A Bit of Both cruised to a three-length victory in the $75,000 Game Face S. Saturday afternoon at Gulfstream Park, the first stakes start for the 3-year-old Paynter filly. In her last three starts, A Bit of Both has been on front at every point of call while winning by a combined 16 lengths. Owned […]
[ Read More ]First-Crop sire Constitution’s large group of juveniles in next week’s OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in Training have been working very well at the Under Tack Show, led by a filly who zipped through a furlong in :09 4/5 seconds during the Thursday session. Constitution has a total of 33 lots in the catalog for […]
[ Read More ]The following article by Frances J. Karon appeared on April 17, 2019 on www.werkhorse.com One day after the first anniversary of the death of Giant’s Causeway, that stallion’s multiple G1-winning son Carpe Diem was represented by his first winner, Nayibeth, from his first starter, one of 124 registered 2yos from Carpe Diem’s first crop. Already […]
[ Read More ]Nayibeth, a 2-year-old filly by WinStar Farm stallion Carpe Diem, won at first asking at Keeneland on Wednesday, becoming her sire’s first starter and first winner and also a TDN Rising Star. Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings and owned by Ramon Tallaj, Nayibeth raced to the lead at the start of the 4 […]
[ Read More ]A filly from the first crop of multiple graded stakes winner Commissioner worked a quarter-mile in :20 1/5 Tuesday at the Under Tack show in preparation for the April 23-26 OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in Training, sharing the fastest time at the distance. The bay Kentucky bred, hip No. 365, is scheduled to sell […]
[ Read More ]Diamond Dust collected his third straight win and third lifetime stakes victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Howard B. Noonan S. at Mahoning Valley. The 3-year-old son of Paynter has never been worse than second in seven lifetime starts, with five wins, and earnings of $238,100 for the owner/breeder tandem of WinStar Farm and Blazing Meadows Farm. […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s super-filly Rushing Fall remained undefeated at Keeneland with a front-running score in Saturday’s $350,000 Jenny Wiley S. (G1) and is just a neck away from having a perfect record in eight lifetime starts, all graded stakes except for her maiden debut victory. With wins during the 2017 Fall Meet in the Jessamine […]
[ Read More ]Bobby’s Wicked One used his speed and tenacity to capture Saturday’s $250,000 Commonwealth S. (G3) at Keeneland by 1 1/4-lengths over an all-star field of male sprinters. The victory in the seven-furlong affair was the first graded stakes win for the 4-year-old Speightstown colt, who had scored two easy allowance wins over the winter at […]
[ Read More ]Bulletin, last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint champion, return to action April 4 at Keeneland with a gate-to-wire victory in the Palisades Turf Sprint S. in what was the inaugural running of the race at the historic Kentucky track. The 3-year-old colt, owned by WinStar Farm, China Horse Club and SF Racing, has now […]
[ Read More ]The fireworks started early for Carpe Diem at Wednesday’s Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale of 2-year-olds when hip No. 5 sold for $650,000 to Katsumi Yoshida after a spirited bidding battle. The muscular chestnut had worked a lively eighth-mile in :10 1/5 seconds during last week’s Under Tack show. Consigned by Cary Frommer, agent and bred by […]
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