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Hashtag Bourbon strode to a dominating 4 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 Mountaineer Juvenile to become freshman sire Super Saver’s first black-type winner and fourth overall. The victory vaulted Super Saver, the 2010 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, to the top of the First-Crop Sire list. Last of seven early on in the six furlong contest, […]

My Miss Venezuela went gate-to-wire in her career debut Thursday at Gulfstream Park, the fourth winner for top-10 freshman sire Hold Me Back. Bred and owned by Orlyana Farm, My Miss Valenzuela won the five furlong affair by 3 1/4-lengths in a snappy :59.59 seconds.  My Miss Valenzuela is the first foal out of Multipass, […]

For the second time in two days, a Super Saver 2-year-old put on an impressive show in a Saratoga maiden special weight contest, vaulting the first-year sire to the second spot on the Freshman Sire list. In Sunday’s third race, the filly High Dollar Woman put away Paulassilverling after zipping through a half-mile in :45.73, […]

Competitive Edge became Super Saver’s second winner with an overwhelming 10 1/4-length maiden special weight score on Saturday at Saratoga, earning a well-deserved TDN “Rising Star” tag after getting the six furlongs in a rapid 1:09.89 (VIDEO). With many stellar 2-year-olds yet to race, Super Saver is still a top-5 First Crop sire on the […]

Seemingly beaten inside the final furlong, Cudney Stables’ homebred Lafontaine, a son of Artie Schiller, got up in the final strides of the $125,000 Toronto Cup Sunday at Woodbine to give the 3-year-old his first stakes victory. Lafontaine joins an impressive list of Artie Schiller’s stakes horses that includes Plate Trial S. winner We Miss […]

Speightstown racked up his 30th stakes horse of 2014 on Sunday at Woodbine when 3-year-old Pirate’s Trove bested Cactus Kris by a nose in the $125,000 Duchess S. Bred by WinStar Farm and M R Capital, Pirate’s Trove is undefeated in two starts and has amassed $91,470 to date. After chasing Zensational Bunny through the […]

Top sire Distorted Humor once again had a top-5 seller at auction, this time at the July 14 Fasig-Tipton Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age sale in Lexington when a filly by the WinStar stallion brought a winning bid of $500,000 from Stonestreet Stables. Hillaby, cataloged as hip No. 304, was consigned by Taylor Made […]

Tizcano, the last horse through the ring at the July 14 Fasig-Tipton Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age sale in Lexington, brought a winning bid of $710,000 that would be the most paid for a colt at the auction Tizcano, a 2-year-old son of Tiznow won his only career start for owner Oscar Diaz and […]

Bedford Land, a 2-year-old daughter of Speightstown, brought a top bid of $1,075,000 at the July 14 Fasig-Tipton Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age sale in Lexington, the highest figure paid at the central Kentucky auction. Three Chimneys Farm, with Chris Baker signing the ticket, was the winning bidder for the filly, who was part […]

Tiznow’s 3-year-old colt Rebranded turned the Colorado Derby into a one-horse race with a runaway 12 1/2-length score in the 1 1/16-mile contest at Arapahoe Park on Sunday afternoon. The Kentucky bred sophomore assumed total command less than half-way through the contest, coasting home with ease to stop the timer in 1:45.12 over a surface […]