Sweet Stream realized a final bid of $2,380,235 from Charles Gordon-Watson as agent tonight at Tattersalls' annual December Sale in Newmarket, England. She was among only three mares in the vendue offered in-foal to the German sire Monsun. More

Team Valor International fashioned two famous triumphs on the South African turf on December 1 when Captain’s Lover won the Classic Grade 1 Cape Fillies Guineas at Kenilworth race course in Cape Town and Stratos won the Grade 2 Ipi Tombe Challenge at Turffontein in Johannesburg. More

Team Valor International principal Barry Irwin has designed a special promotion to encourage participation by newcomers to the stable by offering interests in a wnining 2-year-old colt based in New York. More

Field Event showed on Saturday in winning a comeback sprint at Kenilworth that he may be as good as his partners’ wildest dreams about him. More

Stratos shocked even her normally upbeat trainer Mike Azzie when springing a major upset victory today at Turffontein in the Grade 3 Yellowwood Handicap. The Jet Master mare’s odds doubled from a morning line of 7 to 1 to an off-time final figure of 14 to 1, even with the presence in the saddle of Weichong Marwing. More

Captain’s Lover, a $27,000 bargain-basement National Yearling Sale steal prospected by Barry Irwin, cruised to an easy 4-length triumph on Sunday at Kenilworth race course in the Grade 2 Odessa Stud Fillies Championship last Sunday to assume the mantle of the top 3-year-old training in South Africa. More

Ginger Punch, owned by Adena Springs, gave Team Valor some reason to celebrate in winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff on Saturday. By doing such, Ginger Punch enhanced the value of her yearling half-sister, whom TVI has named Helena Handbasket. More

Team Valor International’s three female runners are all set for the annual rites of fall this weekend in the 24th Breeders’ Cup World Championships, which will be raced for the first time in the state of New Jersey at Monmouth Park racetrack in Oceanport, 3 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. More

Unbridled Belle overcame a troubled trip to nail barn mate Indian Vale approaching the finishing post to score a convincing triumph in the historic Beldame Stakes on Saturday at Belmont Park. The 17-hands daughter of Broken Vow ran right up to her best, equaling her career-best Beyer of 104. More

When Unbridled Belle won Sunday’s $600,000 Grade 1 Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park, her share of $360,000 pushed the stable’s earnings past the $40-million mark. More

Team Valor International has acquired a yearling half-sister to Ginger Punch, the Bobby Frankel-trained 4-year-old filly that is regarded as the horse to beat in the $2-million Breeders’ Cup Distaff next month at Monmouth Park. More

Jazzy was switched from turf to dirt for Saturday’s Grade 2 Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont Park as an experiment to see if she might be a viable candidate for the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint. Consider the experiment a success. More

Woodland City, who may be the best filly or mare sprinter in South Africa, has been acquired by Team Valor International. If you like Jazzy—and who doesn’t after her stakes win at Saratoga?—you will love Woodland City. More

When Miller Time crossed under the line first on Tuesday in the Sophomore Sprint Stakes at Kenilworth race course in South Africa, he was winning race number 600 and stakes race number 175 for a horse syndicated since 1987 by Barry Irwin, principal of Team Valor International. More

The Blood-Horse magazine recently ran this story showcasing Kinsella, the Mr. Greeley colt that turned heads at the Saratoga Select Yearling Sale this month. More

Captain's Lover remained unbeaten from 3 starts with an easy victory in a handicap against older runners sprinting 6 furlongs this afternoon at Kenilworth race course in Cape Town, South Africa. She was eased down to win by 2 1/4 lengths. Captain's Lover, a 3yo filly in what is the equivalent of running at the end of January, beat a field of older horses, giving 3 pounds to the runner-up and 5 pounds to the third horse. More

Former South African mare Jazzy scored an improbable victory today at Saratoga in the Capades Stakes sprinting 5 ½ furlongs on grass. “She’s immensely talented,” said Team Valor International principal Barry Irwin. “She overcame a lot of disadvantages in a short period of time." More

Six-year-old Irridescence, who was beaten a head on Saturday in the $750,000 Beverly D Stakes at Arlington Park, has been acquired in full by Richard and Sue Ann Masson's Green Lantern Stables, LLC. The Southern California residents, who also own Golden Age Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, have raced the three-time Group 1 winner in partnership with Team Valor since she won the South African Classic in 2005. More

For Irwin it was strictly a case of déjà vu all over again, as he outlasted some dogged competition in the Humphrey S. Finney sales pavilion to land the top lot at the annual public auction. Unlike 3 years ago when he bought Fairbanks for a sale-topping $1.85 million though, this time Team Valor International’s principal had to go to $2.2 million to close out the deal. More

