Weekend Hideaway’s gallant victory in the $200,000 Commentator S. on Memorial Day at Belmont Park put the son of Speightstown into the illustrious ranks of horses to earn more than $1 million. The 7-year-old has been one of the most successful horses on the New York circuit over the past four years, winning eight stakes […]
[ Read More ]Gemsaresparkling bested a field of 3-year-old sprinting fillies on Saturday to earn her diploma in her second career start at Belterra Park. The daughter of Gemologist, bred by Gabriel Duignan and Lemons Mill Farm, is out of the mare Dreamscape, who has produced a pair of stakes winners and is a full sister to Hall […]
[ Read More ]Copper Bullet flew through five furlongs in his eight-length maiden special weight victory Thursday at Churchill Downs, earning the 2-year-old More Than Ready colt a TDN Rising Star tag in his second career outing. Copper Bullet covered the five furlongs in :57.56 seconds, just a second off the track record. Bred by Dell Ridge Farm, […]
[ Read More ]A Super Saver filly brought $290,000 during the first day of the May 22-23 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training sale, one of the top-10 prices during Monday’s session. The bay filly, hip No. 220, was consigned by Kirkwood Stables, agent and went to prominent owner Ralph M. Evans. The Kentucky-bred is out of the stakes-winning […]
[ Read More ]After skipping the May 6 Kentucky Derby (G1), Tiznow’s graded stakes-winning colt Term of Art will make his next start in the second leg of the Triple Crown in Saturday’s $1.5 million Preakness (G1) at Pimlico. Owned by Calumet Farm and trained by Doug O’Neill, Term of Art won last November’s Cecil B. De Mille […]
[ Read More ]Bodemeister’s Kentucky Derby (G1) hero Always Dreaming was assigned gate 4 for Saturday’s $1.5 million Preakness S. (G1) and will face four foes he defeated in the May 6 Run for the Roses. Trainer Todd Pletcher was content with Wednesday’s draw and planned to employ similar tactics that carried his colt to victory at Churchill […]
[ Read More ]Waitingforaspark graduated from the maiden ranks in her second lifetime start Sunday at Monmouth Park, taking the six-furlong maiden special weight contest for 3-year-old fillies by 2 1/4-lengths. The bay Bodemeister filly waiting for the final quarter-mile to do her best running, circling from sixth and going four wide out of the turn and rolling […]
[ Read More ]Yorkton became Speightstown’s 81st lifetime stakes winner on Saturday with an impressive, 3 1/2-length, front-running score in the $125,000 Queenston S. at Woodbine. The race is a traditional prep for the Grade 1 Queen’s Plate, but his trainer Simon Stuart said the 3-year-old colt would likely stay at the shorter distances, similar to the seven-furlong […]
[ Read More ]Bowies Hero overcame a less than ideal start in Saturday’s $75,000 Singletary S., but the 3-year-old Artie Schiller colt erased his early deficit with a stirring stretch run to win the Santa Anita one mile turf event by a half-length. It looked as if Bowies Hero might have little chance after severely stumbling to his […]
[ Read More ]Benner Island gallantly fought off the late charge of Union Strike to take the $200,000 Eight Belles S. (G2) by a head on a rainy Friday afternoon at Churchill Downs. The victory was the first in a stakes for the 3-year-old Speightstown filly, who had finished second in the Honeybee S. (G3) in March at […]
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