Category: General News

The second and final day of the OBS March Sale of Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training brought plenty of highlights for Sidney’s Candy, whose first crop are 2-year-olds of 2015. With a total of six horses selling during the March 17-18 auction, including five on the second day, Sidney’s Candy had a hammer price average of […]

Hoop of Colour sauntered to a half-length score in the Grade 2, $201,000 Santa Ana S. Sunday at Santa Anita Park. She is the 55th lifetime graded stakes winner for Distorted Humor and pushed his cumulative progeny earnings past the $108 million mark, fourth-most of all active North American sires. Trained by Graham motion, Hoop […]

American Pharoah turned his highly-anticipated 2015 debut into a one-horse race with a dazzling stretch run in Saturday’s $750,000 Rebel S. at Oaklawn Park. American Pharoah is the top earner of 2015 for his sire Pioneerof the Nile, who is the leading Third-Crop sire this year.  The 2014 2-year-old champion, who had been off since […]

Tamarkuz followed up his powerful victory in the Feb. 12 Firebreak S. (G3) with a comfortable $200,000 Burj Nahaar (G3) on Saturday evening at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai. The 5-year-old son of Speightstown has now earned $365,444 off six wins in 12 lifetime starts, and his latest stakes victory made Speightstown North America’s Leading Sire […]

Speightstown’s top offering at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale brought a winning bid of $460,000. Consigned by Crupi’s New Castle Farm, hip No. 105 was bought by Spendthrift Farm. The chestnut juvenile, who breezed 10.1 seconds at the March 2 under tack show, is out of the multiple stakes-winning Forest Wildcat mare […]

Distorted Humor was among the leading sires at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale, with a pair of colts bringing $500,000 and $325,000, for an average of $412,500. Hip No. 82 led the way for his sire. Consigned by Hoby and Layna Kight, agent, the half-million dollar purchase was bought by Third Street […]

A strapping dark bay son of Pioneerof the Nile brought a winning bid of $685,000 at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale. Consigned by McKathan Brothers, hip No. 34 was bought by Bob Baffert, trainer of Pioneerof the Nile and his champion 2-year-old of 2014, American Pharoah. Baffert’s new purchase, who breezed 10.2 […]

A colt first from the crop Sidney’s Candy brought a winning bid of $150,000 at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale. Consigned by Thomas and Casse, hip No. 89 was bought by Steve Young, agent. The colt is a half-sister to stakes winner Seacrettina and Grade 2-placed Ramsgate. Grade 1-winning millionaire Sidney’s Candy […]

WinStar Farm’s homebred 3-year-old Tiznow colt Royal Son powered to an authoritative victory in the $125,000 John Battaglia Memorial S. Feb. 28 at Turfway Park, putting the Todd Pletcher trainee on a path that could take him to the Kentucky Derby. Royal Son, along with Rebranded’s stakes victory at Sunland Park, provided Tiznow a stakes […]

Rebranded took the race to his foes early in Saturday’s $50,000 Curribot H., pulling away by a couple of lengths in the first furlong, then turned away all challenges to go on to win by two lengths. The victory was the fourth career black-type win for the 4-year-old Tiznow colt, who has now amassed $289,950 […]