Category: General News

Stakes double for Harlan’s Holiday

Holiday Babe and Harlan’s Pure both tallied black-type victories during the final week of July, raising the 2013 stakes winner total for their top-10 sire Harlan’s Holiday to nine and pushing him past the $4.7 million in progeny earnings on the year. Holiday Babe, a 2-year-old filly, got her first career stakes victory on July […]

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Redgrass Cat breaks maiden in stakes

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 […]

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Pure Tactics sets track mark in Barksdale S.

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 […]

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Pure Tactics sets track mark in Barksdale S.

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 […]

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Dorsett scores easily in Mystic Lake Derby

Artie Schiller got his second stakes winner in a week on Saturday when Dorsett rallied from last to win the $200,000 Mystic Lake Derby at Canterbury Park. An international sire, Artie Schiller’s Cakal Carlos was a Grade 1 winner in Turkey last week. With Lori Keith in the irons, the 3-year-old colt settled near the […]

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Candy Marie gets 5th GSW of ’13

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, […]

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Golden Ticket all business at Prairie Meadows

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 […]

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Verrazano simply brilliant in $1 million Haskell record-setting performance

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. […]

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Fourth first crop winner for Pioneerof the Nile

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, […]

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Artie Schiller 2yo tops stakes foes at DP

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 […]

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