995.

Buster Brown went from cattle drives from New Mexico to Colorado in his youth to training Quarter Horses and show horses, eventually joining his wife Teri in the Thoroughbred realm.

Edition Farm is owned by Vivien Malloy, always a leading owner and breeder in the New York program. The 200-acre farm specializes in boarding broodmares and foals, foaling, and raising yearlings for the commercial market and racing stables.

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Spectatorless Racing to Continue in UK

In the latest resumption of racing update, racing behind closed doors is set to continue for the foreseeable future, the British Horseracing Authority announced on Thursday. The BHA thanked participants for their continued support and cooperation in following the behind closed doors protocols, but stressed that with both government and public health concerns about a rise in cases and a potential ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 cases, that it is vital everyone in racing continues to follow the proper protocols so that progress can be resumed towards re-introduction of spectators at the earliest available opportunity through the rescheduling of pilot events.

BHA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jerry Hill has requested all participants and racecourse attendees to follow the following three steps to help keep everyone safe:

Follow all the social distancing requirements when you attend racing, whether you’re in the ‘green zone’ for participants or the owners’ area.
Do not cross from one zone to another, as this weakens the controls and could lead to many more people being quarantined if there is a positive case, as well as risking people’s health.
Please let the BHA’s Medical Team (medical@britishhorseracing.com) know if there’s a positive case so they can liaise with the public health authorities to manage the NHS Test & Trace process with the minimum impact. Dr. Hill can offer advice to employers, which can limit the effects on their business whilst keeping staff safe.

The BHA also reminded all racing personnel that the reason restrictions have not been further eased, is that the specific government guidance for elite sport applies to racing, whereas these same restrictions would not be applied to local businesses, like the local pub. Public health authorities have also made it clear to the BHA that they will consider a 14-day quarantine period for all racecourse attendees in the same zone as someone who tests positive for COVID-19.

For more information on the latest resumption of racing update, go to www.britishhorseracing.com.

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