Category: General News

Well-bred Super Saver colt gets first stakes win in 2019 debut

Hawaiian Noises, who had been off since December 13, started off 2019 in style with a gallant effort in the Animal Kingdom S. Saturday at Turfway Park, winning the race-long duel with Thunderous Gem to score by three-quarters of a length. The 3-year-old Super Saver colt won two of three starts last year and is […]

[ Read More ]
Super Saver filly works bullet at OBS Under Tack Show

Hip No. 305, a chestnut daughter of Super Saver, flew through a quarter-mile in :20 2/5 seconds during Friday’s session of the Under Tack Show for the upcoming March 12-13 OBS March Sale of 2-year-olds in Training. The work was the fastest of the day at the distance. The filly, consigned by Woodford Thoroughbreds, is […]

[ Read More ]
Speightstown’s Victim of Love rallies to win stakes debut

Victim of Love, who broke her maiden by nearly a dozen lengths a month ago, turned in another top-notch performance in Sunday’s $75,000 Island Fashion S. at Sunland Park, drawing off late to win the one-mile affair by about two lengths [WATCH RACE]. The 3-year-old Speightstown town filly was making her stakes debut after the […]

[ Read More ]
Fed Biz colt gives Rockingham Ranch a sweet Valentine’s Day gift

Bump Bailey’s eye-catching maiden special weight debut victory Feb. 14 at Santa Anita Park came at the expense of some high profile colts left in his wake, as the 3-year-old son of Fed Biz zipped over the sloppy going to win by nearly four lengths while being eased up in the final sixteenth [WATCH RACE]. […]

[ Read More ]
Paynter’s Knicks Go named Maryland-bred 2018 Horse of the Year

Knicks Go, winner of last autumn’s Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland, was named the Maryland-bred Horse of the Year for 2018 at the Feb. 12 Renaissance Awards in Baltimore. Knicks Go, who also finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) in November at Churchill Downs, was bred by Angie Moore, who operates Green Mount […]

[ Read More ]
Dawn the Destroyer sets major milestone for Speightstown

Speightstown became just the sixth active North American sire to get 100 black type stakes winners on Jan. 25 when Dawn the Destroyer captured the $100,000 Interborough S. at Aqueduct. Speightstown joins the likes of fellow WinStar stallions Distorted Humor and More Than Ready on the illustrious list.  Dawn the Destroyer, 5, placed in the […]

[ Read More ]
Tiznow filly strikes big in career debut at Santa Anita Park

Flor de La Mar, a $500,000 Saratoga Yearling in 2018, cruised to a five-length victory in her unveiling Jan. 20 at Santa Anita to become the 14th lifetime TDN Rising Star for her sire Tiznow [WATCH RACE]. She joins an illustrious roster to Tiznow’s Rising Stars that includes champion 2-year-old filly Folklore, multiple Grade 1-winning […]

[ Read More ]
Paynter filly kicks off 2019 with Silverbulletday S. victory

Needs Supervision made the jump into stakes company in Saturday’s $150,000 Silverbulletday S. at Fair Grounds and came away with a three-quarter length victory that could put the 3-year-old Paynter filly on the road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) Needs Supervision is the first stakes winner this year and sixth overall for her sire, who […]

[ Read More ]
Exaggerator’s first yearling of 2019 hammers for $125,000 at Keeneland

The new year opened with a bang for Exaggerator on Jan. 7 when his first-ever yearling offered at auction sold for $125,000 on Monday at the 2019 Keeneland January Sale. A chestnut filly consigned by Taylor Made Sales agency, hip No. 25 went to The Legends Stables. The filly is out of the Distorted Humor […]

[ Read More ]
Pioneerof the Nile filly comes up a TDN Rising Star in her debut

Anuket, a $575,000 yearling purchase in 2017, delivered a sensational performance in her Dec.30 debut at Santa Anita Park, cruising to a 4 1/4-length victory for high-profile connections Juddmonte Farm and trainer Bob Baffert. Bred by Town & Country Horse Farms and Pollock Farms, the 2-year-old filly is Pioneerof the Nile’s fourth TDN Rising Star. […]

[ Read More ]