Injuries to Top Horses
Rags to Riches is done running for the year but is scheduled at this time to return to racing in 2008 after suffering a hairline fracture when running 2nd in the Gazelle at Belmont on Saturday.
http://www.drf.com/news/article/88602.html
Manduro - ranked as best horse in training in the world by International Federation of Horseracing Association - was injured while winning the Prix Foy at Longchamps on Sunday. He is out of the Arc de Triomphe and may be finished for his career.
http://www.racingpost.co.uk/news/master.sd?psection=racingpost.co.uk&page=News&category=News&story_id=926184
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Jerry Brown Continues Red-Hot Streak
Following up on their score with the purchase and shipping of Student Council to win the Pacific Classic, Thoro-Graph's race of the week was the Woodbine Mile. The Bottom Line read this way:
"If Shakespeare stays in one piece he's a likely winner, and since we don't like Becrux, Sky Conqueror or Art Master, the exotics look inviting. The others to use are Kip Deville, Galantas, Remarkable News, and Le Cinquieme Essai.
The Results:
1st Shakespeare
2nd Kid Deveill
3rd Galantas
4th Remarkable News
$1 Exacta $21.45
$1 Tri $214.20
$1 Superfecta $937.35
Following up on their score with the purchase and shipping of Student Council to win the Pacific Classic, Thoro-Graph's race of the week was the Woodbine Mile. The Bottom Line read this way:
"If Shakespeare stays in one piece he's a likely winner, and since we don't like Becrux, Sky Conqueror or Art Master, the exotics look inviting. The others to use are Kip Deville, Galantas, Remarkable News, and Le Cinquieme Essai.
The Results:
1st Shakespeare
2nd Kid Deveill
3rd Galantas
4th Remarkable News
$1 Exacta $21.45
$1 Tri $214.20
$1 Superfecta $937.35
US Racing Summed Up
John Gosden is quoted in Sunday's Racing Post on American racing:
"I think it would be a terrible error for our races to become too short, just over six furlongs, seven furlongs and a mile. We don't want to be one-dimensional, it's happened in America.
"In America, a mile and a half race is regarded as a marathon and we don't want to go down that route."
With the top-class field expected for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in three weeks that any of the first six betting favorites in that race would beat any North American horse in the BC Turf.
I wrote this post before reading Sunday's Daily Racing Form. Alan Shuback had very similar thoughts on this issue in his column:
A longer way to go?
"A comparison of the average distances of the races run at the prestigious August meetings around the world reveals some interesting data.
A question persists: How can we develop top-class horses in America able to stay beyond a mile when the average distance of our races has dwindled to barely seven furlongs? Our breeding industry is certainly not going to produce horses that can stay 10 or 12 furlongs when most of the money devoted to our static purse structure is funneled into races shorter than a mile. For goodness sake, a glance at the chart might lead one to believe that what goes on at Del Mar is a completely different sport from that at Clairefontaine, the meeting run up the street from Deauville.
In France, they are in a conundrum for exactly the opposite reason. As can be seen from the chart, staying at least 1 1/8 miles is essential there. Yet the French breeding industry is in a near panic. At the conclusion of the recent Deauville meeting, 100 French breeders declared their industry to be in a "state of crisis." Decrying the lack of top-class stallions standing in France, they noted that only 40 percent of the sires in Deauville's August yearling sale stand in France. Even worse, only 25 percent of the yearlings in the catalog were bred in France.
Part of the problem is the power of the commercial bloodstock market and its emphasis on speed, a bias that has led to the situation in America, where we see sprinters and milers routinely tried at nine or 10 furlongs. Here's hoping French breeders stick to their traditional guns and continue to inject stamina into the makeup of the French Thoroughbred. If they do, it will benefit the sport in the long run."
John Gosden is quoted in Sunday's Racing Post on American racing:
"I think it would be a terrible error for our races to become too short, just over six furlongs, seven furlongs and a mile. We don't want to be one-dimensional, it's happened in America.
"In America, a mile and a half race is regarded as a marathon and we don't want to go down that route."
With the top-class field expected for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in three weeks that any of the first six betting favorites in that race would beat any North American horse in the BC Turf.
I wrote this post before reading Sunday's Daily Racing Form. Alan Shuback had very similar thoughts on this issue in his column:
A longer way to go?
"A comparison of the average distances of the races run at the prestigious August meetings around the world reveals some interesting data.
A question persists: How can we develop top-class horses in America able to stay beyond a mile when the average distance of our races has dwindled to barely seven furlongs? Our breeding industry is certainly not going to produce horses that can stay 10 or 12 furlongs when most of the money devoted to our static purse structure is funneled into races shorter than a mile. For goodness sake, a glance at the chart might lead one to believe that what goes on at Del Mar is a completely different sport from that at Clairefontaine, the meeting run up the street from Deauville.
In France, they are in a conundrum for exactly the opposite reason. As can be seen from the chart, staying at least 1 1/8 miles is essential there. Yet the French breeding industry is in a near panic. At the conclusion of the recent Deauville meeting, 100 French breeders declared their industry to be in a "state of crisis." Decrying the lack of top-class stallions standing in France, they noted that only 40 percent of the sires in Deauville's August yearling sale stand in France. Even worse, only 25 percent of the yearlings in the catalog were bred in France.
Part of the problem is the power of the commercial bloodstock market and its emphasis on speed, a bias that has led to the situation in America, where we see sprinters and milers routinely tried at nine or 10 furlongs. Here's hoping French breeders stick to their traditional guns and continue to inject stamina into the makeup of the French Thoroughbred. If they do, it will benefit the sport in the long run."
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