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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]Laoban, currently second on the First-Crop sire list, got his fourth winner of the past week on Thursday at Los Alamitos with Meetmeincali’s four-length maiden win at 5 1/2-furlongs. Laoban’s four recent winners were highlighted by Laobanonaprayer’s dominant score in the $250,000 NY Stallion Series S. at Aqueduct. Laoban, who will be new at WinStar […]
[ Read More ]Top-10 First-Crop sire Speightster is now up to 14 winners after O Dogg put away the field in the stretch to win a six-furlong maiden race at Fair Grounds by 5 1/4-lengths on Thursday afternoon. The dark bay juvenile, owned by J S. Stables LLC, took over the lead with a quarter-mile to run after […]
[ Read More ]Laobanonaprayer rolled to victory over Jill’s a Hot Mess in Sunday’s $250,000 NYSS Fifth Avenue S. at Aqueduct, giving Laoban the one-two finishers in the seven-furlong race for 2-year-old fillies. Sunday’s filly exacta pushed Laoban into second on the 2020 First-Crop sire list, with progeny earnings over $1.5 million. He is the only top-10 sire […]
[ Read More ]Out First’s eye-catching move in the Aqueduct stretch carried the 2-year-old Outwork filly to a seven-length maiden special weight victory Saturday, making her the 16th First-Crop winner for her sire. Outwork is in the top five on this year’s First-Crop sire list in several categories, including winners, wins, progeny earnings and stakes winners. Out First […]
[ Read More ]Top-10 First-Crop sire Speightster now has a dozen freshman winners after Western Rule and Etu Babou both broke their maidens at Los Alamitos and Turfway Park, respectively. Western Rule, who was making his first start, took the lead about half way through the 5 1/2-furlong affair, holding off Pizza Charlie by a neck. Bred in […]
[ Read More ]Varda rallied from last at the top of the stretch to win Saturday’s $300,000 Starlet S. (G1) at Los Alamitos Racetrack by 1 1/2-lengths, the first graded stakes win for the 2-year-old filly trained by Bob Baffert for the Baoma Corp. The bay daughter of Distorted Humor is the 20th lifetime Grade 1 winner for […]
[ Read More ]Laoban, who is the leading First-Crop sire of black type winners, got his latest maiden winner in dramatic fashion on Dec. 4 at Aqueduct when Make It in Ny unleashed a huge rally to snatch victory by a nose in the final strides of his one-mile race. Well off the pace in the early stages, […]
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