Category: General News

Speightstown filly rallies in time to take Crank It Up S.

Deer Valley got a very well-timed ride to pull out a half-length victory in the $60,000 Crank It Up S. Saturday at Monmouth Park. The 3-year-old filly became Speightstown’s 135th lifetime stakes winner and is one of his 11 stakes winners this year. A top-15 ranked national sire, Speightstown’s runners have earned more than $4 […]

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Gemologist filly debuts a winner at Gulfstream Park

Rose to Fame fought off all challengers to win her debut Wednesday at Gulfstream Park, taking the 4 1/2-furlong contest by a length over a sloppy racetrack. The 2-year-old filly is Gemologist’s 21st winner of 2017, joining the likes Martha Washington S. (G3) winner Golden Diamond and the stakes-placed colts Aquamarine and Gemologister. Rose to […]

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Speightstown’s Frostmourne rallies to take $500,000 Penn Mile (G2)

Frostmourne earned his first graded stakes victory Saturday with a 1 1/4-length tally in the $500,000 Penn Mile (G2) at Penn National. The 3-year-old Speightstown colt won the $100,000 Awad S. last October and has now won three of five lifetime starts. Frostmourne is Speightstown’s ninth stakes winner of 2017 and his 38th lifetime graded […]

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Shadow Rock Distorted Humor’s latest stakes winner

Shadow Rock rallied under a well-timed ride from Deshawn Parker to take the Honor the Hero S. on Monday at Canterbury Park.  Stakes-placed earlier this year, Shadow Rock is Distorted Humor’s 139th lifetime stakes winner and one of his nine stakes horses in 2017. After an alert break, Parker took Shadow Rock back off the […]

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Speightstown’s Weekend Hideaway racing’s newest millionaire

Weekend Hideaway’s gallant victory in the $200,000 Commentator S. on Memorial Day at Belmont Park put the son of Speightstown into the illustrious ranks of horses to earn more than $1 million. The 7-year-old has been one of the most successful horses on the New York circuit over the past four years, winning eight stakes […]

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“Sparkling” maiden special weight win for Gemologist filly

Gemsaresparkling bested a field of 3-year-old sprinting fillies on Saturday to earn her diploma in her second career start at Belterra Park. The daughter of Gemologist, bred by Gabriel Duignan and Lemons Mill Farm, is out of the mare Dreamscape, who has produced a pair of stakes winners and is a full sister to Hall […]

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More Than Ready juvenile rolls to Rising Star status

Copper Bullet flew through five furlongs in his eight-length maiden special weight victory Thursday at Churchill Downs, earning the 2-year-old More Than Ready colt a TDN Rising Star tag in his second career outing. Copper Bullet covered the five furlongs in :57.56 seconds, just a second off the track record. Bred by Dell Ridge Farm, […]

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$290,000 Super Saver filly at Midlantic Sale Day 1

A Super Saver filly brought $290,000 during the first day of the May 22-23 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training sale, one of the top-10 prices during Monday’s session. The bay filly, hip No. 220, was consigned by Kirkwood Stables, agent and went to prominent owner Ralph M. Evans. The Kentucky-bred is out of the stakes-winning […]

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Tiznow colt adds intrigue to Saturday’s Preakness (G1)

After skipping the May 6 Kentucky Derby (G1), Tiznow’s graded stakes-winning colt Term of Art will make his next start in the second leg of the Triple Crown in Saturday’s $1.5 million Preakness (G1) at Pimlico. Owned by Calumet Farm and trained by Doug O’Neill, Term of Art won last November’s Cecil B. De Mille […]

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