Golden Ticket cruised to an eight length victory in the $100,000 Prairie Meadows H. on Saturday night to give Speightstown his second stakes winner of the day. Speightstown’s progeny have pocketed more than $6.6 million in 2013, second best on the North American earners list. Golden Ticket, winner of the Grade 1 Travers S. last […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s star 3-year-old Verrazano rolled to a decisive victory in the $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1) at Monmouth Park on Sunday, winning by a Haskell best-ever 9 3/4-lengths. In becoming the seventh career millionaire for More Than Ready, Verrazano also sped the highest Beyer Speed Figure of any 3-year-old this season – 116. […]
[ Read More ]Base Case Scenario prevailed in a hard-fought stretch duel Saturday at Saratoga to give his sire Pioneerof the Nile his fourth winner from his first crop and vaulting him to second on the Freshman Sire List with $149,367 in progeny earnings. Going 1 1/16 miles on the turf, Base Case Scenario took the overland route, […]
[ Read More ]Hop the Six bounded to a front-running, 3 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s $50,000 White Clay Creek S., marking the first black-type score for the two-year-old filly. Artie Schiller is a world-wide top 5 Fourth Crop sire and has eight stakes horses to date this year. Hop the Six, an Elkstone Group LLC homebred, left little […]
[ Read More ]Central Banker became the 12th stakes winner of 2013 for Speightstown, taking the $100,000 Smirnoff Sorbet Quick Call Stakes at Saratoga on July 25. The 3-year-old son of Speightstown was making his seasonal debut in the 5 1/2-furlong event over the turf course. Despite an eventful run under Joel Rosario, he was all alone at […]
[ Read More ]Ready to Act became the fifth 2-year-old winner of 2013 for More Than Ready on Monday Saratoga, sealing the victory with a persistent stretch drive that netted the gray or roan filly a half-length win in her career debut. A $200,000 yearling purchase at the Keeneland September sale by her owners William Lawrence and Klaravich […]
[ Read More ]Bellamy Road’s Sisterly Love scored her second consecutive gate-to-wire stakes win in capturing the $151,500 Ontario Matron S.(G3) Saturday at Woodbine. Sisterly Love’s victory in the mile and one-sixteenth affair for fillies and mares came on the heels of her June 8 score in the Trillium S., when she romped by 8 1/2-lengths, also over […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown ‘s multiple Champion son Essence Hit Man continued his hit parade of stakes victories, winning his 10th career stakes in the $162,000 Bold Venture S. (G3) on July 17 at Woodbine. Essence Hit Man also earned the 17th stakes victory of this season for Champion Speightstown, who currently reigns as Kentucky’s second leading sire. […]
[ Read More ]Just days after siring the top-priced colt at Fasig-Tipton July, Bellamy Road sired his 16th career stakes winner, when Rivertown Belle wired the field in the $150,000 Indiana First Lady Stakes on July 17. Rivertown Belle was winning her second consecutive start and first in an added-money event in the 8 1/2-furlong stakes at Indiana […]
[ Read More ]Multiple stakes winner Dreamin Big ran big once again, setting a new course record in winning the $89,500 Florence Henderson S. by 8 1/2 lengths on July 17th at Indiana Downs. With the dominating, record-breaking victory, Dreamin Big became the 11th stakes winner of 2013 for WinStar stallion Pure Prize. A 5-year-old dark bay, Dreamin […]
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