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 […]
[ Read More ]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, […]
[ Read More ]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, […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]Expurgated’s blowout win Wednesday in her racing debut at Parx gave Exaggerator his seventh First-Crop winner and one of his most visually impressive to date. The chestnut filly scored by 8 1/4-lengths in front-running style in the 5 1/2-furlong contest and was never threatened at any point while under a hand ride the entire trip. […]
[ Read More ]Sam and Sy kicked away from the field coming into the stretch and ran away to a 13 3/4-length victory in his career debut Monday at Belmont Park. Speightster, who got his first stakes winner on Oct. 10, is a top-10 First-Crop sire now with eight winners and a trio of black type horses. Sam […]
[ Read More ]Royal Approval became Tiznow’s 45th lifetime graded stakes winner on Sunday with her victory in the $100,000 Matron S. (G3) on the Belmont Park turf course. The Three Chimneys Farm homebred has won her last two starts and upped her earnings to $117,400 with Sunday’s win. Ridden with confidence from the outset by Irad Ortiz, […]
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