Category: General News

Distorted Humor’s Soothsay rallies from last to capture the Indiana Oaks (G3)

Soothsay overacame a bad start with a big stretch rally to win Wednesday’s $200,000 Indiana Oaks (G3) by a neck in a four-horse photo finish. It was the third victory in four lifetime starts, all this year, for the 3-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor. That includes a victory in the Santa Anita Oaks (G2) in […]

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More Than Ready filly dazzles in “TDN Rising Star” debut

Ready A.P. rolled to a 8 1/4-length maiden special weight win in her July 1 debut at Belmont Park to become the latest TDN Rising Star for More Than Ready.  More Than Ready is among the all-time leading sires of Rising Stars, with 15 to date. Among his standouts are the incomparable champion Rushing Fall, […]

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A Life That’s Good second stakes winner in three days for Congrats

A Life That’s Good surged past odds-on favorite Summer Brew in the final furlong of Monday’s $50,000 Niagara S. at Finger Lakes to tally a 1 1/4-length win for the 3-year-old daughter of Congrats.  The win came just two days after Congrats’ Bango took the Kelly’s Landing S. at Churchill Downs and gave the WinStar […]

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Crystal Ball breaks through in $250,000 Lady Jacqueline S.

WinStar Stablemates Racing LLC’s Crystal Ball earned her first stakes victory on Saturday at Thistledown with a 1 1/4-length victory in the $250,000 Lady Jacqueline S.  Making her first start for trainer Rodolphe Brisset on Saturday, Crystal Ball came out of the gate running and was battling for the lead into the first turn. Longshot […]

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Carpe Diem’s Historically an easy winner of the Cleveland Gold Cup

Historically tallied his first stakes victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Cleveland Gold Cup, drawing off in the stretch to come home a three-length winner in the 1 1/8-mile contest at Thistledown. Historically, a 3-year-old son of top-10 Third-Crop sire Carpe Diem, is owned and bred by WinStar Farm and Blazing Meadows Farm.  Historically broke very well […]

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Bango wins Kelly’s Landing S. for second stakes victory of Churchill Downs meet

Congrats’ 4-year-old colt Bango took a thrilling rendition of the $110,000 Kelly’s Landing S. on June 25 at Churchill Downs, holding off Mucho to score his second win of the spring meet. Bango won the Aristides S. on May 29 and is now 7-1-1 in 18 starts for owner/breeder Tamaroak Partners and trainer Greg Foley. […]

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Outadore takes Woodstock S. for third career stakes win

Outwork got the first of his two stakes winners Sunday when the 3-year-old colt Outadore bested Jaxon Traveler by 1 1/4-lengths in the $125,000 Woodstock S. at Woodbine. After being several lengths off the early pace in the six-furlong affair for 3-year-olds, Outadore made a bold three-wide move coming into the stretch to assume command. […]

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Exaggerator colt becomes first stakes winner for his sire

Gagetown earned his first stakes win Friday evening at Prairie Meadows with a neck victory in the $50,000 Prairie Mile for 3-year-olds.  The Rupp Racing colt is the first stakes winner for Exaggerator, who leads the Second-Crop Cumulative Sire list by both winners (28) and wins (31). Gagetown, who had placed in Sugar Bowl S. […]

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Speightstown’s Overbore breaks maiden in $150,000 Tremont S.

Overbore proved best in Friday’s $150,000 Tremont S., beating a hard-charging Kavod by three-quarters of a length in the 5 1/2-furlong contest for 2-year-olds. Overbore, who lost his first two starts by a a combined half-length, was up to the task Friday in a field of four following a pair of scratches. With Baytown Frosty […]

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Laura’s Light much the best in $200,000 Ouija Board Distaff

Constitution’s three-time graded stakes winning filly Laura’s Light scored an emphatic victory in the $200,000 Ouija Board Distaff S. at Lone Star Park on Memorial Day, coasting to a 4 3/4-length victory in the one-mile race that was moved from the turf to the main track due to inclement weather. Just 30 minutes prior to […]

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