Halo Again surged to the front in the final sixteenth of the 1 1/8-mile Coronation Futurity at Woodbine to score by a head over Malibu Mambo in the first stakes start for the 2-year-old Speightstown colt. Winner of his debut Oct. 27 at Churchill Downs, the $600,000 yearling purchase is now perfect in two starts […]
[ Read More ]Party Lights led nearly all the way in her seven-furlong maiden win Nov. 21 at Churchill Downs to become Carpe Diem’s 12th winner from his first crop. Carpe Diem, a Grade 1 winner at 2 and 3, earned more than $1.5 million in his career. One of the most popular young stallions since entering stud […]
[ Read More ]Island Commish, a stakes-placed son of Commissioner, scored his second straight win on the Gulfstream Park West turf course on Nov. 20, coming home a 5 1/2-length winner in the 7 1/2-furlong contest for 2-year-olds. The dark bay has three wins in his five starts, as well as placing in the $105,000 Proud Man S. […]
[ Read More ]Swiss Skydiver flew through the stretch at Churchill Downs to win her debut very impressively, hitting the wire 5 1/2-lengths ahead of the field in Saturday’s seven-furlong maiden special weight race for 2-year-old fillies. Daredevil, a son of leading sire More Than Ready, is the sire of 10 stakes winners and three stakes horses from […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s 2-year-old filly American Giant showed her affinity for the turf once again Saturday at Gulfstream Park West, driving to a two-length victory in the $75,000 Juvenile Fillies Turf, her third win in as many starts on the grass. More Than Ready’s runners have won nine stakes and earned in excess of $9.5 […]
[ Read More ]Constitution upped his First-Crop winners total to 19 with a pair of juvenile maiden winners on Nov. 8. The WinStar stallion now has a total of 19 individual winners, third-best among freshman sires. He also ranks second by stakes horses, with seven, and is the only First-Crop sire with four graded stakes winners. Jara earned […]
[ Read More ]Independence Hall remained unbeaten in his first two career starts with a romping 12 ¼-length win in the Nashua Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct on Sunday, Nov. 3, becoming his sire’s fourth first-crop stakes winner, tops among all freshman sires.Independence Hall earned a 101 Beyer Speed Figure in the win, the highest Beyer for a 2-year-old […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s hard-luck son Flagstaff got the best of Grade 1 winner Roadster in Saturday’s $100,000 Damascus S. at Santa Anita Park, winning the seven-furlong contest by a nose for his first stakes victory. The lightly-raced dark bay has been worse than third only once in nine starts, was most recently third in the Santa Anita […]
[ Read More ]Constitution tallied the latest winner from his first crop on Nov. 2 when the filly Laura’s Light drew off to a 2 1/2-length victory in a six-furlong maiden special weight race at Gold Gate Fields. Constitution now has 17 winners and progeny earnings of more than $1.5 million, trailing only American Pharoah on the 2019 […]
[ Read More ]Carpe Diem’s stakes-placed filly Bella Aurora scored a three-length allowance win Saturday at Laurel Park, the second win for the 2-year-old filly. She is the second multiple winner for Carpe Diem and one of the 11 winners to date for the top-10 First-Crop sire. Carpe Diem bred 130 mares this season and 569 through his […]
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