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Expanded $500,000 Stakes Program Announced For Texas Sale Graduates

The Texas Thoroughbred Association is pleased to introduce a revamped Texas Thoroughbred Association Futurity and the new Texas Thoroughbred Association Derby and Oaks, with purses totaling more than $500,000.

The races are restricted to horses that go through the ring at the upcoming Texas Summer Yearling Sale on Aug. 30 or the Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale this coming spring. Horses need not be Texas-breds to be eligible, and the new format eliminates the previous payment schedule.

“In the last two years, Texas Thoroughbred racing has shown a resurgence due to the increased purse money at Lone Star Park and Sam Houston Race Park,” said Mary Ruyle, executive director of the TTA. “To continue to build on that progress, the TTA has revamped the Futurity and created a Derby and Oaks with significantly increased purses for all those races. We look forward to our yearling sale on Aug. 30. Our goal is to create greater value for breeders, consignors and buyers.”

The revamped Texas Thoroughbred Association Futurity will feature divisions for 2-year-old fillies and colts/geldings with $150,000 guaranteed for each division. Both divisions will be run at 5 1/2 furlongs on closing weekend of the 2022 Lone Star Park Thoroughbred meet. The races previously offered purses of approximately $100,000 apiece.

The new Texas Thoroughbred Association Derby and Oaks will be held at Sam Houston Race Park in 2023. The Derby and Oaks will be run on the dirt at a distance of one mile or more. Both races will carry purses of $100,000-added.

For more information on the races go to texasthoroughbred.com and for Texas Summer Yearling Sales information go to ttasales.com.

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Horse Racing Alberta Allocates $1.5 Million To 2021 Thoroughbred Program

Horse Racing Alberta has released the details of the 2021 Thoroughbred Breed Improvement Program. The total Thoroughbred allocation for breeders, owners, and stallion owners has been increased to CA$1,581,465 for this season.

Breeders will share in CA$340,233 available to breeders of horses of all ages foaled in Alberta placing win, place, and show in all sanctioned races in Alberta having a minimum CA$7,000 purse and where entered at or above a minimum CA$6,250 claiming price. The bonus will be paid after the conclusion of the Alberta racing season. Bonuses will not be paid for eligible races that have four or fewer starters unless it is an open stakes race, the CTHS Sales Stake, or stakes races restricted to Alberta-breds.

Owners will share in support of CA$240,232 for owners of horses of all ages foaled in Alberta placing win, place and show in all sanctioned races in Alberta having a minimum CA$7,000 purse and where entered at or above a minimum CA$6,250 claiming price. The bonus will be paid after the conclusion of the Alberta racing season. Bonuses will not be paid for eligible races that have four or fewer starters, the CTHS Sales Stakes, or stakes races restricted to Alberta-breds.

The program also includes owners' breeding support of CA$300,000 designated for the restricted Alberta Breeders' Fall Classic races, which will have a minimum purse of CA$50,000 each.

Stallion owners' breeding support includes a stallion bonus of CA$65,000 to be paid proportionately to stallion owners whose stallions have eligible Alberta Thoroughbred progeny with earnings of CA$10,000 or greater during the calendar year. Stallions must have stood in the province of Alberta for the entire calendar year of conception for each year's crop to be eligible.

The Breed Improvement Program works to reward quality in Alberta bred Thoroughbreds performing at the highest level of racing.

Visit the CTHS Alberta website at www.cthsalta.com to read further details.

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Attila’s Storm Filly Tops Ruidoso New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale’s Thoroughbred Session

A filly from the late leading sire Attila's Storm topped the Thoroughbred session of the Ruidoso New Mexico-Bred Yearling Sale on Aug. 20, bringing $90,000

The Thoroughbred session was the opening segment of what was a two-day auction at Ruidoso Downs, largely consisting of Quarter Horse yearlings.

A total of 55 horses changed hands during the Thoroughbred session for revenues of $759,600. The average sale price finished at $13,811, and the buyback rate finished at 38 percent.

Joe Dee Brooks purchased the sale-topper, an Attila's Storm filly offered as Hip 41, for $90,000.

The bay filly is out of the winning Gone Hollywood mare Ringback, whose four foals to race are all winners, including stakes winner Hollywood Henry and stakes-placed Fill the Bill. The latter is a full-sibling to the sale-topper.

Bred in New Mexico, the filly hails from the family of English Group 2-placed Miss Demure, and Royal Shyness, who was Group 1-placed in England and a stakes winner in the U.S. She was consigned by A & A Ranch.

Attila's Storm, who died in July, accounted for the three most expensive offerings of the sale's Thoroughbred portion, all consigned by A & A Ranch,

In addition to the top horse, he also saw Hip 68, a filly named High Dollar Hush out of the stakes-winning Untold Gold mare Hush's Gold, sell to Pierre and Leslie Amestoy for $70,000. Rounding out the trio was Hip 51, a filly named Happy and Bold out of the Smoke Glacken mare Bold Jubilation who went to Brad King and Suzanne Kirby for $55,000.

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European Champion, Breeders’ Cup Classic Runner Up Sakhee Euthanized At 24

Shadwell legend Sakhee, crowned Europe's champion older horse in 2001, was put down on Friday due to the infirmities of old age. He was 24.

Sakhee was bred by the late Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum and was the best performer sired by Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Bahri. He was one of eight winners out of the Sadler's Wells mare Thawakib, whose biggest success came in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot.

After being born and raised at Sheikh Hamdan's Shadwell Farm in Kentucky, it was only fitting that Sakhee was sent to Arundel to be trained by John Dunlop, as he had overseen the careers of both Bahri and Thawakib.

Sakhee scored in two of his three starts at two, but it was during his classic season at three that he really began to thrive.

Victories in the G3 Classic Trial at Sandown and G2 Dante Stakes at York were followed by an agonizing second-place finish in the Derby, in which he was headed in the final 150 yards by Sinndar.

Sakhee was transferred to the yard of Saeed bin Suroor to carry the colors of Godolphin at four. He developed into Europe's leading middle-distance horse with a pair of top-flight wins in the Juddmonte International, in which he beat Grandera by seven lengths, and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, in which he blitzed his rivals who included Aquarelliste, Golan and Milan. His margin of success at Paris was an impressive six lengths.

He concluded his 3-year-old campaign at Belmont Park in the Breeders' Cup Classic and after a ding-dong battle with Tiznow in the home stretch, he was denied by just a nose to finish second.

Sakhee made a winning reappearance at Nad Al Sheba at five before finishing third to Street Cry in the Dubai World Cup. He ended his career that season having amassed total prize-money of £2,207,096.

Sakhee was retired to Nunnery Stud for the 2003 breeding season.

Although he did not replicate his brilliance on the racecourse in the breeding shed, he still sired several leading lights headed by Sakhee's Secret, whose biggest triumph came in the G1 July Cup, in which he beat Dutch Art by half a length under a power-packed ride from Steve Drowne.

He was also responsible for Luca Cumani's globetrotting Group 1 winner Presvis, whose career yielded more than £4 million in prize-money, and the Poule d'Essai des Poulains hero Tin Horse.

Sakhee had been living out a happy retirement at Nunnery Stud since his retirement from breeding at the end of 2016. He will be much missed by everyone in the Shadwell operation.

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