Fullfaithandcredit cruised to a 2 1/2-length maiden special weight victory in his debut on Friday to give Colonel John his sixth winner from his first crop of runners. Colonel John, who stood at WinStar Farm this year for $15,000 LFS&N, is in the top 5 on the First Year Sire list in both earnings and […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Harlan’s Holiday, North America’s reigning champion juvenile sire, had to be euthanized late Friday at Haras Firmamento Farm in Mar de Plata, Argentina, where he was standing for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season. He was 14. After a normal day and an uneventful cover this afternoon, Harlan’s Holiday suddenly collapsed when returning to […]
[ Read More ]Ready to Act and Verrazano give their sire More Than Ready his two chances at this year’s Nov. 1-2 Breeders’ Cup championships at Santa Anita Park. The brilliant 3-year-old Verrazano, More Than Ready’s lifetime leading North American earner, will go postward from stall 10 in the $1 million Dirt Mile (G1). Undefeated in six lifetime […]
[ Read More ]With five starters in this year’s Breeders’ Cup championship, Speightstown, the nation’s second leading sire, is poised to take over the top spot after the Nov. 1-2 races at Santa Anita Park. Speightstown’s hand is particularly strong in the $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) on Saturday, with a trio of starters in the 12-horse […]
[ Read More ]Harlan’s Holiday will have a trio of starters in the Nov. 1-2 Breeders’ Cup Championships, trying to build on his resume after getting his first Cup winner last year with eventual 2-year-old champion colt Shanghai Bobby in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). Harlan’s Holiday, currently the leading North American sire of 2-year-olds, has Poker Player […]
[ Read More ]Tiznow, the only two-time winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), could get his second Cup winner as a sire when Strong Mandate goes postward in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). Trained by D. Wayne Lukas, Strong Mandate will earn the win after drawing the outside post in the field of 14 in […]
[ Read More ]Grade 1-winning millionaire Paynter, whose story of perseverance a year ago captivated the racing world, will begin his next career in 2014 as a stallion at WinStar Farm in Versailles, KY. Campaigned by Zayat Stables, Paynter is currently on track for next Saturday’s $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Santa Anita, and the popular […]
[ Read More ]My Conquestadory and We Miss Artie, a pair of Grade 1-winning 2-year-olds, carry the spotlight in this year’s Breeders’ Cup for their sire Artie Schiller. My Conquestadory has been all the rage since her debut in the Summer S. (G2) at Woodbine on Sept. 13. Taking on the boys, she simply dominated her competitors with […]
[ Read More ]Top-five Freshman sire Colonel John will have two Breeders’ Cup starters from his first crop in this weekend’s year-end championships at Santa Anita Park. The improving Colonel Joan drew post 3 for the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) on Friday. The bay filly, trained by Eoin Harty for Kathy Harty and Mark DeDomenico, showed […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s 2-year-old son Coastline took the inaugural running of the $61,800 Street Sense S. by a widening three lengths Sunday at Churchill Downs (VIDEO). With Recepta’s win in the $100,000 Chelsea Flower S. earlier in the day at Belmont Park, Speightstown brought his total number of 2013 stakes winners to 22. Speightstown leads all sires […]
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