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🇺🇸 @OBSSales is ready for its June 2YO in Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale. Our sale preview. 👇 thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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A few months before its meet in September, Ken Snyder looked at an anomaly: the 🇺🇸 US turf-only course that’s home to a casino and, during racing, a collection of tents. 📸 Grace Clark-Sweet/Kentucky Downs thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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The 🇦🇺 @inglis_sales Great Southern Weanling Sale continues today. Our sale preview if you missed it. 👇 thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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A face of 🇺🇸 US racing is next in the 🤔 What They’re Thinking hot seat. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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This week’s top five horses in the Global Rankings… 👀 thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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A trainer who runs an art gallery in her yard answered our questions in another edition of 🤔 What They’re Thinking. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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Here’s the latest aftercare article by Sarah Sands, celebrating the power of former racehorses in second careers. 🌟 thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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🗞️ Are you signed up to our newsletter? Among plenty of topics in today’s edition, we pose questions around the controversial decision to declare Benvenuto Cellini a non-runner in the Derby. Sign up via the link below 👇 newsletter.thoroughbredracin…
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As we mark 25 years since 🇮🇪 Galileo won the 🏆 Derby, and five years since he died, Nancy Sexton has been examining the legacy of a legend. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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🇺🇸 It’s almost time for the Belmont! Joel Pattison has been through the great race’s last ten editions in search of emerging trends. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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🇬🇧 It’s Derby Day! Joel Pattison has been through the great race’s last 12 editions in search of emerging trends. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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🇬🇧 Epsom’s two-day Derby Festival roars into life this afternoon and the Oaks is the day one showpiece. Joel Pattison has been examining emerging trends from its last 12 editions. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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It’s Derby week in 🇬🇧 Britain, and time to profile the eccentric course at which it all unfurls… thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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This week’s top five horses in the Global Rankings… 👀 thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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Breezes ahead of tomorrow’s 🇫🇷 @aktem_auction Paris Breeze-Up Sale trade are at Maisons-Laffitte this afternoon. Our sale preview. 👇 thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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🇦🇺 @mmsnippets is hosting its Gold Coast National Yearling Sale, the last leg in a series of Queensland sales. Our sale preview. 👇 thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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Laura King spoke to 🇳🇱 Adrie de Vries, who, having gathered Group 1 successes around the world, hung up his boots at 🇦🇪 Meydan in March. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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🌏 Kristen Manning pens a two-part examination of falling foal crops worldwide. 2️⃣ Kristen hones in on her home country, asking fellow small-time Australian breeders about the challenges they’re contending with. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 is next in James Burn’s look at small racing nations. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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Jay Hovdey looked Roy H, a horse with a racing career of two halves, in the latest instalment of his Favorite Racehorses series. thoroughbredracing.com/artic…
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