The 2-year-old filly Mandy gave her all to win a six-furlong maiden special weight on Labor Day at Del Mar, besting Sofi’s Gold by a neck after battling her for nearly the entire race. Mandy’s victory gave Commissioner nine winners from his first crop and capped off an excellent week for the top-10 Freshman sire, […]
[ Read More ]Qurbaan scored his second straight win in the Grade 2 Bernard Baruch H. during the Labor Day card at Saratoga, giving his top-10 sire Speightstown his ninth stakes winner of the year. Qurbaan, who hadn’t won since taking the 2018 Baruch in his first U. S. start in last year, found the soft turf course […]
[ Read More ]Distorted Humor get his newest stakes winner Saturday night at Colonial Downs in the $150,000 Virginia Oaks when Carnival Colors (GB) split horses in upper stretch and held sway in the final furlong to best Mercilla by 1 1/4-lengths (VIDEO). A close second in last year’s Mazarine S. (G3) at Woodbine, Carnival Colors is now […]
[ Read More ]Top-10 First-Crop sire Carpe Diem tallied his eighth 2-year-old winner on Aug. 28 when Carpe Victoriam scored a come-from-behind victory in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Indiana Downs. Tucked along the inside behind horse until the field hit upper stretch, Carpe Victoriam swung to the middle of the racetrack and rallied strongly […]
[ Read More ]Viv surged to the lead on the final turn en-route to a six-length maiden special weight win on the Retama Park turf course on Wednesday evening (VIDEO). Already twice stakes-placed in her young career, Viv is the eighth winner from Commissioner’s first crop, ranking him in the top five by winners for all Kentucky-based Freshman […]
[ Read More ]Last December’s Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) winner Improbable returned to the winner’s circle on Sunday with a comfortable with a classy victory in the $100,000 Shared Belief S. at Del Mar. Improbable now has four wins and two seconds in eight starts and has earned $829,520 for WinStar Farm, China Horse Club and Starlight Racing. […]
[ Read More ]Leading First-Crop sire Constitution scored his second maiden special weight winner in as many days on Saturday when Mandamus rallied to win a five-furlong main track affair by a length at Gulfstream Park. Coupled with Strongconstitution’s win Friday at Del Mar, Constitution now has nine First-Crop winners, second most of any Freshman sire. Mandamus took […]
[ Read More ]Constitution chalked up his eighth winner from his first crop on Friday evening at Del Mar when Strongconstitution led nearly all the way in a five-furlong maiden special weight race for 2-year-olds on the turf. Constitution’s freshman class ranks in the top five by earnings, winners and black type horses, and he is the only […]
[ Read More ]Green Destiny won her stakes debut in the $100,000 Ellis Park Debutante on Sunday, drawing off in the final furlong to win by four lengths over Monedas de Oro (VIDEO). The victory comes on the heels of the filly’s maiden win on July 14. The Clearsky Farms homebred is now 2-0-0 in three starts and […]
[ Read More ]Sharing drew off powerfully in the stretch en route to a 6 1/4-length maiden special weight win Sunday at Saratoga, a performance that earned a the 2-year-old Speightstown filly a TDN Rising Star tag. In a three-way duel for the lead for the first half-mile, Sharing began to edge clear midway on the turn, then […]
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