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Speightstown’s speedy 4-year-old filly Dance to Bristol was an easy winner in Friday’s $100,000 Skipat S. at Pimlico Race Course. The 4 3/4-length victory was her fourth straight and also her fourth lifetime stakes score. The prohibitive 3-5 favorite, Dance to Bristol tracked the leaders in third for the better part of a half mile, […]

Speightstown’s Grade 1 winner Golden Ticket scored a sharp victory in the May 2 feature race at Churchill Downs, covering the one-mile in a lively 1:34.56 to win by 2 ½ lengths. A dead-heat winner of last year’s $1 million Travers S. (G1), Golden Ticket took Thursday’s money allowance race with a three-wide move on […]

Munnings Sister gave Speightstown his second stakes winner in as many days with a half-length victory in Sunday’s $85,000 Gold Princess S. at Belmont Park. Essence Hit Man was victorious one day earlier at Woodbine in the Jacques Cartier S. for his sire, who now has six stakes winners accounting for seven added-money victories in […]

Speightstown’s venerable sprinter Essence Hit Man won the $169,200 Jacques Cartier S. for the third straight year Saturday at Woodbine. The winner was recently named Canada’s champion sprinter for the second year in a row. Trained by Sylvain Pion and ridden by Jesse Campbell for owners A&G Racing Stable, Essence Hit Man came out of […]

Dance to Bristol was in top form Saturday night at Charles Town Races, running away to a facile nine length victory in the $200,000 Sugar Maple S. (VIDEO). The 4-year-old filly was the second stakes winner of the night for her sire Speightstown, coming just one race after Fearsome took the $50,000 Charles Town Dash. […]

For the second straight year Speightstown’s Canadian sprint star Essence Hit Man was named the Sovereign Award winner in male sprint division at the awards ceremony held April 19 at Woodbine Racecourse. Essence Hit Man was his usual stellar self last season, winning three of six starts and earning $379,357. All three of his stakes […]

Fearsome’s three-length win in the $50,000 Charles Town Dash H. on Saturday night kicked off a stakes daily double for his sire Speightstown. Dance to Bristol came home an easy winner about a half hour later in the $200,000 Sugar Maple S. at the West Virginia oval. Four-year-old Fearsome wasted little time asserting himself in […]

Speightstown, America’s second-leading sire of 2013, got another stakes winner on Thursday at Aqueduct when Burban took the $75,000 Break Through S. for her first career added-money victory (VIDEO). At the outset of the six-furlong Break Through, Burban chased pacesetter D’princess down the backstretch in the two path, came to even terms without urging just […]

Reynaldothewizard held off the fast-closing Balmont Mast to win the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) by a quarter of a length on Saturday at Meydan Racecourse, giving the son of Speightstown his second graded stakes win of the month. The 7-year-old, ridden by Richard Mullen, was fastest out of the gate but took back […]

Speightstown will have six runners in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Championships at Santa Anita Park, with all six running on Saturday in three different races. Already the nation’s second-leading sire with progeny earnings of $8,734,797, Speightstown could wind up in the top spot after the Breeders’ Cup wraps up on Nov. 3. The WinStar stallion […]