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Distorted Humor’s top handicap horse Honorable Duty led all the way in Saturday’s $200,000 Lukas Classic (G3) at Churchill Downs to give the 5-year-old his third graded win of the year and push his earnings to nearly $800,000. Earlier this spring Honorable Duty took both the New Orleans H. (G2) and Mineshaft H. (G3) at […]

Distorted Humor, the number one broodmare sire of 2017, had his top yearling of the first four sessions of the Keeneland September Yearling sale on Thursday when a filly brought a winning bid of $750,000. Consigned by Lane’s End, agent and already named No Joke, hip No. 900 went to Robert and Lawana Low. The […]

Perennial leading sales sire Distorted Humor had yet another star during Monday’s session of the Keeneland September Yearling sale, when a colt by the WinStar stallion brought a top bid of $700,000. Bred and consigned by Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency, hip No. 85 went to Lothenbach Stables. The chestnut colt is out of the […]

Richard the Great was at his best in Saturday’s Trinniberg H. at Gulfstream Park, rolling to a 7 ½-length victory in a brilliant 1:21.06 for the seven furlongs.  The victory was the first in a stakes for the son of Distorted Humor. The 5-year-old, who earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 100 for the stellar […]

Distorted Humor wrapped up the Aug. 7-8 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearlings sale with a total of four lots selling for an average of $292,000, with final prices falling in between $240,000 and $400,000. Day 2’s top seller for the WinStar stallion was hip No. 143, a colt consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency that sold […]

No Distortion, winner of last year’s Long Branch S., chalked up his second career stakes victory on Saturday at Delaware Park when the 4-year-old son of Distorted Humor took the $50,000 Carl Hanford S. by a comfortable 2 ½-lengths. Racing in the colors of his breeder Brereton C. Jones, No Distortion moved from fifth to […]

Arabian Hope battled to a head victory in the $64,000 Ganton S. at York in England in the stakes debut for the 3-year-old Distorted Humor filly. Arabian Hope is Distorted Humor’s 140th lifetime stakes winner and is one of his 11 stakes horses in 2017. Distorted Humor is North America’s second-leading active sire of stakes […]

Tuesday was another banner day in the sales ring for Distorted Humor when a colt by the champion sire brought a winning bid of $850,000 during the second day of the May 22-23 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training sale. Eddie Woods consigned the colt, hip No. 490, which wound up being the second-highest offering to […]

A filly by leading sales sire Distorted Humor brought a winning bid of $575,000 during Wednesday’s session of the April 25-28 OBS Spring Sale of 2-year-olds in Training. The filly’s bid was the third-highest during the session and fifth over the first two days. Hip No. 383 was consigned by Off the Hook LLC, agent […]

Distorted Humor’s gritty 5-year-old son Honorable Duty has been unbeatable at Fair Grounds winter/spring, wrapping up the meet on Saturday with his third straight stakes win in the $400,000 New Orleans H. (G2). The sweep of the Fair Grounds races for older horses included the Tenacious S. and Mineshaft H. (G3). The DARRS Inc. colorbearer […]