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Tuesday Throwback: Watch Cigar Post Thrilling Victory In Inaugural Dubai World Cup

The Dubai World Cup meeting celebrates its' historic 25th anniversary on March 27, 2021, with six Group 1 races and three Group 2s, including one of the world's premier races -its namesake feature-the $12million Dubai World Cup sponsored by Emirates Airline.

Over the next three weeks, the Dubai Racing Club will pay tribute to each of the previous Dubai World Cup winners. We rewind back to 1996, and the very first winner of the Dubai World Cup race – worth $4 million at the time, won in thrilling fashion by America's Cigar.

They say first impressions count for everything, and if that adage rings true then Cigar provided the perfect beginning to the Dubai World Cup. It was essential that the inaugural Dubai World Cup attracted the best from around the world and first and foremost on the list was Cigar, the phenomenon from America who was in the middle of a sequence of races that included a runaway victory in the previous year's Breeders' Cup Classic.

From Europe came that continent's champion Halling and from Oceania came the best from that part of the world in Danewin. However, all of the other continents combined, held no match for the American challenge.

Cigar sat behind the leaders in the early part of the race, stalking L'Carriere and Tamayaz, however from halfway Cigar stepped up the tempo, jockey Jerry Bailey making his move approaching the home turn. As Cigar straightened in front it appeared a repeat of the Breeders' Cup Classic was in store for those at Nad Al Sheba.

However, emerging from the back was Soul Of The Matter who began to cut into Cigar's lead. At the 200m it appeared Cigar was in trouble, but the great champion dug deeper, found extra reserves, and he eventually defied Soul Of The Matter to beat that horse by a half-length.

It was the first of a quartet of Dubai World Cup successes for Cigar's rider Jerry Bailey, who was to later prove successful on Singspiel (1997), Captain Steve (2001) and Godolphin's Street Cry (2002). The Dubai World Cup was the 14th win in Cigar's magnificent sequence stretching from October 1994 through until August 1996 when he was beaten in the Pacific Classic by Dare and Go.

Cigar's presence and his gallant defeat of Soul Of The Matter and a host of international stars provided the ideal launching pad for the latest addition to global racing's calendar. Cigar would retire at the end of the year following his third behind Alphabet Soup in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Woodbine. The racing superstar passed on in 2014 at the age of 24.

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Live Racing In New Mexico Scheduled To Resume On April 23 At SunRay Park

On Feb. 25, 2021, it was announced that restrictions regarding gaming in the state of New Mexico would be loosened. The news was emphatically embraced by the New Mexico horse racing industry as purse accounts will now experience an influx of funding not seen since March 16, 2020.

Newly named Chairman of the New Mexico Racing Commission, Sam Bregman, said: “We are very excited to get live horse racing going again in the state of New Mexico. We look forward to getting the industry back on track starting with the April 23, 2021 opening day at SunRay Park in Farmington, NM.”

The New Mexico Racing Commission intends to make decisions regarding the SunRay Park purse schedule, condition book, post times, racing officials, and wagering format at the upcoming March 18, 2021 regularly scheduled monthly meeting.

At its Feb. 18 meeting, the NMRC officially cancelled the 2020-2021 race meet at Sunland Park just outside El Paso, NM, which never began as scheduled on Dec. 26 because of COVID-19 restrictions in the state.

Ruidoso Downs, The Downs at Albuquerque, and Zia Park all have dates on the calendar for 2021 as well.

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Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Catalog Online Now

The catalog for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up, which will take place Monday, April 12 – Wednesday, April 14, can be viewed online at www.tattersalls.com and will be available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls Representatives from Monday, March 8.

A total of 168 high quality juveniles are catalogued for Europe's premier sale of two-year-olds in training which has produced a remarkable 49 Group and Listed winners in the last five years.

All 168 lots are eligible for the new £250,000 Craven Royal Ascot/Group 1 Bonus which will offer a £125,000 bonus for the first Craven Breeze Up winner of any of the six two-year-old races at Royal Ascot. An additional £125,000 bonus will also be paid to the first Craven Breeze Up winner of any of the 15 European Group 1 races open to two-year-olds, including the all-age Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York and the Group 1 Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp. This is in addition to the lucrative and widely acclaimed £15,000 Craven Breeze Up Bonus, which has rewarded the owners of horses bought from the Craven Breeze Up Sale with more than £250,000 in bonus prize-money since its inception in 2019.

The catalog features 20 2-year-olds out of group or listed winning mares including the Frankel colt out of Group 1 Prix Jean Romanet winner Ribbons, and the Dubawi colt out of the Group 3 winner Stellar Path. Also out of top class racemares are U.S.-bred colts by Arrogate and Union Rags out of the Grade 1 winners Funny Moon and Careless Jewel, respectively.

