Category: General News

Ghost Stalker gives Exaggerator a dozen First-Crop winners

Top-five First-Crop sire Exaggerator tallied his 12th winner on Nov. 1 with Ghost Stalker’s gritty maiden win going 6 1/2-furlongs at Belmont Park. The dark bay colt, owned by R. A. Hill Stable and Gatsas Stables, was a one-length winner over K T’s Jilted Groom , who was nine lengths clear of the rest of […]

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Outwork colt rolls to 8 3/4-length Belmont MdSpWt win

Work Out completely dominated his competition Sunday at Belmont Park in a one-mile maiden special weight race for 2-year-olds, running up the margin in the stretch to win by 8 3/4-lengths. The colt is the 11th First-Crop winner for Outwork, who is currently tied for the top spot on the Freshman sire list by stakes […]

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First Constitution delivers Grade 1 win on Halloween

Constitution, already a top Second-Crop sire in North America, is making his impact in a big way in the southern hemisphere as well. He added a third Grade 1 winner in Chile in the month of October on Halloween when First Constitution drew off to an eight-length win in the Gran Criterium Mauricio Serrano Palma […]

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Speightster filly goes gate-to-wire in $250,000 Princess Elizabeth S.

Dreaming of Drew’s stellar performance in Saturday’s $250,000 Princess Elizabeth S. at Woodbine netted the 2-year-old Speightster filly her first stakes win and giving her top-10 First-Crop sire his second stakes winner. After two very good turf stakes outings, Dreaming of Drew switched back to the main track Saturday for her two-turn debut. She immediately […]

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Constitution filly racks up third stakes win of 2020 in $100,000 John Galbreath S.

Alexandra turned in another dominating performance in Saturday’s $100,000 John Galbreath S. at Mahoning Valley, drawing off to a 6 3/4-length victory in the 1 1/16-mile contest for 2-year-old fillies. Alexandra is one of Constitution’s 15 stakes horses this year, which leads all Second-Crop sires. His leading 3-year-old, Belmont S. (G1) winner Tiz the Law, […]

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Poca Mucha second winner in two days for Tourist

First-Crop sire Tourist tallied two new winners in the past two days, with Poca Mucha winning an maiden special weight at Indiana Downs on Oct. 29 and What Goes On Tour getting her first win the day before at Churchill Downs. The WinStar stallion now has a total of seven First-Crop winners, including Indy Tourist, […]

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Outwork gets 10th winner in Churchill Downs maiden special weight

Malloy’s rally in deep stretch carried the 2-year-old Outwork filly to a half-length maiden special weight win Sunday at Churchill Downs. The filly is the 10th First-Crop winner for Outwork, making him one of only a half-dozen freshman sires to have a double-digit tally of winners. He is also just one of four horses on […]

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Front-running MdSpWt win at Keeneland for Exaggerator filly

Top-three First-Crop sire Exaggerator’s winners’ total increased to 11 on Friday at Keeneland when the filly Color of Dawn tallied a 1 3/4-length maiden special weight win. Color of Dawn was away from the gate very quickly and headed Trouble Making to take the lead. She led the field through a half-mile in :48.12, then […]

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Exaggerator tallies a pair of Sunday maiden winners

Yellowstone Girl and Manhattan Grace both broke their maidens on Sunday, upping Exaggerator’s First-Crop winners’ total to ten, which is third-most for first-year sires. Yellowstone Girl, owned by Madaket Stables LLC, Wonder Stables and Robert LaPenta, won her one mile contest at Keeneland in front-running style, coming home a two-length winner under Florent Geroux.  Yellowstone […]

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Tourist filly finishes with a flourish on Woodbine turf

Hadley made up a four-length deficit in the final furlong of a one-mile turf maiden Saturday at Woodbine to win by a length and become the fifth First-Crop winner for her sire. In between horses and several lengths off the pace for most of the trip, Hadley swung to the middle of the course in […]

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