Category: General News

Bellamy Road’s 2-year-olds have come out running at Saratoga Race Course. Constellation turned heads with an impressive winning debut Aug. 9, and No Entiendo kicked off the Aug. 10 program at The Spa with a wire-to-wire score, giving Bellamy Road two maiden special weight winners in as many days. LNJ Foxwoods’ Constellation, an $800,000 graduate […]

Hold Me Back’s multiple stakes winner looked unstoppable once again on Saturday evening as he easily annexed the $80,000 Minnesota Derby by three lengths, running his winning streak to six straight, four of them in stakes. Hold for More dueled with Steviefromstanley in the stretch, drawing off late to win by three lengths, covering the […]

Recepta found a narrow opening in mid-stretch and shot through to win the $100,000 De La Rose S. by 2 ¼-lengths on Saturday at Saratoga. The 3-year-old daughter of Speightstown is now a two-time stakes winner of $261,200. Recepta is Speightstown’s 20th black type horse of 2015. The WinStar stallion is once again in the […]

Making his first start since his historic Triple Crown, Zayat Stables’ American Pharoah kept rolling right along with a deceptively dominating victory in the $1.75 million Haskell Inv. (G1) Sunday afternoon. The 3-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile earned $1.1 million for the win and pushed his sire’s progeny earnings to $6.9 million, easily tops […]

Speightstown’s sensational 4-year-old emerged victorious in a nail-biting finish in Saturday’s $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. (G1), edging The Big Beast by a nose to sixth straight victory. Rock Fall is Speightstown’s 13th lifetime Grade 1 winner. His nine stakes winners in 2015 have accounted for some 15 stakes wins, six of them graded. With […]

Land Over Sea scampered across the Del Mar turf course to score a 3 ¾-length maiden special weight victory in the second lifetime start for the 2-year-old daughter of Bellamy Road. The chestnut filly really took off in the stretch after tracking in fourth for most of the one mile affair, stopping the timer in […]

Many of More Than Ready’s offspring have found a home on the turf, and Shore Runner looks like that type following his gutsy victory in the $100,000 Lucky Coin S. Monday at Saratoga. The win was the third straight sprinting on the lawn for the 5-year-old, who has now earned $302,340 and has finished first […]

Hold the Giant, a 2-year-old son of Hold Me Back, is undefeated in two starts following his two-length victory in the $50,000 Edmonton Juvenile S. on Saturday evening. Owned by Riversedge Racing Stable Ltd., the chestnut Kentucky bred broke his maiden, also at Northlands Park, in his July 1st debut. The juvenile’s dam, Won by […]

As her sire Sidney’s Candy did some six years ago, Sooner Time broke her maiden at Del Mar on July 23 in her career debut, taking 5 ½-furlong contest for 2-year-old fillies by 3 ¼-lengths. Sooner Time is the first winner for Sidney’s Candy, who would go on to sparkle in such races as the […]

Heartbreaker Girl made short work of a field of 2-year-old fillies as the daughter of first-crop sire Drosselmeyer sauntered to an easy maiden win in her debut July 23 at Gulfstream Park. She is the second winner for her sire, whose 2-year-olds have also been very well-received at auction this year, bringing up to $425,000. […]