Category: General News

Campania gives Commissioner his 17th First-Crop winner

Campania rallied in deep stretch to break her maiden Dec. 13 at Charles Town Races, becoming the 17th winner for Commissioner. The WinStar stallion has five stakes horses this year, including recent Smooth Air S. winner Soros and the Grade 2-placed Powerfulattraction.  Compania won the seven-furlong maiden special weight on a sloppy main track despite […]

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Constitution filly overcomes tough trip for second career win

Queen Field rallied down the Gulfstream Park turf course stretch to best Rising Bella by a neck to give the 2-year-old daughter of Constitution her second lifetime win.  The bay filly had broke her maiden on Sept. 20 over the same course for trainer Antonio Sano and owner Leuf Racing Stable LLC. Queen Field is […]

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Convict wins debut as Constitution 25th First-Crop winner

Convict repelled all his challengers in winning his career bow Dec. 5 at Aqueduct, taking the six-furlong maiden special weight race by a neck over More Graytful (VIDEO). The 2-year-old colt is the 25th winner for his first-year sire, who leads all freshman sires in North America by winners, wins (30), graded stakes winners (4), […]

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December starts with a bang for Carpe Diem

Top-10 First-Crop sire Carpe Diem got a pair of maiden special weight winners on Dec. 1 to give the WinStar stallion 14 individuals with a month left in the year. The striking chestnut filly Parkour dominated a one-mile turf race at Del Mar, taking the race in gate-to-wire fashion despite breaking from the outside post […]

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Golden Principal becomes the fifth TDN Rising Star for Constitution

Golden Principal’s eye-catching debut maiden special weight win Saturday at Del Mar earned the 2-year-old Constitution filly a TDN Rising Star tag, the fifth Rising Star from her sire’s first crop. Only Into Mischief, who is the leading General Sire this year, has more Rising Stars, an extremely impressive feat for a First-Crop sire. Constitution […]

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Soros the latest stakes winner for Commissioner

Commissioner got his newest stakes winner Saturday at Gulfstream Park when Soros broke his maiden in the $75,000 Smooth Air S. at Gulfstream Park in his second lifetime start. The 2-year-old colt was second in his Nov. 2 debut against maidens but proved much the best in Saturday’s one-mile affair. Sixth after a half-mile in […]

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Paynter’s Need Supervision rolls in $100,000 Safely Kept S.

Needs Supervision powered to the front in the final furlong of the seven-furlong Safely Kept S. at Laurel Park and drew off to a 3 1/4-length victory to give the 3-year-old Paynter filly her second stakes win of 2019. A winner of three of her first four starts, including the $150,000 Silverbulletday S. in January, […]

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Bobby’s Wicked One zips to victory in Fair Grounds’ Thanksgiving Classic S.

Speightstown’s graded stakes winner Bobby’s Wicked One scored a three-length victory Thursday at Fair Grounds Racecourse when he took down the traditional opening day $100,000 Thanksgiving Classic in front-running style (VIDEO). Winner of Keeneland’s Commonwealth S. (G3) in April, when he earned a 100 Beyer Speed Figure, the 4-year-old chestnut duplicated that number in Thursday’s […]

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Fed Biz filly rides the rail to first stakes victory

Precious looked very sharp in winning the $100,000 Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies S. Nov. 27 at Penn National, rolling to a three-length victory to up the 2-year-old Fed Biz filly’s record to 2-for-2 (VIDEO). The Newell Thoroughbred homebred, trained by John Servis, broke her maiden by a whopping 14 lengths on Oct. 14 and has […]

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