Flutterby broke alertly from the starting gate and zipped to a 9 1/4-length triumph in Saturday’s $60,000 Sea Lily H. at Gulfstream Park, the second career stakes win for the 4-year-old Congrats filly. Flutterby, who was already twice-stakes placed this year, is one of eight stakes horses sire by Congrats in 2015. After being challenged […]
[ Read More ]Two-year-olds by freshman sire Drosselmeyer continued to show strong international appeal, as one of his first-crop juveniles sold for 100,000 Euros, top five among all colts at the Goffs Breeze Up Sale on May 22nd. Catalogued as hip No. 90, the American-bred chestnut out of Cateress, by Tabasco Cat, was purchased by Saudi horseman Bhupat […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready sired his 19th career Group/Grade 1 winner on May 23rd when Sheikh Hamdan’s Entisaar won the Allan Roberston Championship (G1) at Scottsville Race Course in South Africa. The Australian-bred juvenile, recently crowned Champion Two-Year-Old Filly in South Africa, carried 132 pounds in the Robertson, while defeating 15 other top fillies. Time for […]
[ Read More ]Bright Town sauntered to an easy 4 ½-length victory in Monday’s $50,000 First Lady H., the second stakes victory in the career of the 5-year-old daughter of Speightstown. The First Lady is Bright Town’s second stakes win of 2015. She is one of seven stakes winners this year by her sire. A perennial top sire, […]
[ Read More ]Super Majesty sparkled in her debut Sunday at Santa Anita, dominating a field of fillies to win the six furlong maiden special weight affair by a widening 6 ¼-lengths in a very quick 1:08.54. The 3-year-old daughter of Super Saver, who was bred by WinStar Farm, was tabbed a TDN Rising Star, like Super Saver’s […]
[ Read More ]Just two days after American Pharoah won the Preakness S. (G1) in a cakewalk, Pioneerof the Nile sired the top two colts at the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May Sale. Hip 165 was the top colt, bringing $840,000 from trainer Linda Rice, agent, after working a quarter mile in :21.2 at the May […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s Woodwin W remained unbeaten with a tough three-quarter length victory in the $100,000 James Murphy S. Saturday at Pimlico. The win was the first stakes victory for the 3-year-old, who is one of nine stakes winner this year by his sire. Winner of a maiden special weight and a pair of turf […]
[ Read More ]Back at the Ranch cruised to a sharp 2 ¼-length maiden special weight score May 7 at Belmont Park, prompting her trainer Wesley Ward to consider shipping the 2-year-old daughter of Artie Schiller to the prestigious June 16-20 Royal Ascot meeting. Ward has taken horses to England for the Ascot meeting in the past, tasting […]
[ Read More ]Zindaya made all the pace in Friday’s License Fee S. at Belmont Park en route to a 2 ¾-length victory, the first black-type win for the 4-year-old daughter of More Than Ready. The WinStar stallion now has 80 North American stakes winners and 147 worldwide. Breaking from the inside, Zindaya immediately was hustled to the […]
[ Read More ]Hold Me Back, whose first foals are 3-year-olds of 2015, had a pair of 2-year-old fillies bring six figures during Thursday’s third session of the April 21-24 OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in Training. Early in the session, hip No. 635, consigned by Top Line Sales LLC, Agent for Small Batch Thoroughbreds, brought a winning […]
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