Daredevil made short work of a field of maiden 2-year-old Saturday at Belmont Park, striding to a 6 ¼ length score in the career debut for the chestnut son of More Than Ready. After John Velazquez hustled the Todd Pletcher trainee to the lead right out of the gate, Daredevil had thing his own way […]
[ Read More ]A pair of first-crop offerings by Drosselmeyer bringing $225,000 and $150,000 in the early sessions of the Keeneland September Yearling sale, for an average of $187,500, 12.5x his published stud fee. Through the first three days of the auction, Drosselmeyer’s average was second best for all first-crop yearling sires with more than one horse sold. […]
[ Read More ]Leading sire Speightstown brought some big prices during the first day of the Keeneland September Yearling sale, with a pair of colts selling for $500,000 and $485,000. Hip No. 40 was Speightstown’s top seller of Monday’s session. The colt was consigned by Dromoland Farm and bought by Shadwell Estate Company, Ltd. The colt is out […]
[ Read More ]Wine Police out-dueled Homerun Berti in Sunday’s $75,000 Premier Cup H. at Zia Park to collect his third lifetime black-type victory and give his sire Speightstown his 12th stakes winner of 2014 and simultaneously push the top-10 sire’s progeny earnings past the $6.5 million mark. Wine Police chased Homerun Berti through most of the 5 […]
[ Read More ]Congrats’ list of 2014 stakes winners grew on Sunday when the 4-year-old filly Toasting pulled clear late to register a 1 ½-length victory in the first running of the $100,000 Sky Beauty S. at Belmont Park. Getting away alertly in the field of five, Toasting was nevertheless in last, but just a couple of lengths […]
[ Read More ]Tiz Time to Shine notched his first career stakes win Saturday in the $127,063 Aspirant S. at Finger Lakes Racetrack, winning by three-quarters of a length in his second lifetime start. The Chad Brown-trainee completed the six furlong race in a time of 1:13.31 under jockey Jaime Rodriguez, coming from just off the pace […]
[ Read More ]Golden Ticket out-gamed a pair of foes in a three-way photo to take the $100,000 Left Bank S. Sept. 5 at Belmont Park, the third career stakes win for the 5-year-old Speightstown horse whose bankroll now stands at $1,329,090. Golden Ticket was well behind his four foes for the first half of the one-mile trip, […]
[ Read More ]Top-five freshman sire Hold Me Back got the seven winner from his first crop on Friday evening at Churchill Downs when Big Red Seven scored a three-quarter length victory in a one-mile maiden special weight contest for 2-year-old fillies. Big Red Seven, who had the lead for the entire trip of the one-mile main track […]
[ Read More ]Fast Bullet, the aptly-named Grade 2 winner by Speightstown, will join his sire at WinStar Farm for the 2015 breeding season. “Fast Bullet is the fastest son of Speightstown, who has really developed into one of today’s elite stallions,” said Elliott Walden. “Speightstown has enormous sire-of-sires potential with his great pedigree, and there isn’t a […]
[ Read More ]Zayat Stables’ American Pharoah is a maiden no more after an incredible performance in the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (G1), winning by 4 ¾- lengths in near track-record time. The 2-year-old Pioneerof the Nile colt continues a white-hot streak for his sire, who has had three graded stakes winners in the past four days and […]
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