Hip Hop N Jazz used her natural speed to zip to a 1 1/2-length victory in the Houston Distaff S. on Saturday evening at Sam Houston Park. The victory was the first win for the newly-turned 5-year-old daughter of Speightstown, who finished third in the 2015 Delaware Oaks (G3). Making just her eighth lifetime start, […]
[ Read More ]Always Dreaming could be a new horse on the 2017 Triple Crown Trail after the 3-year-old Bodemeister colt came home an 11 1/2-length winner in a Tampa Bay Downs maiden special weight affair Wednesday in his 2017 debut. After a pair of sprint starts last summer, Always Dreaming got a break from the races and […]
[ Read More ]Pioneerof the Nile’s sensational 2016 juvenile Classic Empire was named Champion 2-year-old Male at Saturday evening’s Eclipse Award ceremony at Gulfstream Park. The win marked the second time from his first four crops that Pioneerof the Nile was represented by the Juvenile Male champion. It will take some doing to match American Pharoah’s historic accomplishments […]
[ Read More ]Star Super, who was multiple stakes-placed last year as a 2-year-old, came away with her first added-money win on Saturday with a gutsy neck victory in the $75,000 Marshua S. at Laurel Park. Star Super is Super Saver’s first stakes winner of 2017. The WinStar stallion wrapped up 2016 as the leading Cumulative Third-Crop Sire […]
[ Read More ]Tour de Force was just that on the Fair Grounds turf in his maiden special weight win on Jan. 15, winning comfortably by 2 3/4-lengths as the even-money favorite. Bred in Kentucky by Kinsman Farm, who co-owns the colt with John Oxley, the 3-year-old son of Tiznow sold for $1.35 million at the 2014 Keeneland […]
[ Read More ]Following a solid series of workouts over the past two months, Gemologist’s Aquamarine came away a two-length maiden special weight debut winner Friday at Santa Anita Park. The Bob Baffert trainee hustled out of the gate in hot pursuit of Aristocratic, who zipped through a quarter in :21.55 and a half-mile in :44.81. The pacesetter […]
[ Read More ]A yearling More Than Ready colt and full brother to Grade 1 winner Sebring (AUS) topped the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling sale with a winning bid of A$1.3 million from champion trainer Gai Waterhouse on Thursday at the Australian auction. The colt is also a full brother to the Grade 1-placed Falkenburg and a […]
[ Read More ]Making his first start since last March, the incomparable 11-year-old son of Speightstown Reynaldothewizard captured the third straight running of the $175,000 Dubawi S. Thursday at Meydan Racecourse in the UAE. Reynaldothewizard, who has raced in Dubai for the past seven seasons, used the entire Meydan stretch to overtake Muarrab in the final strides, winning […]
[ Read More ]Bodemeister had one of the top-selling yearlings during Tuesday’s session of the Jan. 9-13 Keeneland Horses of All Ages sale when a colt brought a winning bid of $195,000. Consigned by Brookdale Sales, agent, hip No. 624 went to High Speed Stables. The bay juvenile was bred in Kentucky and is out of the stakes-winning […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Daredevil, More Than Ready’s winner of the Champagne S. (G1) at two, sired his first reported foal on Tuesday when a filly was born at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, NY. Bred by SF Bloodstock, the filly is out of the Henny Hughes mare Henny’s Princess, a stakes-winning juvenile from the immediate family […]
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