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Locally Owned held off his heavily favored stablemate Lone Rock to win Saturday’s $300,000 Grand Prix American Jockey Club Inv. at Belmont Park. Locally Owned, a 5-year-old son of Distorted Humor, was making his first stakes start in nearly two years. He was in no hurry early in the 1 5/8-mile marathon, taking up his […]

Urban Fairytale edged clear of Tasting the Stars in the final furlong to win the $100,000 Brookside S. on Sept. 1 at Colonial Downs. The victory was the first stakes win for 4-year-old Distorted Humor filly, who is trained by Ian Wilkes for Winchester Place Thoroughbreds.  Always within striking distance in the 1 1/16-mile turf […]

Soothsay overacame a bad start with a big stretch rally to win Wednesday’s $200,000 Indiana Oaks (G3) by a neck in a four-horse photo finish. It was the third victory in four lifetime starts, all this year, for the 3-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor. That includes a victory in the Santa Anita Oaks (G2) in […]

Gershwin turned in a stellar performance in his stakes debut in Friday’s $300,000 Penn Mile (G3), winning the off-the-turf race in rainy conditions by two lengths (VIDEO). The 3-year-old colt is Distorted Humor’s 161st lifetime stakes winner world wide, 70 of which are graded stakes winners. The 161 stakes winners leads all active stallions standing […]

Distorted Humor’s 4-year-old filly Ebaiyra is now a three-time Group stakes winner after taking the  Prix Allez France Longines (G3) on May 2 at Longchamp Racecourse in France WATCH RACE. Away for the winter following a third-place effort in a Group 1 in October, Ebaiyra returned with a sharp effort in this 10-furlong turf marathon. […]

Soothsay fended off the challenge of favored Beautiful Gift to win Saturday’s $400,000 Santa Anita Oaks (G2) by a half-length in the first stakes starts of any type for the 3-year-old Distorted Humor filly. She also earned 100 points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1), assuring herself a starting spot in that race […]

Varda rallied from last at the top of the stretch to win Saturday’s $300,000 Starlet S. (G1) at Los Alamitos Racetrack by 1 1/2-lengths, the first graded stakes win for the 2-year-old filly trained by Bob Baffert for the Baoma Corp. The bay daughter of Distorted Humor is the 20th lifetime Grade 1 winner for […]

Distorted Humor, the sire of 2011 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Drosselmeyer, will be represented by a pair of 2-year-olds in this year’s Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland. Both colts will run during Friday’s card, with Momos in the Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) and Calibrate in the Juvenile (G1). Momos kicks things off in the sixth […]

Painting came from last in the final three furlongs to win Saturday’s $125,000 Ontario Fashion S. (G3) at Woodbine by a neck over Victory Kingdom (AUS). The 4-year-old filly, who had finished second in a trio of graded stakes this summer at the Canadian track, is now 3-5-1 in 10 starts and has earned $214,445 […]

Ry’s the Guy got his first stakes victory and also set the 1 1/2-mile track record in Tuesday’s $115,000 Champions Day Marathon S. at Churchill Downs to kick off Derby Week. The 4-year-old son of Distorted Humor won the Marathon in front-running style, drawing off in the lane to win by 4 3/4-lengths in 2:29.58 […]