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Speightstown’s newest stakes winner National Flag closed with a rush in the stretch to capture Aqueduct’s Bay Shore S. (G3) by four lengths. National Flag’s chances didn’t look good after he was squeezed back soon after the start, putting him some six lengths off the lead in the first sixteenth of a mile. As the […]

Speightstown’s lone offering at the March 28th Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream 2-year-old sale got plenty of attention in the auction ring, ultimately bringing a winning bid of $650,000 from China Horse Club International. The price was one of the top 10 colts at Wednesday’s auction, and raised Speightstown’s 2018 2-year-old sales average to $403,333. SVG Thoroughbreds consigned […]

Wednesday’s results at the March 13-14 OBS 2-year-olds in Training sale included the lone filly by Speightstown in the two-day auction. Fiona Shaw, agent for Marc Keller, came away the winning bidder, at $410,000, for hip No. 428, consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, agent. The chestnut filly is out of the A. P. Indy mare […]

Inspeightofyou won her first stakes start March 9 at Delta Downs in the $80,000 Owner Appreciation Distaff, taking the one-mile contest by a widening 3 1/4-lengths. The victory was the third straight for the 4-year-old filly, who has now earned $133,240 for owner Maggi Moss. For Speightstown, Inspeightofyou is his eighth stakes horse and fourth […]

Strike Power backed up his superlative Dec. 23 maiden win with another top-notch performance in Saturday’s $200,000 Swale S. (G3) at Gulfstream Park, rolling through the seven furlongs in 1:22.68. The 3-year-old Speightstown colt could find himself stretching out to two turns for his next start.  “We’ll talk about it. There’s plenty of options out […]

Almond Roca made her first start of 2018 a winning one on Jan. 20 at Tampa Bay Downs with a hard-fought one-length score in the $125,000 Gasparilla S. for 3-year-old fillies. The daughter of Speightstown won the Sandpiper S. by nearly 10 lengths last month over the same surface, and is now 3-0-0 in five […]

Strike Power turned in a stellar performance in his Dec. 23 debut at Gulfstream Park, rolling to an eight-length score in the 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight contest for 2-year-olds. Leading the entire trip, the Courtlandt Farms homebred covered the distance in 1:02.67, less than a half-second off the track record and earning a Beyer […]

Almond Roca set a stakes record in Saturday’s Sandpiper S. for 2-year-old fillies at Tampa Bay Downs, finishing the six furlongs in 1:10.01 and winning by 9 1/4-lengths. The victory was the first stakes win for the Speightstown filly, who had broken her maiden by four lengths Sept. 29 over the Laurel Park turf course. […]

A filly by leading sire Speightstown brought a winning bid of $500,000 during Wednesday’s session of the 2017 Keeneland November Sale, which runs Nov. 7-18. The price was the second-highest paid for a weanling filly during the session Cataloged as hip No. 185, the filly was consigned by Denali Stud and went to Shadwell Estate […]

Mayas Queen Neetee cruised to a 5 3/4-length victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Distaff S. at Belterra Park on Saturday afternoon. The 5-year-old Speightstown mare has won six of her nine starts and two stakes in 2017. She is one of Speightstown’s 12 North American stakes winners this year. He currently has 126 individual winners to […]