Category: General News

Pioneerof the Nile filly gets first stakes win in Rags to Riches S.

Pioneerof the Nile’s Del Mar Debutante (G1) runner-up Mother Mother led nearly every step of the way in Sunday’s $103,116 Rags to Riches S. to win by 1 ¾ lengths on the opening day of Churchill Downs Fall Meet. Pioneerof the Nile has more than 10 stakes horses this year, including Insta Erma, who will […]

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Super Saver colt debuts at Keeneland as a TDN Rising Star

So Alive closed with an incredible flourish in the final sixteenth of a mile to win his maiden special weight debut Saturday at Keeneland, coming from ten lengths back at the top of the stretch to win by a neck in remarkable fashion [WATCH RACE]. The 2-year-old Super Saver colt was named a TDN Rising […]

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Multiple Grade 2 winner Good Samaritan officially retired, available for inspection

Good Samaritan, a versatile millionaire son of Harlan’s Holiday and a Grade 2 winner at two, three, and four, has been retired and will stand the 2019 breeding season at WinStar Farm. He is currently available for inspection and will stand for $12,500 S&N. “He is the last great son of Harlan’s Holiday, one of […]

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Pat On the Back puts exclamation point on Empire State Stakes day

Congrat’s multiple stakes winner Pat On the Back held off a late rush from Can You Diggit to capture the featured $300,000 Empire Classic H. Oct. 20 at Belmont Park. The 4-year-old colt now has five lifetime stakes wins and has earned $727,532 for trainer Jeremiah Englehart and owners Harold Lerner, AWC Stables and Nehoc […]

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Super Humor breaks through with first stakes win

Super Humor picked up career stakes win number one on Oct. 15 when the daughter of Super Saver galloped to a two-length victory in the Chaves County S.  With two previous stakes placings, including in the 2017 renewal of this race, the dark bay is the fifth stakes winner this year for Super Saver, who […]

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Paynter’s Diamond Dust collects second stakes win

Diamond Dust took the lead in the first furlong and never looked back en route to a four-length win in the $150,000 Juvenile S. on Saturday at Thistledown.  The 2-year-old Paynter filly won the Hoover S. earlier this summer and is now 3-2-0 in five starts for her owner/breeder tandem of Blazing Meadows Farm and […]

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Rushing Fall superlative once again in Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1)

More Than Ready’s millionaire filly Rushing Fall added a second Grade 1 winner to her impeccable resume on Saturday when she went gate-to-wire to win the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) by 1 1/4-lengths. “The filly’s phenomenal,” said owner Bob Edwards of e Five Racing Thoroughbreds. “We’ve had an unbelievable run with her. […]

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Distorted Humor filly wins battle to take Group 3 Oh So Sharp S.

Mot Juste won her stakes debut in fashion with a half-length score in the Oct. 12 Oh So Sharp S. (G3) at Newmarket Racecourse in Great Britain [WATCH RACE]. The 2-year-old Distorted Humor filly is the eighth graded stakes winner this year for her sire, who accounted for last weekend’s Alcibiades S. (G1) with the […]

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Speightstown’s Scottish Jig scampers home in Pride S.

Scottish Jig did her best running the final quarter-mile to win the 10-furlong Pride S. over the straight Newmarket turf course, giving the 3-year-old Speightstown filly her first stakes win in her seventh lifetime start. The filly, who is a full sister to Grade 1 winner Seek Again, upped her record to 3-0-3 for owner/breeder […]

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Commissioner colt hammers for $200,000 at OBS October Select Yearlings Sale

Commissioner, whose first crop are yearlings of 2018, had the second-highest priced colt of Tuesday’s OBS October Select Yearlings Sale when de Meric Sales went to $200,000 to secure hip No. 128. Consigned by First Finds, the bay colt is out of the stakes winner Lunarlady, who is a half-sister to graded stakes winners Lunarpal […]

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