Shot Gun Pennie blew right out of the gate and never looked back as the 2-year-old daughter of Speightstown cruised to a 1 1/2-length win $135,325 Lady Finger S. at Finger Lakes in upstate New York. Speightstown now has nine stakes winners in 2011 and over $4.3 million in progeny earnings for the top 12 […]
[ Read More ]Bluegrass Cat’s Sabercat dueled the entire way through a one mile maiden race to prevail by a half length for a well-deserved victory at Monmouth Park on Labor Day. The 2-year-old dark bay colt had to work every step of the way to get his first career victory. From the outset, the Steve Asmussen trainee […]
[ Read More ]Distorted Humor’s 2-year-old colt Forward March , a $2.05 million Keeneland September yearling sales grad, debuted with an eye-catching five length win Sept. 5 at Monmouth Park. Distorted Humor is North America’s leading sire of stakes winners in 2011 with 13 to date. Forward March lived up to his name, striding to the front right […]
[ Read More ]Norm’s Passion, a 2-year-old Artie Schiller colt, cruised to a sharp-looking 4 1/4-length victory at Del Mar to break his maiden in his second lifetime start. The dark bay is the fifth winner for his sire, who is a top 10 second-crop sire this year, over the long Labor Day weekend. The win for Norm’s […]
[ Read More ]Hurry Home Clover was a smart looking 1 1/4-length winner in a Del Mar maiden 2-year-old race on Sept. 3, getting the mile in a solid 1:37.50 over the artificial surface. This was the first start around two turn for the bay son of WinStar stallion Bellamy Road. Out front right from the start, Hurry […]
[ Read More ]Distorted Humor’s 2-year-old daughter Shumoos finished with a determined run to annex her first stakes win in the Group 3 Sirenia S. at Kempton Park in Great Britain on Sept. 3. The chestnut filly, who was tabbed a “TDN Rising Star” after her sparkling debut victory on May 28, becomes the 106th career stakes winner, […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s eighth stakes winner of 2011 came at Saratoga on Sept. 2 when Wine Police made a last-to-first move to win the $75,000 Distorted Humor S. by a half length. The chestnut 3-year-old has been very consistent in all five of his starts, winning three times and finishing third in the other two outings. Speightstown […]
[ Read More ]Champion grass horse and Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) winner Artie Schiller was a natural on the turf, and many of his offspring are proving just as adept on the green, particularly as the distances get longer. On Sept. 2, the WinStar stallion had winners at 1 1/16 and 1 1/2-miles, both on the lawn, at […]
[ Read More ]Artie Schiller, a top-10 second crop sire in Kentucky, had a good-looking maiden winner Sept. 1 at Hoosier Park when Artie’s Love broke his maiden going six furlongs by a geared-down 5 1/2-lengths. Two-year-old Artie’s Love dueled Walter and Neal for the first half mile before putting away that foe at the top of the […]
[ Read More ]A Shin Cool D, the eighth million dollar earner for Distorted Humor, won her third stakes in her last four starts in Japan.on Aug. 25 when the gray or roan 5-year-old took a 1 1/8 mile contest over a muddy track at Nakayama racecourse. Distorted Humor is fourth on the 2011 North American sire list, […]
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