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03-07-2008, 06:40 PM
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30k...wow.
and an injury retroactive to the donn, covers both losses pretty nicely, doesn't it? so much for ice cold legs....
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#323
03-07-2008, 06:52 PM
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Might I say that 35k for LDK is a steal IMO. Especially if you are looking for a router, which many people are not...
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#325
03-07-2008, 06:53 PM
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ANOTHER ONE...
http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=43932 Sinister Minister, Koneshewa....
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#326
03-08-2008, 10:25 PM
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Miss Finland.....
www.theage.com.au Miss Finland retired Glamour mare Miss Finland has run her last race with leading trainer David Hayes and managing part-owner John Messara announcing her retirement after she finished fifth to Sirmione in the Australian Cup. Hayes said that jockey Craig Williams pleaded with him not to retire the five-time Group One winning mare who was trapped wide before surging forward to hit the front on the turn before weakening. "The real Fin (Miss Finland) would have probably sprinted with Sirmione and got beaten half a length because she had a bad run," Hayes said. "She had no luck, but she's not racing like she was, the winner made her look second rate. "She's the best two and three-year-old I've ever trained by a long way. She's given me the best ride. "She's re-established me, so I owe her everything," Hayes added about his return to Australia after 10 years training in Hong Kong. "John told me he was going to give me the best-two-year-old in Australia and I laughed at him, but she was. "She's been a highly-competitive four-year-old but not a champion. When she runs fourth in a Cox Plate, second in an Underwood and a Caulfield Stakes everyone is up in arms and a lot of horses can't even get into those races. "We feel that she's better than that and she's not quite what she was so we'll retire her." Messara said Miss Finland would be mated with his Arrowfield Stud stallion Hussonet, the sire of star three-year-old and the Newmarket Handicap winner Weekend Hussler, this spring. Miss Finland's wins included the 2006 Golden Slipper, Thousand Guineas, VRC Oaks and the 2007 Australian Guineas and Arrowfield Stud Stakes. She is the only filly to win the Golden Slipper-VRC Oaks double.
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#327
03-08-2008, 10:27 PM
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Thanks for putting tonight's craziness into perspective.
thud.
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#328
03-08-2008, 10:29 PM
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03-23-2008, 11:46 AM
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Bentley Biscuit.....
 http://www.racingandsports.com.au/ra...asp?NID=123333 Paratroopers' career up in the air Sunday, 23 March 2008: Sydney racing has lost one of its favourite gallopers with the retirement of Bentley Biscuit and now the career of another Group One winner in Paratroopers is also at the crossroads. Trainer Gai Waterhouse confirmed Bentley Biscuit would not race again after suffering a massive bleeding attack during Saturday's The Galaxy at Randwick. The six-year-old failed to finish the race and was walked back to the mounting enclosure by Nash Rawiller whose riding silks and pants were stained with blood spots. "It's tragic he broke down, I loved the horse and I was a bit upset by it," Rawiller said. "He was a stable favourite." A three-time Group One winner, the flashy chestnut with the white blaze retired as the winner of 12 of his 23 starts and almost $1.5 million in prizemoney. His final major in Sydney was his All-Aged Stakes victory 12 months ago, the same race that gave Paratroopers his breakthrough Group One win a year earlier. The Peter Snowden-trained five-year-old appeared to have broken down when a long last in the Apollo Stakes earlier this month but veterinarians could find nothing seriously amiss so Snowden sent him to the paddock for a freshen-up. The Expressway Stakes winner had only recently returned from a throat operation and while he is now back in work at Warwick Farm and tentatively being aimed towards a start in next month's TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick, Snowden says he won't take any risks with him. "I'll give him a good trial and if he doesn't fire then he won't race ever again," Snowden said. "He's in the TJ Smith on the 26th of April. He came back into work last week and he was snorting his tail off. "He loves being in work and he loves his racing." The Group One TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) is at Randwick on April 26. AAP
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03-24-2008, 01:20 AM
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Material World, ten years old, a one-eyed girl who goes by the nickname Daisy and who has her own fan club.....
Last ran at Cheltenham..... Happy retirement. 
