Category: General News

Toasting’s big sweeping move on the turn carried the 3-year-old daughter of Congrats to her first career stakes win in Sunday’s $100,000 Dream Rush S. at Belmont Park (VIDEO). Three-year-old Toasting is Congrats’ seventh winner this week and is also her sire’s third stakes winner in the past month. Toasting was in the back of […]

Kowboy King crushed his opposition with a 16 3/4-length maiden special weight tour de force Wednesday at Laurel Park (VIDEO). Kodiak Kowboy now has nine winners to his credit, fourth among 2013 Freshman sires, and his progeny earnings of $360,000 also ranks fourth on the Kentucky Freshman Sire list. Bred in Kentucky by Gerry and […]

Blingo became the eighth stakes winner of the year for Artie Schiller, with a determined victory in the $100,000 I’m A Banker S. at Belmont Park on Monday (VIDEO). Ridden by Alex Solis, Blingo got squeezed at the start and was near the back of the pack for the first half of the 1 1/16-mile […]

A very rough stretch run wasn’t enough to stop Fire With Fire from earning his second stakes win of 2013 in Sunday’s $75,000 Bull Dog S. at Fresno. Fire With Fire is one of 10 stakes horses by Distorted Humor who have earned at least $100,000 this year. In the nine furlong Bull Dog, the […]

Bajan, making her first dirt start, took to the new surface en route to a 2 1/4-length victory in the $70,000 Anokia S. Sunday on Santa Anita’s main track. Bajan is Speightstown’s 19th stakes winner of 2013, and pushed his progeny over the $9.5 million mark, both second-best on the General Sire list. Trained by […]

With a bold move in mid-stretch, 4-year-old Pianist cleared off to a two-length victory in the $200,000 Athenia S. (G3) at Belmont Park, the third stakes win of the year for the son of More Than Ready, who is on the verge of breaking into the top 10 on the 2013 General Sire list. Pianist […]

E B Ryder, owned by Miller Racing LLC, earned his first stakes victory in the $70,000 Frances A. Genter S. Saturday at Calder to become the eighth stakes winner of 2013 for Bluegrass Cat (VIDEO). Bluegrass Cat is New York’s leading sire this year, with 105 winners and $4.7 million in progeny earnings. With Jilver […]

WinStar Farm annually sells a lot of their horses in training at the Keeneland November Horses of Racing Age sale, and 2013 is no exception, with a impressive group of 39 horses cataloged that includes the likes of Graded Stakes winners Doubles Partner, General Election, millionaire Rule, and Laugh Track. Six-year-old Doubles Partner, hip No. […]

Ami’s Holiday battled the length of the stretch to collar Big Bazinga in the final strides in Sunday’s $174,700, Grade 3 Grey S. at Woodbine. The bay 2-year-old by Harlan’s Holiday is the 16th stakes winner of 2013 by his sire. The group has accounted for 23 stakes victories, third-most on the North American Sire […]

Cairo Prince became Pioneerof the Nile’s latest impressive winner on Oct. 6 when the 2-year-old colt won a $70,000 Maiden Special Weight by 2 ¾ lengths at Belmont Park. The colt’s victory gave his sire 10 winners to date, and the fourth eye-catching Maiden Special Weight win in New York, with three at Belmont and […]