Category: General News

More Than Ready quartet primed for big Breeders’ Cup

More Than Ready, the sire of the winners of six Breeders’ Cup races, has a big chance to add to that total during this year’s Nov. 1-2 event at Santa Anita Park. The WinStar stallion has entries in four different races, including three juvenile races on Friday’s card. Uni (GB) rounds out the quartet in […]

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Maiden special weight winners for Daredevil at Belmont and Meydan

Daredevil added two more maiden special weight winners from his first crop on Oct. 24-25 when I Dare U and Barack Beach won their debuts at Belmont Park and Meydan Racecourse, respectively. Daredevil, whose fee is private in 2020, has eight winners and three stakes horses to date, including multiple stakes winner Deviant and Grade […]

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Constitution filly rolls by four lengths in Keeneland MdSpWt debut

Constitution, currently the No. 1 First-Crop Sire of 2019, tallied his 16th winner on Oct. 25 at Keeneland when the 2-year-old filly We the Clouds scored by four lengths in a six-furlong maiden special weight on the main track. We the Clouds, owned by her breeder Patricia Pavlish, broke alertly from post seven and made […]

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Speightstown colt hammers for $300,000 Wednesday at Fasig-Tipton October sale

Speightstown had one of the top colts during Wednesday’s session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings sale when Frank Brothers, agent for Starlight Farm, went to $300,000 for hip No. 1018. Consigned by Summerfield on behalf of Stonestreet Bred and Raised, the colt is out of the stakes-placed Kafwain mare Peggy Jane and is from […]

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Carpe Diem adds another winner and stakes horse to First-Crop resume

Top-10 First-Crop sire Carpe Diem tallied winner number 11 and his second stakes horse in recent days, with Seize the Chance getting her debut win on Oct. 17 and Harris Bay placing in the $250,000 Sleepy Hollow S. Saturday at Belmont Park. Seize the Chance, owned by Stuart Tsujimoto, broke her maiden by nearly two […]

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Island Commish surges to victory on Gulfstream turf

Island Commish, who broke his maiden by nearly 10 lengths on the main track, chalked up his first turf win on Oct. 17 with a 2 1/2-length score at Gulfstream Park West.  The 2-year-old Commissioner colt, who placed on the grassy Proud Man S. on Aug. 31 at Gulfstream, is one of his sire’s ten […]

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Daredevil filly goes gate-to-wire in Laurel turf maiden win

Thedevilmademedoit shot to the lead right from the gate and never looked back en route to a 1 1/2-length maiden win on the grass at Laurel Park on Saturday afternoon. A 2-year-old daughter of First-Crop sire Daredevil, she joins the likes of his three stakes horses Deviant, a two-time stakes winner, Grade 2-placed Shedaresthedevil, and […]

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Carpe Diem colt gets the money at Keeneland

Olympic Romp made a bold stretch bid to break his maiden by a half-length on Oct. 12 at Keeneland, making him the tenth overall winner from Carpe Diem’s first crop of runners. Carpe Diem is a top-10 First-Crop sire by both winners and progeny earnings, as well as by repeat winners.  Olympic Romp won Saturday’s […]

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More Than Ready colt possible for Breeders’ Cup after first stakes victory

Hit the Road, an impressive maiden winner in his turf debut on July 28, could have his sights set on the Breeders’ Cup after another sharp score in the Oct. 6 Zuma Beach S. at Santa Anita Park. The 2-year-old colt topped off a brilliant weekend for More Than Ready, following Uni’s (GB) win in […]

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Uni (GB) sets new course record in Keeneland’s First Lady (G1)

More Than Ready’s Uni (GB) unleashed a furious stretch run to win the one-mile First Lady Stakes (G1) at Keeneland on Saturday, Oct. 5, setting a new course record of 1:32.87 and securing a spot in next month’s Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1). Racing unhurried toward the back of the 13-horse field early, […]

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