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Speightstown’s venerable sprinter Essence Hit Man won the $169,200 Jacques Cartier S. for the third straight year Saturday at Woodbine. The winner was recently named Canada’s champion sprinter for the second year in a row. Trained by Sylvain Pion and ridden by Jesse Campbell for owners A&G Racing Stable, Essence Hit Man came out of […]

American Sugar, a 3-year-old Harlan’s Holiday filly, boosted her bankroll past the $200,000 mark with a nifty win in the $60,000 Goldfinch S. at Prairie Meadows on Saturday evening. The accomplished sophomore now has four black-type victories to her credit. Tucked in along the inside for the first half-mile, American Sugar swung three-wide into the […]

Munnings Sister gave Speightstown his second stakes winner in as many days with a half-length victory in Sunday’s $85,000 Gold Princess S. at Belmont Park. Essence Hit Man was victorious one day earlier at Woodbine in the Jacques Cartier S. for his sire, who now has six stakes winners accounting for seven added-money victories in […]

Led by a pair of colts that sold for more than $300,000 on closing day of the April 22-25 OBS 2-year-olds in Training sale, the offspring of Harlan’s Holiday caught the eye of plenty of buyers at the four-day central Florida auction. Hip No. 1087, a gray or roan colt consigned by Stephens Thoroughbreds LLC, […]

A juvenile from the first crop by Colonel John was the top-selling colt during the first day of the April 22-25 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2013 Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training in central Florida. Hip No. 26, consigned by de Meric Sales, Agent, went to Steven W. Young, Agent, for $290,000. The bay colt, […]

Freshman sire Kodiak Kowboy, a three-time G1 winner and Eclipse Champion, sired his first winner from his first starter when his 2-year-old filly Bear Facts captured her debut in a Trial race at Turf Paradise on April 19. Bear Facts broke sharply in the 4 1/2-furlong heat and turned back challenges in the stretch to […]

Pure Prize’s latest stakes winner Pure Soul set a track record of 1:08 4/5 for 1,200 meters in the April 21 San Luis Classic at the Hippodrome La Punta in Argentina. Pure Prize, a leading son of Storm Cat at stud, stands this year at WinStar for $7,500 LFS&N. Pure Soul, a two and a […]

Dance to Bristol was in top form Saturday night at Charles Town Races, running away to a facile nine length victory in the $200,000 Sugar Maple S. (VIDEO). The 4-year-old filly was the second stakes winner of the night for her sire Speightstown, coming just one race after Fearsome took the $50,000 Charles Town Dash. […]

Spring at Last’s Grade 1 winning 2-year-old filly Spring in the Air was named the 2012 Canadian Sovereign Award winner in her division at the April 19 awards ceremony at Woodbine Racecourse. Spring in the Air’s stablemate Spring Venture, also by Spring at Last, finished second in the voting to give the WinStar stallion a […]

For the second straight year Speightstown’s Canadian sprint star Essence Hit Man was named the Sovereign Award winner in male sprint division at the awards ceremony held April 19 at Woodbine Racecourse. Essence Hit Man was his usual stellar self last season, winning three of six starts and earning $379,357. All three of his stakes […]