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Deer Valley got a very well-timed ride to pull out a half-length victory in the $60,000 Crank It Up S. Saturday at Monmouth Park. The 3-year-old filly became Speightstown’s 135th lifetime stakes winner and is one of his 11 stakes winners this year. A top-15 ranked national sire, Speightstown’s runners have earned more than $4 […]

Frostmourne earned his first graded stakes victory Saturday with a 1 1/4-length tally in the $500,000 Penn Mile (G2) at Penn National. The 3-year-old Speightstown colt won the $100,000 Awad S. last October and has now won three of five lifetime starts. Frostmourne is Speightstown’s ninth stakes winner of 2017 and his 38th lifetime graded […]

Weekend Hideaway’s gallant victory in the $200,000 Commentator S. on Memorial Day at Belmont Park put the son of Speightstown into the illustrious ranks of horses to earn more than $1 million. The 7-year-old has been one of the most successful horses on the New York circuit over the past four years, winning eight stakes […]

Yorkton became Speightstown’s 81st lifetime stakes winner on Saturday with an impressive, 3 1/2-length, front-running score in the $125,000 Queenston S. at Woodbine. The race is a traditional prep for the Grade 1 Queen’s Plate, but his trainer Simon Stuart said the 3-year-old colt would likely stay at the shorter distances, similar to the seven-furlong […]

Benner Island gallantly fought off the late charge of Union Strike to take the $200,000 Eight Belles S. (G2) by a head on a rainy Friday afternoon at Churchill Downs. The victory was the first in a stakes for the 3-year-old Speightstown filly, who had finished second in the Honeybee S. (G3) in March at […]

Speightstown’s 5-year-old daughter Southern Ring broke sharply and fended off a late challenge to win Sunday’s $150,000 Whimsical S. at Woodbine.  The Sam-Son Farm homebred now has three stakes wins on her resume, including the Ontario Fashion S. (G3). Coming out of the gate and going to the front, Southern Ring was under stiff pressure […]

Impeccably-bred Redesdale, a 4-year-old son of Speightstown, chalked up his third win in as many starts with a stylish four-length allowance score Feb. 24 at Fair Grounds (VIDEO). Redesdale has been more impressive with every start. A maiden special weight winner at first asking at Churchill Downs, he then captured a Fair Grounds allowance on […]

Hip Hop N Jazz used her natural speed to zip to a 1 1/2-length victory in the Houston Distaff S. on Saturday evening at Sam Houston Park.  The victory was the first win for the newly-turned 5-year-old daughter of Speightstown, who finished third in the 2015 Delaware Oaks (G3). Making just her eighth lifetime start, […]

Making his first start since last March, the incomparable 11-year-old son of Speightstown Reynaldothewizard captured the third straight running of the $175,000 Dubawi S. Thursday at Meydan Racecourse in the UAE. Reynaldothewizard, who has raced in Dubai for the past seven seasons, used the entire Meydan stretch to overtake Muarrab in the final strides, winning […]

Frostmourne was much the best in the $100,000 Awad S. over the Belmont Park lawn on Saturday despite the 2-year-old Speightstown colt repeatedly having to steady before shaking clear in upper stretch to register his first stakes win. After easily winning his debut on Sept. 3 at Saratoga, Frostmourne had an eventful trip in the […]