Abrogate backed up her stellar maiden debut win at Churchill Downs with another stylish outing Jan. 24 at Oaklawn Park, winning a six-furlong allowance by 1 1/2-lengths. The 3-year-old daughter of Outwork is the fourth winner this year for her, who is the early leader on the Second-Crop Sire list. Outwork already has three stakes […]
[ Read More ]Outasite led start to finish in his maiden special weight win Jan. 23 at Oaklawn Park, drawing off late to win the six-furlong contest by 2 ¼-lengths. The 3-year-old colt is the third winner this year for his sire, who finished 2020 ranked fourth on the First-Crop Sire list with 19 winners and more than […]
[ Read More ]Paynter’s brilliant 5-year-old Knicks Go took an early lead in Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup Inv. (G1) and never looked back, rolling home a 2 3/4-length winner for his fourth consecutive victory. The winning streak includes a win in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), with the quartet of wins coming by a combined […]
[ Read More ]Switzerland came back form a 10-month layoff looking like a horse to be reckoned with in 2021 after his victory in the Jan. 21 Dubawi S. (G3) at Meydan Racecourse. A two-time Grade 3 winner in the United States in 2018, the 7-year-old son of Speightstown has competed exclusively at Meydan since early 2019, where […]
[ Read More ]Sososubtle’s 4 1/4-length maiden special weight win Jan. 20 at Gulfstream Park was the third winner in four days for Speightster. With a total of five for the year, Speightster is tied with fellow WinStar stallion Laoban atop the Second-Crop Sire list by both wins and winners. After tracking in third for the better part […]
[ Read More ]Bella Aurora got 2021 off to a great start with come-from-behind victory in the $100,000 Interborough S. Jan. 18 at Aqueduct. The 4-year-old filly topped a great weekend for Carpe Diem that included a pair of maiden special weight winners and Monforte placing in the Sunshine Turf S. at Gulfstream Park. Bella Aurora, who had […]
[ Read More ]Cristiano’s Dream rallied from far off the pace to score a 3 1/2-length maiden special weight win Sunday at Golden Gate Fields. Making his debut in the 5 1/2-furlong contest for 3-year-olds, Cristiano’s Dream had some six lengths to make up with three furlongs to run, but was in full flight as he came five-wide […]
[ Read More ]Midnight Bourbon’s front-running score in Saturday’s $200,000 LeComte S. (G3) at Fair Grounds put the 3-year-old Tiznow colt on the road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) and earned him 10 points toward a spot in the starting gate in the Run for the Roses. Away from the races since finishing third in the Champagne S. […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready got his first graded stakes winner of 2021 on Saturday at Fair Grounds when Title Ready captured the $125,000 Louisiana S. (G3), also the first graded victory for the six-year-old Charles Fipke homebred. Title Ready was getting some class relief after contesting the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and Clark S. (G1) in […]
[ Read More ]Venezuelan Hug got his second stakes win in as many starts in Saturday’s $75,000 Sunshine Turf at Gulfstream Park, taking the 1 1/16-mile race by nearly a length with a stirring stretch run. Earlier on the card, Constitution’s dynamic 3-year-old colt Annex was a debut winner on the turf and was named a TDN Rising […]
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