Category: General News

12th stakes winner of 2014 for Speightstown

Wine Police out-dueled Homerun Berti in Sunday’s $75,000 Premier Cup H. at Zia Park to collect his third lifetime black-type victory and give his sire Speightstown his 12th stakes winner of 2014 and simultaneously push the top-10 sire’s progeny earnings past the $6.5 million mark. Wine Police chased Homerun Berti through most of the 5 […]

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Toasting raises glass in inaugural Sky Beauty

Congrats’ list of 2014 stakes winners grew on Sunday when the 4-year-old filly Toasting pulled clear late to register a 1 ½-length victory in the first running of the $100,000 Sky Beauty S. at Belmont Park. Getting away alertly in the field of five, Toasting was nevertheless in last, but just a couple of lengths […]

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Tiznow filly shines in $127,063 Aspirant S.

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 […]

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Golden Ticket prevails in $100K Left Bank S.

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, […]

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Hold Me Back winners total grows to seven

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 […]

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Fast Bullet, Leading Sprinter by Speightstown, to WinStar for 2015

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 […]

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American Pharoah rules Del Mar Futurity (G1)

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 […]

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Pirate’s Trove still undefeated after 2nd SW

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   […]

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Midnight Storm tops WinStar-sired exacta in Grade 2 Del Mar Derby

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 […]

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Rebranded romps in second straight stakes

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 […]

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