Category: General News

A dark bay/brown son of Harlan’s Holiday sold for $250,000 at the opening session of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training, highest price for a colt during the sale. Catalogued as hip 206, the Kentucky-bred worked in :10.3 at the May 18 under tack show, and sold to EQB’s Patty Miller for […]

A 2-year-old colt by Bellamy Road sold for $175,000 May 24 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale, bringing the highest price at auction this year for his sire’s offspring. The dark bay/brown colt is part from the second crop of the Paul’s Mill stallion, who is second on the sophomore sire list in terms of earnings. […]

Boisterous became stakes winner number 101 for Distorted Humor with a three-quarter length victory in the $60,000 Three Coins Up at Belmont Park on May 22. Distorted Humor has 10 stakes winners this year, tops among all North American stallions. In the 1 1/4-mile turf marathon, Boisterous came from third place to reel in front-runner […]

Tiznow’s 3-year-old son Rush Now controlled the pace from the outset on the way to a 4 1/4-length win in the $75,900 Spend A Buck S. May 22 at Monmouth Park. This was the first stakes win of 2011 for the bay sophomore, who won the $75,000 Dover S. at Delaware Park as a juvenile. […]

Paddy O’Prado made up nearly 10 lengths in the last three furlongs to capture the $200,000 Dixie S. (G2) over the Pimlico turf course on May 21.  Paddy O’Prado is owned by Donegal Racing. (Watch Race) The Dixie was the first start of the year for the 4-year-old son of El Prado (IRE), who was […]

Embellished, the 2-year-old filly from the first crop of Bellamy Road, was named champion juvenile of 2010 at the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society awards banquet held May 14th at Northlands Park in Alberta, Canada. Embellished made four starts last year at Northlands, with a pair of wins and a two third-place finishes. After a running […]

Tiz Miz Sue registered a 1 1/4-length win in the $50,000 Winter Melody S. at Delaware Park on May 14, the second stakes win in the career of the 4-year-old daughter of Tiznow. She won the Polly’s Jet, also at Delaware, last October.   Sent off the 6-5 favorite in the 1 1/16 mile Winter […]

WinStar’s 2010 Belmont S. (G1) champion Drosselmeyer returned to the scene of his greatest triumph  to win the $60,000 One Count S. on May 15, a little less than a year since the son of Distorted Humor took the third leg of the Triple Crown. The Bill Mott trainee was making his third start of […]

Alternation gave his sire Distorted Humor his second stakes winner at Belmont Park in two days with a thrilling come-from-behind win in the $200,000 Peter Pan S. (G2) on May 14. And like Much Rejoicing, who won the Glia S. the previous day, the Peter Pan marked the first stakes win for 3-year-old dark bay […]

Too Shy Shy, a 3-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor, galloped home a 12 1/2-length winner May 9 at Delaware Park to break her maiden in her second career start, covering the six furlongs in 1:10.61 with plenty left in reserve. The chestnut filly is a half-sister to Eclipse champion older horse Lawyer Ron, who won […]