Category: General News

Garrett O’Rourke, on behalf of Juddemonte Farms, signed the ticket for a $400,000 Congrats filly during the first night of the Aug. 7-8 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearlings sale. O’Rourke said the ultimate plan after her racing career was to breed her to their champion Arrogate, who is currently prepping for a run in the Pacific […]

Bodemeister, the leading Second-Crop Sire of 2017, had four yearlings sell during Monday evening’s session of the Aug. 7-8 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearlings sale for an average of $243,750, more than eight times his 2015 bred-on stud fee. Topping the list was hip No. 40, consigned by Warrendale Sales for Tall Oaks. Centennial Farms was […]

Modern, who has won more than a third of his 31 lifetime starts, earned his ninth career stakes win on Aug. 7 when the son of Tiznow took the $50,000 Classic H. at Hastings Park. Winner of the $75,000 Lieutenant Governor S. in his prior outing, Modern won a thrilling four-way photo in the Classic, […]

Red-hot sire Speightstown got his third 2-year-old maiden special weight winner of the prestigious Saratoga meet on Aug. 5 when National Flag overcame a rough trip to win his six-furlong contest by 1 ¼-lengths (VIDEO). Owned by WinStar Farm, China Horse Club and SF Racing Group, National Flag got the victory despite a three-wide trip […]

Mayas Queen Neetee won her fourth straight start with a three-length victory in Sunday’s $75,000 Vivacious H. at Belterra Park, the first stakes win for the daughter of Speightstown. She is Speightstown’s 11th stakes winner and 18th stakes horse this year. Drawing post 1 for the Vivacious, Mayas Queen Neetee broke well and set just […]

Hemp Hemp Hurray’s 7 ¼-length win in Sunday’s $60,000 Tyro S. on the Monmouth Park turf course marked the second win in as many starts for the 2-year-old Artie Schiller colt, who was an impressive first-out maiden winner at Belmont Park on July 9. The Tyro scratched down to four runners from the original seven, […]

Sister Blues became Pioneerof the Nile’s most recent stakes winner on Saturday as she battled to a one-length victory in the $50,000 Opelousas S. on the Louisiana Downs turf course. In a field of eight fillies and mares, Sister Blues held second while she let longshot Brooke’s a Bookin set the pace for the first […]

Awaken thoroughly dominated the competition in Saturday’s $75,000 Cleveland Kindergarten S. at Thistledown, coming home a seven-length winner to give the 2-year-old Super Saver colt his first stakes victory in his third career start (VIDEO). Super Saver has been among the leading sires with each of his first three crops, and is in the top […]

With his tally of winners growing to 11 on August 2, leading Freshman Sire Overanalyze is the most prolific sire of his generation to date. Nine of his winners have come in maiden special weight affairs, with two of those, Psychoanalyze and Analyze the Odds, going on to be stakes-placed. She’s Overanalyzed became the latest […]