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Congrats registered the rare feat of having a pair of maiden special weight 2-year-old winners on the same day at Saratoga on Friday, with both winning on the turf and by a nose in tight photos. To top off the illustrious day, Magnificient Margo became the first filly to beat colts in the 24 maiden […]

Spring at Last, a top-10 Third Crop sire, added to his stakes winners on Saturday evening when the 2-year-old filly Brock’sspringfling came home a length and a quarter winner in the $75,000 Iowa Sorority S. at Prairie Meadows (VIDEO). Brock’sspringfling is one of seven stakes horses this year by Spring at Last, a group led […]

Regally Ready upped his lifetime stakes win total to seven with a romping 12 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker S. Saturday afternoon at Mountaineer Park. The son of More Than Ready has now amassed $1,486,666 in his illustrious career. Regally Ready turned the 1 mile and 70 yard contest […]

Leading freshman sire Super Saver rang up his second winner of the day Saturday when Save Rock and Roll dominated a field of 2-year-old fillies at Monmouth Park by 4 3/4-length in her career debut. Earlier in the afternoon, Hashtag Bourbon gave Super Saver his first stakes winner with a similarly dominant victory in the […]

Hold Me Back, a top-five Freshman Sire of winners, collected his fifth on Saturday as Kutuzov prevailed in a maiden special weight contest on the grass at Gulfstream Park. Well-placed early, Kutuzov loomed largely coming three wide into the stretch, ultimately striking the front inside the final furlong to win by a length in :56.85 […]

Hashtag Bourbon strode to a dominating 4 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 Mountaineer Juvenile to become freshman sire Super Saver’s first black-type winner and fourth overall. The victory vaulted Super Saver, the 2010 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, to the top of the First-Crop Sire list. Last of seven early on in the six furlong contest, […]

My Miss Venezuela went gate-to-wire in her career debut Thursday at Gulfstream Park, the fourth winner for top-10 freshman sire Hold Me Back. Bred and owned by Orlyana Farm, My Miss Valenzuela won the five furlong affair by 3 1/4-lengths in a snappy :59.59 seconds.  My Miss Valenzuela is the first foal out of Multipass, […]

For the second time in two days, a Super Saver 2-year-old put on an impressive show in a Saratoga maiden special weight contest, vaulting the first-year sire to the second spot on the Freshman Sire list. In Sunday’s third race, the filly High Dollar Woman put away Paulassilverling after zipping through a half-mile in :45.73, […]

Competitive Edge became Super Saver’s second winner with an overwhelming 10 1/4-length maiden special weight score on Saturday at Saratoga, earning a well-deserved TDN “Rising Star” tag after getting the six furlongs in a rapid 1:09.89 (VIDEO). With many stellar 2-year-olds yet to race, Super Saver is still a top-5 First Crop sire on the […]

Seemingly beaten inside the final furlong, Cudney Stables’ homebred Lafontaine, a son of Artie Schiller, got up in the final strides of the $125,000 Toronto Cup Sunday at Woodbine to give the 3-year-old his first stakes victory. Lafontaine joins an impressive list of Artie Schiller’s stakes horses that includes Plate Trial S. winner We Miss […]