Pioneerof the Nile’s Cash Control earned her second career graded stakes victory Saturday at Churchill Downs with a commanding four-length victory in the $100,000 Cardinal H. (G3). Rating just behind a pair of longshots for most of the 1 1/8-mile contest, Cash Control uncorked a powerful stretch kick to win going away in 1:49.39 on […]
[ Read More ]Artie Schiller’s Macagone fittingly won the Aqueduct stakes named after his sire on Saturday with a determined stretch run, defeating Blacktype (FR) by three-quarters of a length in the $150,000 contest on the turf. Macagone is now a two-time stakes winner in 2016 and one of seven stakes winners this year by Artie Schiller, whose […]
[ Read More ]Alum graduated at first asking Thursday afternoon with a dominating 5 1/2-length maiden special weight score at Gulfstream Park for the 2-year-old Bodemeister colt trained by Todd Pletcher. Alum is out of P. S. U. Grad, who was herself a stakes winner at two, and placed in a half-dozen other black type events in her […]
[ Read More ]A bay colt from the first crop of multiple graded stakes winner Revolutionary hammered for $105,000 on Tuesday at the Nov. 8-20 Keeneland November Sale. The weanling colt, cataloged as hip No. 2752 and consigned by Warrendale Sales, agent, went to Whitechurch Bloodstock. The Kentucky-bred is the second foal out of Diamondsareforesta, whose dam Foresta […]
[ Read More ]The Nov. 8-20 Keeneland November Sale is into its second week, but the strong results for weanlings from the first crop of Fed Biz continued, with a $170,000 colt selling on Monday. The dark bay colt, cataloged as hip No. 2366 and consigned by VanMeter-Gentry, agent, went to Machmer Hall. The Kentucky-bred is the first […]
[ Read More ]O Dionysus’ victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Christopher Elser Memorial S. at Parx moved Bodemeister into the top five on the 2016 First-Crop Sire list. The bay 2-year-old colt is the second stakes winner for his sire, joining Astoria S. winner Bode’s Dream. A sharp maiden winner in late August at Laurel Park, O Dionysus dropped […]
[ Read More ]China Horse Club and WinStar Farm’s Equator made his first two-turn start a winning one on Nov. 10 when the 2-year-old Bodemeister colt tallied a three-length maiden special weight score at Remington Park. The bay colt is the ninth winner for his sire, who currently ranks sixth on the 2016 First-Crop Sire list with progeny […]
[ Read More ]Hip 346, a weanling filly from the first crop of Fed Biz, brought a final bid of $160,000 from buyer Clear Ridge on Day 2 of the Keeneland November sale Wednesday. Bred in Kentucky by Alpha Delta Stables, the popular filly is out of the Unbridled’s Song mare Wild Summer. On the racetrack, Fed Biz […]
[ Read More ]Gemologist is enjoying a sensational year with his first crop of 2-year-olds on the track, and on Day 1 at Keeneland November his popularity showed with a weanling colt selling for $260,000 to Cavalier Bloodstock. The handsome gray weanling, ringed as Hip 199, is out of the Grade 2-winning mare Frolic’s Dream, whose 2-year-old filly […]
[ Read More ]Hip 174, a striking weanling colt by Pioneerof the Nile, fetched $600,000 from buyer R.C. Thoroughbreds on Day 1 of the annual Keeneland November sale in Lexington, KY, making him the highest-priced weanling of the session. “The sire doesn’t hurt, and all the things you want to see are there physically: his scope, presence, athleticism, […]
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