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High Noon Rider drew off smartly in the stretch over Saratoga’s inner turf course to score by 3 ½-lengths in the $100,000 Better Talk Now S., the first stakes victory for the 3-year-old son of Distorted Humor. High Noon Rider, who was already twice stakes-placed before Monday’s victory, is the 129 lifetime black type winner […]

Jumping to the lead right out of the gate, Nonna’s Boy skipped to a 3 ½-length victory in Saturday’s $60,000 Lamplighter S. over the Monmouth Park turf course. With none of his foes getting within two lengths at any point, the 3-year-old son of Distorted Humor went on to collect his first career stakes win […]

Crittenden rallied at just the right moment to take the first running of the $75,000-added PDJF Stakes Saturday, May 30 at Indiana Grand, giving the 3-year-old son of Distorted Humor his first stakes win and third win in seven lifetime starts. The sire of more than 130 lifetime stakes winners, perennial top-10 sire Distorted Humor […]

Though he was making his first stakes start, Ironicus looked like a seasoned black-type veteran as he closed from tenth with a quarter mile to run to capture the $300,000 Dixie S. (G2) under a heady ride by Javier Castellano. Making his eighth lifetime start, the 4-year-old Distorted Humor colt, a Stuart Janney III homebred, […]

Distorted Humor’s Dramedy put away My Afleet following an early duel and then held off a furious charge from several challengers in deep stretch to win the $250,000 Elkhorn S. (G2) Saturday afternoon at Keeneland. Dramedy and My Afleet pulled away from the field early in the 1 ½-mile marathon, clearing off by a double-digit […]

House Rules, a 4-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor, prevailed in a three-horse photo to score victory in the $200,000 Top Flight H. (G3) Saturday at Aqueduct. The filly is one of six stakes horses, four of them graded stakes winners, this year by her sire House Rules broke smartly and then settled into fourth, less […]

Hoop of Colour sauntered to a half-length score in the Grade 2, $201,000 Santa Ana S. Sunday at Santa Anita Park. She is the 55th lifetime graded stakes winner for Distorted Humor and pushed his cumulative progeny earnings past the $108 million mark, fourth-most of all active North American sires. Trained by Graham motion, Hoop […]

Distorted Humor was among the leading sires at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale, with a pair of colts bringing $500,000 and $325,000, for an average of $412,500. Hip No. 82 led the way for his sire. Consigned by Hoby and Layna Kight, agent, the half-million dollar purchase was bought by Third Street […]

Distorted Humor’s Khozan has become the hottest 3-year-old on the Triple Crown trail in Florida, with two dominating victories during the Gulfstream Park meet, the latest coming Sunday at the Hallandale oval. Khozan was away in good order in the one mile contest, with a couple lengths of the lead for the first quarter mile. […]

House Rules remained undefeated in 2015 stakes races with a confident 1 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 Rampart S. (G3) at Gulfstream today. She also became the 54th career graded stakes winner for Distorted Humor, who reigns as America’s #8 Sire this year, with progeny earnings already approaching $1,000,000. In the 39th running of the […]