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Halo Again forged his way past Golden Wave in the final furlong of the $125,000 Queenston S. to register a 1 1/4-length victory in the seven-furlong contest for 3-year-olds on July 4 at Woodbine. The Speightstown colt won the $225,000 Coronation S. over the same track in November and is now 3-0-0 in five starts […]

Victim of Love earned her first graded stakes win in the Vagrancy H. (G3) at Belmont Park, forging her way through a driving rainstorm to defeat Come Dancing by 1 3/4-lengths. The 4-year-old filly was a two-time listed winner before Saturday’s score. She is Speightstown’s 55th lifetime graded winner and one of his five graded […]

San Huberto (IRE) added to Speightstown’s stellar list of 2020 graded stakes winners with a half-length victory in the Prix Vicomtesse Vigier (G2) June 14 at Chantilly Racecourse in France. The 4-year-old colt joins the likes of Charlatan, Mozu Superflare and Flagstaff, who have all collected graded wins this year. In addition, last year’s Breeders’ […]

Speightstown’s Sharing made a triumphant return to the races in Saturday’s $100,000 Tepin S. at Churchill Downs, her first start since taking the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) last November. Sharing got away well in the field of 13 3-year-old fillies going one mile, tracking in fourth through the first half-mile in :48.39. Given […]

Charlatan’s superlative six-length victory in Saturday’s $500,000 Arkansas Derby (G1) stamped the undefeated son of Speightstown as a leading contender for this year’s Kentucky Derby (G1). The chestnut colt, who cost $700,000 as a yearling, is the 18th Grade 1 winner for his sire and second this year, along with Mozu Superflare. Speightstown is the […]

Mozu Superflare’s thrilling win in Saturday’s Takamatsunomiya Kinen at Chukyo in Japan gave Speightstown his 17th worldwide Grade 1 winner, this one in front-running style in 1,200 meter contest for fillies and mares. The 5-year-old made the most of her first start since last September, when she was second in the Grade 1 Sprinters S. […]

Flagstaff struck the front in the final furlong of Saturday’s $200,000 San Carlos S. (G2) at Santa Anita Park en route to a 1 1/4-length victory in the seven furlong contest. Second in the Palos Verdes S. (G2) in late January, Flagstaff is Speightstown’s 52nd lifetime graded stakes winner. The venerable WinStar stallion is once […]

Full Flat took over the lead at the quarter-pole en route to a 2 1/2-length win in Saturday’s inaugural Saudi Derby Cup Saturday in Saudi Arabia. The 3-year-old son of Speightstown broke his maiden in his home base of Japan before finishing a credible fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1). Bred in Kentucky by […]

Charlatan certainly didn’t disappoint in his much anticipated debut Feb. 16 at Santa Anita Park, rolling to a six-length victory in a very quick 1:08.85 for the six furlongs (VIDEO). In addition to earning a TDN Rising Star tag, the 17th such for Speightstown, the 3-year-old colt earned gaudy 105 Beyer Speed Figure, the second-highest […]

Sharing, winner of the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) in November, was named the top Midlantic-bred of 2019 by voters in the Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/The Racing Biz Top Midlantic-bred Poll. The Speightstown filly also won the $200,000 Selima S. at Laurel Park and a Saratoga maiden special weight by 6 1/4-lengths in August. […]