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#331
03-24-2008, 05:39 PM
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Gasia and Ginger Bay.....
http://www.drf.com/news/article/93188.html Rags..... http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21129
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03-31-2008, 10:31 PM
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One shock after another.....
http://www.thoroughbrednews.co.nz/sp...cing/?id=34224 Divine Madonna retired after injury 1 Apr 2008 Kavanagh Racing Australia’s leading miler Divine Madonna will be retired after sustaining an injury in the past 24 hours. Trainer Mark Kavanagh on Tuesday morning confirmed the injury and said the daughter of Hurricane Sky would be immediately retired after a stunning race career. “We discovered she’d pulled muscles across her back and while the injury isn’t usually considered that serious, it is enough to end her career,” Kavanagh said. “The usual prognosis on this sort of injury is three months – and that was the time frame we had on the remainder of her racing career,” he added. Connections of the mare were eyeing off a trip to England to contest the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in June. “It’s obviously disappointing to lose her while she had some good racing ahead of her through the Doncaster and possibly to England, but it wasn’t to be.” Divine Madonna, an earner of over $2 million, is regarded as one of the finest milers Australia has produced over recent seasons and she is a fan amongst punters with her typical whirlwind finishes. “She was the loveliest mare to train,” Kavanagh said. “It has been a great ride since I purchased her as a yearling from the Magic Millions Sale in Adelaide.” “She turned into a real stable favourite over the past few seasons. All of our staff will miss her a lot,” Kavanagh summed up. Divine Madonna, from just 26 starts, won eight races and was a minor placegetter on seven other occasions. She won her connections over $2 million. She is best remembered for her come from behind wins in the Emirates Stakes, Queen of the Turf Stakes, Myer Classic and Toorak Handicap – all at Group One level. “I think she will become a fantastic broodmare and I can look forward to seeing her foals over the seasons to come.”
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03-31-2008, 10:40 PM
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04-03-2008, 05:42 PM
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From Racing post.....
Black Jack Ketchum will spend his retirement in Barbados by Andrew King BLACK JACK KETCHUM, whose ability seemed to desert him when he was on the cusp of stardom, has been retired, trainer Jonjo O'Neill revealed on Tuesday. Owned by Gay and Derrick Smith, the nine-year-old netted over £200,000 in prize-money by winning nine of his 14 career starts for O'Neill, including the Brit Insurance Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and the Grade 1 Sefton Novices' Hurdle at Aintree two years ago. O'Neill said on Tuesday night: “He was a brilliant servant to the yard and a super little horse who will be very hard to replace, as good horses like him do not come along every day “He remains in good form at home but is not showing the same sparkle at the course this season and, after talking it over with Gay and her husband Derrick, we have decided the fairest thing to do is retire him. “We had hoped he would run at Aintree this week, where he has won before, but that is off his agenda now and he will spend his well-earnedretirement at the Smiths' farm in Barbados.” Black Jack Ketchum had not been seen in public since pulling up in muddy conditions at Cheltenham on New Year's Day and his sole win since taking a crashing fall in the 2007 World Hurdle was in a Grade 2 atWetherby last November. He made his debut for O'Neill when winning a bumper at Worcester in June 2004 and remained unbeaten in his next seven outings, which included the high-profile successes at Cheltenham and Aintree. O'Neill added of his one-time stable star: “He just did not seem to be enjoying it any more and the last thing Gay and Derrick wanted to see was him slogging around after he had given them so much fun in winning all those races.” The rise and fall of Black Jack Ketchum >> ‘‘My face could have been broken to bits and I would have come out to ride this lad. I love this little horse” Tony McCoy, who had suffered a facial injury in a fall in a previous race, on returning from winning aboard Black Jack Ketchum in December 2005 >> ‘‘Without a doubt he's the best horse I ever trained” Jonjo O'Neill after winning the 2006 Sefton Novices' Hurdle at Aintree >> ‘‘Of all the things that could happen to him, I have to be honest, that one did not cross my mind” O'Neill is left to contemplate an early fall in the 2007 World Hurdle >> ‘‘I certainly wouldn't like to be getting on any other horse in the stayers' hurdle. I'll be sticking with him for a bit” McCoy after finishing fifth in the 2007 Cleeve Hurdle >> ‘‘Black Jack has lost his way totally” O'Neill after Black Jack is pulled up on his last run, at Cheltenham on New Year's Day
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