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Recepta found a narrow opening in mid-stretch and shot through to win the $100,000 De La Rose S. by 2 ¼-lengths on Saturday at Saratoga. The 3-year-old daughter of Speightstown is now a two-time stakes winner of $261,200. Recepta is Speightstown’s 20th black type horse of 2015. The WinStar stallion is once again in the […]

Speightstown’s sensational 4-year-old emerged victorious in a nail-biting finish in Saturday’s $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. (G1), edging The Big Beast by a nose to sixth straight victory. Rock Fall is Speightstown’s 13th lifetime Grade 1 winner. His nine stakes winners in 2015 have accounted for some 15 stakes wins, six of them graded. With […]

Force the Pass’ win in the $1.25 million Belmont Invitational Derby (G1), coupled with Speightster’s stellar victory in the $500,000 Dwyer S. (G3), vaulted Speightstown’s 2015 progeny earnings past the $5.5 million mark, sixth on this year’s General Sire list. Speightstown’s nine stakes winners have also racked up a second-best 14 stakes victories for the […]

Rock Fall earned his fifth straight victory and first graded stakes win June 5, taking the $250,000 True North S. (G2) at Belmont Park by 3 ¾-lengths. He is Speightstown’s fifth graded stakes winner of 2015 and pushed the Top-10 sire over the $4 million mark in progeny earnings for the year. After an early […]

With big money on the line, Speightstown’s Force the Pass came through win the tightest of photos in the $500,000 Penn Mile Saturday night at Penn National. Never worse than second in five starts, Saturday’s win was the second stakes, and first graded, for the 3-year-old colt. Speightstown entered Saturday ranked sixth on the 2015 […]

Bright Town sauntered to an easy 4 ½-length victory in Monday’s $50,000 First Lady H., the second stakes victory in the career of the 5-year-old daughter of Speightstown. The First Lady is Bright Town’s second stakes win of 2015. She is one of seven stakes winners this year by her sire. A perennial top sire, […]

Speightstown’s top sprinter Tamarkuz outgamed Sloane Avenue in the Meydan stretch to score his fourth consecutive stakes win, three of them graded, at the sprawling U.A.E. racetrack, in the $1 million Godolphin Mile (G2). Tamarkuz is one of Speightstown’s five stakes winners this year. His progeny have earned nearly $2.3 million to date, ranking third […]

Tamarkuz followed up his powerful victory in the Feb. 12 Firebreak S. (G3) with a comfortable $200,000 Burj Nahaar (G3) on Saturday evening at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai. The 5-year-old son of Speightstown has now earned $365,444 off six wins in 12 lifetime starts, and his latest stakes victory made Speightstown North America’s Leading Sire […]

Speightstown’s top offering at the March 4 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old sale brought a winning bid of $460,000. Consigned by Crupi’s New Castle Farm, hip No. 105 was bought by Spendthrift Farm. The chestnut juvenile, who breezed 10.1 seconds at the March 2 under tack show, is out of the multiple stakes-winning Forest Wildcat mare […]

Sheikh Hamdan’s Tamarkuz became the second Group winner of the day for Speightstown, when he charged to a four-length victory in the $200,000 Firebreak S. (G3) over a flat mile at Meydan Racecourse on Feb. 12.   Tamarkuz also became the 67th career stakes winner, fifth 2015 stakes winner for Champion Speightstown, whose 2015 progeny […]