Verrazano’s stakes debut in Saturday’s $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby had his competition raving after the dominating win by the 3-year-old More Than Ready colt, who is undefeated in three starts. “Todd’s (trainer Pletcher) horse is a freak,” said Ken McPeek, trainer of Tampa Bay Derby runner-up Java’s War. Verrazano is More Than Ready’s leading earner […]
[ Read More ]Red Rifle fired off a winning salvo in his career debut Saturday at Gulfstream Park, as the WinStar Farms LLC and Twin Creeks Racing Stables LLC 3-year-old colt sped to a two-length victory in his first lifetime start. Going seven furlongs in a full field of 12, Red Rifle battled with Bob and the Gang […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s brilliant 3-year-old filly Calistoga turned in another stellar performance Thursday at Gulfstream Park, rolling to a 4 3/4-length victory at 6 1/2-furlongs. The Bill Mott trainee was tabbed a TDN Rising Star following her 5 1/2-length win in her debut on Jan. 12. Calistoga’s race on Thursday was very similar to her first start. […]
[ Read More ]A pair of fillies by WinStar first-crop stallions Colonel John and Pioneerof the Nile breezed an eighth of a mile in :09 4/5 March 7, the fastest time of the day, in the first of two under tack previews for the Ocala Breeders’ Sale Co.’s March selected sale of 2-year-olds in training March 12-13 in […]
[ Read More ]The March 4 Barretts Select 2-year-old sale started off strong for WinStar stallion U S Ranger when hip No. 2, a bay colt, brought a winning bid of $160,000, thirty-two times his 2013 stud fee. Undefeated at two and a two-time champion in Europe, U S Ranger entered stud in 2010; his first foals are […]
[ Read More ]Harlan’s Holiday got a strong reception from buyers at the March 4 Barretts Select Sale of 2-year-olds, with a pair of juveniles bringing a winning bid of a quarter million dollars. Hip No. 116, a filly consigned by Clare Dunn’s Wavertree Stables, Inc., was bought by Narvick International Inc. for $325,000. The bay Kentuky bred […]
[ Read More ]Gemologist, last year’s winner of the Grade 1 Wood Memorial, recently had his first mare confirmed in foal when Merry Me in Spring, a stakes winner of over $130,000 and dam of Grade 3-winning juvenile So Brilliant, recently scanned in foal at 15 days. The first-season stallion by Tiznow is a perfect 3 for 3 […]
[ Read More ]Summer Applause, a 4-year-old Harlan’s Holiday filly, captured the second graded stakes of her career in Saturday’s Grade 2 Top Flight H. at Aqueduct, rallying from third after six furlongs to win going away by 2 3/4-lengths. Summer Applause won the 2012 Rachel Alexandra S. (G3) at Fair Grounds, her graded stakes debut. Summer Applause […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s General Election gave his sire Harlan’s Holiday his second stakes winner of the day in the $75,000 John Battaglia Memorial S. Saturday at Turfway Park. Earlier in the day, Summer Applause took the Grade 2 Top Flight H. at Aqueduct. The Battaglia was the first stakes win for 3-year-old Kentucky-bred colt. Today’s two […]
[ Read More ]Rhetorical, bred and prepped for racing by WinStar Farm, dueled his way to a half-length victory in the feature race on the Feb. 28 card at Oaklawn Park. The 4-year-old is by multiple graded stakes winner and millionaire Any Given Saturday, who WinStar also owned throughout his racing career. In the six furlong contest for […]
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