Category: General News

Hoop of Colour sauntered to a half-length score in the Grade 2, $201,000 Santa Ana S. Sunday at Santa Anita Park. She is the 55th lifetime graded stakes winner for Distorted Humor and pushed his cumulative progeny earnings past the $108 million mark, fourth-most of all active North American sires. Trained by Graham motion, Hoop […]

American Pharoah turned his highly-anticipated 2015 debut into a one-horse race with a dazzling stretch run in Saturday’s $750,000 Rebel S. at Oaklawn Park. American Pharoah is the top earner of 2015 for his sire Pioneerof the Nile, who is the leading Third-Crop sire this year.  The 2014 2-year-old champion, who had been off since […]

Tamarkuz followed up his powerful victory in the Feb. 12 Firebreak S. (G3) with a comfortable $200,000 Burj Nahaar (G3) on Saturday evening at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai. The 5-year-old son of Speightstown has now earned $365,444 off six wins in 12 lifetime starts, and his latest stakes victory made Speightstown North America’s Leading Sire […]

Speightstown’s top offering at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale brought a winning bid of $460,000. Consigned by Crupi’s New Castle Farm, hip No. 105 was bought by Spendthrift Farm. The chestnut juvenile, who breezed 10.1 seconds at the March 2 under tack show, is out of the multiple stakes-winning Forest Wildcat mare […]

Distorted Humor was among the leading sires at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale, with a pair of colts bringing $500,000 and $325,000, for an average of $412,500. Hip No. 82 led the way for his sire. Consigned by Hoby and Layna Kight, agent, the half-million dollar purchase was bought by Third Street […]

A strapping dark bay son of Pioneerof the Nile brought a winning bid of $685,000 at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale. Consigned by McKathan Brothers, hip No. 34 was bought by Bob Baffert, trainer of Pioneerof the Nile and his champion 2-year-old of 2014, American Pharoah. Baffert’s new purchase, who breezed 10.2 […]

A colt first from the crop Sidney’s Candy brought a winning bid of $150,000 at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale. Consigned by Thomas and Casse, hip No. 89 was bought by Steve Young, agent. The colt is a half-sister to stakes winner Seacrettina and Grade 2-placed Ramsgate. Grade 1-winning millionaire Sidney’s Candy […]

WinStar Farm’s homebred 3-year-old Tiznow colt Royal Son powered to an authoritative victory in the $125,000 John Battaglia Memorial S. Feb. 28 at Turfway Park, putting the Todd Pletcher trainee on a path that could take him to the Kentucky Derby. Royal Son, along with Rebranded’s stakes victory at Sunland Park, provided Tiznow a stakes […]

Rebranded took the race to his foes early in Saturday’s $50,000 Curribot H., pulling away by a couple of lengths in the first furlong, then turned away all challenges to go on to win by two lengths. The victory was the fourth career black-type win for the 4-year-old Tiznow colt, who has now amassed $289,950 […]

China Horse Club has acquired a minority interest in Grade 1 winner Daredevil, who’s set to make his 3-year-old debut in Saturday’s $200,000 Swale S. (G2) at Gulfstream. Daredevil, More Than Ready’s dominant winner of the Champagne S. (G1) last fall at Belmont, is trained by Todd Pletcher and owned by Let’s Go Racing and […]