Newgate daily racing briefThursday 15 October 2026
Two long-running threads dominate Thursday's reading: the Alligator Blood case has come full circle once more, with the gelding stripped of his 2020 Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas win for a second time. Closer to home for breeders, Asfoora has landed at Noor Elaine Farm and is being given time to settle before a covering stallion is chosen. Overseas, British stewards handed down two notable riding bans.
Conditional jockey Aamilah Aswat has been handed a 20-day ban for using her whip five times above the permitted level at Chepstow. The breach resulted in Reallyntruthfully being disqualified, the sixth horse to be disqualified in Britain this year under the whip rules.
Pedigrees: Reallyntruthfully
Jockey Kieren Fox has been given a ten-day ban after stewards deemed his mount a non-trier in the 7f novice at Wolverhampton on Tuesday evening. The stewards found he had ridden without sufficient vigour.
Graded stakes winner Ewing, a son of Knicks Go, has died in a paddock accident. The horse was being transitioned to a second career at the time of his death.
After more than six years of legal battles, Alligator Blood has been stripped of his 2020 Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas win for a second time. Racenet's Ben Dorries reported the outcome.
Pedigrees: Alligator Blood
Glen Boss joined Triple M's Mick in the Morning with Roo, Titus and Rosie to preview The Everest and the Caulfield Cup. The audio clip is available via Omny.
Asfoora is back in Australia and settling in at Noor Elaine Farm, with a decision on her covering stallion still to be made in the coming weeks. The mare was retired in August after finishing eighth in the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes, closing a career of 35 starts, 12 wins and three Northern Hemisphere Group 1 victories for Henry Dwyer, and she was crowned the 2025 European Champion Sprinter. Stud manager Tim Jackson said she arrived in good order and would have a few days to get some sun on her back. Noor Elaine has also secured Champagne Stakes winner Nepotism, a son of Brutal whose dam Brigite is a half-sister to Black Caviar and full sister to All Too Hard; Jackson expects him to cover around 50 to 60 mares at a fee of $13,750 and said the stud would meet the market.
Pedigrees: Asfoora, Nepotism, Brutal, Brigite, Black Caviar, All Too Hard
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