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Dance to Bristol earned her seventh straight victory on Friday and first in a Grade 1, winning the $500,000 Ballerina S. by a head at Saratoga. The winner’s purse of $300,000 put Speightstown at nearly $7.8 million in progeny earnings in 2013, tops among all North American sires. His 12 stakes winners have now won […]

Speightstown had the second-highest priced seller overall at the Aug. 10-11 Saratoga New York Bred Preferred Yearling sale when a winning bid of $300,000 was placed by Cheyenne Stables for hip No. 392. Speightstown also finished the auction with the second-best average sale price for all sires. Consigned by Indian Creek, agent, the filly is […]

A deft move between horses inside the eighth pole sent Dance to Bristol to the front in the final strides to win the $200,000 Honorable Miss H. (G2) by a neck Monday at Saratoga. The victory was the sixth straight for the 4-year-old daughter of Speightstown, who vaulted to the top of the 2013 General […]

Lighthouse Bay’s half-length score in the $300,000 Prioress S. (G1) at Saratoga gave Speightstown his eighth Grade 1 winner, 20th Graded stakes winner, from his first five crops. The victory was the third career added-money score for Lighthouse Bay, but was the first graded win for the 3-year-old filly. Speightstown’s excellent year has put him […]

Speightstown ‘s multiple Champion son Essence Hit Man continued his hit parade of stakes victories, winning his 10th career stakes in the $162,000 Bold Venture S. (G3) on July 17 at Woodbine. Essence Hit Man also earned the 17th stakes victory of this season for Champion Speightstown, who currently reigns as Kentucky’s second leading sire. […]

Eastwood, an undefeated 3-year-old Speightstown colt, sold for $800,000 at the inaugural Fasig-Tipton Summer Selected Horses of Racing Age sale held July 15 in central Kentucky. The figure was the second-best of the prestigious auction, and the highest price paid for a colt. Bred in Kentucky by Fred W. Hertrich III, Eastwood was consigned as […]

Speightstown’s Delegation collected his second career stakes win in Monday’s $150,000 Dominion Day S. (G3) at Woodbine, setting a track record of 2:01.51 for the mile and one-quarter in the process. Delegation is the third stakes winner in four days for Speightstown, who now has 10 stakes winners accounting for 15 added-money victories in 2013. […]

She’s Happy (ARG), a 4-year-old Speightstown filly, showed tremendous heart in the late stages of the Group 1 Estrellas Sprint Grand Prix at San Isidro Racetrack in Argentina on Saturday evening, forging clear in the final 100 yards to win the prestigious race by about two lengths. The Carreras de las Estrellas card at San […]

A dual stakes winner in 2012, Speightstown’s 3-year-old colt Weekend Hideaway made it stakes win number three on Friday at Belmont Park with an impressive 4 3/4-length victory in the $100,000 Gone Fishin S. Sent off the 7-5 favorite in the six furlong turf contest, Weekend Hideaway asserted his authority right from the start. He […]

Burban, a 5-year-old Speightstown mare, galloped to her second stakes win of 2013 on Saturday night with a front-running 3 1/4-length score in the $65,111 Roxelana S. at Churchill Downs. With $5.46 million in progeny earnings this year, Speightstown ranks third on the General Sire list. His runners have accounted for 89 wins and 13 […]