Category: General News

Outwork gets 10th winner in Churchill Downs maiden special weight

Malloy’s rally in deep stretch carried the 2-year-old Outwork filly to a half-length maiden special weight win Sunday at Churchill Downs. The filly is the 10th First-Crop winner for Outwork, making him one of only a half-dozen freshman sires to have a double-digit tally of winners. He is also just one of four horses on […]

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Front-running MdSpWt win at Keeneland for Exaggerator filly

Top-three First-Crop sire Exaggerator’s winners’ total increased to 11 on Friday at Keeneland when the filly Color of Dawn tallied a 1 3/4-length maiden special weight win. Color of Dawn was away from the gate very quickly and headed Trouble Making to take the lead. She led the field through a half-mile in :48.12, then […]

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Exaggerator tallies a pair of Sunday maiden winners

Yellowstone Girl and Manhattan Grace both broke their maidens on Sunday, upping Exaggerator’s First-Crop winners’ total to ten, which is third-most for first-year sires. Yellowstone Girl, owned by Madaket Stables LLC, Wonder Stables and Robert LaPenta, won her one mile contest at Keeneland in front-running style, coming home a two-length winner under Florent Geroux.  Yellowstone […]

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Tourist filly finishes with a flourish on Woodbine turf

Hadley made up a four-length deficit in the final furlong of a one-mile turf maiden Saturday at Woodbine to win by a length and become the fifth First-Crop winner for her sire. In between horses and several lengths off the pace for most of the trip, Hadley swung to the middle of the course in […]

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Exaggerator filly debuts a 8 1/4-length winner

Expurgated’s blowout win Wednesday in her racing debut at Parx gave Exaggerator his seventh First-Crop winner and one of his most visually impressive to date. The chestnut filly scored by 8 1/4-lengths in front-running style in the 5 1/2-furlong contest and was never threatened at any point while under a hand ride the entire trip. […]

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Speightster first-timer romps by 13 lengths at Belmont Park

Sam and Sy kicked away from the field coming into the stretch and ran away to a 13 3/4-length victory in his career debut Monday at Belmont Park. Speightster, who got his first stakes winner on Oct. 10, is a top-10 First-Crop sire now with eight winners and a trio of black type horses. Sam […]

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Tiznow’s Royal Approval Breeders’ Cup bound after Matron S. (G3) victory

Royal Approval became Tiznow’s 45th lifetime graded stakes winner on Sunday with her victory in the $100,000 Matron S. (G3) on the Belmont Park turf course. The Three Chimneys Farm homebred has won her last two starts and upped her earnings to $117,400 with Sunday’s win. Ridden with confidence from the outset by Irad Ortiz, […]

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Nashville blows away foes once again at Keeneland

Speightstown’s 3-year-old colt Nashville turned in another spectacular performance Saturday at Keeneland, winning a six-furlong allowance race by 9 3/4-lengths, his second blow out win in as many starts. After winning his Sept. 2 debut at Saratoga by 11 1/2-lengths, the bay colt was named a TDN Rising Star. He backed that tag up with […]

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Exaggerator filly scores front-running MdSpWt win at Belmont Park

Herald Angel became Exaggerator latest first-crop winner, his seventh, on Oct. 10 with a gate-to-wire score at Belmont Park. The 2-year-old filly won the six-furlong maiden special weight contest on the inner turf by 2 1/2-lengths without ever being seriously threatened by any of her foes after the first quarter-mile. She covered the distance on […]

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That Kenney Kid first stakes winner for Speightster

Top-10 First-Crop sire Speightster got his first stakes winner Saturday when That Kenney Kid won the $70,000 West Virginia Breeders’ Classic at Charles Town Races. The bay 2-year-old filly is one her sire’s seven winners to date, while That Kenney Kid is also the third stakes horse his sire.  That Kenney Kid won the 6 […]

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