There is so much behind the name of Whitney Stakes (G1) winner Arthur's Ride, who looms as a contender for the $7 million Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) Nov. 2 at Del Mar.View the full article

A schedule of racing programs for this weekend on radio and television from America's Best Racing.View the full article

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Just a barron wasteland, and has been for many a year now, would have been better with some revenue from the racing club lease, rather than nothing, you'd think it would still be rateable, used to enjoy the races there, and did attend the final meeting back in the day, fond memories of the night meetings as well, quite a novelty night racing on the coast,and also hosted an open class trot, with some top preformed trotters of that era. Oh the memories. 

Rapid Test, fresh off an impressive allowance score at Woodbine, chases his first graded stakes success in the CA$135,000 Durham Cup (G3), a 1 1/16-mile main track event for 3-year-olds and up.View the full article

Being 9-1 on the toteboard was not the only surprising element of Far Bridge's victory in the Sword Dancer Stakes (G1T). View the full article

Trainer Danny Gargan said the Belmont Stakes (G1) and Haskell Stakes (G1) hero Dornoch is on track for a run in the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar Nov. 2.View the full article

Jimmy George is to leave Tattersalls at the end of 2024 to take on the role of managing director of the Newmarket-based International Racing Bureau.View the full article

Another showery and unsettled autumn day in London and the ground at Newmarket was downgraded to Soft after the first race. Saturday's final declarations are through  Eight go in the Group 1 Cheveley Park for the juvenile fillies over 1200m. The Irish dominate but Aidan O'Brien and Ballydoyle provide only half the story as this is a clash between two unbeaten fillies, both having won their three starts and both Group 1 winners. The Ballydoyle contender is Moyglare winner LAKE VICTORIA but she faces BABOUCHE from the Ger Lyons yard who won the Phoenix against the colts last time. Neither has run on soft ground so that's another varible but you'd think LAKE VICTORIA might be better suited dropping back in trip to a test in stamina. The French contender DAYLIGHT looks to relish soft ground - indeed the softer the better - and while her Morny third doesn't match up to the standard of the two Irish fillies, her soft ground preference brings her right into this. The other French raider RAYEVKA could be anything - she won a maiden by five lengths last time at Chantilly just ten days ago. I can't see her being up to this very high standard. The best of the locals looks to be CELANDINE who won the Lowther at York - she was third in the Papin on slow ground and I just wonder if the soft turf will stretch her stamina while similar comments apply to Queen Mary winner LEOVANNI, who was third at York. This is a strong renewal with Group 1 and Group 2 winners - the soft ground is a variable which makes finding the winner difficult. That said, the French do have a decent record in this race so I'll take DAYLIGHT over LAKE VICTORIA and RAYEVKA. Eight also run in the Middle Park for the colts over 1200m. This time Aidan O'Brien has a stronger hand with favourite WHISTLEJACKET and second favourite IDES OF MARCH. The favourite has won three of his six races including the Morny last time and we know he goes on soft ground so he's a worthy market leader. IDES OF MARCH is no doubt improving and has won at both Listed and Group 3 level in his last two runs but that looks inferior to WHISTLEJACKET and on the figures he has 7 lbs to find with his stable companion. SHADOW OF LIGHT was due to run in the Group 2 Mill Reef last weekend but was taken on when the ground went Heavy so the slow ground is a concern. BLACK FORZA won the Richmond at Goodwood but they took him to Keeneland for a valuable race last time and he ran a fair fourth. DEFENCE MINISTER has won both his races but is now in much deeper waters. It's hard to look beyond WHISTLEJACKET who is the only one of these with proven Group 1 form. Seven go in the Group 2 Royal Lodge over the mile. LUTHER is favourite but I much prefer WIMBLEDON HAWKEYE but the truth is the ground is the imponderable for both of these. Aidan O'Brien runs PUPPET MASTER who won a Galway maiden by four lengths on soft ground last time. This is a big step up but the fact the horse is proven on soft turf makes a lot of appeal. Of the others, ROYAL PLAYWRIGHT makes a lot of appeal - third in the Solario at Sandown last time, he's by Lope de Vega so should like the gorund and the extra trip. It's not a race to play the each way but at 10s he may be worth a small interest. In Ireland, five go in the Group 2 Beresford over a mile at The Curragh, also for the juveniles. After two modest runs, Aidan O'Brien did something he doesn't often do and put a pair of blinkers on TRINITY COLLEGE who promptly won by 12 lengths at Galway. Sometimes they run really well with blinkers once but don't always reproduce it the second time and to complicate matters further, having won a Listed in Craon in France last time, Aidan has promptly called for blinkers on the unbeaten LAMBOURN and if that brings the kind of improvement we saw in TRINITY COLLEGE, LAMBOURN might be the one. The English raider, WINDLORD, was a five and a length winner of a York maiden last time and shouldn't be underestimated.

