Category: General News

Speightstown adds second Sunday SW

A swift move early in the stretch carried Speightstown’s 2-year-old daughter Recepta to a decisive win in the $100,000 Chelsea Flower S. on Sunday at Belmont Park (VIDEO). Earlier on Sunday, Speightstown’s two-year-old son Coastline took the $61,800 Street Sense S. at Churchill Downs, giving their sire three juvenile stakes winners this year. With $9.7 […]

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Artie Schiller tops 2yo SW sire list

Miss Machiavelli’s come-from-behind win in the $100,000 Pike Place Dancer S. at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday gave Artie Schiller his fifth 2-year-old stakes winner of 2013, the most of any North American sire (VIDEO). Artie Schiller’s juveniles have tallied in excess of $1.1 million thus far this year. The WinStar stallion has two of […]

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Pioneerof the Nile filly easily breaks maiden

Avi’sblazinvictory became Pioneerof the Nile’s 11th 2-year-old winner on Oct. 26 when she impressively broke her maiden at Hawthorne by 6 ¼ lengths in a maiden claimer. Avi’sblazinvictory is out of the A.P. Indy mare Maltese Indy and was bred by King and Queen’s Farm. Pioneerof the Nile ranks No. 3 on the 2013 Freshman […]

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Kodiak Kowboy gets 10th winner

Kodiak Kowboy’s 10th 2-year-old winner came in the form of the impressive filly Tupancy Links when she won a maiden special weight at Laurel Park by 3 ½ lengths. Kodiak Kowboy ranks No. 4 and is rising on the 2013 Kentucky Freshman Sires List by winners, and he has progeny earnings of $372,900 to date. […]

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$500K for Distorted Humor yearling at F-T

A Distorted Humor colt brought a $500,000 bid on the second day of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale Oct. 22. The price is the second-highest overall at the three day auction, and the top price paid for a colt. Consigned as hip No. 384 by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, agent, the winning bid […]

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Overanalyze, G1-winning millionaire by Dixie Union, retires to WinStar

Overanalyze, this year’s 4 ¼-length winner of the Arkansas Derby (G1), has been retired from racing and will stand the 2014 breeding season at WinStar Farm in Versailles, KY as a participant in WinStar’s Dream Big program. The Dream Big program offers breeders the opportunity to earn a lifetime breeding right in Overanalyze by breeding […]

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Toasting raises glass in Dream Rush S.

Toasting’s big sweeping move on the turn carried the 3-year-old daughter of Congrats to her first career stakes win in Sunday’s $100,000 Dream Rush S. at Belmont Park (VIDEO). Three-year-old Toasting is Congrats’ seventh winner this week and is also her sire’s third stakes winner in the past month. Toasting was in the back of […]

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Kowboy King rolls by 17 in maiden special

Kowboy King crushed his opposition with a 16 3/4-length maiden special weight tour de force Wednesday at Laurel Park (VIDEO). Kodiak Kowboy now has nine winners to his credit, fourth among 2013 Freshman sires, and his progeny earnings of $360,000 also ranks fourth on the Kentucky Freshman Sire list. Bred in Kentucky by Gerry and […]

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Blingo shines in $100K I’m A Banker S.

Blingo became the eighth stakes winner of the year for Artie Schiller, with a determined victory in the $100,000 I’m A Banker S. at Belmont Park on Monday (VIDEO). Ridden by Alex Solis, Blingo got squeezed at the start and was near the back of the pack for the first half of the 1 1/16-mile […]

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Distorted Humor vet gets 2nd career SW

A very rough stretch run wasn’t enough to stop Fire With Fire from earning his second stakes win of 2013 in Sunday’s $75,000 Bull Dog S. at Fresno. Fire With Fire is one of 10 stakes horses by Distorted Humor who have earned at least $100,000 this year. In the nine furlong Bull Dog, the […]

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