Bella Aurora kicked home strongly to win Saturday’s $100,000 Gin Talking S. at Laurel Park by 1 1/2-lengths, giving Carpe Diem his first stakes winner. The 2-year-old filly was already stakes-placed on the turf at Colonial Downs, and is now 3-1-2 in six starts, with earnings of $141,140 for owner Country Life Farm. Switching back […]
[ Read More ]Top-10 First-Crop sire Carpe Diem got a pair of maiden special weight winners on Dec. 1 to give the WinStar stallion 14 individuals with a month left in the year. The striking chestnut filly Parkour dominated a one-mile turf race at Del Mar, taking the race in gate-to-wire fashion despite breaking from the outside post […]
[ Read More ]Party Lights led nearly all the way in her seven-furlong maiden win Nov. 21 at Churchill Downs to become Carpe Diem’s 12th winner from his first crop. Carpe Diem, a Grade 1 winner at 2 and 3, earned more than $1.5 million in his career. One of the most popular young stallions since entering stud […]
[ Read More ]Carpe Diem’s stakes-placed filly Bella Aurora scored a three-length allowance win Saturday at Laurel Park, the second win for the 2-year-old filly. She is the second multiple winner for Carpe Diem and one of the 11 winners to date for the top-10 First-Crop sire. Carpe Diem bred 130 mares this season and 569 through his […]
[ Read More ]Top-10 First-Crop sire Carpe Diem tallied winner number 11 and his second stakes horse in recent days, with Seize the Chance getting her debut win on Oct. 17 and Harris Bay placing in the $250,000 Sleepy Hollow S. Saturday at Belmont Park. Seize the Chance, owned by Stuart Tsujimoto, broke her maiden by nearly two […]
[ Read More ]Olympic Romp made a bold stretch bid to break his maiden by a half-length on Oct. 12 at Keeneland, making him the tenth overall winner from Carpe Diem’s first crop of runners. Carpe Diem is a top-10 First-Crop sire by both winners and progeny earnings, as well as by repeat winners. Olympic Romp won Saturday’s […]
[ Read More ]Monforte, one of Carpe Diem’s eight First-Crop winners, got his second career victory on Sept. 26 in a game effort on the Gulfstream Park turf course, winning the 7 1/2-furlong contest by a neck. The 2-year-old chestnut colt had the lead soon after the start and never relinquished it, holding off the late rush of […]
[ Read More ]Harris Bay turned in a very sharp debut effort Sunday afternoon at Belmont Park, zipping through six furlongs in 1:09.21 to defeat heavy favorite Dream Bigger by three parts of a length and give his sire Carpe Diem his eighth winner from his first crop. A top-10 Freshman sire, Carpe Diem also got his first […]
[ Read More ]Top-10 First-Crop sire Carpe Diem tallied his eighth 2-year-old winner on Aug. 28 when Carpe Victoriam scored a come-from-behind victory in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Indiana Downs. Tucked along the inside behind horse until the field hit upper stretch, Carpe Victoriam swung to the middle of the racetrack and rallied strongly […]
[ Read More ]Bella Aurora and Rule the Day both got their initial victories on Aug. 16 to give top-10 First-Crop sire Carpe Diem a total of six winners to date. Kicking off her sire’s daily double was Bella Aurora, who won a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight on the turf by two lengths in a performance that […]
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