Category: General News

Flagstaff outduels Roadster for first stakes win

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 ]
Laura’s Light debuts a winner for Constitution

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 filly shines in second career win

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 […]

[ Read More ]
Final Final a very game winner for Daredevil

Final Final lost the lead then regained it in the last strides of her maiden special weight win on the grass at Golden Gate Fields on Nov. 1. The 2-year-old filly is the eighth winner from Daredevil’s first crop of runners.   Remarkably, Daredevil’s winners have come at eight different tracks, on three continents, on […]

[ Read More ]
Speightstown’s Sharing emulates her sire with Breeders’ Cup victory

Speightstown’s beautifully-bred 2-year-old daughter got a perfect ride from Manny Franco to prove best in Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), beating Daahyeh (GB) by nearly two lengths. Sharing, out of the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) winner Shared Account, is Speightstown’s second Breeders’ Cup winner and comes on […]

[ Read More ]
Paynter’s Lazy Daisy draws post 5 for Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1)

Lazy Daisy will break from the middle of the gate in Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) after drawing post 5 in the field of nine 2-year-olds. The Juvenile Fillies is race 7 on Friday, with a post time of 2:32 p.m. PT. The daughter of Paynter earned her way into the 1 […]

[ Read More ]
More Than Ready quartet primed for big Breeders’ Cup

More Than Ready, the sire of the winners of six Breeders’ Cup races, has a big chance to add to that total during this year’s Nov. 1-2 event at Santa Anita Park. The WinStar stallion has entries in four different races, including three juvenile races on Friday’s card. Uni (GB) rounds out the quartet in […]

[ Read More ]
Maiden special weight winners for Daredevil at Belmont and Meydan

Daredevil added two more maiden special weight winners from his first crop on Oct. 24-25 when I Dare U and Barack Beach won their debuts at Belmont Park and Meydan Racecourse, respectively. Daredevil, whose fee is private in 2020, has eight winners and three stakes horses to date, including multiple stakes winner Deviant and Grade […]

[ Read More ]
Constitution filly rolls by four lengths in Keeneland MdSpWt debut

Constitution, currently the No. 1 First-Crop Sire of 2019, tallied his 16th winner on Oct. 25 at Keeneland when the 2-year-old filly We the Clouds scored by four lengths in a six-furlong maiden special weight on the main track. We the Clouds, owned by her breeder Patricia Pavlish, broke alertly from post seven and made […]

[ Read More ]
Speightstown colt hammers for $300,000 Wednesday at Fasig-Tipton October sale

Speightstown had one of the top colts during Wednesday’s session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings sale when Frank Brothers, agent for Starlight Farm, went to $300,000 for hip No. 1018. Consigned by Summerfield on behalf of Stonestreet Bred and Raised, the colt is out of the stakes-placed Kafwain mare Peggy Jane and is from […]

[ Read More ]