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Speightstown’s seemingly ageless star Reynaldothewizard kicked off his 10-year-old season in high fashion with a 2 ¾-length win Thursday in the $150,000 Dubawi S. at Meydan as he prepares for another run in the $1 million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) in late March on World Cup Day. Off for nearly a year following a setback […]

Speightstown’s speedy 3-year-old son Bayerd made his way to the winner’s circle for the fourth time in his career in Saturday’s $60,000 Bonapaw S. at Fair Grounds, winning the 5 ½-furlong, off-the-turf contest by a length under Florent Geroux (VIDEO). Bayerd, who is trained by Steve Asmussen for Clark Brewster, rallied four wide from fifth […]

Speightstown’s Full Salute wore down the leaders in the Gulfstream Park stretch en route to a one-length victory in Saturday’s $75,000 Buffalo Man S. The winner, the first foal out of the black type winner Mazucambera, captured the Hall of Fame S. earlier this year and is now 3-3-0 in seven starts and has earned […]

Speightstown, winner of the 2004 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) during his championship season, will have a pair of starters in this year’s Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland, with Barbados in the Sprint (G1) and Recepta in the Mile (G1). The $1.5 million Sprint has a full field of 14, with one also-eligible. Barbados drew post 11 […]

Making just her third career start, Sam-Son Farms’ homebred 3-year-old filly Southern Ring rallied to a two-length score in the $100,000 Ruling Angel S. over Woodbine’s Polytrack. The daughter of Speightstown, who broke her maiden by 5 ¾-lengths a month ago on the turf, was just effective on the main track. Breaking very quickly, Southern […]

Rock Fall’s victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Vosburgh at Belmont Park marked the seventh straight win for the 4-year-old Speightstown colt, who has not lost since his debut. The win also earned Rock Fall’s an all-fees paid trip to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) next month at Keeneland as part of the Breeders’ Cup […]

Full Salute’s professional-looking victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Hall of Fame S. at Parx had the look of better things to come for the 2-year-old son of Speightstown.  The top-five sire now has a dozen black type winners this year, with seven of them coming in graded stakes, including the nation’s top sprinter Rock Fall, winner […]

Speightstown’s two-time stakes winner Recepta got her first graded stakes victory on Saturday with a well-earned three-quarter length win in the $200,000 Noble Damsel S. (G3) on the Belmont Park turf course. Recepta is Speightstown’s seventh graded stakes winner of the year and pushed the top-10 sire past the $7.6 million mark in progeny earnings […]

Hathal took command in deep stretch on the Newbury turf course to win the $57,462 Dubai Duty Free Cup on Thursday, giving the 3-year-old son of Speightstown and his owner Al Shaqab Racing their first stakes victories with trainer William Haggas. At the rear of a compact field for most of the seven furlong straight […]

Leading sire Speightstown had two of the top 10-selling lots during the first day of the Sept. 14-26 Keeneland September Yearling sale. The WinStar stallion’s top lot was hip No. 85, a filly consigned by Gainesway, agent and purchased for $700,000 by Joseph Allen. The filly is the first foal out of the Dynaformer mare […]