Congrats got his second black type winner in as many days Sunday at Saratoga when Goin’ Good won the $120,000 Coronation Cup for her owner/breeder Klein Racing. The 3-year-old filly had finished second in a pair of stakes events earlier this year before getting her breakthrough win over a sloppy Saratoga main track. Originally scheduled […]
[ Read More ]Bango has now won three straight stakes races after a commanding five-length win in Saturday’s $75,000 Good Lord S. at Ellis Park. The 4-year-old Congrats colt won both the Kelly’s Landing S. and Aristides S. during the recently concluded Churchill Downs meet. Saturday’s win pushed his lifetime earnings over the half-million dollar mark, to $505,197, […]
[ Read More ]Renaisance Frolic was up just in time to win Saturday’s $75,000 Mr. Steele S. at Gulfstream Park, coming four-wide into the stretch to win the 1 1/16-mile turf race by a nose. It was the third career stakes win for the son of Paynter, who has now earned $463,396 for Sir David Seale and trainer […]
[ Read More ]Good Samaritan’s first yearling to sell at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton July sale in Kentucky brought a top bid of $100,000 from Gary Broad, agent for Walmac Farm. Hip No. 3, consigned by Gainesway, agent, is a bay colt out of Casey’s Irish Pride and is a half-brother to track record-setter and Grade 3 winner Proforma. This […]
[ Read More ]Christmas delivered another solid performance in Friday’s $75,000 Tah Dah S. at Belterra Park to win her first stakes and remain undefeated in her first two starts. The gray/roan daughter of Constitution is owned by Michael Lewis and Winblaze LLC, the latter also the filly’s breeder. After getting off a beat slow, Christmas came between […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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, […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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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