Artie Schiller got his sixth stakes winner of the year on Sunday when Macagone went gate-to-wire in the $100,000 Danger’s Hour S. at Aqueduct, winning by 3 1/2-lengths for his first stakes win. Macagone, a Trinity Farm homebred, was third in his most recent start, the $100,000 El Prado S. at Gulfstream Park in December. […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s Passion for Action last-to-first rally carried the 4-year-old to his second career stakes win in Saturday’s $125,000 Jacques Cartier S. at Woodbine. Speightstown, a perennial top-10 sire, has five stakes winners and 10 black-type horses in 2016. Trailing the field of six sprinters for the first half-mile, Passion for Action unleashed a five-wide rally […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s graded stakes winner Life Imitates Art outclassed his opponents in Saturday’s $75,000 Sophomore Turf S. at Tampa Bay Downs, striding out strongly in the stretch to win going away by 1 1/2-lengths. Winner of the Dania Beach S. (G3) on Jan. 2, Life Imitates Art had was full of run in the […]
[ Read More ]Land Over Sea found her best stride in the long Fair Grounds stretch en route to a 4 1/2-length victory in the $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks (G2), the first graded stakes win for the 3-year-old Bellamy Road filly. Sitting in sixth through the first half-mile Land Over Sea began to pass horses around the far […]
[ Read More ]Artie Schiller’s always-consistent Sonny Inspired racked up career victory number six in Saturday’s $75,000 Ben’s Cat S. at Laurel Park. It was also the second stakes win for the 5-year-old, who has finished top-three in 19 of 29 lifetime outings. While patiently letting a trio of foes fight it out on the front end over […]
[ Read More ]The second day of the March 15-16 OBS March Sale of Selected 2-year-olds in Training concluded with a Pioneerof the Nile colt hammering for $450,000 and a filly for $270,000. The colt, consigned by Woodside Ranch as hip No. 524, went to Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and is from the direct family as Champion Sprinter and […]
[ Read More ]The final day of the OBS March Sale of Selected 2-year-olds in Training saw a trio of Gemologist’s first crop go through the ring, with all three bringing a winning bid of at least $170,000. Topping the group was hip No. 486, a filly offered by Halcyon Hammock Farm and sold to L.E.B. The filly […]
[ Read More ]2016 top-five sire Congrats had a filly sell for $385,000 during the Wednesday session of the OBS March Sale of Selected 2-year-olds in Training. Consigned by Wavertree Stables, Inc. and cataloged as hip No. 332, the dark bay filly, named Overture, was purchased by WinStar Farm. Her dam, Toccet Over, is the dam of Mexikoma, […]
[ Read More ]Gemologist was represented by three six-figure horses during the first day of the March 15-16 OBS March Sale of Selected Sale of 2-year-olds in Training, including a colt that sold for $300,000 to L. E. B. Julie Davis, agent consigned hip No. 171, who had breezed a session-topping :09 4/5 seconds during the Under Tack […]
[ Read More ]Bodemeister led all first-crop sires with a sales average of $245,000 during the first day of the March 15-16 OBS March Sale of Selected Sale of 2-year-olds in Training. Leading the way was a $435,000 colt, hip No. 27, consigned by Hoppel’s Horses and Cattle Co. and sold to WinStar Farm and China Horse Club. […]
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