Category: General News

Ms Peintour powers to victory in $100,000 Astra S. (G3)

Ms Peintour stretched out to 1 1/2-miles for the first time in her career in Sunday’s $100,000 Astra S. (G3) and the 5-year-old Paynter mare came home a 2 1/2-length winner in the turf marathon at Santa Anita Park. Ms Peintour capped a big weekend for her sire that also saw Needs Supervision and Glennwood […]

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Carpe Diem colt wins thriller on Gulfstream Park turf

Life On Top, making just his second lifetime start, scored a dramatic maiden special weight win over Gulfstream Park’s turf course on Saturday, winning a three-way photo by a neck in the one-mile race for 3-year-olds. Off since sprinting in his main track debut in October, Life On Top had been training on the grass […]

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Echo Town is Speightstown’s latest TDN Rising Star

Echo Town capped off a big Saturday for Speightstown that also included the stakes winners Victim of Love and Bobby’s Wicked One both getting their second career black type victories. Echo Town, a 3-year-old colt owned by L and N Racing LLC, was making his debut in Saturday’s six-furlong maiden special weight race at Fair […]

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Victim of Love scores easily in $100,000 What A Summer S.

Victim of Love became one of Speightstown’s two stakes winners on Saturday when she defeated multiple stakes winner Needs Supervision by nearly four lengths in the $100,000 What A Summer S. at Laurel Park.  Saturday’s win was the second stakes victory for the 4-year-old filly. She sports a record of 4-1-2 from 12 outings, with […]

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Speightstown’s Bobby’s Wicked One scores second straight Fair Grounds stakes win

Bobby’s Wicked One started 2020 like he ended 2019, with a stakes win at Fair Grounds. His 2020 debut came in Saturday’s $100,000 Duncan F. Kenner S., and the now 5-year-old cruised to a front-running, 4 1/4-length victory. Winner of the Commonwealth S. (G3) at Keeneland last spring and the Thanksgiving Classic in November, Bobby’s […]

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Fed Biz colt kicks off 2020 with Aqueduct stakes win

Scilly Cay began his 3-year-old campaign Jan. 12 at Aqueduct with a 2 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 Rego Park S., the first added-money victory for the Fed Biz colt. Fed Biz finished 2019 as the top-ranked Second-Crop Sire by both black type winners and black type horses. He is standing this year at WinStar […]

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First foal is a filly for WinStar Farm’s Always Dreaming

WinStar Farm’s Always Dreaming, winner of the 2017 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Florida Derby (G1), sired his first reported foal Jan. 6 when a filly was born at Delia Nash’s Dromingrove Farm. Bred by Nash, the filly is the third foal out of the stakes-placed Exchange Rate mare Lemon Liqueur.  “She is very attractive just […]

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Blue Norther S. winner Laura’s Light tops big day for Constitution

Laura’s Light became Constitution’s fifth stakes winner on Dec. 29 when she scored by an emphatic 3 1/4-lengths in the Blue Norther S. at Santa Anita. The WinStar stallion also got his 30th winner from his first crop on Sunday when Cindy’s Prayer sped to a front-running maiden special weight win on the grass at […]

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Carpe Vinum extends hot streak for Carpe Diem

Carpe Vinum powered to a one-length maiden special weight win on the turf Dec. 29 at Santa Anita to give top-10 First-Crop sire Carpe Diem his 16th winner this year. The win came just one day after Bella Aurora won the $100,000 Gin Talking S., one of Carpe Diem’s five winners in the last month […]

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Bella Aurora first black type winner for Carpe Diem

Bella Aurora kicked home strongly to win Saturday’s $100,000 Gin Talking S. at Laurel Park by 1 1/2-lengths, giving Carpe Diem his first stakes winner. The 2-year-old filly was already stakes-placed on the turf at Colonial Downs, and is now 3-1-2 in six starts, with earnings of $141,140 for owner Country Life Farm. Switching back […]

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