Category: General News

Nashville blows away foes once again at Keeneland

Speightstown’s 3-year-old colt Nashville turned in another spectacular performance Saturday at Keeneland, winning a six-furlong allowance race by 9 3/4-lengths, his second blow out win in as many starts. After winning his Sept. 2 debut at Saratoga by 11 1/2-lengths, the bay colt was named a TDN Rising Star. He backed that tag up with […]

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Exaggerator filly scores front-running MdSpWt win at Belmont Park

Herald Angel became Exaggerator latest first-crop winner, his seventh, on Oct. 10 with a gate-to-wire score at Belmont Park. The 2-year-old filly won the six-furlong maiden special weight contest on the inner turf by 2 1/2-lengths without ever being seriously threatened by any of her foes after the first quarter-mile. She covered the distance on […]

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That Kenney Kid first stakes winner for Speightster

Top-10 First-Crop sire Speightster got his first stakes winner Saturday when That Kenney Kid won the $70,000 West Virginia Breeders’ Classic at Charles Town Races. The bay 2-year-old filly is one her sire’s seven winners to date, while That Kenney Kid is also the third stakes horse his sire.  That Kenney Kid won the 6 […]

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Alaskan Queen becomes Constitution’s second Grade 1 winner of 2020

Alaskan Queen won the stretch battle over Freccia Rosa by one length to win the Polla de Pontrancas (G1) in Santiago, Chile on Sunday, giving Constitution a second Grade 1 winner to go along with leading 3-year-old and Classic winner Tiz the Law. Constitution is atop the Second-Crop sire list with just over $5 million […]

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Uni (GB) wins Keeneland’s First Lady (G1) for second straight year

More Than Ready’s ultra-classy mare Uni (GB) outran Newspaperofrecord of record in the stretch to win the $350,000 First Lady (G1) for the second year in a row, setting the 6-year-old up for a possible repeat performance in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1). Uni beat the males in that race last year when it was […]

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Constitution’s Breakpoint digs deep to win Polla de Potrillos (G1)

Constitution’s world-wide impact as a sire expanded to Chile on Oct. 2 when Breakpoint won the Polla de Potrillos (G1) to give the WinStar stallion his first South American Grade 1 winner. Already the leading Second-Crop sire with over $5 million in progeny earnings to date, Constitution has had a trio of stakes horses in […]

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Harpers First Ride captures Pimlico Special (G3) for Paynter

Harpers First Ride turned back a stiff challenge from Owendale to win Friday’s $250,000 Pimlico Special (G3) by two lengths, giving the 4-year-old son of Paynter his first graded stakes victory. The dark bay is one of six stakes winners this year by Paynter, who leads all Fourth-Crop sires with 15 stakes horses and 133 […]

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Lady Speightspeare wins Natalma S. (G1), earns trip to Breeders’ Cup

Speightstown’s dynamic 2-year-old filly Lady Speightspeare is likely on her way to the Breeders’ Cup after the chestnut filly dug in gamely to win the $250,000 Natalma S. (G1) at Woodbine on Sunday afternoon. Speightstown is the nation’s leading sire by progeny earnings, with nearly $8.7 million, and leads all sires by Grade 1 horses, […]

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King of the Court extends winning streak to three with first stakes win

Speightstown’s latest stakes winner King of the Court made it three wins in a row with a victory in the Sept. 17 HBPA Stakes at Canterbury Park. Speightstown is having one of his best seasons at stud in recent years, currently ranked second on the General Sire list with progeny earnings of more than $8.5 […]

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Speightster filly tabbed for $475,000 Wednesday at Keeneland

Speightster had one of the top-priced fillies during Wednesday’s session of the 2020 Keeneland September Yearling sale when hip No. 629 brought a winning bid of $475,000. Consigned by Bluewater Sales, agent and bred by Cobalt Investments, the dark bay filly was purchased by Alex Lieblong. Out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Hot Water, the […]

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