Speightstown’s stellar 3-year-old filly Carribean Caper ran her record to five wins from as many starts with a in Saturday’s Dogwood S. (G3) at Churchill Downs. Previously a winner of the Audubon Oaks in August at Ellis Park, the Dogwood was the first graded score for Carribean Caper, who has now banked $345,595 in her […]
[ Read More ]CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm LLC’s brilliant 3-year-old colt Life Is Good won Saturday’s $300,000 Kelso H. (G2) by a facile 5 ½-lengths in his first start against older horses. Life Is Good faced just three foes in the one-mile Kelso, and broke on top. Irad Ortiz, Jr. settled his mount into a nice rhythm, […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm and Siena Farms’ 2-year-old son of Constitution Major General won a hard-fought stretch drive in Saturday night’s $300,000 Iroquois S. (G3) for his first stakes victory. Major General came to the Iroquois off a debut maiden special weight win on Aug. 21 at Saratoga. Assigned post six in the 10-horse field on Saturday, […]
[ Read More ]Locally Owned held off his heavily favored stablemate Lone Rock to win Saturday’s $300,000 Grand Prix American Jockey Club Inv. at Belmont Park. Locally Owned, a 5-year-old son of Distorted Humor, was making his first stakes start in nearly two years. He was in no hurry early in the 1 5/8-mile marathon, taking up his […]
[ Read More ]Knicks Go solidified his spot as the top handicap horse in training with another dominating performance in Saturday’s $1 million Whitney S. (G1) at Saratoga. The 5-year-old son of Paynter took the historic 1 1/8- mile contest by 4 1/2-lengths in his usual front-running style. Already the winner of this year’s $3 million Pegaus World […]
[ Read More ]Souper Stonehenge went gate-to-wire to win Sunday’s $150,000 Vigil S. (G3) at Woodbine, besting multiple Canadian champion Pink Lloyd by three-quarters of a length to give Speightstown his second graded stakes winner in as many days. Lexitonian won Saturday’s Alfred G. Vanderbilt S. (G1) at Saratoga. Speightstown has accounted for 10 stakes winners thus far […]
[ Read More ]Paynter’s ultra-consistent Harpers First Ride won for the 12th time in 23 lifetime starts in Saturday’s $100,000 Deputed Testamony S. at Pimlico. The 5-year-old has five stakes wins to his credit, including last year’s Pimlico Special S. (G3) and now back-to-back wins in the Deputed Testamony. Harpers First Ride led for the majority of Saturday’s […]
[ Read More ]Tango Tango Tango surged to the lead in upper stretch and pulled away for a two-length victory in Saturday’s $100,000 American Derby on the turf at Arlington Park, the first in the track’s series of grass races for 3-year-olds. Tango Tango Tango is the first stakes winner for Tourist and fittingly came on the grass, […]
[ Read More ]Paynter’s multiple Grade 1 winner Knicks Go couldn’t have been more impressive in the $300,000 Cornhusker H. (G3) on Friday evening at Prairie Meadows as he roared through the stretch to score by 10 1/4-lengths. Knicks Go was never seriously threatened as he took the lead soon after the start. He maintained a one-length lead […]
[ Read More ]Outwork’s 2-year-old filly At the Spa tallied her first stakes win of her career Sunday in the $100,000 Fasig-Tipton Debutante S. at Santa Anita, just two hours after the WinStar stallion collected his first stakes winner of the afternoon with Outadore’s commanding win in the Jacques Cartier S. (G3) at Woodbine. With three stakes winners […]
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