Grade 1 winner Gemologist will shuttle to Haras Santa Olga Farm in Santiago, Chile for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season, and the regally-bred Grade 1 winner is set to enter quarantine next Monday, with his last mares to be covered from his American book this Sunday. Gemologist, who stands at WinStar Farm, will be shuttling […]
[ Read More ]Zayat Stables’ homebred superstar American Pharoah made history on Saturday, winning the Belmont S. (G1) to become racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner. The 5 ½-length victory was the third-largest Triple Crown winning margin. Pioneerof the Nile, who Zayat also campaigned to a runner-up finish in the 2009 Kentucky Derby (G1), has developed into the most […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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 […]
[ Read More ]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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