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Nonna’s Boy floated across a muddy Belmont Park surface en route to an eye-catching 5 1/2-length maiden special weight victory in the first outing of his career on June 13. A day later, Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings-bred Assorted Humour took his maiden special weight debut at Evangeline Downs, winning impressively by 3 1/4 lengths in :59.58.  […]

Distorted Humor’s Fire With Fire unleashed a powerful closing kick to win Saturday’s $200,000 Charles Whittingham S. (G2) by a neck, the second graded stakes win of 2014, and fifth black-type victory overall, for the 5-year-old. Fire With Fire is Distorted Humor’s leading earner of 2014 and one of his 13 stakes horses this year […]

Praia grabbed the lead with an eighth of mile left en route to win Saturday’s $65,000 Keertana S. for fillies and mares at Churchill Downs, the first career stakes win for the 4-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor. Praia becomes the 122nd career stakes winner for her sire, whose progeny have already eclipsed the $2.1 million […]

The lone 2-year-old sired by Distorted Humor at the March 24 Fasig-Tipton Florida sale brought an even $1 million, one of only two juveniles to break the seven-figure mark at the one-day auction. Hip No. 83, a half brother to multiple champion Royal Delta out of the Grade 3 Locust Grove S. winner Delta Princess, […]

Distorted Humor’s 5-year-old son Nawwaar, owned by Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum and ridden by Paul Hanagan proved best in The President Cup S. on Feb. 16 at Abu Dhabi Racecourse. This was Nawwaar’s third victory this season  and has an overall mark of 5-2-2 in 19 starts. “Nawwaar clearly loves it around here […]

Distorted Humor’s Fire With Fire found the Turf Paradise grass course to his liking on Saturday, scoring a game neck victory in a three-way photo in the $75,000 Cotton Fitzsimmons Mile H., the third stakes win for the newly turned 5-year-old. Trained by Neil Drysdale for long-time client David Heerensperger, Fire With Fire is a […]

When Interpret crossed the finish line in track record time in the $136,000 Jebel Ali S. Jan. 10 at the racetrack of the same name in the UAE, the recently turned 6-year-old also became the 120th stakes winner for his sire Distorted Humor. Interpret, who is a half-brother to multiple champion and Horse of the […]

Ponche de Leona, in foal to Distorted Humor, was the highest-priced lot through the first three days of the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale, which runs Jan. 6-9. The 15-year-old mare, the dam of 2013 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Mucho Macho Man, sold for $775,000 to Eaton Sales’s Reiley McDonald on behalf […]

Zaikov, a TDN Rising Star for Distorted Humor when breaking his maiden by 14 lengths in March, returned to Gulfstream Park, the site of his flashy maiden win on Friday, zipping to another impressive win. The margin of 2 1/2-lengths may not have been as large as March’s race, but with the way the 3-year-old […]

Grade I winner Love and Pride, in foal to Distorted Humor, brought $4.9 million at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November sale on Monday. The sale price was the second highest of the prestigious one-day auction. Consigned by Three Chimneys Sales, agent, the 5-year-old daughter of A.P. Indy was bought by Borges Torrealba Holdings. Love and Pride […]