Lyrical Lady 5 3/4-length maiden special weight victory on opening day of the Saratoga meet earned the 2-year-old More Than Ready filly a a TDN Rising Star tag in her career debut. Sent to the lead by Rafael Santana, Jr., Lyrical Lady rolled through a half-mile in :45.49 seconds, then poured it on in the […]
[ Read More ]Sirenusa chalked up her second stakes win in her young career on July 19 when she took the $100,000 TaWee S. at Indiana Downs by 1 1/2-lengths. The 3-year-old Tiznow filly has won four of five career outings, Including the Northbound Pride Oaks at Canterbury Downs on May 28, and has banked $178,400 for owners […]
[ Read More ]Once On Whiskey used every bit of the long Los Alamitos stretch to catch Draft Pick in the final strides of the $150,000 Los Alamitos Derby (G3). Saturday’s win was the stakes debut for the 3-year-old Bodemeister colt trained by Bob Baffert. Once On Whiskey was the less-heralded of the two Baffert Derby entrants, with […]
[ Read More ]Freshman Sire Fed Biz tallied the second winner from his first crop on July 13 when the 2-year-old filly Madison’s Quarters scored a valiant neck victory in a five furlong maiden special weight race at Arlington Park. The winner, who was making her first lifetime start, led the entire trip, outlasting a late-charging Crafty’s Dream, […]
[ Read More ]Pat On the Back garnered his fourth stakes win and surpassed the half-million dollar mark in career earnings on July 13 when the 4-year-old Congrats colt scored a 1 3/4-length victory in the $100,000 Saginaw S. at Belmont Park. After a pair of hard-luck seconds in stakes in his previous two outings, including the one-mile […]
[ Read More ]Multiple Grade 1 winner Carpe Diem’s first yearling to sell in the ring at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton July Sale brought a top bid of $150,000 from prominent pinhookers Hartley/de Renzo Thoroughbreds. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency as hip No. 38, the bay colt is out of the Unbridled’s Song mare Royale Paradise, who has two […]
[ Read More ]Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton July Sale featured the first yearlings of the summer auction season by WinStar’s mulitple Grade 1-winning millionaire Constitution, with a $150,000 colt topping the results for the first-year stallion. Ken McPeek, agent, was the winning bidder for hip No. 113, who was consigned by Baccari Bloodstock, agent. The colt is the latest foal […]
[ Read More ]Gemonteer, a 3-year-old Distorted Humor colt, won the $100,000 Not Surprising S. July 7 at Gulfstream Park in very impressive style, drawing off with authority in the final furlong to take the one-mile turf contest by nearly five lengths. Gemonteer didn’t make his first start until late April, when he broke his maiden. After a […]
[ Read More ]O Dionysus stretched out to 1 1/2-miles for the first time in Saturday’s $75,000 Cape Henlopen S. at Delaware Park and came away with a new track record and his third career stakes win. The 4-year-old son of Bodemeister is also a perfect three-for-three on the turf following Saturday’s win. He is now 6-5-1 in […]
[ Read More ]Diamond Dust improved his record to 2-for-2 with a decisive victory in the $75,000 Hoover S. at Belterra Park on July 7 (VIDEO). The 2-year-old son of Paynter won by 4 1/2-lengths on Saturday; he had won his debut on June 3 over the same course. Bred and owned by WinStar Farm and Blazing Meadows […]
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