Embellish the Lace turned back all her challengers to score an ultra-game victory in the historic Alabama S. (G1) Saturday at Saratoga. The 3-year-old filly is the fourth graded stakes winner for Super Saver in his first two crops, the most any second-year stallion. He also is the only sophomore sire with multiple Grade 1 […]
[ Read More ]Flutterby turned in another stellar performance in Saturday’s $75,000 Gold Mover S. at Gulfstream Park, coasting to a front-running, 3 ¼-length win, the third career stakes win for the 4-year-old daughter of Congrats. Bred, owned and trained by 94-year-old Jerry Bozzo, Flutterby left her venerable conditioner almost speechless afterward. “I’ve run out of adjectives,” Bozzo […]
[ Read More ]Tiznow had the top-priced lot during the first session of the Aug. 15-16 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York Bred Preferred Yearlings auction, with McMahon and Hill Bloodstock, agent, going to $350,000 for hip No. 416, who was consigned by Summerfield, agent. Out of Grade I winner Acey Deucey (Abaginone), the filly is a half-sister to multiple […]
[ Read More ]Hard to Stay Notgo dominated the $50,000 Niagara S. Friday at Finger Lakes, the second stakes win in the young career of the 3-year-old daughter of More Than Ready. Her first added-money score came in February in the $125,000 Franklin Square S. at Aqueduct. Hard to Stay Notgo is one of seven North American stakes […]
[ Read More ]Copper Cajun rolled to an impressive 5 ½-length maiden special weight score Wednesday at Evangeline Downs to give freshman sire Drosselmeyer his third winner from his first crop. The chestnut 2-year-old easily handled the field of 10 juveniles with an authoritative stretch run following an early race duel. Bred by Clear Creek Stud, Copper Cajun […]
[ Read More ]Bellamy Road’s 2-year-olds have come out running at Saratoga Race Course. Constellation turned heads with an impressive winning debut Aug. 9, and No Entiendo kicked off the Aug. 10 program at The Spa with a wire-to-wire score, giving Bellamy Road two maiden special weight winners in as many days. LNJ Foxwoods’ Constellation, an $800,000 graduate […]
[ Read More ]Hold Me Back’s multiple stakes winner looked unstoppable once again on Saturday evening as he easily annexed the $80,000 Minnesota Derby by three lengths, running his winning streak to six straight, four of them in stakes. Hold for More dueled with Steviefromstanley in the stretch, drawing off late to win by three lengths, covering the […]
[ Read More ]Recepta found a narrow opening in mid-stretch and shot through to win the $100,000 De La Rose S. by 2 ¼-lengths on Saturday at Saratoga. The 3-year-old daughter of Speightstown is now a two-time stakes winner of $261,200. Recepta is Speightstown’s 20th black type horse of 2015. The WinStar stallion is once again in the […]
[ Read More ]Making his first start since his historic Triple Crown, Zayat Stables’ American Pharoah kept rolling right along with a deceptively dominating victory in the $1.75 million Haskell Inv. (G1) Sunday afternoon. The 3-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile earned $1.1 million for the win and pushed his sire’s progeny earnings to $6.9 million, easily tops […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s sensational 4-year-old emerged victorious in a nail-biting finish in Saturday’s $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. (G1), edging The Big Beast by a nose to sixth straight victory. Rock Fall is Speightstown’s 13th lifetime Grade 1 winner. His nine stakes winners in 2015 have accounted for some 15 stakes wins, six of them graded. With […]
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