Category: General News

With a big move at the top of the stretch in Monday’s $100,000 Shine Again S., Holiday Soiree drew off to a 3 3/4-length victory to make the 3-year-old filly the 10th stakes winner of 2013 for Harlan’s Holiday. After finishing 2012 as the Champion Juvenile sire, Harlan’s Holiday is enjoying another banner year, ranked […]

A Distorted Humor filly from the family of the outstanding broodmare Better Than Honour sold for $1 million during the Aug. 5 session of the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling sale in Saratoga Springs. The filly was one of only two horses that sold for seven figures during the first session of the two-day sale. Hip No. […]

Fire with Fire proved too much for his competition Sunday at Santa Rosa, rolling to a front-running, track record-setting performance in the $50,000 Joseph T. Grace S. The 5-year-old by Distorted Humor got the 1 1/16 on the turf in a track record 1:40.67. With seven stakes winners, led by Grade 1 Man o’ War […]

Top-10 second-crop sire Spring At Last tallied another 2-year-old maiden special weight winner Saturday at Woodbine, this time on the turf, when Spring Likeacobra surged to the front inside the final furlong to emerge the three-quarter length victor in her second lifetime start. In Saturday’s contest, Spring Likeacobra came from fifth after a half mile […]

Holiday Babe and Harlan’s Pure both tallied black-type victories during the final week of July, raising the 2013 stakes winner total for their top-10 sire Harlan’s Holiday to nine and pushing him past the $4.7 million in progeny earnings on the year. Holiday Babe, a 2-year-old filly, got her first career stakes victory on July […]

With a dazzling stretch run, Redgrass Cat passed nearly the entire field en route to a neck victory in the $50,000 Wilhite Memorial S. Saturday at Louisiana Downs. The 2-year-old daughter of Bluegrass Cat is one of six stakes winners this year by her sire, who currently tops the New York General Sire list with […]

WinStar stallion Pure Prize registered a stakes winner for the second time in as many days on Saturday when Pure Tactics’ powerful stretch drive carried the 4-year-old colt to a new track record in the $50,000 Barksdale S. at Louisiana Downs. Along with Scarlet Mist’s stakes victory on Friday, Pure Prize now has 12 stakes […]

WinStar stallion Pure Prize registered a stakes winner for the second time in as many days on Saturday when Pure Tactics’ powerful stretch drive carried the 4-year-old colt to a new track record in the $50,000 Barksdale S. at Louisiana Downs. Along with Scarlet Mist’s stakes victory on Friday, Pure Prize now has 10 stakes […]

Artie Schiller got his second stakes winner in a week on Saturday when Dorsett rallied from last to win the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby at Canterbury Park. An international sire, Artie Schiller’s Cakal Carlos was a Grade 1 winner in Turkey last week. With Lori Keith in the irons, the 3-year-old colt settled near the […]

Pure Prize’s top Argentine filly continued her graded stakes hot streak with a victory on July 27 in the Grade 2 I. Correas S. in Argentina. Pure Prize, who stood this year at WinStar this year for $7,500 LFS&N, now has a total of 11 Grade 1 winners, with a total of 19 G1 wins, […]