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Sunday, January 22, 2023

Michael Scheffres’ multiple grade 3-placed Factor It In continued his career-best form Jan. 21 at Laurel Park by cruising to his third stakes victory in his past five starts, a two-length triumph in the $100,000 Fire Plug Stakes. With Angel Cruz up for trainer Carlos Mancilla, Factor It In covered the distance in 1:18.01 on […]

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Hidden Brook Florida grad Factor It In captured 19th running of the Dave’s Friend for 3-year-olds and up sprinting six furlongs was among six $100,000 stakes on a Christmastide Day rescheduled from Dec. 26. Factor It In ($6), trained by Carlos Mancilla, covered the distance in 1:10.65 over a fast main track to give jockey Angel […]

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 […]