With a pair of Grade 1 winning 2-year-olds in as many days, Artie Schiller’s has taken over as 2013’s leading North American sire of juveniles. After My Conquestadory’s brilliant victory in Friday’s Grade 1 Alcibiades S. at Keeneland, We Miss Artie took the $400,000 Breeders’ Futurity on Saturday, the colt counterpart to Friday’s race. We […]
[ Read More ]Artie Schiller’s top-class 2-year-old filly My Conquestadory overcame a troubled trip to win the $400,000 Alcibiades S. (G1) at Keeneland by 1 ¾ lengths in her final start before the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) Nov. 2 at Santa Anita. Friday’s victory in the opening day feature didn’t come easy by any means […]
[ Read More ]The nation’s leading sire Speightstown got his 18th stakes winner of 2013 on Sunday when Wine Police triumphed by three-quarters of a length in the $150,000 Remington Park Sprint Cup. Five-year-old Wine Police won the $75,000 Distorted Humor S. at Saratoga in 2011 and also placed in the Grade 1 Hopeful S. as a 2-year-old. […]
[ Read More ]Heavenly Champion’s come-from-behind maiden win on Saturday at Gulfstream Park gave Kodiak Kowboy his eighth winner from his first crop, with nearly $300,000 in progeny earnings, moving the WinStar stallion to fourth on the Kentucky Freshman Sire list. Colonel John remains No. 1 among Freshman Sires in Kentucky, and Pioneerof the Nile is currently No. […]
[ Read More ]Samaready bested a top-class field in the 1,200 meter Moir S. (Aus-I) Sept. 27 at Moonee Valley, scoring an impressive four-length triumph to corral the second lifetime Group 1 event for the 4-year-old daughter of More Than Ready. Samaready is among 123 stakes winners for her sire More Than Ready, who stands the southern hemisphere […]
[ Read More ]Quechua stepped up from a maiden win a month ago to capture the Grade 2 Ensayo S. at Argentina’s San Ysidro Racecourse. The 3-year-old colt is the third graded winner, eighth stakes winner overall, for Pure Prize in 2013. After the victory in the about nine furlong contest, Quechua has hit the board in all […]
[ Read More ]Big Screen broke into the ranks of stakes winners with head victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Who’s to Pay S. at Belmont, giving Speightstown’s 16 stakes winners 25 black-type victories, most of any North American sire. Speightstown also leads the General Sire list with $8.66 million in progeny earnings. Big Screen definitely earned his win, as […]
[ Read More ]Shanghai Bobby, the Harlan’s Holiday 2-year-old champion colt of 2012, returned from a six-month layoff on Friday at Belmont Park to win the $100,000 Aljamin S. in a swift 1:15.79 for 6 1/2-furlongs (VIDEO). With his 132 winners accounting for 21 stakes wins this year, Harlan’s Holiday ranks in the top 5 in both categories […]
[ Read More ]Pioneerof the Nile got his ninth winner on Wednesday, moving him to the top spot on the 2013 Kentucky Freshman Sire list. The WinStar stallion, who stood this past season for $15,000, also tops all first-year sires in the sales ring with an average of $84,107. Queenofzeenile came home a three-quarter length winner in Wednesday’s […]
[ Read More ]Awesome Jill, by Kentucky’s leading freshman sire of winners Pioneerof the Nile, rolled to a 2 3/4-length victory in Sunday’s first race at Churchill Downs, her career debut. Pioneerof the Nile, who stood the 2013 season at WinStar Farm for $15,000, has eight winners to date. Awesome Jill is trained by Michelle Lovell for Gus […]
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