US 5yo mare by Mr. Greeley wins 1st stakes in Argentina

Diego Mitagstein, editor of Turf Diario, sent this in from Argentina. The 5-year-old Mr. Greeley mare Period, who was bred by Pin Oak Stud in Kentucky and was unplaced in 4 starts in the US,  won the Listed Clasico Espirita today at San Isidro to become a new black type winner. Period had run 2nd in 4 [...]

Read Full Post »

Victorian government won’t stop Ramzan Kadyrov runners

ANZ Bloodstock News reported today that Victorian government officials will not stop Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov’s Mourilyan and Bankable from competing at the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. Click here to read the story.

Read Full Post »

Jack Werk: Darley’s Singspiel is the most underrated sire

Jack Werk wrote in a recent blog post: Just look at Singspiel’s stats: With just his 9th crop racing this year, he has 70 unrestricted SWs (30 of them Group winners), including 12 G1 winners! These are monster numbers for any top stallion.” Click here to read the entire story.

Read Full Post »

Indian Charlie suspects Barry Irwin as author of parody

Could it be that Team Valor’s Barry Irwin is the architect of the infamous Indian Charlie parody that debuted at Keeneland? Indian Charlie, aka Eddie Musselman,  seems to think so. See the Sept. 18 issue of the newsletter, right-hand column, mid-page caricature of Barry “White Shoes” Irwin, in Chuck’s words. In the Friday, Sept. 25 issue of the newsletter, [...]

Read Full Post »

Darryl Sherer editorial: Sydney racing is in a sorry state

Darryl Sherer, former editor of Pacemaker, comments about the state of racing in Sydney versus Melbourne in the 9/30/2009 edition of ANZ Bloodstock News. He wrote today: Instead of enjoying its moment in the sun, the Sydney Spring Carnival is very much playing second fiddle to Melbourne. The answer is both obvious and simple. Money. [...]

Read Full Post »

Time magazine piece on Ramzan Kadyrov is stale, sloppy

The Paulick Report has a link to a Time magazine online article on the controversy surrounding the Australian entries of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov’s  Mourilyan and Bankable. Titled “Will Australia Let Chechnya’s President Race His Horses,” the article is slightly stale off the press and somewhat inaccurate with facts. First off, Australian racing officials have [...]

Read Full Post »

Memo to US breeders from Europe: Broaden your horizons

Jocelyn de Moubray, writing in Racing Post, commented recently: I am not talking about the internal problems of American racing, but the way the major farms and stallion owners regard the outside world. You only have to look at a yearling catalogue from a July sale in the 1980s to see that, at the time, [...]

Read Full Post »

Remarkable Age of Jape wins 5th classic of season Sunday

By winning the Slovak St. Leger at Bratislava Sunday (Sept. 27), Age of Jape won his 5th classic race of the season. Previously the Polish-bred son of Jape had accounted for the Czech 2000 Guineas, Derby, and St. Leger, as well as the Slovak Derby. Click the video tab next to his pedigree (below) to [...]

Read Full Post »

Scenic Blast goes for $1M bonus Sunday in G1 Sprinters S.

Australian globetrotter and top-class sprinter Scenic Blast will try to emulate the feats of fellow countrymen Takeover Target (2006) and Silent Witness (2005) in the Group 1 Sprinters Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse Sunday. The son of Scenic goes against 15 others in what is the 6th leg of the Global Sprint Challenge, and a US$1 million bonus [...]

Read Full Post »

Ray calls out Injun Chuck and his supporters in editorial

Ray Paulick, a victim of the Indian Charlie newsletter on several occasions, has written a piece that in part questions the judgement of those who support the publication and its author/editor, Eddie Musselman, with advertising dollars. Ray wrote: He’s been sued by some of those he’s attacked in print, and maligned by others. To his [...]

Read Full Post »

Leading NA, European sires of unrestricted SWs, from WTC

 Click here for chart through 9/27/09.  

Read Full Post »

New links and blog posts added to eMatings news section

New links added to eMatings’ breeding and racing news page include: Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance, Breeders’ Cup 360, ANZ Bloodstock News, Korea Racing blog, Russian racing, and Czech news. Additionally, a new section has been added highlighting interesting bloodstock-related blog posts. See it below. Bookmark the page. Bloodstock in Blogs John Sparkman on Giant’s Causeway Victor Sheahan [...]

Read Full Post »

Jolie’s Shinju still has G1 Cox in sights despite weekend flop

Click here to read story.

Read Full Post »

Ramzan Kadyrov won’t go to Oz; he’s busy hunting rebels

Kadyrov won’t travel to Australia ‘because he is busy hunting rebels’ his press service said when contacted by ANZ Bloodstock News.”  Click here to read the Sept. 28 issue of ANZ Bloodstock News.

Read Full Post »

Central European Bloodstock Sale on Oct. 9 at Pardubice

Click here to view the catalog for the Central European Bloodstock Sale. The sale is organized by Janda Bloodstock (www.jandabloodstock.cz/drazba).

Read Full Post »