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Monday, December 5, 2022

Winchell Thoroughbreds and Willis Horton Racing’s millionaire New York-bred Bankit added a seventh stakes score to his impressive resume when he stalked and pounced to an open-length victory in Sunday’s $125,000 NYSSS Thunder Rumble for eligible state-sired 3-year-olds and up sprinting seven furlongs at Aqueduct Racetrack. Trained by Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen, the 6-year-old […]

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

In the Stewart Manor S. on Breeders´ Cup Saturday at Aqueduct, Moonage Daydream set fractions of 22.30 seconds for the opening quarter and 44.66 for the half-mile. In the stretch she turned back a bid from Redifined, and went on to a 1 1/4-length win over that one. It was another neck back in third […]

Monday, October 24, 2022

Evvie Jets and trainer Mertkan Kantarmaci both notched defining wins Saturday when Evvie Jets darted to a 1 1/4-length victory over Plum Ali in the Grade 3, $150,000 Noble Damsel at Belmont at Aqueduct. It was the first stakes win for Evvie Jets and the first stakes victory in the United States for Kantarmaci. The 4-year-old […]

Monday, October 10, 2022

Trainer Bob Baffert unveiled yet another potential superstar Sunday at Santa Anita in the form of Zedan Racing Stables Inc.’s $600,000 OBSAPR acquisition Arabian Lion. Sold by Hidden Brook Farm, the colt by Triple Crown hero Justify was also prepared for his :10 flat sale breeze at the famed Hidden Brook Florida training facility and […]

Favored Philip My Dear used his patented stretch kick to beat a solid group of Canadian-bred 2-year-olds on Sunday in the 85th running of the $251,600 Cup and Saucer Stakes at Woodbine. A son of Silent Name, Philip My Dear earned $150,000 in his second stakes success for Raroma Stable. He captured the Soaring Free […]

Monday, October 3, 2022

Owner Michael Scheffres got his first stakes win, when Factor It In won the Challedon Stakes at Laurel Park by 2 3/4 lengths. Under Jorge Ruiz, the gray 6-year-old rated off the pace towards the inside, then split horses as they entered the stretch. He overhauled early leader Backnthewoods in the last eighth and drew […]

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Lightning finally struck for John D. Gunther and Tanya Gunther’s Love And Thunder (Ire), who captured her first graded stakes win with a last-to-first move, storming down the stretch to collar pacesetter Evvie Jets in the Athenia Stakes (G3) going 1 1/8 miles on the inner turf at the Belmont at the Big A fall […]

Thursday, September 8, 2022

Sendero became the second stakes winner and seventh winner overall for his freshman sire City of Light with a maiden-breaking victory in the $125,000 Jamestown S. at Colonial Downs. Sent off the 1-5 favorite, the bay colt was hustled out of the gate and rushed up to press the pace four wide down the backstretch […]

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Carpenters Call sat mid pack in the early stages of the $100,000 Peach Tree Stakes at Presque Isle Downs before surging to the lead and rolling on to a 1 1/4 length tally. The favored son of WinStar Farm´s Tourist earned a 113 Equibase Speed figure for the sterling effort, his 7th straight double-digit figure. […]

Monday, August 22, 2022

The Queen’s Plate is a race known for its great performances by fillies, and on Sunday at Woodbine, Moira put herself in the upper echelon of that list, winning the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown in track-record time. Moira was bred in Ontario by Adena Springs, out of the Unbridled’s Song mare Devine […]