News earlier in the week Aidan O'Brien will have a single runner in the Melbourne Cup but that will be English St Leger winner JAN BRUEGHEL. The likes of CROSS COUNTER and REWILDING came out of that race so he's not to be underestimated having maintained his unbeaten record on Town Moor beating stable companion ILLINOIS. Up here JAN BRUEGHEL and VAUBAN are 8/1 joint favourites currently with CIRCLE OF FIRE at 10s.

Thanks for the information. Okay, that sounds daft - having two races drawing from potentially the same pool of horses. We have "sales" races up here too for horses sold at Tattersalls or Goffs or one of the big auctions and they can be worth a lot of money. At York, the Goffs 2-y-o sales race had a first prize of £308,000 while the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks an hour later went for £302,000 to the winner and the Group 2 Gimcrack and Lowther races, both for the juveniles and both over the 1200m, the same distance as the Goffs sales race, went of £142,000 each to the winning owner. I can't imagine running a big sales race on the same card as a classic, however. the Kiwi is over 1500m and the Derby 2400m so you'd think it's not going to be quite the same group of horses.

It's restricted to horses bred or conceived in NZ, or sold at an NZB sale. It's an insular race to prop up the top end of the local industry, not an attempt at a legitimate globally-relevant race. The Australian slot race The Everest can be open to allcomers because Aussie turf sprinters are the best in the world. The old US slot race The Pegasus could be open to all comers because US dirt horses are the best in the world. The NZ slot race The Kiwi can't be open to allcomers because Aus-breds (nevermind NH 4yos) would be a clear danger to the locals. It's also being run on Derby day, so either we have a race worth roughly 3x the nearest competitor on the entire calendar but which isn't the main event on its day/the anchor of a brand new feature carnival, or we have a 3yo race on the same day as the Derby which is more important than the Derby (which SHOULD be the most important race there is).

Keen Follower in HY we wont get going till March. I dont mind

Very few fatalities in NZ this year. Maybe 2? The wetter tracks and bigger fences make things a lot safer.

Ausse trophy ??? , Possibly A little Embarrassing  Kiwi actually an Australian immigrant, experts say . Canterbury Museum senior curator of natural history Paul Scofield was involved in the excavation which made these discovery's.  Some species long thought to be native to New Zealand are actually Australian immigrants, new research has found. Palaeontologists excavating the St Bathans fossil site in Central Otago say kiwi, moa and Takahē came from Australia just a few million years ago. Scofield also urged people to consider these new findings when voting for Bird of the Year, so as not to crown an Australian immigrant with the title.

It's a lovely trophy with a fantastic story behind it. I wish for "New Zealand's Richest Race" they'd gone for something which would be more open to international or even global competition.  The race is run late in your 3-y-o campaign but very early in the Northern Hemisphere - it's before the start of the flat season on grass in Europe - it would be very early for northern hemisphere 3-y-os to compete - would they open the race to NH 4-y-o? Seems unlikely. That said, you could get an American challenger from the west coast or perhps a Japanese runner or one of Aidan's? It would be nice if it were a "win and you're in" race for something at Ascot or one of the other European Group 1 races - has anyone from NZTR thought about that?

Did you know kiwi is a maori word? Both google and microsoft bing told me so, so it must be true.

A couple of issues , the Pickton ferry's and the Dunedin Hospital . Ferrys , Documents released by the Beehive this week show the total cost of the project was estimated at $775m in 2018, $2.6b in February, and closer to $3b in late-November.    Today Dunedin  , Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop said in the announcement it was possible the project could cost $3 billion and upgrades to other regional hospitals could be at risk if the Dunedin budget blow-out was not addressed.  The project had approved funding of $1.59 billion under the previous government So in total budget blow outs or just plain bad planning/stupidity a complete lack of understanding of the value of money would see these two projects suffer cost over runs by about 3.65 BILLION DOLLARS or in a mildly comprehensible form THREE THOUSAND MILLION SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLORS ,   ex google just checking 3.6 billion = 3600 million. SO the incompetence of Labour is GLARING , no wonder the country is in difficulty's MIND BOGGLING when you consider we just signed an international trade deal valued at 1 BILLION and everyone is excited , how bad was Labour ? shocking .  

4/9/24 at Wanganui Straight track, the previous time standard (17.38) was bettered no less than SEVEN TIMES with Big Time Maestro now TR HOLDER  WITH A 16.98 RUN