First-Crop sire Gemologist set the high-water mark during Day 2 of the OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in Training with a $550,000 colt secured by winning bidders David Ingordo and Peter Eurton’s L.E.B. Consigned by Becky Thomas’ Sequel Bloodstock and cataloged as hip No. 564, the colt’s :10 second-flat breeze during the Under Tack Show […]
[ Read More ]The sales results for leading sire Pioneerof the Nile remained strong during Day 1 of the OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in Training, with a colt by the WinStar stallion bringing $300,000 from winning bidders L. E. B./D. J./D. I. The colt, cataloged as hip No. 148 was consigned by Bobby Dodd, agent. The dark […]
[ Read More ]A colt from the first-crop of Gemologist brought a winning bid of $170,000 during Day 1 of the OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in Training. The colt was consigned by Grassroots Training and Sales LLC, agent and cataloged as hip No. 41. The winning bidder for the bay juvenile was simply-named Team D. The colt […]
[ Read More ]Modern dictated the pace throughout Sunday’s $50,000 Swift Thoroughbreds Inaugural S. to chalk up his fourth stakes victory, and sixth overall, in his 21 lifetime starts. The 6-year-old son of Tiznow has won or placed in nine stakes, and finished in the top three in two-thirds of his lifetime outings. Modern was the first foal […]
[ Read More ]International super-star sire More Than Ready got his 18th Grade/Group 1 winner in Australia on Saturday when 2-year-old Prized Icon captured the $500,000 (AUS$) Champagne S. (G1) at Randwick Racecourse. With El Sicario running loose on the lead through the first half-mile, Prized Icon led the rest of the pack sitting in second. The front-runner […]
[ Read More ]Cash Back kept her perfect record intact in Saturday’s $150,000 Instant Racing S. at Oaklawn Park, winning the six-furlong contest for 3-year-old fillies by two lengths to go four-for-four lifetime. The Congrats filly, a Bert Klein and Richard Klein homebred, was trying the main track for the first time after three turf wins, but had […]
[ Read More ]Artie Schiller got his sixth stakes winner of the year on Sunday when Macagone went gate-to-wire in the $100,000 Danger’s Hour S. at Aqueduct, winning by 3 1/2-lengths for his first stakes win. Macagone, a Trinity Farm homebred, was third in his most recent start, the $100,000 El Prado S. at Gulfstream Park in December. […]
[ Read More ]Speightstown’s Passion for Action last-to-first rally carried the 4-year-old to his second career stakes win in Saturday’s $125,000 Jacques Cartier S. at Woodbine. Speightstown, a perennial top-10 sire, has five stakes winners and 10 black-type horses in 2016. Trailing the field of six sprinters for the first half-mile, Passion for Action unleashed a five-wide rally […]
[ Read More ]More Than Ready’s graded stakes winner Life Imitates Art outclassed his opponents in Saturday’s $75,000 Sophomore Turf S. at Tampa Bay Downs, striding out strongly in the stretch to win going away by 1 1/2-lengths. Winner of the Dania Beach S. (G3) on Jan. 2, Life Imitates Art had was full of run in the […]
[ Read More ]Land Over Sea found her best stride in the long Fair Grounds stretch en route to a 4 1/2-length victory in the $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks (G2), the first graded stakes win for the 3-year-old Bellamy Road filly. Sitting in sixth through the first half-mile Land Over Sea began to pass horses around the far […]
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