Category: General News

Stablemates’ Gulf Coast kicks off 2021 with a stakes win

Gulf Coast started 2021 in style for WinStar Stablemates Racing LLC on New Year’s Day at Gulfstream Park with a victory in the $75,000 Cash Run S.  After a pair of six-furlong starts rewarded her owners with a maiden debut win and a second in last month’s Sandpiper S. at Tampa Bay Downs, the newly-turned […]

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Speightster colt shows his mettle in Tampa maiden win

Always Special forged ahead of Good Boy Roy in the final strides to get his maiden-breaking win by a half-length Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs. The chestnut 2-year-old is the 14th winner for top-10 First-Crop sire Speightster, who is one of only two freshman sires in the top 10 that stand for $10,000 or less. […]

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Charlatan returns with dominant Malibu S. (G1) performance

Speightstown’s brilliant 3-year-old colt Charlatan won Saturday’s $300,000 Malibu S. (G1) at Santa Anita Park in convincing style, coming back from a seven-month layoff to score by 4 1/2-lengths. Charlatan is Speightstown’s fourth Grade 1 winner of 2020, which is the most of any sire standing in North America, and is his 10th graded stakes […]

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R Working Girl wins on debut at Aqueduct for Outwork

Outwork is now the sire of the winners of 20 races from his first crop of runners after R Working Girl won her first lifetime start on Dec. 20 at Aqueduct (VIDEO). The 2-year-old filly was first at every call in the six furlong madien special weight race, taking the lead in the first eighth […]

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Tourist’s Cojo scores front-running win

Cojo took the lead in the first furlong of his maiden win on Dec. 17 at Los Alamitos, winning by 1 1/2-lengths to become Tourist 13th First-Crop winner and second of the week. Catbernay came away from the gate in the lead, but Cojo quickly collared him and took command. He cleared off from the […]

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Winners continue to mount for Outwork

Drewhustle gamely held off Race Craft to win a one mile maiden special weight race for 2-year-olds  Friday at Delta Downs to become the 18th winner for his sire. With two new winners this week, Outwork is now in the second spot on the First-Crop sire list. Drewhustle stalked the Shoulda Had It for most […]

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Latest Exaggerator winner takes debut at Fair Grounds

Top-10 First-Crop sire Exaggerator’s winners total now stands at 14 after No Exaggeration’s Dec. 16 maiden win at Fair Grounds. The bay colt, owned by Charles Marquis, was able to rally from off the pace to win the 1 mile 70 yard contest by three-quarters of a length despite being at least three wide the […]

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Outwork’s Gone to Cabo rolls by 8 in Gulfstream Park maiden win

Top-five First-Crop sire Outwork chalked up his 17th winner Sunday at Gulfstream Park when Gone to Cabo ran up the score to win by eight widening lengths in a 6 1/2-furlong maiden race for 2-year-old fillies. Gone to Cabo, in second early, went to the front easily with three furlongs to run and never looked […]

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Regally-bred Prime Factor exceeds expectations in Gulfstream Park debut

Prime Factor, owned by WinStar Farm and CHC Inc., sparkled in his first start Saturday at Gulfstream Park, rolling to a nine-length victory while being named a TDN Rising Star. The 2-year-old colt, is out of Haylie Brae, who herself is a half-sister to WinStar’s dynamic First-Crop sire Speightster, who was also a TDN Rising […]

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Laoban colt breaks maiden handily at Aqueduct

Laoban’s offspring have performed extremely well in the first 12 days of December, accounting for a stakes victory and four maiden wins to date, the latest coming Saturday at Aqueduct when Bowing Snowman emerged from the fog to win a six-furlong affair by 2 1/2-lengths. Shrouded from view for most of the race, Bowing Snowman […]

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