Category: General News

Top-10 First-Crop sire Fed Biz tallied his seventh winner Saturday at Gulfstream Park when Zenden rallied to break his maiden at first asking. The chestnut colt had to overcome a rough start, where he was bumped a few times, before finding his best stride in upper stretch to ultimately roll by pacesetter Jamaican inside the […]

First-crop sire Fed Biz chalked up two new winners on Sept. 22 when Absentee and Andyoushallreceive both broke their maidens, giving their sire a total of six winners for the year. Absentee was a one-length winner in a $69,000 maiden special weight race at Parx. Making his debut in the six-furlong contest, Absentee broke from […]

Paynter’s stakes-winning 3-year-old son Renaisance Frolic returned from his summer vacation on Saturday at Gulfstream Park, and responded with a powerful-looking score in the Bear’s Den S. The win was the second career added money score for Renaisance Frolic, who won the Armed Forces S. as a 2-year-old, also at Gulfstream. Paynter has 11 stakes […]

Commissioner, whose first crop are yearlings of 2018, had a new personal auction best during the Keeneland September Yearling sale when hip No. 2232 brought a winning bid of $220,000. Maverick Racing was the winning bidder for the colt from the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment.  Named Glory Road, the dark bay is the first […]

Pioneerof the Nile continued to be one of the hottest sires at the 2018 Keeneland September Yearling sale during Saturday’s session when a filly consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency sold for $700,000. The dark bay filly, hip No. 1055, went to leading buyer Stonestreet Stables. The filly is out of the Grade 2-placed mare […]

First-Crop sire Carpe Diem’s Keeneland September Yearling sale returns continued their strong returns on Saturday when hip No. 1092 brought a winning bid of $460,000. Gainesway sales, agent, was the consignor of the chestnut colt, who went to Phoenix Thoroughbreds. The colt is out of the top-class producer Mon Venus, whose foals include Stephen Foster […]

Speightstown got his second graded stakes winner of the month on Saturday when Yorkton cruised to a 5 1/4-length win in the $143,000 Bold Venture S. (G3) at Woodbine. Yorkton, who had a trio of listed stakes victories prior to Saturday, upped his earnings to $364,724 for owner/breeder Chiefswood Stable. Yorkton was off just a […]

Tuesday delivered another solid day of results for freshman sire Constitution at the Keeneland September Yearling sale, which runs from Sept. 10 through the 23rd. The spotlight horse for the WinStar stallion was hip No. 344, consigned by Columbiana Farm and purchased for $240,000 by Anderson Stables LLC. Out of the young Dixie Union mare […]

Pioneerof the Nile became one of just a handful of sires represented Sept. 10-23 Keeneland Yearling sale to have a seven-figure lot when hip No. 297 was purchased for $1 million during Tuesday’s session of the marathon auction. Albaugh Stables and Spendthrift Farm teamed up to buy the striking colt, who was consigned by Brookdale […]

First-Crop sire Carpe Diem had his best results of the Sept. 10-23 Keeneland September Yearling sale on Tuesday when a colt brought a winning bid of $550,000 from the partnership of China Horse Club and Maverick Racing. Through the first two days of the auction, Carpe Diem’s average of $288,000 is more than 11 times […]