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Races at RICCARTON PARK - 10 Nov 2020
- VALACHI DOWNS CANTERBURY BREEDERS STAKES over 1400m, $ MINNALOUSHKA (NZ) 2005, wins by 0.8 length(s) in 82.8 secs...
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152 stakes winners for Deep Impact 09 Mar 2020 11:18
The late, great Deep Impact (sire of Mauritzfontein’s exciting G1 winning sire Danon Platina) made headlines this weekend, when the Sakae Kunieda-trained Satono Flag (3 c ex Balada Sale by Not For Sale) won Sunday’s Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho Deep Impact Kinen (Gr 2, 2000m) at Nakayama to provide the late Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) with his 152nd stakes winner.
The Northern Farm-bred colt defeated Wakea (Heart’s Cry) by one and three quarter lengths with another half-length back to Authority (Orfevre) in third.
Now the winner of three of his four career starts, Satono Flag is out of the champion Argentinian mare Balada Sale (Not For Sale) who has produced four winners from as many named foals with the son of Deep Impact her only stakes winner to date.
Deep Impact, who sits at the head of the leading sires table in Japan by earnings, died last July at the age of 17.
Dubai World Cup cancelled
The Dubai Racing Club hoped to persevere with the March 28 Dubai World Cup (G1) in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, but on Sunday, finally declared that the international racing festival could not go …
Kentucky Derby Postponed
Kentucky Derby set to be postponed until September as US battles coronavirus The Kentucky Derby is expected to be postponed until September due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to reports in the US overnight. Churchill …
RACING UPDATE
In light of the guidelines and restrictions regarding public gatherings as announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday 15 March to limit the spread of the coronavirus, Phumelela Gaming and Leisure, Kenilworth Racing, Gold Circle, …
KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER DIES
War Emblem, the winner of the 2002 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1), has died at age 21, Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center announced March 11. War Emblem, who had been pensioned at Old …
152 stakes winners for Deep Impact
The late, great Deep Impact (sire of Mauritzfontein’s exciting G1 winning sire Danon Platina) made headlines this weekend, when the Sakae Kunieda-trained Satono Flag (3 c ex Balada Sale by Not For Sale) won Sunday’s …
SOUMILLON SMASHES RECORD
Christophe Soumillon became the most successful jockey in French history at Compiegne on Wednesday. Soumillon, 38, won his 3315th race in France aboard the Aga Khan-owned Valeya in a 2400-metre four-year-old conditions race, surpassing the …
