Category: General News

Speightstown’s Rock Fall crushes foes in True North S. (G2)

Rock Fall earned his fifth straight victory and first graded stakes win June 5, taking the $250,000 True North S. (G2) at Belmont Park by 3 ¾-lengths. He is Speightstown’s fifth graded stakes winner of 2015 and pushed the Top-10 sire over the $4 million mark in progeny earnings for the year. After an early […]

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Zindaya streaks to second straight stakes triumph

Zindaya pulled away in the Belmont Park turf course stretch to score by 2 ½-lengths in Thursday’s $150,000 Intercontinental S., the second consecutive stakes victory for the 4-year-old daughter of More Than Ready. More Than Ready’s double-digit tally of 2015 stakes winners includes graded winners in South Africa, Australia, and the United States.  In the […]

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Drosselmeyer, Belmont S. & Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, sires first winner

WinStar Farm’s freshman sire Drosselmeyer, the Belmont S. (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner by Distorted Humor, was represented by his first winner Thursday when 2-year-old filly Find Joy debuted with an impressive 4 ½-length victory in a $40,000 Maiden Special Weight at Pimlico. Find Joy stopped the clock in 53.22 seconds for the […]

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Crittenden’s rally carries him to first stakes win

Crittenden rallied at just the right moment to take the first running of the $75,000-added PDJF Stakes Saturday, May 30 at Indiana Grand, giving the 3-year-old son of Distorted Humor his first stakes win and third win in seven lifetime starts. The sire of more than 130 lifetime stakes winners, perennial top-10 sire Distorted Humor […]

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Force the Pass wins thriller in Grade 3 Penn Mile

With big money on the line, Speightstown’s Force the Pass came through win the tightest of photos in the $500,000 Penn Mile Saturday night at Penn National. Never worse than second in five starts, Saturday’s win was the second stakes, and first graded, for the 3-year-old colt. Speightstown entered Saturday ranked sixth on the 2015 […]

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Flutterby flies to victory at Gulfstream Park

Flutterby broke alertly from the starting gate and zipped to a 9 1/4-length triumph in Saturday’s $60,000 Sea Lily H. at Gulfstream Park, the second career stakes win for the 4-year-old Congrats filly. Flutterby, who was already twice-stakes placed this year, is one of eight stakes horses sire by Congrats in 2015.  After being challenged […]

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Drosselmeyer sires one of top 2YOs at Goffs

Two-year-olds by freshman sire Drosselmeyer continued to show strong international appeal, as one of his first-crop juveniles sold for 100,000 Euros, top five among all colts at the Goffs Breeze Up Sale on May 22nd. Catalogued as hip No. 90, the American-bred chestnut out of Cateress, by Tabasco Cat, was purchased by Saudi horseman Bhupat […]

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19th G1 SW for More Than Ready

More Than Ready sired his 19th career Group/Grade 1 winner on May 23rd when Sheikh Hamdan’s Entisaar won the Allan Roberston Championship (G1) at Scottsville Race Course in South Africa. The Australian-bred juvenile, recently crowned Champion Two-Year-Old Filly in South Africa, carried 132 pounds in the Robertson, while defeating 15 other top fillies. Time for […]

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Bright Town cruises in First Lady H.

Bright Town sauntered to an easy 4 ½-length victory in Monday’s $50,000 First Lady H., the second stakes victory in the career of the 5-year-old daughter of Speightstown. The First Lady is Bright Town’s second stakes win of 2015. She is one of seven stakes winners this year by her sire. A perennial top sire, […]

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Super Majesty: A Super Saver Rising Star

Super Majesty sparkled in her debut Sunday at Santa Anita, dominating a field of fillies to win the six furlong maiden special weight affair by a widening 6 ¼-lengths in a very quick 1:08.54. The 3-year-old daughter of Super Saver, who was bred by WinStar Farm, was tabbed a TDN Rising Star, like Super Saver’s […]

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