Soothsay fended off the challenge of favored Beautiful Gift to win Saturday’s $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks (G2) by a half-length in the first stakes starts of any type for the 3-year-old Distorted Humor filly. She also earned 100 points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1), assuring herself a starting spot in that race […]
[ Read More ]For the second Saturday in a row a 3-year-old by leading Second-Crop sire Outwork produced a stakes victory, the latest coming when Abrogate won a stretch-long duel to take the $200,000 Purple Martin S. at Oaklawn Park. With Outadore winning last Saturday’s Animal Kingdom S., Outwork now has a total of six stakes horses in […]
[ Read More ]Outwork made a big splash with his lone offering at Wednesday’s Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale when a colt by the WinStar stallion brought a top bid of $475,000. Consigned by Scanlon Training and Sales on behalf of Excel Bloodstock, hip No. 10 went to the powerhouse partnership of Mike Repole, St. Elias Stable, and West Point […]
[ Read More ]Indy Lyon won for the fourth time in five 2021 starts Sunday at Tampa Bay Downs in the $110,000 Sophomore Turf S., the first stakes start for the 3-year-old son of Congrats. Indy Lyon led all the way in the 1 1/16-mile event, but had to withstand dramatic stretch run with Chess’s Dream and the […]
[ Read More ]Outwork’s most accomplished runner to date, Outadore, added the Animal Kingdom S. to his resume with an impressive display in the 6 1/2-furlong contest for 3-year-olds at Turfway Park. The gray or roan colt, who was making his 2021 debut, was in an early battle with Nicky Two Shoes, who got the lead out of […]
[ Read More ]Just Read It dug in gamely to hold off Exogen by a head in Saturday’s $100,000 Cicada S. at Aqueduct to give the 3-year-old daughter of Constitution her first stakes victory. The odds-on favorite Save took the lead out of the gate in the six-furlong affair, with Just Read It pressing her through a quarter-mile […]
[ Read More ]Hit the Road’s dramatic victory in Saturday’s $400,000 Frank Kilroe Mile (G1) at Santa Anita Park made the 4-year-old colt the 30th lifetime Grade 1 winner for More Than Ready. The win was also the second straight graded stakes score for Hit the Road, who took the Thunder Road S. (G3) exactly one month ago. […]
[ Read More ]Paynter’s multiple stakes-winning mare A Bit of Both tallied her fourth black type score Saturday at Gulfstream Park in the off-the-turf $75,000 Captiva Island S. The 5-year-old is the second stakes winner and fourth stakes horse this year for Paynter, who is currently second on the 2021 General Sire list with the performance of his […]
[ Read More ]Last Judgment turned in a near track-record performance in Saturday’s $100,000 Challenger S. (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs, winning the 1 1/16-mile contest by 2 1/4-lengths to give the 5-year-old son of Congrats his first graded stakes victory. Last Judgment won the Sunshine Classic at Gulfstream Park in his 2021 debut before facing the best […]
[ Read More ]In just her second lifetime start My Generation became Speightstown’s newest stakes winner March 5 at Dundalk Racecourse in Ireland with a commanding victory in the Patton S. The 3-year-old filly, who had debuted just three weeks ago when third in a maiden race, proved she was up to the task in Friday’s seven-furlong contest. […]
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