Arcangelo

A total of 378 horses have been catalogued for the two-day Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's October Yearling Sale, which will be held Oct. 6-7. The catalogue is now available via the OBS website at obssales.com. Both sessions of the auction will begin at noon, with hips one through 189, plus supplemental entries, offered during the Oct. 6 session and hips 251 through 439, along with supplements, offered Oct. 7. Supplemental entries, which will be accepted until Sept. 25, will be catalogued based on the alphabetical order of the dam's name...

GI Haskell Stakes winner Baby Vino (Vino Rosso) will make his next start in the Aug. 29 GI Travers Stakes at Saratoga, trainer Lindsay Schultz confirmed. The decision was made after Baby Vino returned to the work tab Saturday at Monmouth Park, where he breezed four furlongs in :49.20. Schultz had also been considering the GI Pennsylvania Derby. "Right now, the plan is to go to the Travers. He went very easy in the work, worked well and came out of it good," Schultz said. "He has time for two...

The 2023 Triple Crown series will have a relitigation of sorts when the Fasig-Tipton July Selected Yearlings Sale kicks off the yearling sales season Tuesday in Lexington. GI Kentucky Derby winner Mage (Good Magic) and GI Belmont Stakes winner Arcangelo (Arrogate)--as well as Two Phil's (Hard Spun) and Forte (Violence), runners-up, respectively, in both Classic races will be represented by their first yearlings through the ring at the one-session auction which begins at 10 a.m. Mage, who stands at Airdrie Stud for a fee of $15,000, has six yearlings catalogued...

Greatest Joy became freshman sire Greatest Honour's first winner with a professional stalk-and-pounce effort at Presque Isle Downs Monday. The longest shot on the board at 10-1 odds, she watched Castle Dark (Peace and Justice) set the early tempo through an opening quarter in :22.82 on an uncontested advantage. Responding when called on for a rally in the lane, she was on even terms with the long time leader by the eighth pole and had pulled clear of that one not long after. From there she extended her advantage to...

1st-Horseshoe Indianapolis, $32,000, Msw, 10-29, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, 1:46.54, gd, 2 3/4 lengths. CONTRIBUTION (c, 3, Constitution--Gifting {SP}, by Street Cry {Ire}) broke as the narrow 2-1 second choice as the only first-time starter facing a field of far more experienced rivals in the mud Wednesday. Shifting sideways from the outside gate, he lacked any early speed and had only one runner beat around the clubhouse turn and into the backstretch while well off the pace through fractions of :24.24 and :48.37. Forced back and wider still behind race favorite...

According to the Encyclopedia Britanica, a self-fulfilling prophecy is the "process through which an originally false expectation leads to its own confirmation." Horse racing's self-fulfilling prophesy appears to be the belief that only a select few trainers are capable of eliciting from the sport's finest Thoroughbred athletes their optimum talent. This notion reached an absurd low last month when a commentator for the UK's Racing Post argued that owners in possession of the best steeplechasers in England and Ireland should essentially have their heads examined for sending their horses to...

The 2023 champion 3-year-old male MGISW Arcangelo (Arrogate) has sired his first foal, born Jan. 10, at Safari North Farm, Lane's End announced via release Saturday afternoon. The filly is out of the Bernardini mare Bhoma, who earned just shy of $230,000 in her career, and who claims multiple graded winner Mom's One Strike (First Dude) as a half-sister as well as SW Otago (Speightstown) and MSP Reminder (Audible). "Bhoma has been with the program since she was a yearling and we were excited about her first foal by Arcangelo,"...

Through three sessions of next week's Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, over 1,300 broodmares, short yearlings, racing and stallion prospects will cross through the ring en route to new beginnings. And while it may be a fresh start for many of them, the sale marks the end of a process that dates back to September for Keeneland's new Sales Recruitment Manager Josie Mattmiller. "We consider the January sale an extension of the November sale and there are some real advantages to January because there is a lot of...

First let's salute two horses in this category just emerging from surely the most competitive freshman title race ever. The lead changed hands between both, as well as McKinzie (now $75,000), through the final hours of 2024, with VEKOMA ultimately seizing the crown--partly through belated processing of a son in Panama--by $22,939 from McKinzie, with TIZ THE LAW breathing down their necks $9,334 behind. In fact, his "extra" winner gave Vekoma a share of the North American record of 39 first-crop juvenile winners. Admittedly he was working from corresponding volume,...

Flightline (Tapit--Feathered, by Indian Charlie) and Quality Road (Elusive Quality--Kobla, by Strawberry Road {Aus})) lead Lane's End Farm's stallion roster with the pair each standing for $150,000 for the 2025 season. Horse of the Year Flightline, who is represented by his first crop of weanlings this year, stood for the same amount in 2024, while Quality Road, who lists MGISW National Treasure among this season's standouts, stood for $200,000 this year. "The much-anticipated Flightline weanlings will be on display in the upcoming November sales, and we've already seen the international...

Although she made history last year with a horse named Arcangelo (Arrogate), trainer Jena Antonucci hardly ever watches replays of the 2023 GI Belmont Stakes or GI Travers Stakes. She'll tell you why. She has a love for the horses, a love for competition, and, oh, she was good enough to seriously consider a career as a professional golfer. Here it is, the TDN's Saratoga Conversation. TDN: You were the master of ceremonies at the annual trivia contest at the Racing Museum last month. Asked all the questions. One of...

Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano and Classic-winning trainer Jena Antonucci will be signing posters of 2023 Eclipse Award winner Arcangelo (Arrogate) at Saratoga Race Course Saturday at 11 a.m. Proceeds will benefit the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Renowned artist Greg Montgomery has produced exclusive limited-edition poster prints featuring Arcangelo, Castellano, and Antonucci for the Museum. Each autographed poster is $20. Any additional items fans would like signed will also be $20 per autograph. The Museum's open-air satellite facility is located behind the racetrack's grandstand just...