Selflessly was a very unlucky second in her Aug. 28 debut, but the More Than Ready filly made up for it on Sunday at Belmont Park with a victory in the $200,000 Miss Grillo S. (G2) on the turf. Two-year-old Selflessly is the seventh graded stakes winner this year for her sire, and he now […]
[ Read More ]Congrats’ Pat On the Back added two milestones to his brilliant career on Saturday, getting his first graded stakes win in the $300,000 Kelso H. (G2) and also earning millionaire status after the $165,000 payday. He the third millionaire and 11th graded stakes winner for Congrats. The venerable 5-year-old now has eight stakes wins overall […]
[ Read More ]Tiznow’s brilliant 2-year-old colt toyed with his competition in Saturday’s $200,000 Iroquois S. (G3) at Churchill Downs, winning the 1 1/16-mile contest by 1 3/4-lengths while being eased up by jocked Irad Ortiz, Jr. After breaking his maiden by a whopping 19 1/4-lengths July 27 at Ellis Park, and earning a TDN Rising Star tag, […]
[ Read More ]Lazy Daisy shipped from her southern California base for Saturday’s $200,000 Pocahontas S. (G2) at Churchill Downs, and the 2-year-old Paynter filly rewarded her connections with a gritty 1 1/4-length win in the 1 1/16-mile contest. Trained by Doug O’Neill, the Lazy Daisy’s victory earned an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) […]
[ Read More ]Yorkton captured the second straight running of the Bold Venture S. (G3) Saturday at Woodbine, giving the 5-year-old son of Speightstown his second career graded stakes win. As he did in the 2018 running of the 6 1/2-furlong contest, Yorkton went straight to the front as pre-race favorite stood in the gate at the break, […]
[ Read More ]Leading First-Crop sire Constitution’s first offerings at the Sept. 9-22 Keeneland Yearling sale came on Friday, with a $400,000 colt topping the day that saw all of his lots bring at least 11 times his stud fee. The $400,000 colt, already named Citizen Soldier, was cataloged as hip No. 878 and consigned by Hunter Valley […]
[ Read More ]After finishing Book 1 of the Keeneland September Yearling sale with his usual strong results, Speightstown picked right up when Book 2 started on Friday with a $700,000 colt, one of the top 10 individuals during the session. The bay colt, hip No. 679, was consigned by Gainesway, agent, and went to the big-name duo […]
[ Read More ]Exaggerator, whose first crop are yearlings of 2019, had his first juvenile sell at Keeneland on Sept. 11 when hip No. 491 brought a winning bid of $250,000 from Maverick Racing. The bay colt, consigned by Hunter Valley Farm, is out of the Grade 1 Empire Maker mare Last Full Measure, winner of Keeneland’s Madison […]
[ Read More ]Constitution tallied a pair of maiden special weight winners on Monday, led by the romping winner Gouverneur Morris, who won his debut at Saratoga by nine lengths and was named a TDN Rising Star following the stellar effort (VIDEO). With his two winners on Labor Day, Constitution’s first crop of runners have now accounted for […]
[ Read More ]Front Run the Fed won Sunday’s $100,000 Better Talk Now S. at Saratoga in the first black type start for the 3-year-old Fed Biz colt, who scored a 13-length allowance win in his most recent start before Sunday. Stretching out to a mile for the first time, Front Run the Fed was last of six […]
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