Brazil

Eclipse champion and Grade I winner Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg})--Indyan Giving, by A.P. Indy) has been relocated permanently to Haras Fazenda Mondesir in Brazil after standing there for the 2025 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, according to a press release from Lane's End Farm. Game Winner is the sire of four crops with 202 foals of racing age. Led by 3-year-old colt Gaming, the Lane's End sire claims a pair of graded winners and has netted four black-type scores. Owned and raced by Gary and Mary West, Game Winner was...

World Pool commingling will be available on three continents during the upcoming weekend, featuring four meetings, 14 races and nine Group 1 races. At Randwick, it is The Everest Day, where Hong Kong Horse of the Year Ka Ying Rising (Shamexpress) will try his hand in the A$20-million G1 The Everest. There will be four other races under the World Pool umbrella there including  the G1 King Charles III Stakes. In Melbourne, the G1 Caulfield Cup is a World Pool race, too, on Saturday. QIPCO British Champions Day is later...

The International Grading and Race Planning Advisory Committee (IRPAC)--part of the International Federation of Horseracing (IFHA)--has approved the promotion of Uruguay to Part I for the 2025 publication of the International Cataloguing Standards Book (ICS Book), the organization said in a release on Friday. Ratified by the Society of International Thoroughbred Auctioneers (SITA), the country's promotion from Part II of the ICS Book sees it join Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. A total of 24 races in Uruguay are currently included in the "Other Races" section of Part I (two...

1/ST CONTENT, a provider of content for North American horse racing, has broadened its international footprint by partnering with America Simulcast, a leading LATAM distributor, the company announced Tuesday. Sportbet, a major operator in the Ecuador space, is already under contract to integrate exclusive data and signals (broadcast and video streaming) from the partnership's content package. This deal has begun with commingling bets into the US pools via Sportbet's retail outlets, before adding fixed-odds betting and online channels in the coming weeks, scaling activity which provides an immediate validation of...

GI Carter Handicap and GI Jaipur Invitational Stakes winner World of Trouble (Kantharos--Meets Expectations, by Valid Expectations) has reportedly been sold to a partnership of three Brazillian farms and will stand at Haras Rio Iguassú, according to the South American publication Turf Diario. The other two farms involved are Haras Cifra and Haras Palmerini. World of Trouble has stood since 2020 at Hill 'n' Dale Farms near Paris, Ky. and has 46 winners in his first two crops to race. His four black-type horses include Puerto Rican stakes winner Touch...

MGSW First Captain (Curlin-America, by A.P. Indy) has been retired and will stand the 2024 Southern Hemisphere season at Stud Eternamente Rio in Brazil, according to Turf Diario. The 6-year-old, who arrived in Brazil Feb. 9, was acquired by a partnership that includes Stud Enternamente Rio, Stud Red Rafa and Stud H e R. Bred by Bobby Flay, who also campaigned GSW America, the colt brought $1.5 million at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Sale in 2019. Flay retained a piece of the colt, who was ultimately raced by a partnership...

They say the Galway Festival has an unrelenting ability to provide a springboard for young jockeys. Ride a winner at the Galway Festival on terrestrial television and it's worth 10 around the country tracks.  Think of the baby-faced Colin Keane storming to Topaz Mile glory aboard Brendan Brackan (Ire) (Big Bad Bob {Ire}) for his boss Ger Lyons back in 2013 as a five-pound claimer.  Just last week, we had local boy Danny Gilligan earning the plaudits for his front-running masterclass aboard Gordon Elliott's Ash Tree Meadow (Fr) (Bonbon Rose...

Argentinian champion and U.S. Grade I winner Ivar (Brz) (Agnes Gold {Jpn}) is preparing for his Southern Hemisphere homecoming next month, when he will take up stud duty at Haras Carampangue in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 7-year-old, who was campaigned by Kentucky-based Bonne Chance Farm and its South American partner Stud RDI, began quarantine shortly after his second-place finish in the GI Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational S. and will depart for his new home at the end of April, leaving him plenty of time to adapt to his second...