Keeneland Launches Digital Platform
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SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2020 KEENELAND LAUNCHES NADAL RETIREMENT LEAVES 'CLASSICS' CLINGING TO STATUS by Chris McGrath DIGITAL PLATFORM; So that's why they had to split the GI Arkansas Derby. One division apiece for Kipling's "twin imposters,"--Triumph and SELECT HORA SALE JUNE 23 Disaster. Though we've all felt otherwise, from time to time, Lady Luck is as proportionate as she is indiscriminate in her dealings with Thoroughbreds. If Bob Baffert is better placed to absorb the loss of a servant as talented as Nadal (Blame), only a barn of such depth could have achieved the level of Triumph, in the first place, to have meanwhile registered a commensurate sequel of Disaster. It's not the place of an idle bystander to presume how a Hall of Fame trainer received the consecutive bolts from the blue that this week struck his twin Oaklawn winners. Apart from anything else, the apparent violation that menaces Charlatan (Speightstown) with disqualification shouldn't even be in the public domain, pending a second test. Cont. p4 Keeneland IN TDN EUROPE TODAY DONCASTER PREMIER SALE MOVED TO SEPTEMBER Keeneland officials have announced the launch of the Goffs UK will stage its flagship Premier Yearling Sale on Sept. 1 Keeneland Digital Sales Ring, a stand-alone online auction and 2, a week later than originally planned. Click or tap here to go platform accessible to buyers and sellers around the world at straight to TDN Europe. Keenelanddigital.com. Kicking off the new digital platform will be a Select Horses of Racing Age Sale scheduled for June 23. "The Keeneland Digital Sales Ring marks a significant milestone in our rich sales history and expands the realm of high-quality sales options Keeneland can deliver," Keeneland President and CEO Bill Thomason said. "This tool does not replace Keeneland's traditional live sales format but rather provides us the flexibility to host small, select auctions throughout the year." Keeneland developed the Digital Sales Ring platform together with Kentucky-based technology company Horseco. It is similar to the successful Magic Millions Online technology used by the Thoroughbred sales company in Australia. "We've been working to make the Keeneland Digital Sales Ring a reality for a while but expedited the offering in light of the current COVID-19 crisis as a service to our clients who have experienced a disrupted sales year," Keeneland Vice President of Racing and Sales Bob Elliston said. 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The Irish flat season is set to resume on June 8th. | Caroline Norris/Racing Post Social Media Strategist Justina Severni DEL MAR STAKES SCHEDULE TOPS $5.5 MILLION 6 Director of Customer Service Officials at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club announced a 2020 Vicki Forbes [email protected] stakes program worth better than $5.5 million in purse money. Marketing Manager GRADE I CALIBER FIELD FOR WINNING COLORS Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen 8 The upset winner of the GI Humana Distaff S. last spring, ‘TDN Director of IT & Accounting Rising Star’ Mia Mischief (Into Mischief) looms the one to beat in Ray Villa a salty renewal of the GIII Winning Colors S. at Churchill Downs. [email protected] [email protected] TODAY’S GRADED STAKES EST Race Click for TV WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor 4:08p Winning Colors S.-GIII, CD TJCIS PPs TVG2/FOX Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN 6:16p Old Forester Mint Julep S.-GIII, CD TJCIS PPs TVG2/FOX [email protected] 6:37p Honeymoon S.-GIII, SA TJCIS PPs TVG/NBCSN European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 14 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MAY 30, 2020 Keeneland Digital Platform cont. "We received positive and constructive feedback after presenting the platform to a focus group of buyers and consignors in early May. Their input informed the final product that we are making available to the public." The Select Horses of Racing Age Sale June 23 will be the first sale conducted on the Keeneland Digital Sales Ring, with the prospect of additional sales to be held throughout the summer. Select Horses of Racing Age Sale - June 23 Entries: Keeneland will accept entries for the sale from June 1-12. Entries may be submitted via the traditional entry process by clicking here. Fees: Entry fee of $500 per horse. As with live auctions, Keeneland's 5% commission rate will apply to sales, however, no commission will be charged on RNAs. Buyer Registration: Buyers must register for an account online in advance of the sale by clicking here. Sale Catalog: Catalogs will be available online approximately one week prior to the sale date and continually updated as entries are submitted. Promotional Assets: Sellers have the opportunity to upload photos, video and other promotional assets to the Digital Sales Ring to market each individual hip to prospective buyers. They will receive access to do so after entry has been accepted. Sale Format: The format of this auction is similar to online auction platforms in other industries. Reserves may be set and incremental bidding occurs until the auction closes. Auctions will be conducted under a Conditions of Sale. Click to read, watch, or listen to the Keeneland Life=s Work Project No. 7 FIND US ON FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/thoroughbreddailynews TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 14 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MAY 30, 2020 Ignorance of the inside story, however, did not prevent us all from sharing Baffert's next disappointment, in the injury to Nadal--and not simply because we were all looking forward to learning which of his three meteors (not to neglect Authentic {Into Mischief}) would eventually claim the unbeaten record of the other two. Because this is just the first big debit forced upon the whole sport, both now and when future generations go through the annals, by the postponement of the GI Kentucky Derby to September. No point, I guess, in reprising yet again how Churchill Downs lobbed that grenade, without consultation, into the rest of the calendar. We must now just be more grateful than ever that Nadal at least had the chance to contest a 9-furlong Derby on the first Saturday in May. The mental and physical maturity he displayed in Hot Springs might well have sufficed, in a normal year, to have won the race he would otherwise have contested that day. Nadal and Joel Rosario | Coady Oaklawn's superior engagement with the sport's wider needs would arguably have been still more gratifying had they not diluted their Derby with a division. To whatever extent this may have reflected Charlatan's marginal claims to a gate--and clearly there were other valid factors--the upshot may now be the elevation of Basin (Liam's Map), thrashed six lengths into second, to formal parity with Nadal. Cont. p5 Want to list your job? Standard listing:$350 Multi listing:$300 each • One printed ad on this page (date of your choice) • Two or more printed ads on this page (dates of your choice) • 30 day listing on our careers page:thetdn.com/careers • 30 day listing on our careers page:thetdn.com/careers • Job promoted through our social media channels • Job promoted through our social media channels Contact the TDN Ad Staff: [email protected] >59.2K >46.9K >29.8K for details or to post a job TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 14 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • MAY 30, 2020 This Side Up cont. run 10 furlongs twice in a month.) It's good to see that provision has been made, in the unlikely Assuming that the unique kudos of the Derby is going to prove event of the GI Belmont S. being oversubscribed, for the final transferable, however, then the status even of the other Classics three berths to be determined by committee. Had Oaklawn will become wholly contingent on the perceptions and been able to do the same, they might perhaps have ensured commitment of individual horsemen. With the Maryland Jockey that a Grade I race remained as hard to win as possible, while Club having in turn decided to reschedule the Preakness to its still accommodating Charlatan. As it is, of course, he stands in local benefit, halfway between the Derby and the Breeders' Cup, danger of forfeiting 100 qualifying points for the Kentucky there appears to be a particularly precarious, self-fulfilling Derby. quality to the Belmont. And whether the race, in its temporary Before that bank was menaced, but also before Nadal's injury, guise, can claw its way back into a "Triple Crown" series of bona Baffert was talking about diverting Charlatan from the Belmont fide Classics--as first rather than last leg--may depend pretty to the GI Woody Stephens S.