With a dazzling stretch run, Redgrass Cat passed nearly the entire field en route to a neck victory in the $50,000 Wilhite Memorial S. Saturday at Louisiana Downs. The 2-year-old daughter of Bluegrass Cat is one of six stakes winners this year by her sire, who currently tops the New York General Sire list with […]
[ Read More ]WinStar stallion Pure Prize registered a stakes winner for the second time in as many days on Saturday when Pure Tactics’ powerful stretch drive carried the 4-year-old colt to a new track record in the $50,000 Barksdale S. at Louisiana Downs. Along with Scarlet Mist’s stakes victory on Friday, Pure Prize now has 12 stakes […]
[ Read More ]WinStar stallion Pure Prize registered a stakes winner for the second time in as many days on Saturday when Pure Tactics’ powerful stretch drive carried the 4-year-old colt to a new track record in the $50,000 Barksdale S. at Louisiana Downs. Along with Scarlet Mist’s stakes victory on Friday, Pure Prize now has 10 stakes […]
[ Read More ]Pure Prize’s top Argentine filly continued her graded stakes hot streak with a victory on July 27 in the Grade 2 I. Correas S. in Argentina. Pure Prize, who stood this year at WinStar this year for $7,500 LFS&N, now has a total of 11 Grade 1 winners, with a total of 19 G1 wins, […]
[ Read More ]Golden Ticket cruised to an eight length victory in the $100,000 Prairie Meadows H. on Saturday night to give Speightstown his second stakes winner of the day. Speightstown’s progeny have pocketed more than $6.6 million in 2013, second best on the North American earners list. Golden Ticket, winner of the Grade 1 Travers S. last […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s star 3-year-old Verrazano rolled to a decisive victory in the $1 million Haskell Invitational (G1) at Monmouth Park on Sunday, winning by a Haskell best-ever 9 3/4-lengths. In becoming the seventh career millionaire for More Than Ready, Verrazano also sped the highest Beyer Speed Figure of any 3-year-old this season – 116. […]
[ Read More ]Base Case Scenario prevailed in a hard-fought stretch duel Saturday at Saratoga to give his sire Pioneerof the Nile his fourth winner from his first crop and vaulting him to second on the Freshman Sire List with $149,367 in progeny earnings. Going 1 1/16 miles on the turf, Base Case Scenario took the overland route, […]
[ Read More ]Hop the Six bounded to a front-running, 3 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s $50,000 White Clay Creek S., marking the first black-type score for the two-year-old filly. Artie Schiller is a world-wide top 5 Fourth Crop sire and has eight stakes horses to date this year. Hop the Six, an Elkstone Group LLC homebred, left little […]
[ Read More ]Central Banker became the 12th stakes winner of 2013 for Speightstown, taking the $100,000 Smirnoff Sorbet Quick Call Stakes at Saratoga on July 25. The 3-year-old son of Speightstown was making his seasonal debut in the 5 1/2-furlong event over the turf course. Despite an eventful run under Joel Rosario, he was all alone at […]
[ Read More ]Ready to Act became the fifth 2-year-old winner of 2013 for More Than Ready on Monday Saratoga, sealing the victory with a persistent stretch drive that netted the gray or roan filly a half-length win in her career debut. A $200,000 yearling purchase at the Keeneland September sale by her owners William Lawrence and Klaravich […]
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