Bluegrass Cat got his ninth stakes horse and third stakes winner of 2013 on Sunday with Percussion battling his way to a nose victory in the $90,000 Albert the Great S. at Belmont Park. Bluegrass Cat currently tops the New York General Sire list with more than $1.7 million in progeny earnings. Percussion, a 5-year-old […]
[ Read More ]More Than Beauty made short work of a field of maiden special weight 2-year-old fillies Thursday at Churchill Downs, romping to a 5 1/4-length victory at 4 1/2-furlongs on a fast main track. The More Than Ready filly, a Clifford Grum homebred, left little doubt who was best as she broke very well, opened up […]
[ Read More ]Courtesy TDN 5/7 Breeding expert Bill Oppenheim opined: “Take Charge Indy, the 4-year-old colt by A.P. Indy out of the top racemare Take Charge Lady, dual Grade 1 winner of $2.4-million for trainer Kenny McPeek. He won the Florida Derby (G1) wire-to-wire last year, but until Friday he had never run a Beyer above 101. […]
[ Read More ]Spring in the Air, Canada’s reigning Champion Two-Year-Old filly, picked up her second stakes victory with a prolonged stretch run in Saturday’s $150,000 Fury S. at Woodbine. The 3-year-old Spring at Last filly won the Grade 1 Alcibiades S. at Keeneland last autumn. Bred in Ontario by WinStar Farm LLC, proved the best in the […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s Grade 1 winner Golden Ticket scored a sharp victory in the May 2 feature race at Churchill Downs, covering the one-mile in a lively 1:34.56 to win by 2 ½ lengths. A dead-heat winner of last year’s $1 million Travers S. (G1), Golden Ticket took Thursday’s money allowance race with a three-wide move on […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s venerable sprinter Essence Hit Man won the $169,200 Jacques Cartier S. for the third straight year Saturday at Woodbine. The winner was recently named Canada’s champion sprinter for the second year in a row. Trained by Sylvain Pion and ridden by Jesse Campbell for owners A&G Racing Stable, Essence Hit Man came out of […]
[ Read More ]American Sugar, a 3-year-old Harlan’s Holiday filly, boosted her bankroll past the $200,000 mark with a nifty win in the $60,000 Goldfinch S. at Prairie Meadows on Saturday evening. The accomplished sophomore now has four black-type victories to her credit. Tucked in along the inside for the first half-mile, American Sugar swung three-wide into the […]
[ Read More ]Munnings Sister gave Speightstown his second stakes winner in as many days with a half-length victory in Sunday’s $85,000 Gold Princess S. at Belmont Park. Essence Hit Man was victorious one day earlier at Woodbine in the Jacques Cartier S. for his sire, who now has six stakes winners accounting for seven added-money victories in […]
[ Read More ]Led by a pair of colts that sold for more than $300,000 on closing day of the April 22-25 OBS 2-year-olds in Training sale, the offspring of Harlan’s Holiday caught the eye of plenty of buyers at the four-day central Florida auction. Hip No. 1087, a gray or roan colt consigned by Stephens Thoroughbreds LLC, […]
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