Category: General News

You’re to Blame wore down heavily favored War Story in deep stretch win the 1 1/2-mile Greenwood Cup (G3) on Labor Day at Parx, giving the 4-year-old Distorted Humor colt his first stakes victory. He is the sixth graded stakes winner this year for his sire, who was also represented over the Labor Day weekend […]

Lady Abigail led every step of the way in her Sept. 3 maiden special weight victory going 5 1/2-furlongs at Remington Park, giving Revolutionary his latest first-crop winner. A Cisper Racing homebred, Lady Abigail got plenty of pressure in the first three furlongs, then put away Asaka to open up by a couple lengths in […]

Despite a fierce, stretch-long challenge by Hemp Hemp Hurray, Wyatt’s Town prevailed by a neck in Sunday’s $100,000 Ontario Jockey Club S. at Woodbine. The 3-year-old Speightstown colt has now won four straight since breaking his maiden May 17 at Churchill Downs, and has earned $205,438 for co-owners Henley Thoroughbreds and Newtop Stables. With just […]

Chester and Mary Broman’s homebred Tiznow colt Can You Diggit had placed in four stakes in his career prior to Monday’s victory in the $100,000 Evan Shipman S. at Saratoga. “This horse has been knocking on the door,” summed up winning trainer Jimmy Jerkens. “He certainly deserved a win.” The Shipman drew a field of […]

Spanish Harlem got her first stakes victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Barely Even S. at Gulfstream Park, soon after Rushing Fall won the Lake Placid S. (G2), to give More Than Ready a pair of stakes winner on the third Saturday of August. Spanish Harlem, who was stakes-placed last year at Gulfstream, was much the best […]

More Than Ready’s incredible stallion career hit another milestone on Saturday when Rushing Fall became a racing’s newest millionaire when she scored a convincing win in the $300,000 Lake Placid S. (G2) at Saratoga. Winner of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), the bay 3-year-old has won four graded stakes, five of six […]

Yuvetsi turned back odds-on favorite Anonymity at the top of the stretch en route to a 2 1/2-length victory in the Rancho Bernardo H. (G3) Sunday at Del Mar.  The win was the first graded score for the 4-year-old Bodemeister filly, who won the Santa Lucia S. June 22 at Santa Anita Park. Bodemeister, a […]

Constitution, whose first crop are yearlings of 2018, had a pair of juveniles bring six figures during the first session of the Aug. 11-12 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred Yearlings sale, topped by a $210,000 filly that went to Tracy Farmer. Taylor Made Sales Agency was the consignor of hip No. 394. The gray/roan filly is […]

Constitution, whose first crop are yearlings of 2018, had his best auction results of the year during Tuesday’s closing session of the Aug. 6-7 Saratoga Select Yearlings sale. The multiple Grade 1-winning stallion’s hip No. 168, consigned by Warrendale Sales, agent, went to Kerri Radcliffe for $185,000. The chestnut filly’s dam, Azalea Belle, by Dixie […]

Leading sire Pioneerof the Nile had a stellar closing session of the Aug. 6-7 Saratoga Select Yearlings sale, with three lots selling for an average of $350,000. Leading the way was hip No. 179, consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency and purchased by Spendthrift Farm for $600,000. The bay colt is the first foal out […]