Tiz Time to Shine notched his first career stakes win Saturday in the $127,063 Aspirant S. at Finger Lakes Racetrack, winning by three-quarters of a length in his second lifetime start. The Chad Brown-trainee completed the six furlong race in a time of 1:13.31 under jockey Jaime Rodriguez, coming from just off the pace […]
[ Read More ]Golden Ticket out-gamed a pair of foes in a three-way photo to take the $100,000 Left Bank S. Sept. 5 at Belmont Park, the third career stakes win for the 5-year-old Speightstown horse whose bankroll now stands at $1,329,090. Golden Ticket was well behind his four foes for the first half of the one-mile trip, […]
[ Read More ]Top-five freshman sire Hold Me Back got the seven winner from his first crop on Friday evening at Churchill Downs when Big Red Seven scored a three-quarter length victory in a one-mile maiden special weight contest for 2-year-old fillies. Big Red Seven, who had the lead for the entire trip of the one-mile main track […]
[ Read More ]Fast Bullet, the aptly-named Grade 2 winner by Speightstown, will join his sire at WinStar Farm for the 2015 breeding season. “Fast Bullet is the fastest son of Speightstown, who has really developed into one of today’s elite stallions,” said Elliott Walden. “Speightstown has enormous sire-of-sires potential with his great pedigree, and there isn’t a […]
[ Read More ]Zayat Stables’ American Pharoah is a maiden no more after an incredible performance in the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (G1), winning by 4 ¾- lengths in near track-record time. The 2-year-old Pioneerof the Nile colt continues a white-hot streak for his sire, who has had three graded stakes winners in the past four days and […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s budding star Pirate’s Trove ran her record to a perfect 3-for-3 with an impressive score in Monday’s $111,800 Etobicoke S. at Woodbine. With Zensational Bunny setting a swift pace, Florent Geroux kept Pirate’s Trove a few lengths back in fourth position, waiting for room to open up while tucked along the rail […]
[ Read More ]Pioneerof the Nile got his second graded stakes winner of the day at Del Mar when Midnight Storm sped to a front-running victory in the $300,000 Del Mar Derby (G2), with Sawyer’s Hill, by Spring At Last, securing the runner-up spot in the 1 1/8-mile turf contest. Both 3-year-olds earned the first black-type of their […]
[ Read More ]Rebranded, a 3-year-old colt by Tiznow, decimated his opponents in the $50,000 Ruidoso Thoroughbred Derby on Sunday, rolling to a 12 ¾-length victory in the 1 1/16-mile contest. The result was similar to the Colorado Derby six weeks ago when he won by nearly an identical margin. His overall record of 4-3-1 in 12 starts […]
[ Read More ]First-crop sire Hold Me Back chalked up his first black-type winner on Sunday when Hold for More zipped to a smart-looking 5 ¼-length victory in the $75,000 Northern Lights Futurity at Canterbury Park. With three stakes horses and six winners earning $212,246, Hold Me Back is a top-10 Freshman Sire for 2014. Hold for More […]
[ Read More ]Partisan Politics overcame a rough start to break her maiden in the 2 ¾-length victory in the $100,000 P. G. Johnson S. Aug. 27 on the Saratoga lawn. The 2-year-old More Than Ready filly appreciated the added distance of the 1 1/16-mile Johnson after finishing third in her debut going 5 ½-furlongs five weeks ago […]
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