Category: General News

A dual stakes winner in 2012, Speightstown’s 3-year-old colt Weekend Hideaway made it stakes win number three on Friday at Belmont Park with an impressive 4 3/4-length victory in the $100,000 Gone Fishin S. Sent off the 7-5 favorite in the six furlong turf contest, Weekend Hideaway asserted his authority right from the start. He […]

Street Hero got his first Grade 1 winner of 2013 on June 23, when Azarenka rolled to a 2 3/4-length score over colts in the Jockey Club del Peru Classic (G1) at the Hippodrome of Monterrico. Second-crop sire Street Hero, who stands at WinStar Farm for $5,000 LFS&N, is represented by six stakes horses in […]

Hold Me Back, the multiple graded stakes-winning son of Giant’s Causeway, will be represented with five yearlings from his first crop to hit the market at the upcoming Fasig-Tipton July Sale on July 15th in Lexington, KY. The imposing dark bay horse was bought as a yearling by WinStar before going on to earn over […]

Burban, a 5-year-old Speightstown mare, galloped to her second stakes win of 2013 on Saturday night with a front-running 3 1/4-length score in the $65,111 Roxelana S. at Churchill Downs. With $5.46 million in progeny earnings this year, Speightstown ranks third on the General Sire list. His runners have accounted for 89 wins and 13 […]

A bay colt from the first crop of WinStar stallion Pioneerof the Nile set a June Sale record $525,000 to top the final session of the OBS 2013 June Sale of 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age. The previous high-water mark at the sale was $350,000 for an Exclusive Quality colt sold last year. Eddie […]

Sons of Artie Schiller formed the exacta in the $50,000 Brooks Fields Stakes on June 16th at Canterbury. Hammers Terror won his third career stakes and first of 2013 leading start to finish, while Slip and Drive was a length back in the runner-up spot in his first outing of the year. Four-year-old Hammers Terror […]

Dance to Bristol sped to a new stakes record today, winning her first Graded stakes in the $150,000 Bed o’ Roses S. (G3) at Belmont. In winning her fifth straight race and fifth career stakes, Dance to Bristol flashed under the finish line in 1:20.81, not only a new stakes record, but just 4/5 off […]

Repole Stables Notacatbutallama battled his way to his first Graded stakes victory today, in the $150,000 Hill Prince S. (G3) at Belmont Park. The 3-year-old son of Harlan’s Holiday, a multiple New York stakes winner as a juvenile, became the 7th stakes winner of the year for his sire, who has current Graded stakes winners […]

Sagamore Farm’s homebred Tell a Great Story provided a fairytale finish to her stakes debut, winning the $75,000 Go For Wand Stakes on June 15th at Delaware Park in the final stride. With the stirring victory, she became the fifth stakes winner of 2013 for New York’s Leading Sire Bluegrass Cat. The 3-year-old Maryland-bred was […]

Kentucky Derby hero Super Saver will be represented by his first crop to hit the yearling sales market next month, as five yearlings are cataloged to sell at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale on July 15 in Lexington, KY. Super Saver has gotten off to a great start at stud, breeding over 270 mares in his […]