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Here’s Johnny made the best of opening weekend at Keeneland on Oct. 10 when he won a $58,000 Allowance at the racetrack. It was the second win for Here’s Johnny, who also placed second in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Stakes in his last start. Here’s Johnny was bred by Rick Sutherland and is out of […]

Colonel John’s first-crop 2-year-old Here’s Johnny made the best of opening weekend at Keeneland on Oct. 10 when he won a $58,000 Allowance at the racetrack. It was the second win for Here’s Johnny, who also placed second in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Stakes in his last start. Here’s Johnny, an impressive maiden winner earlier […]

Poker Player rallied from tenth after six furlongs to capture Grade 3, $150,000 Bourbon S. Sunday at Keeneland, a 1 1/16-mile race transferred from the grass to the main Polytrack surface because of the weather. Along with Ami’s Holiday in the Grade 3 Grey Cup at Woodbine, Harlan’s Holiday took over the top spot on […]

Rivertown Belle reaffirmed her affinity for the Indiana Downs surface on Saturday as the 3-year-old daughter of Bellamy Road skipped to a 3 1/4-length win in the $85,000 Hoosier Breeders’ Sophomore S (VIDEO). The dark bay filly captured the $153,000 First Lady over the same surface in mid-July. Rivertown Belle was in the mix right […]

With a pair of Grade 1 winning 2-year-olds in as many days, Artie Schiller’s has taken over as 2013’s leading North American sire of juveniles. After My Conquestadory’s brilliant victory in Friday’s Grade 1 Alcibiades S. at Keeneland, We Miss Artie took the $400,000 Breeders’ Futurity on Saturday, the colt counterpart to Friday’s race. We […]

Artie Schiller’s top-class 2-year-old filly My Conquestadory overcame a troubled trip to win the  $400,000 Alcibiades S. (G1) at Keeneland by 1 ¾ lengths in her final start before the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) Nov. 2 at Santa Anita. Friday’s victory in the opening day feature didn’t come easy by any means […]

The nation’s leading sire Speightstown got his 18th stakes winner of 2013 on Sunday when Wine Police triumphed by three-quarters of a length in the $150,000 Remington Park Sprint Cup. Five-year-old Wine Police won the $75,000 Distorted Humor S. at Saratoga in 2011 and also placed in the Grade 1 Hopeful S. as a 2-year-old. […]

Heavenly Champion’s come-from-behind maiden win on Saturday at Gulfstream Park gave Kodiak Kowboy his eighth winner from his first crop, with nearly $300,000 in progeny earnings, moving the WinStar stallion to fourth on the Kentucky Freshman Sire list.  Colonel John remains No. 1 among Freshman Sires in Kentucky, and Pioneerof the Nile is currently No. […]

Samaready bested a top-class field in the 1,200 meter Moir S. (Aus-I) Sept. 27 at Moonee Valley, scoring an impressive four-length triumph to corral the second lifetime Group 1 event for the 4-year-old daughter of More Than Ready. Samaready is among 123 stakes winners for her sire More Than Ready, who stands the southern hemisphere […]

Quechua stepped up from a maiden win a month ago to capture the Grade 2 Ensayo S. at Argentina’s San Ysidro Racecourse. The 3-year-old colt is the third graded winner, eighth stakes winner overall, for Pure Prize in 2013. After the victory in the about nine furlong contest, Quechua has hit the board in all […]