Category: General News

Newest MdSpWt winner moves Speightster to the top of First-Crop Sire list

Geleta’s debut victory Monday at Parx gave Speightster his fourth winner and elevated him to the top of the First-Crop sire list of 2020 with more than $210,000 in progeny earnings to date. Geleta, and Equivine Farm homebred, captured the five-furlong race by 1 1/2-lengths over a fast local main track for trainer Ed Coletti, […]

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Newest MdSpWt winner moves Speightster to the top of First-Crop Sire list

Geleta’s debut victory Monday at Parx gave Speightster his fourth winner and elevated him to the top of the First-Crop sire list of 2020 with more than $210,000 in progeny earnings to date. Geleta, and Equivine Farm homebred, captured the five-furlong race by 1 1/2-lengths with a big closing move in the final furlong for […]

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Newest MdSpWt winner moves Speightster to the top of First-Crop Sire list

Geleta’s debut victory Monday at Parx gave Speightster his fourth winner and elevated him to the top of the First-Crop sire list of 2020 with more than $210,000 in progeny earnings to date. Geleta, and Equivine Farm homebred, captured the five-furlong race by 1 1/2-lengths over a fast local main track for trainer Ed Coletti, […]

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Frazzled gives Outwork his first two-turn winner

Top-five First-Crop sire Outwork was represented by his third winner Sunday at Del Mar when Frazzled won a one-mile turf maiden special weight by a little more than a length.  With his first two maiden special winners coming at Belmont Park and Saratoga, Outwork has arguably the highest profile group of juvenile winners of any […]

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Nutsie wins Saratoga MdSpWt debut for Top-5 Freshman sire Exaggerator

Nutsie drew off in the final furlong of the Saratoga stretch to win his Aug. 13 debut by two lengths in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight for 2-year-olds. Exaggerator has five juvenile winners, tied for first on the Freshman sire list, and is third by progeny earnings. The WinStar stallion got his first stakes […]

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Congrats’ Snow Man wins Duke City Sprint S. in 2020 debut

Snow Man, who was stakes-placed as a 2-year-old, made his 2020 unveiling in Saturday’s Duke City Sprint S. at Albuquerque Downs, coming from the back of the field to win the six-furlong contest by a neck. Snow Man is one of 12 stakes horses in 2020 by Congrats, who is once again among the top […]

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Esplanande beats the boys in the Cleveland Kindergarten S.

WinStar Farms, Blazing Meadows Farm and Michael Lewis’ homebred 2-year-old filly Esplanande overpowered the colts in Saturday’s $100,000 Cleveland Kindergarten S. at Thistledown, winning the six-furlong contest by a widening 4 1/4-lengths. The 2-year-old daughter of Daredevil is undefeated in three starts, two of them in stakes, and has earned $120,460.  The dark bay juvenile […]

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Constitution homebred rolls to second straight stakes win

On the same day that Tiz the Law triumphed in the Travers S. (G1), Constitution’s undefeated filly Alexandria rolled to a nine-length victory in the $100,000 Miss Ohio S. at Thistledown. The 2-year-old filly was bred by WinStar Farm LLC and Blazing Meadows Farm LLC and races for those connections along with Michael Lewis. Already […]

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Bee Exxtravagant scores a double-digit MdSpWt victory

Exaggerator’s newest winner Bee Exxtravagant posted a gaudy 11-length maiden special weight win on Aug. 5 to give his sire his fourth First-Crop winner, tying him for the most by any freshman sire. Two of those winners will make their first stakes starts on Sunday at Ellis Park, with Xtrema in the Debutante and Perfect […]

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Tourist filly rolls to 7 1/2-length maiden special weight win

Woodbine Way went to the front and never looked back to break her maiden by a widening 7 1/2-lengths Aug. 4 at Presque Isle Downs. The bay filly is the fourth winner for Tourist, all coming in maiden special weight races. He is tied for the top spot on the First-Crop Sire list by winners […]

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