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Monday, May 23, 2022

William A. Branch’s Carotari, unraced since late December, made a triumphant return to competition with a front-running 1 ½-length score in Saturday’s $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint at historic Pimlico Race Course. Trained by Brian Lynch and ridden by Luis Saez, Carotari is a graduate of the renowned Hidden Brook Florida training center. A gelded […]

Thursday, April 21, 2022

There were plenty of fireworks at the 2022 OBS April Two-Year-Old in Training sale, including Hip 11, a $600,000 Justify colt consigned by Hidden Brook Farm. Famed bloodstock agent Gary Young picked out the colt and signed the ticket for Zedan stable. Like his Triple Crown champion sire, the flashy chestnut will be trained by […]

Monday, March 28, 2022

Yo Cuz remains impossible to catch in New York-bred stakes for 3-year-old fillies. In the March 27 $100,000 East View Stakes at seven furlongs at Aqueduct, Yo Cuz set a moderate pace and quickly pulled clear on the turn to easily beat five rivals for her third consecutive stakes win. Ridden by Jose Ortiz, Yo […]

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Hidden Brook Farm and Joseph and Anne McMahon’s Bank Sting made her open company debut a winning one in Sunday’s $125,000 Heavenly Prize Invitational, a one-mile test for fillies and mares 4-years-old and up at Aqueduct Racetrack. Bred in New York by McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, Bank Sting earned $68,750 for her victory to boost […]

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Dream Maker Racing’s Yo Cuz overcame an outward start to earn her second career stakes win in Monday’s $100,000 Maddie May, a one-mile test for New York-bred sophomore fillies. Bred in New York by Seidman Stables, Yo Cuz improved her record to 3-2-0-0 and banked $55,000 in victory, boosting her total career earnings to $332,800. […]

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Keystone Racing’s Miss Mosaic ended her first career on a high note Jan. 22, with a determined victory in the $150,000 American Beauty Stakes at Oaklawn Park. The 6-year-old daughter of Verrazano, a half sister to grade 1 winner Miss Temple City, made her 19th start and secured black type for the first time under jockey David Cabrera before heading […]

Monday, January 3, 2022

Hidden Brook Farm and Joseph and Anne McMahon’s Bank Sting secured her third career stakes win with a gutsy performance in the $97,000 La Verdad Stakes, battling back to defeat Eloquent Speaker by a neck on a muddy (sealed) track at Aqueduct Racetrack. Bank Sting, also a graduate of the famed Hidden Brook Florida training center, now boasts earnings […]

Saturday, January 1, 2022

As a group 1-winning millionaire, Extravagant Kid brought the longest list of accomplishments into the $100,000 Janus Stakes Dec. 31 at Gulfstream Park, but Carotari brought the speed, and that quickness proved too much for Extravagant Kid and six other grass sprinters. Taking charge into the turn of the five-furlong turf dash, William Branch’s Carotari opened up breathing room on the […]

Sunday, December 19, 2021

Dream Maker Racing’s Yo Cuz made every pole a winning one in Saturday’s $500,000 Fifth Avenue division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series, a seven-furlong sprint for eligible New York-sired juvenile fillies, at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y. Trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, the Laoban bay, who entered from a debut […]

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Hidden Brook Farm’s and Joseph and Anne McMahon’s Bank Sting opened up in the stretch to easily take down the first of two New York Stallion Series Stakes on Sunday’s card at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y., earning her second career stakes win in the $150,000 Staten Island division for eligible state-sired fillies and […]