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Las Vegas The Lecomte Stakes has forever been a blush of springtime hope in the middle of winter. It is always looked at as being loaded with so much potential that it is impossible not to stop and smell the promise of roses. Here we go again with Saturday’s $200,000 Grade 3 points prep for the Kentucky Derby. Mandaloun brings in a 2-for-2 record for presumptive trainer of the year Brad Cox. Midnight Bourbon, Red N Wild and Arabian Prince finished in the money in their previous Derby preps. Game Day Play is already a stakes winner. It is the annual ritual. Look at the full field racing at t...

UPDATED 4:16PM, JAN 13 2021 A colt born in the UK to southern hemisphere time by super European sire Kingman provided the benchmark on another extraordinary day of trade when selling for A$1.8 million (£1.02m/€1.14m) at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale on Wednesday. Even the most bullish industry pundits and stakeholders did not predict, at least publicly, the insatiable appetite shown by buyers during the first two sessions of the seven-day auction, which resulted in four million-dollar lots being sold on Wednesday as the key metrics kept pace with the corresponding figu...

Last modified on Fri 22 Jan 2021 04.59 EST Top story: House poised for impeachment vote tomorrow Morning everyone. I’m Martin Farrer and these are the top stories today. The Republican revolt against Donald Trump over the US Capitol riot is gathering pace after Liz Cheney, one of the most senior Republicans in Congress, said she will vote to impeach the president. Cheney, a representative from Wyoming and the daughter of the former vice-president Dick Cheney, said that Trump had “summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack”. She was joined by two other Republi...

Tom Magnier, speaking at the Magic Millions sale, where Coolmore bought the session-topping colt by Juddmonte stallion Kingman, said:  Meanwhile, Magnier also p

UPDATED 6:37PM, JAN 12 2021 Khalid Abdullah's Juddmonte Farms ranks as one of the world's most prestigious and productive breeding operations. It has few peers, with only perhaps the Aga Khan Studs and Coolmore able to match its strength in depth and achievements. At the last count, Juddmonte had bred 113 individual Group/Grade 1 winners of 220 elite races, including 28 Classic winners. Its produce includes household names such as Frankel, Enable and Zafonic. The seeds of such spectacular success were sown in the 1970s when the young owner, a scion of the Saudi royal family but self-...