Saints’ Girl, making her second lifetime start, blasted to a 13 1/4-length maiden special weight score Jan. 28 at Fair Grounds. The 3-year-old Overanalyze filly decimated her competition with an explosive stretch kick, increasing her margin some ten lengths in just the final furlong. Owned by West Point Thoroughbreds and trained by Dallas Stewart, Saints’ […]
[ Read More ]Briny Marlin emerged from a wall of horses at the top of the Gulfstream Park stretch to get his first career win in a six-furlong maiden special weight race on Jan. 20. The 3-year-old Paynter colt, who was a $200,000 purchase at the 2016 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale, was making his first start since his career […]
[ Read More ]Almond Roca made her first start of 2018 a winning one on Jan. 20 at Tampa Bay Downs with a hard-fought one-length score in the $125,000 Gasparilla S. for 3-year-old fillies. The daughter of Speightstown won the Sandpiper S. by nearly 10 lengths last month over the same surface, and is now 3-0-0 in five […]
[ Read More ]Pepe Tono bested a field of top-class maiden 3-year-old colts with a extraordinary performance in a one-mile maiden special weight affair Jan. 19 at Santa Anita Park. The Bodemeister colt broke well enough, but fell to the back of the field mid-way around the first turn and was at least a dozen lengths back of […]
[ Read More ]Comicas, a 5-year-old son of Distroted Humor, collared Muarrab (GB) in the final furlong en route to a 1 1/4-length win in the $175,000 Dubawi S. (G3) at Meydan Racecourse on Jan. 18. The victory was the first stakes win for the striking chestnut, who was second in last year’s Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) and […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Outwork, the Grade 1-winning son of Uncle Mo, sired his first two reported foals only an hour and a half apart late Sunday, Jan. 14th when both a colt and a filly were born. A bay colt arrived at around 9 p.m. in New York out of the Wheelaway mare Twistaway, who was […]
[ Read More ]Super Saver’s graded stakes winner Inside Straight made his 2018 debut on the turf on Jan. 13 and came away with a well-earned victory in the $75,000 Cotton Fitzsimmons Mile H. at Turf Paradise. Away from the races since last July 2, Inside Straight had been training very well over the local oval in anticipation […]
[ Read More ]Stronger Than Ever, making her 3-year-old debut, bested Wonder Gadot by a neck in a thrilling edition of the $150,000 Silverbulletday S. Jan. 13 at Fair Grounds. The Congrats filly had placed in the $100,000 Trapeze S. after coming from far back a month ago for trainer Ken McPeek, and had a repeat of that […]
[ Read More ]WinStar Farm’s Exaggerator, the 3-time Grade 1 multimillionaire and Classic-winning son of Curlin, sired his first reported foal Saturday, Jan. 13th when a bay filly was born at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, NY. Bred by SF Bloodstock, the filly is out of Graded stakes winner Nikki’s SmartyPants, a daughter of Smarty Jones out of […]
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