Category: General News

Perfect Mistake gave top-five First-Crop sire Exaggerator his second winner on June 18 with his three-quarter length victory in a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Indiana Downs. Perfect Mistake, who was making his racing debut, got a wide trip while well off the pace early on. He kicked into gear in the stretch […]

San Huberto (IRE) added to Speightstown’s stellar list of 2020 graded stakes winners with a half-length victory in the Prix Vicomtesse Vigier (G2) June 14 at Chantilly Racecourse in France. The 4-year-old colt joins the likes of Charlatan, Mozu Superflare and Flagstaff, who have all collected graded wins this year. In addition, last year’s Breeders’ […]

Tomlin led throughout Saturday’s $77,250 Camilla Urso S. at Golden Gate Fields, winning the five-furlong turf contest for fillies and mares by 1 1/4-lengths. Tomlin, a 4-year-old by Distorted Humor, has won 5 of 15 starts and earned $204,700 for owner Tom Bachman’s Fairview LLC. Her prior stakes win came in the Golden Gate Debutante.  […]

An excerpt of Bill Oppenheim’s “In My Opinion” column in BloodHorse Daily, posted on March 22. — Under the RADAR: Fourth-Crop Sire Paynter It’s not easy for sires to keep their spots on the Kentucky stallion roster. The top 10 North American sires who went to stud in 2014 (first foals in 2015, first 5-year-olds […]

First-Crop sire Tourist wrapped up the 2020 OBS March Sale of 2-year-olds in Training on Wednesday with a $145,000 colt consigned by de Meric Sales, agent. The winning bidder for hip No. 620 was stalwart buyer Steve Young, agent. The bay colt is just the second foal from the War Front mare Cara Dura and […]

In the latter half of Wednesday’s session of the OBS 2-year-olds in Training sale, a colt by Constitution that sold for $550,000 represented the top price paid for a male juvenile to that point of the two-day sale. Wavertree Stables, Inc. consigned hip No. 386, which went to Dennis O’Neill.  The colt is out of […]

Among Speightster’s first 2-year-olds offered at auction Tuesday at the OBS March Sale was a colt that went for $200,000. Steve Young, agent, was the winning bidder of hip No. 21, who was consigned by Eddie Woods, agent. The colt had worked a solid quarter-mile in :21 2/5 during the Under Tack Show. Out of […]

Speightstown’s dynamic 3-year-old colt Charlatan turned in another stunning performance Saturday at Santa Anita Park in what was just the Bob Baffert trainee’s second lifetime start (VIDEO). A graded stakes, perhaps the April 4 Santa Anita Derby (G1), is on the horizon for the flashy chestnut, who won Saturday’s one-mile contest by 10 1/4-lengths without […]

Leading Fourth-Crop sire Paynter’s Queen of God tallied her second stakes win of the year Saturday when she scored by three-quarters of a length in the $150,000 Bourbonette Oaks at Turfway Park. Queen of God had raced exclusively on the turf prior to the Bourbonette. Getting a rail trip for the first six furlongs, she […]

Bango turned in the best race of his young career Saturday with a track record performance in the Animal Kingdom S. at Turfway Park. Going back to sprinting after testing two turns in the LeComte S. (G3), the 3-year-old son of Congrats was stellar in the 6 1/2-furlong Animal Kingdom. A couple lengths off the […]