Swiss Skydiver flew through the stretch at Churchill Downs to win her debut very impressively, hitting the wire 5 1/2-lengths ahead of the field in Saturday’s seven-furlong maiden special weight race for 2-year-old fillies. Daredevil, a son of leading sire More Than Ready, is the sire of 10 stakes winners and three stakes horses from […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s 2-year-old filly American Giant showed her affinity for the turf once again Saturday at Gulfstream Park West, driving to a two-length victory in the $75,000 Juvenile Fillies Turf, her third win in as many starts on the grass. More Than Ready’s runners have won nine stakes and earned in excess of $9.5 […]
[ Read More ]Constitution upped his First-Crop winners total to 19 with a pair of juvenile maiden winners on Nov. 8. The WinStar stallion now has a total of 19 individual winners, third-best among freshman sires. He also ranks second by stakes horses, with seven, and is the only First-Crop sire with four graded stakes winners. Jara earned […]
[ Read More ]Independence Hall remained unbeaten in his first two career starts with a romping 12 ¼-length win in the Nashua Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct on Sunday, Nov. 3, becoming his sire’s fourth first-crop stakes winner, tops among all freshman sires.Independence Hall earned a 101 Beyer Speed Figure in the win, the highest Beyer for a 2-year-old […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s hard-luck son Flagstaff got the best of Grade 1 winner Roadster in Saturday’s $100,000 Damascus S. at Santa Anita Park, winning the seven-furlong contest by a nose for his first stakes victory. The lightly-raced dark bay has been worse than third only once in nine starts, was most recently third in the Santa Anita […]
[ Read More ]Constitution tallied the latest winner from his first crop on Nov. 2 when the filly Laura’s Light drew off to a 2 1/2-length victory in a six-furlong maiden special weight race at Gold Gate Fields. Constitution now has 17 winners and progeny earnings of more than $1.5 million, trailing only American Pharoah on the 2019 […]
[ Read More ]Carpe Diem’s stakes-placed filly Bella Aurora scored a three-length allowance win Saturday at Laurel Park, the second win for the 2-year-old filly. She is the second multiple winner for Carpe Diem and one of the 11 winners to date for the top-10 First-Crop sire. Carpe Diem bred 130 mares this season and 569 through his […]
[ Read More ]Final Final lost the lead then regained it in the last strides of her maiden special weight win on the grass at Golden Gate Fields on Nov. 1. The 2-year-old filly is the eighth winner from Daredevil’s first crop of runners. Remarkably, Daredevil’s winners have come at eight different tracks, on three continents, on […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s beautifully-bred 2-year-old daughter got a perfect ride from Manny Franco to prove best in Friday’s $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), beating Daahyeh (GB) by nearly two lengths. Sharing, out of the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) winner Shared Account, is Speightstown’s second Breeders’ Cup winner and comes on […]
[ Read More ]Lazy Daisy will break from the middle of the gate in Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) after drawing post 5 in the field of nine 2-year-olds. The Juvenile Fillies is race 7 on Friday, with a post time of 2:32 p.m. PT. The daughter of Paynter earned her way into the 1 […]
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