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First foal a filly for WinStar Farm’s Nashville

WinStar Farm’s Nashville, a brilliantly fast son of Speightstown, sired his first reported foal when a filly was born on Monday morning, Jan. 8 at Murmur Farm in Maryland, it was announced today. The precocious filly is produced from the stakes-winning Tapiture mare Why Not Tonight, who is out of a half-sister to stakes-placed Tomica’s […]

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First mares confirmed in foal to WinStar stallions Life Is Good and Nashville

The first mares bred to WinStar Farm’s multiple Grade 1 winner Life Is Good and track-record setter Nashville have been confirmed in foal, the farm announced today. Both stallions have multiple mares reported in foal, including Tiz Breathtaking, a graded stakes-winning daughter of Tiznow, and Tapas, a $1.3 million daughter of Tapit owned by CHC […]

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Nashville, track record-setter by Speightstown, retires to WinStar Farm

CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm’s track record-setting Nashville, a son of perennial leading stallion Speightstown, has been retired from racing and will stand alongside his accomplished sire at WinStar, the farm announced today. Blessed with world-class speed, Nashville was a brilliant and undefeated winner of the six-furlong Perryville S. at Keeneland on the 2020 Breeders’ […]

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Nashville ready for stakes competition after scintillating Fair Grounds win

CHC Inc.’s and WinStar Farm’s Nashville, a 5-year-old son of Speightstown, blazed his way to a 4 ¾-length allowance win Friday at Fair Grounds (WATCH RACE). His time of 1:08.61 for the six furlongs was the fastest of the meet and earned him a Beyer Speed Figure of 102, the third triple-digit number in his […]

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Charlatan returns with dominant Malibu S. (G1) performance

Speightstown’s brilliant 3-year-old colt Charlatan won Saturday’s $300,000 Malibu S. (G1) at Santa Anita Park in convincing style, coming back from a seven-month layoff to score by 4 1/2-lengths. Charlatan is Speightstown’s fourth Grade 1 winner of 2020, which is the most of any sire standing in North America, and is his 10th graded stakes […]

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Nashville sets track record in Keeneland’s Perryville S.

Speightstown’s brilliantly fast 3-year-old colt turned in a track-record performance in winning Saturday’s $125,000 Perrryville S. at Keeneland, blazing through six furlongs in 1:07.89. Despite setting very fast fractions of :21.54 and :43.87, the bay colt continued to pull away from the field in upper stretch. Though he was under no urging at any point […]

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Nashville blows away foes once again at Keeneland

Speightstown’s 3-year-old colt Nashville turned in another spectacular performance Saturday at Keeneland, winning a six-furlong allowance race by 9 3/4-lengths, his second blow out win in as many starts. After winning his Sept. 2 debut at Saratoga by 11 1/2-lengths, the bay colt was named a TDN Rising Star. He backed that tag up with […]

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Speightstown colt romps in Saratoga MdSpWt to earn “TDN Rising Star” nod

Nashville strutted to an 11 1/2-length maiden special weight win on Sept. 2 at Saratoga in his career debut. The bay colt covered the 6 1/2-furlongs in a lively 1:14.48, less than a second off the track record, earning a 91 Beyer Speed Figure and also named a TDN Rising Star. Trained by Steve Asmussen […]

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