Category: General News

Monforte 8 1/4-length maiden win on Aug. 9 over the Gulfstream Park turf course came despite a driving rainstorm and made him Carpe Diem’s fourth First-Crop winner. Monforte and Chads Choice were right together for the first half-mile, when Monforte subsequently opened up on the final turn and drew off in the stretch to win […]

Constitution, the number one First-Crop Sire by earnings and graded stakes winners, got his seventh juvenile winner Thursday at Saratoga by way of Tiz the Law’s snappy 4 1/4-length victory going 6 1/2-furlongs against fellow maiden special weight types. Content to sit behind a trio of front-runners early on, the eventual winner made up ground […]

Just a few moments into Tuesday’s closing session of the Aug. 5-6 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale Juddmonte Farms came away the top bidder at $600,000 for a Tiznow colt consigned by Warrendale Sales, agent for Stonestreet. The bay juvenile’s illustrious pedigree starts with his dam Stormin Maggy, a stakes-placed daughter of Storm Cat who is […]

First-Crop stallion Speightster’s two yearlings through the rind during Tuesday’s session of the Aug. 5-6 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale both brought winning bids of at least 15 times his stud fee, topped by a $200,000 colt. Hip No. 122 was consigned by Four Star Sales, agent and went to Gary Stevens, agent. The bay colt […]

Five Star General, winner of the $100,000 Central Park S. at Aqueduct last autumn, scored his second stakes win on Aug. 5 with a 2 1/4-length tally in the $50,000 Sir Winston Churchill Derby Trial at Hastings Park. Also stakes-placed on the Delaware Park turf in June, Five Star General upped his earnings to $129,343 […]

Distorted Humor got his newest stakes winner on Sunday at Monmouth Park when the 2-year-old filly Foolish Humor was awarded the victory in the $75,000 Colleen S. after being soundly bumped in mid-stretch by Miss J McKay. After contesting a very rapid pace with Strongerthanuknow early in the five-furlong turf affair, the duo were joined […]

Island Commish became Commissioner’s second maiden winner of the day when the 2-year-old colt won his debut on a sloppy Gulfstream Park track by nearly 10 lengths.  Combined with Glory Road’s win at Saratoga, Commissioner now has seven first-crop winners. His filly Powerfulattraction was the runner-up in Saturday’s $200,000 Sorrento S. (G2), his first graded […]

Amalfi Sunrise, a TDN Rising Star after her six-length debut win on June 23, tallied another half-dozen length victory in Saturday’s $200,000 Sorrento S. (G2) at Del Mar. The filly’s win capped a huge day for Constitution, who also had Our Country take maiden special weight on the grass at Saratoga. The WinStar stallion, also […]

Glory Road made up a double-digit deficit and a wide trip to win his Saratoga debut on Saturday by a neck, becoming Commissioner’s sixth winner from his first crop of runners, all half-dozen coming in maiden special weight races. After getting bumped at the start, Glory Road was well off the pace as the field […]

Our Country opened up the Saturday Saratoga card with a very impressive debut on the turf, winning by nearly a half-dozen lengths to give top-five Freshman sire Constitution his fifth winner from his first crop. Among Constitution’s five winners is Sanford S. (G3) winner By Your Side and TDN Rising Stars Aurelia Garland and Amalfi […]