Category: General News

Sidney’s Candy F-T NY yearling sale wrap

A pair of six-figure yearlings from the first crop by Sidney’s Candy buoyed a very good Fasig-Tipton New York Preferred Yearling sale held Aug. 9-10 at Saratoga. His average sale price of $91,400 over the two days was more than six times his 2014 stud fee of $15,000. A $160,000 colt and $140,000 filly, which […]

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Kodiak Kowboy filly lassos the Washington Oaks

Making her two-turn debut, heavily favored Lady Fifty Two swept to a decisive victory in the $65,000 Washington Oaks on Saturday, August 9 at Emerald Downs. The three-year-old filly became the fifth stakes horse, second stakes winner, from the first crop by Champion Kodiak Kowboy. In the Oaks, Lady Fifty Two was bumped at the start while breaking from the far outside. She immediately […]

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Super Saver tops 2014 Juvenile Sire list

With two more winners over the weekend, highlighted by I Spent It’s huge score in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special on Sunday, Super Saver vaulted to the number-one spot on both the Juvenile Sire list and Freshman Sire list. The WinStar stallion has six winners to date, including a pair of stakes winners, and progeny […]

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Super Saver colt finds way in Grade 2 Saratoga Special

I Spent It found an opening on the rail en route to posting a decisive 2 ¾-length victory over Mr. Z in the $200,000 Saratoga Special (G2) Sunday at Saratoga Race Course. The winner is the first graded stakes winner for freshman sire Super Saver, and vaulted the WinStar stallion to the top spot on […]

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Lady Fifty Two best in Washington Oaks

Top-10 Second Crop sire Kodiak Kowboy got his fifth stakes horse on Saturday, when Lady Fifty Two shipped from her California base to score a decisive victory in the $65,000 Washington Oaks at Emerald Downs (VIDEO). Making her first start around two turns, Lady Fifty Two sat just off the flank of Mylast Sweet Pea […]

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Congrats gets pair of 2yo MSW at Saratoga

Congrats registered the rare feat of having a pair of maiden special weight 2-year-old winners on the same day at Saratoga on Friday, with both winning on the turf and by a nose in tight photos. To top off the illustrious day, Magnificient Margo became the first filly to beat colts in the 24 maiden […]

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New stakes winner for Spring at Last

Spring at Last, a top-10 Third Crop sire, added to his stakes winners on Saturday evening when the 2-year-old filly Brock’sspringfling came home a length and a quarter winner in the $75,000 Iowa Sorority S. at Prairie Meadows (VIDEO). Brock’sspringfling is one of seven stakes horses this year by Spring at Last, a group led […]

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Regally Ready by 12 in $100K Speaker S.

Regally Ready upped his lifetime stakes win total to seven with a romping 12 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker S. Saturday afternoon at Mountaineer Park. The son of More Than Ready has now amassed $1,486,666 in his illustrious career. Regally Ready turned the 1 mile and 70 yard contest […]

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Save Rock and Roll plays winning tune

Leading freshman sire Super Saver rang up his second winner of the day Saturday when Save Rock and Roll dominated a field of 2-year-old fillies at Monmouth Park by 4 3/4-length in her career debut. Earlier in the afternoon, Hashtag Bourbon gave Super Saver his first stakes winner with a similarly dominant victory in the […]

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Winners continue for Hold Me Back

Hold Me Back, a top-five Freshman Sire of winners, collected his fifth on Saturday as Kutuzov prevailed in a maiden special weight contest on the grass at Gulfstream Park. Well-placed early, Kutuzov loomed largely coming three wide into the stretch, ultimately striking the front inside the final furlong to win by a length in :56.85 […]

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