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Fabricate became Speightster’s second winner on June 26 with a determined half-length victory in a six-furlong maiden special weight at Churchill Downs. Getting a good stalking trip along the rail under Brian Hernandez, Jr., Fabricate came around the leader in upper stretch and eventually took the top spot, then held Bahama Mischief at bay in […]

Celtic Striker drew away from Sonneman in upper stretch en route to a 19 3/4-length victory in the Easy Goer S. at Belmont Park, giving the 3-year-old Congrats colt his first stakes victory. After the original field of six scratched down to just two horses, jockey Manny Franco sent Celtic Striker right to the lead […]

Colts from WinStar first-crop stallions Outwork and Speightster shared the fastest time for a furlong during the June 24 Under Tack show for next week’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in Training sale. The sale will be held June 29-30.  Both colts covered the distance in 10 seconds flat. Hip No. 106, a bay son of Outwork, […]

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 […]