Category: General News

Speightstown now has a remarkable 17 stakes winners in 2012 after Cougarstown came through with a three-quarter length victory in the $50,000 Harvest S. Sept. 22 at Stockton Fair in California. Speightstown is one of only two stallions this year to have more than $7 million in progeny earnings. Four-year-old Cougarstown was making her stakes […]

Guam Typhoon stretched his winning streak to eight races Saturday with a wire-to-wire victory in the $100,000 Changing Times S. at Penn National. The win by the 6-year-old son of Distorted Humor put the WinStar stallion on the cusp of the $6 million mark in progeny earnings; he currently ranks sixth on the 2012 General […]

Artie Schiller’s yearlings at the Keeneland September sale are getting strong interest by bidders through the first week of the auction. All three of his offspring to sell have brought six figures, led by a $250,000 filly that sold on Sept. 15. Hip No. 1395 sold to St. George Farm from the consignment of Lane’s […]

A yearling colt sired by U S Ranger brought a winning bid of $180,000 at the Keeneland September sale, the highest price paid for a yearling in 2012 from the first crop of the WinStar stallion. U S Ranger, by Danzig, was a two-time in Ireland and was undefeated at age two. Hip No. 1780 […]

WinStar continues to offer some of their best yearlings at auction, and early results from the Keeneland September sale show buyers continue to show plenty of interest in the farm’s offerings. Through the first four days of the sale, 14 WinStar yearlings sold for an average price of $257,860. Leading the way was hip No. […]

The first Colonel John yearling to sell at the Keeneland September sale brought a healthy winning bid of $250,000, more than 16 times his 2012 stud fee. The bay colt sold during session 3, on Sept. 12, with Wayne Lobdell signing the ticket for the Woods Edge Farm offering. Cataloged as hip No. 669, the […]

A half-brother to Grade 1 winner Winter Memories by Tiznow brought $500,000 during day 1 of the Keeneland September yearling sale, with K. K. Eishindo placing the winning bid for the regally-bred colt out of millionaire Memories of Silver. Selling as hip No. 123, the Kentucky-bred bay colt will try to follow in the footsteps […]

A pair of colts by Distorted Humor wrapped up the first session of the 2012 Keeneland September yearling sale with some rousing bidding at the Lexington auction, including the $1.65 million session topper. Sheikh Hamdan’s Shadwell Estate Company, Ltd. found hip No. 131 much to their liking, as they outlasted several bidders to take home […]

Tizracer ran away from the field to the tune of a 10 1/2-length maiden special weight win on Sept. 8, going a mile at Belmont Park. The dark bay colt is by Tiznow, a perennial top-10 sire who is once again firmly entrenched in that group this year, with just shy of $5.2 million in […]

With a big last-to-first move, Second City rolled down the stretch to a 2 3/4-length victory in the $200,000 British Columbia Derby (G3) Sunday at Hastings Park. The bay 3-year-old son of Distorted Humor was making his stakes debut and is the sixth graded stakes winner of 2012 by his sire. As a testament to […]