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, […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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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