Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2YO Catalogue Online

The sales ring in Timonium | Fasig-Tipton photo

A total of 550 juveniles have been catalogued for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale, scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, June 29 and 30, at the Maryland State Fairgrounds at Timonium. Both sessions will begin at 11 a.m. ET. The online catalogue may be viewed here. Print catalogues will be available beginning June 8.

Under-tack shows will take place Wednesday through Friday, June 24-26 and will kick off at 8 a.m. ET.

“Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training has produced more Grade I winners than any other U.S. 2-year-old sale in the last 17 months,” said Midlantic Sales Director Paget Bennett. “Eight individual Grade I winners are featured on this year’s catalogue cover, a testament to the type of quality offered at this sale year-in and year-out. We have another strong catalogue to present to buyers in 2020.”

Among those top-level winners featured on this year’s cover are Belmont Oaks heroine Concrete Rose (Twirling Candy), Fourstardave and Matriarch winner and GI Breeders’ Cup Mile runner-up Got Stormy (Get Stormy), GI Pegasus World Cup victor Mucho Gusto (Mucho Macho Man) and Spun to Run (Hard Spun), upset winner of last year’s GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile.

“Leaders of just about every division of North American racing are featured on this year’s cover,” said Bennett. “Their careers were all launched over Timonium’s consistent dirt racetrack, a surface in which buyers have tremendous confidence.”

The Midlantic Sale will usher in a new wrinkle as it will be the first to make use of Fasig-Tipton’s new online bidding platform, which will be made available to buyers at all future auctions. There will also be increased capacity for phone bidding. Fasig-Tipton is also introducing a new Cloud-based repository system. The Asteris Keystone Repository allows veterinarians to review radiographs remotely instead of needing to do so on the sales grounds.

The Midlantic Sale will be conducted under guidelines approved by the state of Maryland and the Maryland Department of Agriculture.  Appropriate protocols will be in place.

fonte : TDN

Patience is a virtue in racing, and trainer Brendan Walsh showed it in spades with his first  Grade I winner, Godolphin’s Maxfield (Street Sense). Off since a blowout victory in the GI Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity last fall, the colt was slowly brought along by Walsh to a triumphant sophomore debut in the GIII Matt Winn S. Saturday, almost eight months after his last start. The Irish-born Walsh joined the TDN Writers’ Room podcast  presented by Keeneland Wednesday as the Green Group Guest of the Week to discuss the training strategy with his star pupil, how to fix the drug problem in American racing, Godolphin’s quest for an elusive GI Kentucky Derby win and more.   “My approach with him and pretty much all of our horses is to let them tell me what they’re going to do,” Walsh said. “Every horse is important, but I knew this is a special horse and I wasn’t going to do anything that was going to mess the horse up, as much as we’d all like to win the Derby.”   Walsh added that he thinks his colt would’ve had a good shot on the first Saturday in May as well.   “Everyone tells me it was a blessing in disguise that the Derby got moved, and it may well have been, but he’s a very good horse and it seems like he overcomes an awful lot of things and it wouldn’t have surprised me if he [won] anyway,” Walsh said. “He was going to make it, but he was going to make it off of one prep. The experts are going to tell you it’s pretty much an impossibility to win the Derby off one prep, but it was something that we could’ve tried anyway. We took it step by step, day by day and in the end we were able to back down off him a little bit, take a fresh approach and do it the way we wanted, like he hadn’t been injured last year.”   Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin has won just about every big race there is to win in Europe and a myriad of historic trophies in the States, but the one prize that’s evaded them to this point is the Derby. Should he make it to the starting gate, Maxfield figures to give them as good a shot as they’ve had at taking down the Run for the Roses.   “I worked for them [in Europe] in the late ’90s, early 2000s, and even back then they were throwing the kitchen sink at trying to win the Derby,” Walsh said. “They had horses in Dubai for the winter to bring over here and then they tried to do it from England. They’ve tried all kinds of ways, and it’s a very difficult race to win, full stop. They had a hell of a shot a couple years ago with Thunder Snow, and it got killed leaving the gate. They’d really, really like to win it, and this might be their best chance.”   Elsewhere on the show, in the West Point news segment, the writers forecasted the implications of the Oaklawn drug test revelations if the horse who tested positive goes on to win the Derby. They also debated the significance of vastly increased handle at Churchill and Santa Anita and how to fix a broken business model for trainers.    Click here to watch the podcast on Vimeo. Click here for the audio-only version.

fonte : TDN 

Agnano riparte il 29 maggio a porte chiuse. Molti i gp estivi trotto e galoppo. D’Angelo: “Auspico piena ripresa al pubblico nei prossimi mesi”.

Tutto pronto ad Agnano per la ripartenza in sicurezza delle corse “a porte chiuse”. Venerdì 29 dalle ore 14.30 corse al trotto, così come domenica 31 maggio, con accesso solo degli addetti ai lavori regolamentato secondo il protocollo operativo covid-19 in vigore all’ippodromo, in ottemperanza a quanto disposto da Mipaaf e Ministero della Salute (https://www.ippodromoagnano.it/news/comunicati-stampa/item/3172-ippica-ippodromo-agnano-protocollo-operativo-covid-19-dal-29-05-2020-mipaaf-ministero-salute).
Tra giugno e luglio, secondo il calendario reso noto dal Mipaaf, dicastero dell’agricoltura che governa il settore dei cavalli, ad Agnano saranno effettuate 21 giornate di corse, con il galoppo al via il 5 giugno e una concentrazione di importanti grandi premi nel weekend del 25 e 26 luglio in notturna. Il sabato sarà protagonista il galoppo con la listed Città di Napoli, gli handicap principali Soragna e Mergellina, e due prove riservate agli anglo arabi, mentre la domenica toccherà ai campioni del trotto misurarsi nei gp Città di Napoli per i 3 anni nella nuova veste internazionale in prova unica, Freccia d’Europa per anziani di ogni paese e Regione Campania per europei di 4 anni divisi per sesso, che complessivamente distribuiranno premi al traguardo per oltre 500mila euro.
“Si riparte con l’auspicio di lasciare alle spalle tutto quanto di negativo vissuto nel corso di questa pandemia e con la certezza di continuare a lavorare con passione, auspicando la piena ripresa della struttura al pubblico per i prossimi mesi” dichiara Pier Luigi D’Angelo presidente Ippodromi Partenopei. “Un pensiero doveroso alle vittime ed a quanti da oggi faranno più fatica ad andare avanti” - prosegue D’Angelo. “L’ippodromo di Agnano può rappresentare un momento di svago per tutti coloro che vogliono vivere pienamente sana competizione e natura contornati dal fascino dei cavalli più forti del mondo” conclude.
In autunno appuntamento con la corsa di trotto per eccellenza, il Lotteria edizione numero 71, la cui programmazione iniziale del 3 maggio  è stata posticipata al 25 ottobre a causa del coronavirus. Altri grandi premi assegnati ad Agnano sono il Mipaaf Allevamento, gruppo 1 per i 2 anni maschi e femmine in calendario il 28 novembre, le Royal Mares gruppo 1 ed il Campionato Femminile 4 anni il 13 dicembre. Per il galoppo la listed UNIRE si correrà il 12 dicembre.

fonte : Ippodromo di Agnano