Additionally there are own or half brothers and sisters to a further 32 group or listed winners cataloged, including two exceptionally well bred sons of Siyouni. Oak Tree Farm consigns a half-brother to the Grade 1 scorer Western Aristocrat, whilst Longways Stables offers a half-brother to the Grade 2 winner and Grade 1 runner-up Mrs Sippy. The catalog also features the Aclaim half-brother to Group 1 Sussex Stakes winner Here Comes When consigned by Ardglas Stables and the half-sister to the Group 2 winner and classic placed Laughing Lashes, by exciting first-season American sire Mastery, coming from Mocklershill.

No less than 42 of the sires represented in the catalog have already produced Classic or Group 1 winners including Acclamation, Camelot, Dark Angel, Dubawi, Exceed and Excal, Frankel, Invincible Spirit, Kingman, Kodiac, Le Havre, Lope de Vega, Mehmas, No Nay Never, Oasis Dream, Pivotal, Sea the Stars, Showcasing, and Siyouni. Leading U.S.-based sires also feature prominently including proven Grade 1 sires American Pharoah, Bernardini, Distorted Humor, Empire Maker, Hard Spun, Kitten's Joy, More Than Ready, Street Boss, Street Sense, and Union Rags.

Equally impressive is the exciting group of first-season sires with their first crop of 2-year-olds with Aclaim, Almanzor, Ardad, Caravaggio, Churchill, Cotai Glory, Ectot, El Kabier, Galileo Gold, Highland Reel, Profitable, Recorder, Ribchester, Time Test, and Ulysses, joined by a strong contingent of U.S.-based contemporaries including Arrogate, Gormley, Mastery, and Practical Joke.

Irish consignors Mocklershill and Aguiar Bloodstock have the equal largest consignments with 12 juveniles cataloged a piece, whilst last year's sale-topping consignor Tally-Ho Stud will bring eight 2-year-olds to the sale. The largest British-based team comes from Malcolm Bastard, who has a team of eight to represent him.

In addition to all lots being eligible for both the new £250,000 Craven Royal Ascot/Group 1 Bonus and the £15,000 Craven Breeze Up Bonus, buyers looking to benefit from additional incentives will be well catered for with nine lots entered in the hugely popular £20,000 Tattersalls October Book 1 Bonus. There are also 12 fillies registered for the Great British Bonus Scheme, 10 2-year-olds eligible for French Owners' Premiums, and one 2-year-old eligible for each of the £150,000 Tattersalls October Auction Sales Stakes and the €300,000 Tattersalls Ireland September Super Auction Sales Race.

Commenting on the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up catalog, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said;

“The combination of the new £250,000 Craven Royal Ascot/Group 1 Bonus and the £15,000 Craven Breeze Up Bonus makes the 2021 Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale a compelling prospect for owners. We are committed to rewarding owners in as many innovative ways as we can and a quality Craven Breeze Up catalogue, well supported by Europe's leading breeze up consignors, as well as unprecedented bonuses provide the perfect ingredients for owners, especially in the current climate. The Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up has always been a prolific source of top class 2-year-olds and they stand to be rewarded like never before in 2021.”

The 'breeze' for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale will take place at Newmarket's Rowley Mile Racecourse on Monday, April 12 starting at 9:30 a.m., and the sale will take place on Tuesday, April 13 and Wednesday, April 14, after the conclusion of racing on the first two days of Newmarket's three-day Craven Meeting.

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‘An Exciting New Chapter’: Global Star Enable Confirmed In-Foal To Kingman

Two-time European Horse of the Year Enable was confirmed pregnant on Monday to fellow European Horse of the Year and top British sire Kingman. The announcement was made by the social media account of Juddmonte Farms, which owns and bred both horses.

Enable was retired in October, and plans were immediately announced that she would be bred to Kingman, a 10-year-old son of Invincible Spirit who stands at Barnstead Manor Stud in Suffolk, England. The mating took place on Feb. 14.

Enable, a 7-year-old daughter of Nathaniel, was named Europe's Cartier Horse of the Year in 2017 and 2019. She retired from a 19-race career, spanning five seasons, with 15 wins, including 11 Group 1 races and record earnings for a European-trained horse of £10.7 million (US$14,062,824).

Her global triumphs included two wins in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, an unprecedented three victories King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and the Breeders' Cup Turf. She became the only horse to win the Arc and the Breeders' Cup Turf in the same year during her 2018 campaign.

Kingman was named Europe's Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male in 2014 off a campaign that included Group 1 victories in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, St. James's Palace Stakes, Sussex Stakes, and Prix du Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard – Jacques Le Marois.

Kingman's most notable runners include St. James's Palace Stakes winner Palace Pier and French 2,000 Guineas winner Persian King.

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