Barry Irwin emerged from a protracted bidding duel with the nation’s sharpest pinhooker to land a filly at the Saratoga yearling sale on Monday evening, his $400,000 final bid falling $25,000 shy of the highest price paid for a filly in the opening session of the two-day annual sale. More

A nearly all-white son of Tapit caught Barry Irwin’s eye at the Saratoga yearling sale and, shortly after buying the $2.2-million sale topper, Team Valor’s major domo was seen standing at the back of the sales pavilion raising a finger to collect the rangy colt. More

Tasha’s Miracle, owned by Budget Stable and Team Valor, proved an easy winner today at Del Mar of the Grade 3 Sorrento Stakes sprinting 6 ½ furlongs on Polytrack. More

Irridescence arrived shortly after noon on Friday at the O’Hare International Airport near Arlington Park, where a week from tomorrow she will be on display in the $750,000 Beverly D Stakes. More

Team Valor and Gary Barber's Becrux won Del Mar's Wickerr Handicap for a second year in a row on Friday evening, scoring by a neck with a fast mile clocking of 1:33.04. More

Team Valor has acquired a half-interest from Sydney Belzberg's Budget Stable in the 2-year-old filly Tasha's Miracle, who will make her next outing on August 8 in the Grade 3 Sorrento Stakes, and is a potential Breeders' Cup candidate. More

Unbridled Belle stamped herself as an Eclipse Award candidate in the older filly and mare category with a authoritative victory on Sunday in the historic Delaware Handicap. The triumph in the $1-million fixture was accomplished with such élan and power, it elicited from the 4-year-old filly’s trainer Todd Pletcher a remark as follows: “She looked like Ruffian today.” More

Star South African mare Irridescence made a bold showing today at Newmarket when second in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes over a mile on the July Course behind front-running Simply Perfect. She became the first racehorse of any kind from South Africa to as much as place in a Group 1 event either in Britain or Europe. More

Barry Irwin has acquired long-time partner Jeff Siegel's interest in Team Valor and will operate the stable as its sole owner from its base at Thoroughbred Square in the bluegrass. The name of the limited liability company will be changed to Team Valor International to reflect a shift in direction that has evolved over the past few years. More

Touch My Soul, who went into winter quarters as the German Oaks favorite but bled from both nostrils in her debut at 3, proved the incident was a fluke by winning the Group 3 Credit Suisse-Rennen Hanshin Cup Hamburger Stutenpreis at Hamburg on Saturday under severely testing conditions. More

Team Valor in its twice-weekly Insiders' Bulletin on-line newsletter for clients runs a Race Grid of upcoming races for the information of its client base. In order to give non-participants in Team Valor racing partners a glimpse of how extensive a racing program the stable operates, however, president Barry Irwin has decided to post the impending schedule of races, which is shown here. More

Team Valor and Never Tell Racing’s 3-year-old filly Audacious Chloe kept her unbeaten streak alive in 2007 by adding the Little Silver Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday to earlier victories in this season in Gulfstream Park’s Gaily Gaily Stakes and Keeneland’s Appalachian Stakes. More

Team Valor has acquired the high-octane burner Fast Look in Brazil, where on May 19 in the fifth start of her life the 3-year-old chestnut blur outran a field of the best sprinters of all ages to win a Group 1 grass sprint by more than 3 lengths. More

Two weeks ago, Captain’s Lover won by more than 4 lengths, racing on the lead throughout and drawing clear in the final furlong going three-quarters of a mile. This afternoon, she raced a furlong shorter down the straight at Kenilworth, raced fourth among five early, then stormed through between horses late to win drawing away. Once again, the winning margin was 4 lengths. More

Barry Irwin, riding the crest of a wave from his successful purchases at the last two National Yearling Sales in South Africa, bought a dozen youngsters this week, two more than last season. One of the colts bought by Irwin this time around is a devilishly handsome bay named Greenwich Park, who topped the sale on a final bid of 2.6-million rand. More

From the land that gave the planet its top racehorse in Invasor, Team Valor has bought a colt named Aquino that has locals proclaiming him to be the Second Coming. Team Valor will turn the unbeaten colt over to Mike de Kock for a Dubai campaign. More

Despite the annual running of the Kentucky Derby, Team Valor's Barry Irwin has opted instead to attend a yearling sale halfway around the world. It should be taken as a measure of how important the National Yearling Sale is to Team Valor's programme. More

Sally Bowles unleashed a powerful late move to collar and pass second favorite Royal Fantasy to score a head victory in the Grade 2 Kwa Zulu Natal Fillies Guineas at Greyville today in Durban, South Africa. Sent off at odds of more than 14 to 1, Sally Bowles provided trainer Neil Bruss within his second major upset in a week. More

Field Event lived up to advanced notices on Wednesday by overcoming his initial greenness to split horses in deep stretch and go on to a half-length victory at Clairwood race course in Durban. Field Event clocked 1:09.92, a new class record for a juvenile maiden colt at the “garden race course.” More

