China Horse Club

A share in Extreme Choice brought a sale-topping bid of A$540,000 from Glenlogan Park's Steve Morley during the Inglis Digital May (Early) Sale on Wednesday. The share was offered by China Horse Club. Extreme Choice has sired five Group 1 winners to date and at a range of distances, including Golden Slipper winner Stay Inside, Blue Diamond Stakes hero Devil Night, and Melbourne Cup winner Knight's Choice. At the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale and Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale his yearlings have averaged A$579,082 and sold up to A$1.7...

River Thames (Macleans's Music), who was most recently third in the GI Blue Grass Stakes, will not go in the GI Kentucky Derby and will instead use the extra two weeks off to prepare for the GI Preakness Stakes. The story was first reported by the Daily Racing Form's David Grening. "We just felt like the Preakness gave him a little more time and it felt like that was a better spot," said Elliott Walden, the president of WinStar Farm, which co-owns the colt along with the China Horse Club....

Tappan Street (Into Mischief), making just his third lifetime start and first since a runner-up effort in the Feb. 1 GIII Holy Bull Stakes, punched his ticket to the GI Kentucky Derby with a stylish victory over favored Sovereignty (Into Mischief) in the GI Curlin Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park Saturday. "He really ran like we thought he would," said Elliott Walden of WinStar Farm, which owns the colt in partnership with CHC, Inc. and Cold Press Racing. "We've given him the time after the Holy Bull because we thought...

5th-GP, 65K, Msw, 2yo, 7f, 2:19 p.m. The partnership of WinStar Farm, China Horse Club and Siena Farm went to $1,000,000 to purchase TAPPAN STREET (Into Mischief) out of the Fasig-Tipton New York Saratoga Select Sale last year. The colt is out of GII Gazelle Stakes third Virginia Key, a a half-sister to GSW/MGISP Pyrenees (Into Mischief) and GISW Grace Adler (Curlin), who has already produced SP Distorted d'Oro (Medaglia d'Oro). Notably not the most expensive yearling in his family (his year-younger Curlin half-brother brought $1.4m at KEESEP this year),...

8th-Fair Grounds, $58,000, Msw, 12-26, 2yo, 6f, 1:09.85, ft, 1 1/4 lengths. GUNMETAL (c, 2, Gun Runner--Classy Dancer {MSP}, by Speightstown) immediately engaged fellow 'Insight' runner Prime Power (Medaglia d'Oro) to his inside and that promising pair stayed together nearly the entire length of the race. The second and third choices in the wagering at 3-1 and 7-2 respectively, the two threw down through fractions of :21.88 and :44.89 and opened up a sizable gap back to third once they spun off the far turn and came for the wire...

9th-Tampa Bay Downs, $32,000, Msw, 12-11, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:24.69, gd, 4 1/4 lengths. INTO AMORE (f, 3, Into Mischief--Embellish the Lace {GISW, $441,540}, by Super Saver) made the trip up off a solid worktab at Palm Beach Downs and was made the 7-5 choice to get her career off to a winning start. Ridden along to take up a chasing role in second down the backstretch beneath Pablo Morales, the homebred was more or less on even terms approaching the stretch and asserted through the final furlong to take...

by Jessica Martini & Christina Bossinakis LEXINGTON, KY - Solid trade continued right through the conclusion of the second and final Book 2 section of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale Thursday, with the 3-year-old broodmare Finesse (Street Sense) bringing the section's top price of $900,000 when selling to Dixiana Farms. "It was really solid today," said Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy. "It was very competitive. I was speaking to a lot of buyers out there, and they were finding it very difficult to buy the foals that...

NEWMARKET, UK -- "Bought him for Bahrain," is an oft-repeated phrase at the sales these days. With an expansion in the Bahrain Turf Series announced only recently and the stamping of the form of some of the island's better races by Royal Ascot hero Isle Of Jura (GB), it is perhaps no surprise that it has become a target for a number of owners and trainers. Bahrain was also to the fore at the July Course during a sombre afternoon on which John Hunt was in the minds of his...

5th-CD, $120k, Msw, 3yo/up, f, 1mT, 2:45p.m. ET MIXOLOGIST (Frosted) will break from the middle of the field in this maiden on the grass, and the LNJ Foxwoods color bearer has big shoes to fill as the half-sister to Australian multiple Group 1-placed Princess Grace (Karakontie {Jpn}). Said sister was a three-time graded winner and three-times Grade I-placed in the States before changing hands for $1.7-million in 2022 at FTKNOV to China Horse Club and being exported to Australia. She twice came a neck short of winning her first race...

1st-SAR, $100K, Msw, 3yo/up, 7f, 12:20 p.m. The second day of the Belmont at Saratoga festival continues with a strong opening race featuring China Horse Club homebred TRULLI WARRIOR (Curlin). Dam Alberobello, who CHC purchased as a yearling for $475,000, is related to a trio of 'TDN Rising Stars' in half-sisters MGSW/GISP Jojo Warrior (Pioneerof the Nile) and MSW/GSP J Z Warrior (Harlan's Holiday) along with full-sister GISW A Z Warrior. The 'Rising Star'-quality continues through the family with Jojo Warrior's son Under Oath (Speightstown) and A Z Warrior's daughter...

WinStar Farm stallion Improbable (City Zip), the champion older male of 2020 and a 'TDN Rising Star', was euthanized late last night at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington after suffering from ataxia behind, a condition which causes poor voluntary muscle control, the farm said in a release early Sunday. "He was sent to Rood and Riddle yesterday morning to determine the exact cause of the ataxia," said Elliott Walden, president, CEO, and racing manager of WinStar Farm. "He was responding well to treatment, but went to lie down...

As we approach the opening of the 2024 breeding season, the TDN staff is once again sitting down with leading breeders to find out what stallions they have chosen for their mares, and why. Here we catch up with Christie DeBernardis, CHC's Regional Manager of the Americas. Alberobello (m, 9, Bernardini--Carson Jen, by Carson City), booked to Uncle Mo Alberobello hails from an exceptional family that is constantly improving. Additionally, Bernardini is becoming one of the best broodmare sires we've seen in a while. Alberobello produced an Uncle Mo colt...