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Joking left his connections all smiles after the son of Distorted Humor rallied from last to first in the stretch to take the $100,000 Diablo S. at Belmont Park.  Along with Ironicus in Saturday’s $150,000 Fort Marcy S. (G3), Distorted Humor had a stakes double over the weekend at Belmont. With the field moving along […]

Away from the races since last September, Ironicus was triumphant in his first 2016 outing with a 1 1/2-length score Saturday in the $150,000 Fort Marcy S. (G3) over the Belmont Park turf course. The gray 5-year-old son of Distorted Humor is now a 3-time graded stakes winner of $663,790. The Stuart Janney homebred is […]

Amanda and Jose Sarinna’s well-bred 4-year-old Dac notched his first stakes win on Saturday in the $50,000 Prairie Bayou S. at Turfway Park. The son of Distorted Humor, out of Grade 1 winner Corrazona, is a half-brother to multiple graded stakes winner Olmodavor, stakes winner Slow Down, and a pair of stakes-placed winners. Campaigned primarily […]

Vorticity, a 2-year-old Distorted Humor colt, made his stakes debut in Saturday’s $100,000 Marylander S. at Laurel Park and responded with a gutty three-quarter length victory in just his third lifetime start. Hustled from the gate under Victor Carrasco, Vorticity dueled with Tale of E Dubai through a quarter mile in :23.15 seconds, then dropped […]

Two-year-old Lucky Folie took full advantage of her early speed to win Sunday’s $100,000 Desi Arnaz S. to give the daughter of Distorted Humor her first stakes win and second in three lifetime starts. The Wertheimer and Frere homebred is Distorted Humor’s ninth stakes winner, and 21st black type horse overall, of the year, while […]

Distorted Humor got his third TDN Rising Star Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs when Wrath of Ruthie powered to a 9 ½-length maiden special weight score in her racing debut for owner LNJ Foxwoods and trainer Steve Asmussen. The 3-year-old filly earned a gaudy 92 Beyer Speed Figure in the six furlong contest, which went […]

After picking up his 130th lifetime stakes winner earlier in the afternoon, Distorted Humor got his second black type winner of the day when Crittenden battled to a neck victory in the $75,000 Let It Ride S. Saturday at Del Mar. Winner of the PDJF S. earlier this year, 3-year-old Crittenden found himself chasing pacesetter […]

Matrooh’s win in Saturday’s $200,000 Bold Ruler S. (G3) gave champion sire Distorted Humor his 130th lifetime black type winner in his illustrious stallion career. Distorted Humor, who will stand next year at WinStar Farm for $100,000, is having yet another outstanding season at stud in 2015, with eight stakes winners, six of them graded, […]

Three Chimneys Farm went to $1.525 million to secure a colt by Distorted Humor during the second day of the Sept. 14-26 Keeneland September Yearling sale, the highest price to that point in the marathon auction. Consigned as hip No. 277 by Taylor Made Sales Agency on behalf of Stonestreet Stables, the colt is out […]

The Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) could be in the future for Distorted Humor’s 4-year-old son Ironicus following his course record-setting performance in Monday’s $250,000 Bernard Baruch S. (G2) at Saratoga. Ironicus, who won the Dixie S. (G2) at Pimlico and ran second in Saratoga’s Fourstardave H. (G2), is one of Distorted Humor’s seven stakes winners […]