Category: General News

Sidearm drew off to a 2 1/2-length Friday at Saratoga to move his sire Kodiak Kowboy to seventh on the 2013 Freshman Sire list with $205,397 in progeny earnings to date. Kodiak Kowboy, who stood the 2013 season at WinStar for $6,500, has five winners from his first crop, which is tied for the most […]

Harlan’s Holiday’s Willcox Inn collected his third graded stakes victory with a thrilling nose victory over Gallant Eagle in Saturday’s $150,000 Washington Park H. (G3) at Arlington Park (VIDEO). Harlan’s Holiday, who stood the 2013 season at WinStar Farm for $35,000, has had another banner year with his progeny on the racetrack. With 18 stakes […]

Grand Arrival splashed to a 6 1/4-length maiden special weight score Saturday at Saratoga with an emphatic move in midstretch to draw away powerfully from his seven 2-year-old foes (VIDEO). Grand Arrival is one of eight juvenile winners in 2013 by Harlan’s Holiday, who is in the top 10 on the 2-year-old Sire List. Breaking […]

International superstar More Than Ready sired his 123rd career stakes winner when War battled to victory in the A$125,000 Ibis Styles Up and Coming H. (G3)  in Australia on August 24th. Three-year-old War became More Than Ready’s 14th stakes winner, 10th Group/Graded winner of 2013, with his triumph in the 6 1/2-furlong stakes in Sydney. […]

Summer Applause, Harlan’s Holiday’s leading earner of 2013, earned her third stakes win of the year with a powerful victory in Sunday’s $75,000 Lady’s Secret S. at Monmouth Park (VIDEO). With wins earlier in the year in the Grade 2 Top Flight H. and Grade 3 Allaire Dupont Distaff S., Summer Applause is one of […]

Cougarville’s powerful stretch run carried the 2-year-old Congrats filly to a two-length victory in Saturday’s $53,240 Bird of Pay S. Cougarville, who is undefeated in two starts, is one of 10 stakes horses sired by Congrats in 2013. With a field of seven, Cougarville settled in the back of the pack after a quarter mile […]

Sea Bubble took the field gate to wire in a maiden special weight contest Saturday at Delaware Park, winning by a length over a firm turf. The filly is part of the first crop of U S Ranger, who is in the top 20 on the First Crop Sire list. Sea Bubble was bred in […]

Winning Prize (ARG), a multiple Group 1 winner in his homeland, took to the Del Mar turf in his first U. S. start, zipping through the one-mile allowance test in 1:32.96, less than a second off the track record (VIDEO). The 4-year-old by Pure Prize was a four-length winner in gate-to-wire fashion, setting a pressured […]

Dance to Bristol earned her seventh straight victory on Friday and first in a Grade 1, winning the $500,000 Ballerina S. by a head at Saratoga. The winner’s purse of $300,000 put Speightstown at nearly $7.8 million in progeny earnings in 2013, tops among all North American sires. His 12 stakes winners have now won […]

WinStar Farm freshman sire Kodiak Kowboy got his fourth winner on August 22, when Kelly’s Endeavour rolled to a seven-length victory going five furlongs against maiden special weight company at Penn National. With four total winners to date, all in special weight affairs, Kodiak Kowboy is fifth on the Kentucky First-Crop sire list. He stood […]