The weekend’s two stakes victories pumped up the stable’s seasonal and all-time statistics, allowing three important barometers to move up a percentage point when rounded off. More

Audacious Chloe overcame an awkward beginning in Sunday’s Appalachian Stakes at Keeneland to score a wire-to-wire neck victory in extra game fashion. The final quarter-mile was run in a sensational :22 3/5 seconds, with a final furlong in :11 2/5. Final time was 1:36 2/5. More

Stately, bought for less than $17,000 at last year’s National Yearling Sale in South Africa, finished with a rush from a stalking position to score an improbable 40 to 1 shocker in the Grade 3 Strelitzia Stakes at Scottsville race course. More

When King of the Roxy finished second in the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby last week, he became horse number 43 to win or place in a Grade 1 race among 300 runners syndicated by Barry Irwin and Jeff Siegel. In the past 20 racing seasons, the California-born syndicators have fashioned an enviable record of having 1 of every 7 horses they have sent out win or place in a Grade 1 fixture.More

King of the Roxy ran a winning race on Saturday in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, but he went down by a half-length in the final strides to Tiago, a Pleasant Top half-brother to the 2005 Kentucky Derby hero Giacomo.More

King of the Roxy will point for the Preakness Stakes and pass up the Kentucky Derby, after his game second-place finish today in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby. "Due to an insufficient preparation," said Barry Irwin, "we feel it would compromise the colt’s future to run him back on the first Saturday in May.More

Fairbanks, who stumbled at the break and injured a front foot in his California debut in February, showed why Team Valor and Todd Pletcher had sent him the West Coast when he romped by 6 ¾ lengths in the Grade 3 Tokyo City Handicap on Saturday at Santa Anita. In the process, he posted a 115 Beyer figure which is the highest earned by any horse in the nation going a mile or farther this year.More

Irridescence has drawn extremely well in the 4 slot among 16 entrants for Saturday’s Grade 1 Dubai Duty Free at Nad al Sheba. The race will be run over 9 furlongs for a purse of $5 million, making it the co-richest grass race presented in the world today. More

The first filly to win the Triple Crown in Brazil since her own third dam Emerald Hill pulled off the trick 29 years earlier, Colina Verde is now safely ensconced in Drysdale’s barn on the Hollywood Park backstretch. More

King of the Roxy, under a picture perfect ride from masterful Eclipse Award winner Edgar Prado, never gave his Team Valor partners a moments worry as he scored a consummate victory by 2 ¼ lengths in the Grade 2 Hutcheson on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. More

Little Miss Magic, the lone 3-year-old in a field of 10 fillies and mares, roared past 7 to 5 favorite Soft Landing to score a 2-length victory in the Grade 1 Empress Club Stakes on Saturday afternoon at Turffontein in South Africa. Yearling purchase becomes the 14th individual Grade 1 winner for the stable. More

Irridescence finished a dead-game third, running on, this evening at Nad al Sheba in the Group 2 Jebel Hatta. Timeform reckons Irridescence ran the best race of her life, while giving weight to all of her rivals. More

Audacious Chloe opened her 3-year-old account with a notable win on Sunday at Gulfstream Park, when she beat last season’s Eclipse Award winner Dreaming of Anna in a stirring stretch duel to claim top prize in the Gaily Gaily Stakes. More

Fairbanks is now all but certain to start in Sunday’s renewal of the San Antonio Handicap instead of Saturday’s Charles H. Strub Stakes, advises Barry Irwin. David Flores has committed to ride the Giant’s Causeway colt in either race, his agent Brad Pegram confirmed over the weekend. More

Stately, the cheapest racehorse ever bought by Team Valor, scored an authoritative 3 1/4-length victory under Glyn Schofield this afternoon at Clairwood race course in South Africa. The Joshua Dancer filly is the first of 5 fillies to race that were bought as a yearlings at South Africa’s premier sale last year in which celebrated international motion picture producer Anant Singh and his wife Vanashree took a substantial interest. More

Team Valor's Sugar Baby Love was officially rated the third top-ranked 2-year-old filly of 2006 in Germany on the Free Handicap released yesterday by the Direktorium of the Turf. Sugar Baby Love won a Listed stakes in her debut, was bought by Team Valor and finished a very unlucky second in the Group 2 Prix Maurice Lacroix behind the colt Global Dream. More

Irridescence, winner over an international field that included Ouija Board in last season's Group 1 Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong, will race twice in Dubai this winter, advises South African trainer Mike de Kock. More

Fairbanks returned to the races for his 4-year-old debut on Gulfstream Park’s opening day card last Wednesday at the Hallandale “racino” in the afternoon’s fourth race, an allowance contest going 9 furlongs. He drew away to score by 3 ½ lengths in a thoroughly convincing manner to win impressively. More