https://xitter.cf/t.co/21IPUOBAO3 (Editor Annie Johnson) features stories of Thoroughbred racing history. #equine #horseracing
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Happy JOHN MORRISSEY STAKES Day!
Did you know that Morrissey owned and trained a horse who was a "mudder?" His 5yo horse DEFENDER won the Summer Handicap at SAR in 1872, romping by 10 lengths over a muddy track.
My new brick in the @nmrhof courtyard celebrates this victory. ππͺ β at Saratoga Springs, NY
Anybody watching Far Hills American Grand National, was Ziggle Pops ok, looks like he was eased before the last fence?
Hadnβt seen this reported by US racing media but Breedersβ Cup F/M Turf Champion GEZORA (Almanzor) has been retired
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Sad news @GMBRacing Tom's d'Etat passed away after a brief illness.
Winner the G1 Clark, G2 Stephen Foster, G2 Fayette Stakes, Alydar Stakes at Saratoga and Tenacious Stakes at Fairgrounds - 11 wins from 20 starts. A special thanks to Al Stall, Jay Adcock and @WinStarFarm
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Even our jockeys are falling asleep to the @FanDuel_Racing background music.
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Three parts brother to Gr 1 winner ASSISTENT, 2yo ASKET, by SEA THE MOON @Lanwades emerges as a 2027 Classic contender in Germany with this astonishing 17-lengths maiden win in Cologne today. @bloodstocknews @theTDN
Asket 2024 c Sea The Moon @Lanwades - Anna Jolie breaks maiden on 2nd start by length of the track! GestΓΌt RΓΆttgen bred wins by 3.28 secs, officially 17 lengths but perhaps further? Dam 1/2 sister to G1 Assistent, from A family of Anna Paola etc.
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This remarkable photograph was taken on 16 July 1929, after a frightened horse bolted with its wagon and ended up in an Amsterdam canal.
The horse freed itself from the wagon and swam to safety, but getting it back onto the street was another matter. Enter Sinckβs horse-hoisting machine, a mobile crane designed specifically for hauling horses out of the city's canals.
Such accidents were surprisingly common; at one point the apparatus was reportedly called out around 50 times a year.
Thankfully, this horse survived, cheered on by quite a crowd!
#Amsterdam #1920s #SocialHistory
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Sea The Stars, the outstanding Arc hero of 2009, and his sons who line up in todayβs renewal: 2025 winner Daryz and 2026 Grand Prix de Paris scorer Maltese Cross.
AMERICAN PHAROAH colt SPACE WALTZ, 2nd yesterday in the G2 Prix Chaudenay at ParisLongchamp and a G3 winner at 12f sells for β¬1,150,000 at the @InfoArqana Arc Sale ππΊπΈ
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I asked Charlie Appleby if El Cordobes ran well enough to go on to the BC Turf. "No," was his answer.
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π£οΈ "It's never good to be wide, but the worst of the worst in history in stall 11. No horse has won from it since 1988.
Stall six has been the plum draw since then, with six winners. Stalls two and three are next best, with five victories apiece"
π¨ 2026 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe draw LIVE
Crucial stall positions for all 16 runners to be revealed at Paris ceremony π«π·
π - racingpost.com/news/festivalβ¦
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NYRA racing office just told me they are canceling Saturday and Sunday. Running on Wednesday. Stakes to be rescheduled with announcement shortly.
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β¨ 2025 Arc winner #Daryz, captured with his rider Jean-Philippe Bresler on Les Aigles, one week before his bid to retain his title in the 2026 Prix de lβArc de Triomphe.
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βIf the local leader here got a phone call saying, βWe need to dispose of this horse,β there would've been people here to do it,β says journalist Tommy Conlon. βIt would be an ideal placeβ¦ to bury a body that you never wanted found.β
He believes remote, sparsely populated Aughnasheelin, Ireland, may be where Shergar was buried. cbsn.ws/4hlRs3i
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Meet the hall of fame horse bettor building the new Belmont Park trib.al/Le1vCXK
