Tiz Miz Sue registered a 1 1/4-length win in the $50,000 Winter Melody S. at Delaware Park on May 14, the second stakes win in the career of the 4-year-old daughter of Tiznow. She won the Polly’s Jet, also at Delaware, last October. Sent off the 6-5 favorite in the 1 1/16 mile Winter […]
[ Read More ]WinStar’s 2010 Belmont S. (G1) champion Drosselmeyer returned to the scene of his greatest triumph to win the $60,000 One Count S. on May 15, a little less than a year since the son of Distorted Humor took the third leg of the Triple Crown. The Bill Mott trainee was making his third start of […]
[ Read More ]Alternation gave his sire Distorted Humor his second stakes winner at Belmont Park in two days with a thrilling come-from-behind win in the $200,000 Peter Pan S. (G2) on May 14. And like Much Rejoicing, who won the Glia S. the previous day, the Peter Pan marked the first stakes win for 3-year-old dark bay […]
[ Read More ]Too Shy Shy, a 3-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor, galloped home a 12 1/2-length winner May 9 at Delaware Park to break her maiden in her second career start, covering the six furlongs in 1:10.61 with plenty left in reserve. The chestnut filly is a half-sister to Eclipse champion older horse Lawyer Ron, who won […]
[ Read More ]Bellamy Road’s Victoria’s Wildcat ran down dueling leaders to win the $118,800 Eight Belles S. (G3) for 3-year-old fillies by 2-1/4 lengths on Friday, May 6 at Churchill Downs. The winner’s share of the purse moved Bellamy Road into the top spot among second crop sires. Besides Victoria’s Wildcat, Bellamy Road is also represented by […]
[ Read More ]Twinspired, the aptly-named son of Harlan’s Holiday, will make his run at history in Kentucky Derby 137 (G1) from post position 10, right in the middle of the 20 horse field. The gray or roan colt will try to become the second straight Derby winner to have connections to WinStar, following last year’s victory by […]
[ Read More ]Bluegrass Cat’s Kathmanblu has been favored in her last four starts, and could be once again when post time comes Friday for the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs. The 3-year-old bay filly drew post 4 for the historic race, which will be run for the 137th time. Kathmanblu has won three of […]
[ Read More ]Distorted Humor’s Machen got up in the final strides to edge Dominus by a neck to win the $231,400 Derby Trial (G3) for 3-year-olds on April 30th, opening night of the Churchill Downs spring/summer meet. The Derby Trial, run at one mile, starts at the far end of the long Churchill Downs backstretch chute. Machen […]
[ Read More ]A three-quarter brother to Grade 1 multimillionaire Well Armed was born at WinStar Farm on April 14th. The bay colt is from the first crop of multiple Grade 1 winner Colonel John – Tiznow’s top performer at stud. The colt is out of Well Dressed, a stakes-winning Notebook mare who has already produced graded stakes […]
[ Read More ]Twinspired ran a flawless race in the G1 Toyota Blue Grass April 16 at Keeneland, only to be nipped by the narrowest of margin in the final stride of the nine furlongs.[watch race] It took the placing judges several minutes to determine the official winner, Brilliant Speed, who came very wide down the stretch, out […]
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