Breeders Cup News

Adena Springs consignment highlights OBSC sale (Thoroughbred Times)
The 2009 Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. winter mixed sale features a large roster of broodmares, thanks in part to one substantial consignment.

UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup (UPI)
By ROBERT KIECKHEFER UPI Racing Writer Wrap-up of Thoroughbred stakes action.

Niagara Causeway to Buck Pond (BloodHorse)
Niagara Causeway, a graded stakes-winning son of Giant’s Causeway, will stand at Doug Arnold’s Buck Pond Farm near Versailles, Ky., for a fee of $3,000. He is owned by Glenda Perryman’s La Bahia Stud.

Inside Track: Yatta Yatta Yatta (BloodHorse)
Exercise riders have a special trash talk all their own, usually along the lines of how the horse they are aboard can trounce anything on four legs in this century or last.

Spotlight on 2010 World Cup qualifiers, F1 championship (Times of Malta)
Malta will resume their 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign with a home match against Albania on February 11. Photo: Darrin Zammit Lupi.

Curlin deserves to be horse of year again (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
From Jennie Rees at the Louisville Courier-Journal: It might have been a grim horse racing season overall, but there is one compelling 2008 race whose outcome won't be known until later this month: Horse of the Year.

Curlin deserves to be Horse of Year again (Louisville Courier-Journal)
It might have been a grim season overall, but there is one compelling 2008 race whose outcome won't be known until later this month: Horse of the Year. Even though reigning champion Curlin finished fourth in the Breeders' Cup Classic, this Eclipse Award voter again is casting a ballot for the colt for North American racing's top honor.

Stardom Bound Could Run in Las Virgenes (BloodHorse)
Stardom Bound, the Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I) winner and likely the divisional champion, could make her 3-year-old debut in the $300,000 Las Virgenes Stakes (gr. I) at one mile on Feb. 7, new trainer Bobby Frankel said.

Racing: Oaks winner forward for campaign (Otago Daily Times)
KiwiIngenuity, winner of the New Zealand Oaks in May, will be the focus of attention when she resumes racing today. Kiwi Ingenuity is competing against 2-3 win horses at the Wyndham Harness Racing Club meeting at Cromwell.

MOST POPULAR STORIES (Thoroughbred Times)
Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) winner Stardom Bound, a leading contender for the Eclipse Award as champion two-year-old filly, might make her 2009 debut in the one-mile Las Virgenes Stakes (G1) on February 7.