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In her first graded stakes start, Southern Ring came away with a well-earned three-quarter length victory in the $150,000 Ontario Fashion S. (G3) Sunday at Woodbine. Southern Ring is Speightstown’s 75th lifetime stakes winner and his 35th lifetime graded stakes winner. When Green Doctor and Veaisha sprinted to the front out of the gate, Southern […]

Some of Speightstown’s strongest sale results of 2016 came during the third day of the Keeneland September sale Wednesday with a pair of colts bringing winning bids of $675,000 and $625,000. Speightstown had three yearlings bring at least a half-million dollars during Wednesday’s session, topped by hip No. 588, a colt consigned by Beau Lane […]

The top-priced filly during Day 2 of the 2016 Keeneland September Yearling sale was a Speightstown juvenile that went for $800,000 to Shadwell Estate Company, Ltd. Paramount Sales, agent for Sierra Farm, consigned hip No. 356. The Kentucky-bred filly is out of the multiple graded stakes-placed Giant’s Causeway mare General Consensus, a half-sister to Grade […]

Speightstown’s stakes-winning son Hathal earned his second added-money victory with a hard-fought victory in the Superior Mile S. (G3) Saturday at Haydock Racecourse in Great Britain.  Run in a driving rainstorm, Hathal was well-positioned in fourth for most of the contest until Frankie Detorri set the 4-year-old down for the final two furlongs. He caught […]

Beat the Benchmark delivered on her pre-race promise with a gutsy maiden special weight victory over the Saratoga turf on Monday, wearing down Love and Lemons late to take her debut by a neck (VIDEO). The 2-year-old daughter of Speightstown was a $300,000 purchase at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling sale a year ago for […]

Speightstown had one to the top thee priced colts during the second day of the Aug. 8-9 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale, with Kenji Ryotokuji signing the winning ticket at $600,000 for the bay colt. Consigned by Terry and Bill Baker’s Fairlawn Farm, hip No. 199 is out of the Distorted Humor mare Bit of Humor, […]

Speightstown got career number 10 TDN Rising Star on Saturday when Big League powered to a 3 1/4-length victory in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight contest at Del Mar. Popping out of the gate with good energy, Big League battled with Honor and Courage through the first three furlongs before assuming command outside the […]

Top sire Speightstown had the third highest-priced offering to sell at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton July sale, with trainer Ken McPeek, agent for Fern Circle, paying $350,000 for the chestnut colt consigned by Bluewater Sales, agent. Cataloged as hip No. 338, the colt is the first foal produced by Por Que’ Te Quiero, an unraced daughter of […]

Speightstown’s versatile sprinter Passsion for Action racked up his third stakes win of 2016 on Sunday with a gallant neck victory in the $200,000 Highlander S. (G2) over the Woodbine turf course. The bay 4-year-old has been in peak form at Woodbine this summer, winning the Jacques Cartier S. and Vigil S. (G3) and finishing […]

Speightstown’s incredibly consistent mare Tarty to the Party kicked in late in the $100,000 Saylorville S. at Prairie Meadows racetrack to win the six-furlong contest by a head in a three-horse photo (VIDEO). The 6-year-old has finished first or second in 24 of her 41 lifetime starts. She is Speightstown’s ninth stakes winner this year, […]