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Passion for Action’s authoritative win in Sunday’s $250,000 Cup and Saucer S. made the 2-year-old colt the 16th stakes winner of the year for Speightstown. Speightstown’s runners have earned more than $7.2 million this year, putting the WinStar stallion once again in the top 10 on the General Sire list. After being a fairly close […]

Speightstown’s speedy 2-year-old colt Bayerd dueled through the entire six furlongs of the $75,000 Kip Deville S. to emerge victorious by one length in Sunday’s contest at Remington Park. Bayerd was head and head with Nublado Bling basically the whole way, willing himself to the front in the final strides to win by a length […]

Leading sire Speightstown brought some big prices during the first day of the Keeneland September Yearling sale, with a pair of colts selling for $500,000 and $485,000. Hip No. 40 was Speightstown’s top seller of Monday’s session. The colt was consigned by Dromoland Farm and bought by Shadwell Estate Company, Ltd. The colt is out […]

Wine Police out-dueled Homerun Berti in Sunday’s $75,000 Premier Cup H. at Zia Park to collect his third lifetime black-type victory and give his sire Speightstown his 12th stakes winner of 2014 and simultaneously push the top-10 sire’s progeny earnings past the $6.5 million mark. Wine Police chased Homerun Berti through most of the 5 […]

Golden Ticket out-gamed a pair of foes in a three-way photo to take the $100,000 Left Bank S. Sept. 5 at Belmont Park, the third career stakes win for the 5-year-old Speightstown horse whose bankroll now stands at $1,329,090. Golden Ticket was well behind his four foes for the first half of the one-mile trip, […]

Speightstown’s budding star Pirate’s Trove ran her record to a perfect 3-for-3 with an impressive score in Monday’s $111,800 Etobicoke S. at Woodbine.    With Zensational Bunny setting a swift pace, Florent Geroux kept Pirate’s Trove a few lengths back in fourth position, waiting for room to open up while tucked along the rail   […]

Weekend Hideaway pulled away late in Friday’s $100,000 John H. Morrisey S. at Saratoga to give the 4-year-old Speightstown colt his fourth lifetime stakes victory. Weekend Hideaway is Speightstown’s ninth stakes winner this year and pushed his progeny earnings to a nation’s second-best of $5.9 million on the General Sire list. His 40 repeat winners […]

Seek Again, a 4-year-old Speightstown colt, notched his second career graded stakes win in superb fashion Saturday at Saratoga, taking the $500,000 Fourstardave S. in course-record time after having to alter course drastically in mid-stretch. Taking a spot along the rail going into the first bend, Seek Again settled some six lengths off the pace […]

Speightstown racked up his 30th stakes horse of 2014 on Sunday at Woodbine when 3-year-old Pirate’s Trove bested Cactus Kris by a nose in the $125,000 Duchess S. Bred by WinStar Farm and M R Capital, Pirate’s Trove is undefeated in two starts and has amassed $91,470 to date. After chasing Zensational Bunny through the […]

Bedford Land, a 2-year-old daughter of Speightstown, brought a top bid of $1,075,000 at the July 14 Fasig-Tipton Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age sale in Lexington, the highest figure paid at the central Kentucky auction. Three Chimneys Farm, with Chris Baker signing the ticket, was the winning bidder for the filly, who was part […]