Ring Leader turned in a very impressive race on Jan. 24, her first start of 2020, rolling to a 5 1/4-length victory in a six-furlong allowance race for 3-year-old fillies. The daughter of Paynter hadn’t been seen since breaking her maiden in her debut last summer, but was primed for a big effort on Friday. […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) winner was named the Champion Female Turf Horse of 2019 at Thursday night’s Eclipse Awards ceremony, making her the eleventh champion by her sire. Uni raced just four times in 2019 collecting wins in the Perfect Sting S. and First Lady S. (G1) before defeating males in the […]
[ Read More ]Sharing, winner of the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) in November, was named the top Midlantic-bred of 2019 by voters in the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll. The Speightstown filly also won the $200,000 Selima S. at Laurel Park and a Saratoga maiden special weight by 6 1/4-lengths in August. […]
[ Read More ]Ms Peintour stretched out to 1 1/2-miles for the first time in her career in Sunday’s $100,000 Astra S. (G3) and the 5-year-old Paynter mare came home a 2 1/2-length winner in the turf marathon at Santa Anita Park. Ms Peintour capped a big weekend for her sire that also saw Needs Supervision and Glennwood […]
[ Read More ]Life On Top, making just his second lifetime start, scored a dramatic maiden special weight win over Gulfstream Park’s turf course on Saturday, winning a three-way photo by a neck in the one-mile race for 3-year-olds. Off since sprinting in his main track debut in October, Life On Top had been training on the grass […]
[ Read More ]Echo Town capped off a big Saturday for Speightstown that also included the stakes winners Victim of Love and Bobby’s Wicked One both getting their second career black type victories. Echo Town, a 3-year-old colt owned by L and N Racing LLC, was making his debut in Saturday’s six-furlong maiden special weight race at Fair […]
[ Read More ]Victim of Love became one of Speightstown’s two stakes winners on Saturday when she defeated multiple stakes winner Needs Supervision by nearly four lengths in the $100,000 What A Summer S. at Laurel Park. Saturday’s win was the second stakes victory for the 4-year-old filly. She sports a record of 4-1-2 from 12 outings, with […]
[ Read More ]Bobby’s Wicked One started 2020 like he ended 2019, with a stakes win at Fair Grounds. His 2020 debut came in Saturday’s $100,000 Duncan F. Kenner S., and the now 5-year-old cruised to a front-running, 4 1/4-length victory. Winner of the Commonwealth S. (G3) at Keeneland last spring and the Thanksgiving Classic in November, Bobby’s […]
[ Read More ]Scilly Cay began his 3-year-old campaign Jan. 12 at Aqueduct with a 2 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 Rego Park S., the first added-money victory for the Fed Biz colt. Fed Biz finished 2019 as the top-ranked Second-Crop Sire by both black type winners and black type horses. He is standing this year at WinStar […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Always Dreaming, winner of the 2017 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Florida Derby (G1), sired his first reported foal Jan. 6 when a filly was born at Delia Nash’s Dromingrove Farm. Bred by Nash, the filly is the third foal out of the stakes-placed Exchange Rate mare Lemon Liqueur. “She is very attractive just […]
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