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Echo Town capped off a big Saturday for Speightstown that also included the stakes winners Victim of Love and Bobby’s Wicked One both getting their second career black type victories. Echo Town, a 3-year-old colt owned by L and N Racing LLC, was making his debut in Saturday’s six-furlong maiden special weight race at Fair […]

Victim of Love became one of Speightstown’s two stakes winners on Saturday when she defeated multiple stakes winner Needs Supervision by nearly four lengths in the $100,000 What A Summer S. at Laurel Park.  Saturday’s win was the second stakes victory for the 4-year-old filly. She sports a record of 4-1-2 from 12 outings, with […]

Bobby’s Wicked One started 2020 like he ended 2019, with a stakes win at Fair Grounds. His 2020 debut came in Saturday’s $100,000 Duncan F. Kenner S., and the now 5-year-old cruised to a front-running, 4 1/4-length victory. Winner of the Commonwealth S. (G3) at Keeneland last spring and the Thanksgiving Classic in November, Bobby’s […]

Speightstown’s 3-year-old colt Performer joined the ranks of graded stakes winners Saturday with a hard-fought victory over multiple graded winner Tax in the $200,000 Discovery S. (G3) at Aqueduct.  Performer is Speightstown’s seventh graded stakes winner this year and his 52nd lifetime graded stakes winner. Performer’s win pushed his sire’s lifetime progeny earnings past the […]

Speightstown’s graded stakes winner Bobby’s Wicked One scored a three-length victory Thursday at Fair Grounds Racecourse when he took down the traditional opening day $100,000 Thanksgiving Classic in front-running style (VIDEO). Winner of Keeneland’s Commonwealth S. (G3) in April, when he earned a 100 Beyer Speed Figure, the 4-year-old chestnut duplicated that number in Thursday’s […]

Halo Again surged to the front in the final sixteenth of the 1 1/8-mile Coronation Futurity at Woodbine to score by a head over Malibu Mambo in the first stakes start for the 2-year-old Speightstown colt. Winner of his debut Oct. 27 at Churchill Downs, the $600,000 yearling purchase is now perfect in two starts […]

Speightstown’s hard-luck son Flagstaff got the best of Grade 1 winner Roadster in Saturday’s $100,000 Damascus S. at Santa Anita Park, winning the seven-furlong contest by a nose for his first stakes victory. The lightly-raced dark bay has been worse than third only once in nine starts, was most recently third in the Santa Anita […]

With a total of five entries in as many races in the Nov. 1-2 Breeders’ Cup, Speightstown has a big chance to collect his second Breeders’ Cup winner. Friday’s card features the 2-year-olds, and Speightstown has three youngsters vying for championship honors. Cambria, in the Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) at 1:12 p.m. PT, was unlucky […]

Speightstown had one of the top colts during Wednesday’s session of the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings sale when Frank Brothers, agent for Starlight Farm, went to $300,000 for hip No. 1018. Consigned by Summerfield on behalf of Stonestreet Bred and Raised, the colt is out of the stakes-placed Kafwain mare Peggy Jane and is from […]

Sharing’s authoritative score in Saturday’s $200,000 Selima S. set the 2-year-old Speightstown filly up for a possible run in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) Nov. 1 at Santa Anita Park. Ridden with confidence by Manny Franco, Sharing was parked in third just outside the leaders for most of the 1 1/16-mile trip. Franco […]