Big Screen broke into the ranks of stakes winners with head victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Who’s to Pay S. at Belmont, giving Speightstown’s 16 stakes winners 25 black-type victories, most of any North American sire. Speightstown also leads the General Sire list with $8.66 million in progeny earnings. Big Screen definitely earned his win, as […]
[ Read More ]Shanghai Bobby, the Harlan’s Holiday 2-year-old champion colt of 2012, returned from a six-month layoff on Friday at Belmont Park to win the $100,000 Aljamin S. in a swift 1:15.79 for 6 1/2-furlongs (VIDEO). With his 132 winners accounting for 21 stakes wins this year, Harlan’s Holiday ranks in the top 5 in both categories […]
[ Read More ]Pioneerof the Nile got his ninth winner on Wednesday, moving him to the top spot on the 2013 Kentucky Freshman Sire list. The WinStar stallion, who stood this past season for $15,000, also tops all first-year sires in the sales ring with an average of $84,107. Queenofzeenile came home a three-quarter length winner in Wednesday’s […]
[ Read More ]Awesome Jill, by Kentucky’s leading freshman sire of winners Pioneerof the Nile, rolled to a 2 3/4-length victory in Sunday’s first race at Churchill Downs, her career debut. Pioneerof the Nile, who stood the 2013 season at WinStar Farm for $15,000, has eight winners to date. Awesome Jill is trained by Michelle Lovell for Gus […]
[ Read More ]With five winners, four stakes horses, and $368,172 in progeny earnings, Colonel John is Kentucky’s leading freshman sire of 2013. His latest winner came Sept. 14 at Golden Gate Fields, as the filly Time and Tides won her debut in sharp fashion by 2 1/4-lengths (VIDEO). Time and Tides, a Paul and Karen Eggert homebred, […]
[ Read More ]Kodiak Kowboy got his seventh winner from his first crop on Saturday when Cool Cowboy dominated a field of 2-year-olds for a 10 1/2-length victory in a maiden special weight at Arlington Park (VIDEO). Cool Cowboy held sway from the outset in the 5 1/2-furlong affair, going up 2 1/2-lengths early and increasing his margin […]
[ Read More ]Artie Schiller’s Hop the Six got the second stakes win of her career on Saturday afternoon with a hard-fought victory in the $75,000 Small Wonder S. at Delaware Park. The 3-year-old filly, who has won three of five starts, took the $56,000 White Clay Creek S. at the same track in July. Hop the Six […]
[ Read More ]Congrats rising 2-year-old filly star Holiday Magic stretched out in distance to win the $85,000 Brave Raj S. Saturday at Calder – the first stakes win in her young career after a pair of sprint stakes placings earlier this summer at Calder (VIDEO). Holiday Magic is the third stakes winner in the past month by […]
[ Read More ]Day 4 of the 2013 Keeneland September Yearling sale starred yet another Tiznow juvenile, this time a $1.7 million filly by the WinStar stallion that wound up being the highest-priced female of the session, and second-highest overall. Consigned by Mill Ridge Farm, agent as hip No. 855, the filly went to Solis Bloodstock, and with […]
[ Read More ]A smashing 6 1/4-length maiden special weight debut win Wednesday at Belmont Park earned the 2-year-old Harlan’s Holiday colt Shadow Banking the TDN Rising Star tag for his impressive performance (VIDEO). Patiently handled by Jose Ortiz, Shadow Banking came from last of five to roll by all his foes with ease, drawing off powerfully in […]
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