06/05/2024. Horse Racing World: City Of Troy Remains On Course For The Derby Despite 2,000 Guineas Flop, Three-Time German Champion Sire Soldier Hollow Dies at 24, Visually, Doncho, Lope De Vega Half To Pinatubo A New TDN Rising Star, Elmalka, Kalpana… by TDN

 

 

City Of Troy Remains On Course For The Derby Despite 2,000 Guineas Flop

Aidan O’Brien has suggested that he left City Of Troy (Justify) “too fresh” ahead of what turned out to be a bitterly disappointing return in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket on Saturday but went on… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Three-Time German Champion Sire Soldier Hollow Dies at 24

A day after his daughter Tamfana (Ger) was beaten just a length in the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket, leading German sire Soldier Hollow (GB) has died at the age of 24. The stallion’s death was… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Sire Enticed With First Graded Stakes Winner In Senorita S. At Santa Anita

Motoring late in the GIII Senorita S. down the Hillside Turf Course at Santa Anita, it was Visually (Enticed–Eye Candy Annie, by Candy Ride {Arg}) who struck the front and won, which handed her sire… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

‘TDN Rising Star’ Doncho Mines First Stakes Win In Gold Fever At Aqueduct

‘TDN Rising Star’ Doncho (Mot Town–Sassy Redhead, by Henny Hughes) did not mind a wet surface as the gelding took home his first black-type in the Gold Fever S. during the Belmont at the Big… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Lope De Vega Half To Pinatubo A New TDN Rising Star

Sunday’s five-furlong Tattersalls £40,000 EBF Fillies’ Novice S. at Newmarket looked by far the most intriguing 2-year-old race staged in this country so far in 2024 and the outcome did not disappoint as Godolphin’s Charlie… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Elmalka Caps Big Day For Kingman In The 1000 Guineas

Like Saturday’s 2000 Guineas winner Notable Speech (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) introduced on the all-weather during the winter, Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum’s blueblood Elmalka (GB) (Kingman {GB}) arrived late on the scene to emerge triumphant in… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Kingman’s Friendly Soul Wins The Pretty Polly

We already knew we were dealing with an Oaks filly in Juddmonte’s Kalpana (GB) (Study Of Man {Ire}) prior to Sunday’s Listed William Hill Pretty Polly S. at Newmarket, but now we have another after… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

Goldencents’s Mystik Dan Completes Oaks/Derby Sweep For McPeek, Hernandez, Jr.

When giving a debrief while still basking in the afterglow of his victory in the GI Kentucky Oaks with ’TDN Rising Star’ Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna), trainer Ken McPeek told Churchill Downs media, ‘An Oaks-Derby… [To read this entire TDN News Story, click here.]

 

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