Category: General News

$150,000 colt leads way for Constitution at Fasig-Tipton July Yearling sale

Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton July Sale featured the first yearlings of the summer auction season by WinStar’s mulitple Grade 1-winning millionaire Constitution, with a $150,000 colt topping the results for the first-year stallion. Ken McPeek, agent, was the winning bidder for hip No. 113, who was consigned by Baccari Bloodstock, agent. The colt is the latest foal […]

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Gemonteer wins $100,000 Not Surprising S. in first stakes start

Gemonteer, a 3-year-old Distorted Humor colt, won the $100,000 Not Surprising S. July 7 at Gulfstream Park in very impressive style, drawing off with authority in the final furlong to take the one-mile turf contest by nearly five lengths. Gemonteer didn’t make his first start until late April, when he broke his maiden. After a […]

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Bodemeister’s O Dionysus sets course record in Cape Henlopen S.

O Dionysus stretched out to 1 1/2-miles for the first time in Saturday’s $75,000 Cape Henlopen S. at Delaware Park and came away with a new track record and his third career stakes win. The 4-year-old son of Bodemeister is also a perfect three-for-three on the turf following Saturday’s win. He is now 6-5-1 in […]

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Paynter’s Diamond Dust wins Hoover S. to stay perfect

Diamond Dust improved his record to 2-for-2 with a decisive victory in the $75,000 Hoover S. at Belterra Park on July 7 (VIDEO). The 2-year-old son of Paynter won by 4 1/2-lengths on Saturday; he had won his debut on June 3 over the same course. Bred and owned by WinStar Farm and Blazing Meadows […]

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More Than Ready colt wires field in Bashford Manor S. (G3)

Sir Truebadour chalked up his first stakes win in Saturday’s $100,000 Bashford Manor S. (G3) at Churchill Downs with a front-running, two-length win. The victory was the first stakes win for the 2-year-old son of More Than Ready, who broke his maiden in his May 17 debut at Churchill Downs, then was beaten just two […]

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Market Bubble scores at Belmont as first winner for Fed Biz

WinStar Farm’s multiple graded stakes winner and track record-setter Fed Biz had his first winner on June 30 at Belmont Park when Market Bubble tallied a half-length maiden special weight win in a six-furlong turf contest for 2-year-olds. The bay colt, making his debut for trainer Alan Goldberg and owner Colts Neck Stables LLC, tracked […]

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Distorted Humor colt debuts as a stakes winner

Secular Nation made a stellar debut in the $50,000 Duke City Sprint S. on June 29 when the 3-year-old Distorted Humor colt rolled to a 7 1/2-length victory in the 5 1/2-furlong race at Albuquerque Downs (VIDEO). Trained by southwest stalwart Henry Dominguez for Kirk and Judy Robinson, the chestnut colt was the  easiest of […]

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Dark Artist collects second straight stakes win in Monmouth’s Open Mind S.

Paynter’s up-and-coming 3-year-old filly Dark Artist tallied her second stakes win in a month in the $60,000 Open Mind S. at Monmouth Park, defeating Too Charming by a neck in a hard-fought victory. The bay filly captured the Boiling Springs last month on the same turf course and is now 4-0-1 in eight starts with […]

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Bodemeister filly proves best in Santa Lucia S.

Yuvetsi surged past Vale Dori (ARG) at the top of the Santa Anita Park stretch en route to a 2 1/2-length win in Friday’s $75,000 Santa Lucia S. This was the first stakes win for the 4-year-old Bodemeister filly, who had placed in last month’s Desert Stormer S. (G3) over the same oval. Going two […]

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