Okiro powered down the Turfway Park stretch to win Saturday’s $250,000 Animal Kingdom stakes going away by 2 ¼-lengths to become the first stakes winner for Yoshida (JPN). Second in last year’s Hollywood Beach S. at Gulfstream Park, 3-year-old Okiro is owned by Yutaka Enterprises Corp and is trained by Jose Garoffalo. Okiro was making […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm announced today that it has secured an NIL deal with University of Kentucky basketball player Reed Sheppard to promote WinStar stallion Life Is Good. A freshman guard for John Calipari’s Wildcats, Sheppard was Mr. Kentucky Basketball in 2023 and a McDonald’s All-American. Also honored as the 2022 Kentucky Gatorade Player of the Year, […]
[ Read More ]My Mane Squeeze made it three stakes wins in a row Sunday at Aqueduct with a dominating performance in the $100,000 Maddie May S., romping by 4 ¾-lengths. The 3-year-old Audible filly won the Franklin Square S. over the same track a month ago, and closed out her 2-year-old campaign on Oct. 29 with a […]
[ Read More ]Life’s an Audible unleashed a powerful stretch run to win a three-horse photo in Saturday’s $175,000 Sweetest Chant S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park. The victory marked the first stakes win for the 3-year-old Audible filly, who previously had finished second in both last month’s Ginger Brew S. at Gulfstream and the Miss Grillo S. (G2) […]
[ Read More ]Stakes veteran Promise Keeper and Neat both tallied black type wins on Saturday, giving Constitution his second and third stakes winners of the new year. Promise Keeper, a 6-year-old in the care of trainer Robertino Diodoro, was a front-running winner of the $150,000 Fifth Season S. at Oaklawn Park. He was pressed through six furlongs […]
[ Read More ]Always Dreaming will have his first starter in next month’s $20 million Saudi Cup (G1) at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh after Saudi Crown dominated the Louisiana S. (G3) Saturday at Fair Grounds. The newly-turned 4-year-old, who won last year’s $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1), dominated his competition from the outset of Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Life Is Good, winner of the 2021 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1), sired his first reported foal when a filly out of the graded stakes-placed Verrazano mare Shesa Mystery was foaled at Brookstone Farm in Paris, Ky, on Saturday night, Jan. 13. The filly, whose dam finished second in the 2021 Iowa Oaks […]
[ Read More ]My Mane Squeeze rallied to win the $100,000 Franklin Square S. Sunday at Aqueduct to begin her 2024 campaign where she left off last year – with a stakes victory. After winning the $200,000 Maid of the Mist S. on Oct. 29, My Mane Squeeze got a brief freshening before her return on Sunday. She […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Nashville, a brilliantly fast son of Speightstown, sired his first reported foal when a filly was born on Monday morning, Jan. 8 at Murmur Farm in Maryland, it was announced today. The precocious filly is produced from the stakes-winning Tapiture mare Why Not Tonight, who is out of a half-sister to stakes-placed Tomica’s […]
[ Read More ]Always Dreaming got 2024 off to a strong with three winners in the first week of the year, topped by Tocayo’s front-running score in the Dania Beach S. Jan. 6 at Gulfstream Park. Tocayo, who was making just his second stakes start on Saturday, asserted himself from the start of the one-mile turf race and […]
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