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Original Owners in ‘Elleegant’ To Sell Their Share

After Thursday's announcement that G1 Melbourne Cup heroine Verry Elleegant (NZ) (Zed {NZ}) would be trained in the Northern Hemisphere by Francis-Henri Graffard, the original ownership in the star mare have announced that they will sell their 20% stake.

“We're not happy and we will be looking to sell out of the mare unfortunately,” co-owner Nick Bishara told Racing.com on Friday morning.

“The Ellee syndicate was never in favour of going to Europe, basically on the back of what Chris [Waller] felt–that she's probably got one more prep in her and to go half way around the world might be a risk if she doesn't come up.

“The 80% of the syndicate wanted to go but the 20% [Ellee] of the syndicate didn't want to go. Don [Goodwin] bred her and we originally had her. We wanted to put the horse first. Chris Waller is a Hall Of Fame trainer and we were happy to go with what he thought.”

The 11-time Group 1 winner will shortly join Graffard in France and be prepped for an autumn campaign in France and England, with an eye to the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

“She's not a great traveller,” he added. “Even from Sydney to Melbourne she's not fantastic so we just think the risk is too much.

“We are disappointed but also grateful for such a wonderful ride with a lot of people associated with her and of course, the Waller team who have done a fantastic job.

“Chris always puts his horses first and we've always been guided by him and I would have left everything in his hands but that's not the way it's turned out.”

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Tapeta Farm for Sale

Tapeta Farm, owned and operated by trainer Michael Dickinson, has been listed for sale by Goffs Property, part of the Goffs Group. The training center is situated on 196 acres at the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay on the Elk River, mid-way between New York City and Washington D.C.

As a trainer, Dickinson is probably best known for winning the 1996 and 1998 Breeders' Cup Mile with Da Hoss. He also is responsible for developing the year-round Tapeta training surface.

Tapeta Farm offers 30 acres of paddocks, including turnout paddocks covering 20 acres, two movable round pens, organic grazing areas, and two sand pens. Also, the property provides six different season turf tracks, a 4,500 sq. foot main house and a Performance Centre, which includes equine equipment such as a cold saltwater spa, salt room, vibrating platform, and three examining stalls. The performance centre also houses the auxiliary energy system as well as a covered eight-horse Euro-Cizer, and the synthetic track surface research lab. Adjacent to the Performance Centre is the swimming pond with central dock. Other features of the farm–a 40-stall barn, offering a well-water treatment facility, six-air-changes-per-hour ventilator system, three hay steamers, organic fly-spray system and a hay storage area.

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For Sale: Former Balmoral Park, Now Show Jumping Facility, Listed At $4 Million

Balmoral Park in Crete, Ill., hosted its final race in 2015 before the property went into bankruptcy. Purchased for $1.7 million in 2016, it was then transformed into a show jumping facility by New York-based Horse Shows in the Sun, or HITS, which hosted its first horse shows in 2017.

Now there are 10 arenas, renovated stables, and the racing grandstand with 4,400 seats still on the property.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Balmoral property is back on the market with an asking price of $4 million.

The 2016 deed for the 200-acre property prohibits gambling until 2026, but HITS confirmed last year that it had a pending deal with real estate developer Phil Goldberg, who planned to reintroduce harness racing and build a casino. Neither Goldberg nor HITS commented on the listing.

Balmoral was built as Lincoln Fields in 1926, and the name change to Balmoral came with a sale in 1955. The track has hosted both Thoroughbred and harness racing during its history.