Category: General News

Hold for More chalked up yet another stakes win on July 19 when the 3-year-old son of Hold me Back rolled to a 7 ¼-length victory in the $55,000 MTA Stallion Auction Laddie S. at Canterbury Park. Hold Me Back’s 31 winners to date rank third on the Second-Crop Sire list for 2015. Hold for […]

Tiz Shea D’s young career reached new heights on Saturday evening when the 3-year-old Tiznow colt scored a 1 ¼-length triumph in the $500,000 Indiana Derby (G2). Tiz Shea D is Tiznow’s leading earner of 2015 and one of his eight stakes winners, topped by Grade 1 Vanity S. champ My Sweet Addiction.  The Indiana […]

Jumping to the lead right out of the gate, Nonna’s Boy skipped to a 3 ½-length victory in Saturday’s $60,000 Lamplighter S. over the Monmouth Park turf course. With none of his foes getting within two lengths at any point, the 3-year-old son of Distorted Humor went on to collect his first career stakes win […]

Ready for Romance, remained undefeated in three starts while making her stakes debut in Saturday’s $125,000 Ontario Damsel S. at Woodbine. The Sam-Son Farms homebred daughter of More Than Ready is the 151st lifetime stakes winner for his sire, second only to Giant’s Causeway for all sires standing in North America.   Ready for Romance […]

Congrats’ multiple stakes-winning daughter Temper Mint Patty brought a winning bid of $350,000 during Wednesday evening’s Fasig Tipton Summer Select Horses of Racing Age sale, the top bid at the one-day auction. The last hip (No. 524) through the sale, Temper Mint Patty attracted plenty of attention, including from Jacob West, who purchased the filly […]

Runhappy rolled to a five-length victory Tuesday evening at Indiana Downs in a very quick 1:09.82 for six furlongs, earning a 100 Beyer Speed Figure in just the third lifetime start for the 3-year-old son of Super Saver. Super Saver’s 25 winners this year, led by multiple stakes winner Competitive Edge, ranks in the top […]

Gemologist’s first yearlings at the July 9 Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale in central Kentucky included a pair of six-figure colts. With a total of five lots sold, the WinStar stallion averaged $78,000, more than five times his stud fee of $15,000.  Gary Broad secured hip No. 288 with a winning bid of $112,000 from the […]

A quintet of yearlings from the first crop of Bodemeister, led by a $250,000 colt, sold for an average of $150,000 at the July 9 Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale in central Kentucky.  Grade 1 winner Bodemeister, who stood the 2015 season at WinStar for $30,000 live foal and is available this year for $15,000 for […]

Hold for More raced to an effortless 6 ½-length victory in the $60,000 Victor Myers S. Friday at Canterbury Park, the second black-type win for the 3-year-old son of Hold Me Back. With more than $900,000 in progeny earnings to date this season, Hold Me Back is a top-15 Second Crop sire. Winner of the […]

Force the Pass’ win in the $1.25 million Belmont Invitational Derby (G1), coupled with Speightster’s stellar victory in the $500,000 Dwyer S. (G3), vaulted Speightstown’s 2015 progeny earnings past the $5.5 million mark, sixth on this year’s General Sire list. Speightstown’s nine stakes winners have also racked up a second-best 14 stakes victories for the […]