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Speightown’s Seek Again, making both his graded stakes and U.S. debut, found his best stride in deep stretch en route to a length and a half victory in Sunday’s $251,000 Hollywood Derby (G1). The Juddmonte Farms homebred was coming off a win in the Coral Mobile S. Oct. 12 at York, in Great Britain. Breaking well […]

Speightstown’s up-and-coming 2-year-old filly Bajan registered her second straight stakes win on Saturday with a widening 2 1/4-length win in the $100,000 Moccasin S. at Hollywood Park (VIDEO). The bay filly trained by Simon Callaghan took the $75,000 Anoakia S. last month at Santa Anita Park. Speightstown’s 21 stakes winners have accounted for 32 stakes […]

With five starters in this year’s Breeders’ Cup championship, Speightstown, the nation’s second leading sire, is poised to take over the top spot after the Nov. 1-2 races at Santa Anita Park. Speightstown’s hand is particularly strong in the $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) on Saturday, with a trio of starters in the 12-horse […]

Speightstown’s 2-year-old son Coastline took the inaugural running of the $61,800 Street Sense S. by a widening three lengths Sunday at Churchill Downs (VIDEO). With Recepta’s win in the $100,000 Chelsea Flower S. earlier in the day at Belmont Park, Speightstown brought his total number of 2013 stakes winners to 22. Speightstown leads all sires […]

A swift move early in the stretch carried Speightstown’s 2-year-old daughter Recepta to a decisive win in the $100,000 Chelsea Flower S. on Sunday at Belmont Park (VIDEO). Earlier on Sunday, Speightstown’s two-year-old son Coastline took the $61,800 Street Sense S. at Churchill Downs, giving their sire three juvenile stakes winners this year. With $9.7 […]

Bajan, making her first dirt start, took to the new surface en route to a 2 1/4-length victory in the $70,000 Anokia S. Sunday on Santa Anita’s main track. Bajan is Speightstown’s 19th stakes winner of 2013, and pushed his progeny over the $9.5 million mark, both second-best on the General Sire list. Trained by […]

Speightstown’s speedy sprinter Sum of the Parts became the first horse in over 30 years to record consecutive victories with a win Friday in Keeneland’s $200,000 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix S. (G3), earning the colt an automatic berth into the $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Xpressbet Sprint (G1) next month at Santa Anita Park. Sum of […]

The nation’s leading sire Speightstown got his 18th stakes winner of 2013 on Sunday when Wine Police triumphed by three-quarters of a length in the $150,000 Remington Park Sprint Cup. Five-year-old Wine Police won the $75,000 Distorted Humor S. at Saratoga in 2011 and also placed in the Grade 1 Hopeful S. as a 2-year-old. […]

Big Screen broke into the ranks of stakes winners with head victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Who’s to Pay S. at Belmont, giving Speightstown’s 16 stakes winners 25 black-type victories, most of any North American sire. Speightstown also leads the General Sire list with $8.66 million in progeny earnings. Big Screen definitely earned his win, as […]

Back Forty collected his first career stakes win Wednesday in the $50,000 Damitrius S. at Delaware Park (VIDEO), giving Speightstown his 15th stakes winner this year, a group that has garnered 24 stakes wins in 2013. Speightstown is also the only North American sire with 2013 progeny earnings in excess of $8 million. Back Forty […]