Uno turned in an impressive debut in a six-furlong maiden special weight race for 2-year-olds Nov. 12 at Aqueduct, drawing clear in the final furlong to win going away by 3 3/4-lengths on a muddy racetrack. VIDEO Uno is Laoban’s eighth overall winner. With his progeny earnings recently surpassing the $1 million mark, Laoban is […]
[ Read More ]Xtrema became Exaggerator’s first multiple winner on Nov. 10 with a well-timed move for a 1 3/4-length win in a 7 1/2-furlong turf allowance at Indiana Grand. The chestnut filly, who has now made five starts in at five different tracks, came from near the back of the pack with three furlongs to run to […]
[ Read More ]Top-five First-Crop sire Outwork is now up to 12 winners after Catti La Belle rolled to a 12 1/2-length maiden victory on Nov. 9 at Parx. Outwork is currently fourth on the First-Crop sire list with just under $1 million in progeny earnings. His stakes-winning colt Outadore turned in a very good third-place finish in […]
[ Read More ]Laoban recently became one of just three First-Crop sires with progeny earnings to eclipse the $1 million mark when Keemeinmind placed in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and The King Cheek broke his maiden at Parx. Keepmeinmind, who also finished second in the Breeders’ Futurity (G1) in early October at Keeneland, is one […]
[ Read More ]Paynter got his first Breeders’ Cup winner as a sire in dramatic fashion Saturday when Knicks Go went gate-to-wire in a track record-setting performance in the $1 million Dirt Mile (G1). Popping out of the gate and going right to the front, Knicks Go blazed through a quarter-mile in :21.98 and a half in :44.40. […]
[ Read More ]American Giant pulled away in the final furlong of Saturday’s Cellars Shiraz S. at Gulfstream Park to register a 1 3/4-length win in the one-mile turf affair for 3-year-old fillies. American Giant was never worse than third at any call of the Cellars Shiraz. Marie’s Melody drew off by about five lengths midway on the […]
[ Read More ]Monforte racked up his third stakes win of the year Saturday at Gulfstream Park West with a 1 3/4-length win in the Showing Up S. The 3-year-old Carpe Diem colt has carved out a nice career while racing in south Florida; his record now stands at 7-1-1 in 12 starts, with earnings of $249,813 for […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s brilliantly fast 3-year-old colt turned in a track-record performance in winning Saturday’s $125,000 Perrryville S. at Keeneland, blazing through six furlongs in 1:07.89. Despite setting very fast fractions of :21.54 and :43.87, the bay colt continued to pull away from the field in upper stretch. Though he was under no urging at any point […]
[ Read More ]Paynter’s Knicks Go returns to the site of his greatest triumph to date when he goes postward in Saturday’s $1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1). It was just over two years ago that the now 4-year-old won the Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland, and if recent form is any indication, he is at the top […]
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