Barbados became Speightstown’s latest graded stakes winner on Saturday with a thrilling half-length victory in the $150,000 Hutcheson S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park. Barbados is Speightown’s 25th lifetime graded stakes winner and is the first multiple stakes winner of 2015 following his victory in the Jan. 3 Spectacular Bid S., also at Gulfstream. The seven-furlong […]
[ Read More ]Consumer Credit captured her third straight win with an impressive performance in Saturday’s Sweetest Chant S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park. The 3-year-old filly is More Than Ready’s 62nd lifetime graded stakes winner and 140th black-type winner, second-most of any stallion standing in North America. Edgar Zayas gave Consumer Credit a perfect ride in the one-mile […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Overanalyze, the Grade 1-winning millionaire by Dixie Union, sired his first foal early Sunday, Jan. 18th when a filly was born at Red River Farm in Coushatta, LA. Bred by Jim and Heidi Maikranz of 4M Ranch, the chestnut filly is out of the Congrats mare Happy Destiny, a daughter of multiple graded […]
[ Read More ]Zayat Stables’ brilliant 2-year-old colt American Pharoah became Pioneerof the Nile’s first Eclipse Award winner when he was named 2014 2-year-old Champion Male at Saturday night’s Eclipse Award ceremony at Gulfstream Park. American Pharoah’s success on the track last year was a major factor in making Pioneerof the Nile the leading Second-Crop Sire of 2014. […]
[ Read More ]Weekend Hideaway surpassed the half-million dollar earnings mark with a four-length victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Sunshine Millions Sprint S. at Gulfstream Park, the fifth lifetime stakes win for the newly-turned 5-year-old son of Speightstown. Weekend Hideaway chased the Sprint’s heavy favorite Happy My Way through the first half-mile, which went in a very quick :44.96, […]
[ Read More ]The first foal by Grade 1 Haskell Invitational S. winner Paynter, a son of Horse of the Year Awesome Again, arrived Jan. 13 when a filly was born at Elm Tree Farm in Kentucky. Bred by Curt Leake, the bay filly is out of the Malibu Moon mare Moon Meeting Too. Campaigned by Zayat Stables, […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s venerable sprinter Reynaldothewizard rolled to an emphatic 3 ¾-length win in the $150,000 Dubawi S. Jan. 15 at Meydan Racecourse. Winner of the 2013 Golden Shaheen (G1), Reynaldothewizard has bankrolled over $1.7 million as is Speightstown’s leading lifetime earner. The Dubawi, run at 1,200 meters (about six furlongs), was Reynaldothewizard’s first step on what […]
[ Read More ]Early in the morning of Jan. 12 a colt by Bellamy Road became the first foal of 2015 born at WinStar Farm. The colt is the first foal out of the unraced Pulpit mare Colona. Bred by WinStar Farm and MR Capital, the foal was born at 5:30 a.m. Colona is a half-sister to Colizeo […]
[ Read More ]Bellamy Road couldn’t have had a better start to 2015 as Lutine Belle took the $75,000 Blue Norther S. Santa Anita Park on New Year’s Day. The victory was the first stakes win for the 3-year-old filly who placed in the Golden Gate Debutante on Nov. 29. Story lines surrounded Lutine Belle’s come-from-behind victory in […]
[ Read More ]With a determined stretch run, Surfer secured his first Group victory in Round 1 of the $250,000 Al Maktoum Challenge (G2) at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai. Surfer, victorious in the Listed Dubai Mile Creek S., over the same course three weeks ago, is now two-for-two on Meydan’s new dirt surface following Thursday’s victory in the 1,600 […]
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