Leading freshman sire Super Saver chalked up his eighth winner from his first crop on Aug. 21 when Lil Super Bear scored a ¾-length maiden special weight victory going 5 ½-furlongs at Remington Park (VIDEO). The chestnut filly was bred by WinStar Farm and is owned by the Gerald Dixon Revocable Trust, who bought her […]
[ Read More ]Top-10 Freshman Sire Hold Me Back garnered his sixth winner and first two stakes horses in a two-week span from August 2nd to 17th. On Aug. 17th, Hold for More scored a facile five-length victory in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight contest at Canterbury Park. The bay juvenile, who ran second in his debut on […]
[ Read More ]A pair of 2-year-old fillies by WinStar stallions More Than Ready and Congrats tallied maiden special weight wins Sunday, both in their career debuts. Tammy the Torpedo, by More Than Ready, got the action started in the third race, a mile and a sixteenth contest on the turf. The 2-1 favorite, trained by Chad Brown, […]
[ Read More ]Weekend Hideaway pulled away late in Friday’s $100,000 John H. Morrisey S. at Saratoga to give the 4-year-old Speightstown colt his fourth lifetime stakes victory. Weekend Hideaway is Speightstown’s ninth stakes winner this year and pushed his progeny earnings to a nation’s second-best of $5.9 million on the General Sire list. His 40 repeat winners […]
[ Read More ]One of the most prominent races of the upcoming Kentucky Downs meeting has been renamed the $200,000 More Than Ready Mile after the internationally successful stallion standing at WinStar Farm. The stakes race, which is expected to attract some of North America’s top milers, is part of a $1.7 million racing program on Saturday, September 13. “It is […]
[ Read More ]A pair of six-figure yearlings from the first crop by Sidney’s Candy buoyed a very good Fasig-Tipton New York Preferred Yearling sale held Aug. 9-10 at Saratoga. His average sale price of $91,400 over the two days was more than six times his 2014 stud fee of $15,000. A $160,000 colt and $140,000 filly, which […]
[ Read More ]Making her two-turn debut, heavily favored Lady Fifty Two swept to a decisive victory in the $65,000 Washington Oaks on Saturday, August 9 at Emerald Downs. The three-year-old filly became the fifth stakes horse, second stakes winner, from the first crop by Champion Kodiak Kowboy. In the Oaks, Lady Fifty Two was bumped at the start while breaking from the far outside. She immediately […]
[ Read More ]With two more winners over the weekend, highlighted by I Spent It’s huge score in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special on Sunday, Super Saver vaulted to the number-one spot on both the Juvenile Sire list and Freshman Sire list. The WinStar stallion has six winners to date, including a pair of stakes winners, and progeny […]
[ Read More ]I Spent It found an opening on the rail en route to posting a decisive 2 ¾-length victory over Mr. Z in the $200,000 Saratoga Special (G2) Sunday at Saratoga Race Course. The winner is the first graded stakes winner for freshman sire Super Saver, and vaulted the WinStar stallion to the top spot on […]
[ Read More ]Top-10 Second Crop sire Kodiak Kowboy got his fifth stakes horse on Saturday, when Lady Fifty Two shipped from her California base to score a decisive victory in the $65,000 Washington Oaks at Emerald Downs (VIDEO). Making her first start around two turns, Lady Fifty Two sat just off the flank of Mylast Sweet Pea […]
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