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Legacy Bloodstock Sales grads cleaned up in big races around the U. S. over the first weekend in June, winning or placing in 8 Stakes races. Keeneland September grad Silent Rule got things started on June 6, rolling to victory in the $100,000 Best of Ohio Diana Stakes. Bred by Joe Cowles T/C Stables, the […]

In a performance that might signal a changing of the guard in the Buckeye State’s distaff ranks, Silent Rule bested reigning Ohio-bred horse of the year Generous Lover by four lengths in the $100,000 Best of Ohio Diana Stakes on Friday’s state showcase card at Belterra Park in Cincinnati. Silent Rule ($3) remained unbeaten in […]

River Thames, sold by Legacy Bloodstock at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton New York Bred Yearling Sale, finished third in the $1,250,000 Blue Grass S. (G1) on April 8 to secure enough points for a spot in the starting gate for the 151st Kentucky Derby. After a ‘TDN Rising Star’ debut on January 11 and an equally […]

Keeneland September grad Too Much Action stormed to the lead at the top of the lane and never looked back in the $75,000 Spirit of Texas Stakes on Saturday, March 22 at Sam Houston. Bred by Mike Rutherford, Too Much Action secured his 9th lifetime win and second black type victory, pushing his career earnings […]

Vanderbilt took the lion’s share of the pari-mutuel action in Saturday’s fourth race from Gulfstream Park and jumped as the 4-5 chalk, but New York-bred River Thames proved the fly in the ointment, turning in a flawless debut performance to be named the newest ‘TDN Rising Star’. The clearest betting alternative to Vanderbilt at odds of 29-10, the […]

Silent Rule took her record to a perfect three-for-three with a front-running victory in the First Lady Stakes at Mahoning Valley Monday. Bred by T/C Stables LLC out of the Candy Ride mare Modern Lady, Silent Rule was sold by Legacy Bloodstock at the 2022 Keeneland September sale. She’s the 17th Stakes-winning Legacy Bloodstock sales […]

The Boersma family’s Flying Dutchmen missed out on buying graded-stakes winner Slammed, who sold for $1.1 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale Monday, but the operation was still able to get in the family when purchasing that mare’s half-sister Smash Ticket (hip 383) for a Session-Topping $600,000 out of the Legacy Bloodstock consignment Wednesday at […]

A pair of 2023 Legacy Bloodstock yearling grads scored in Stakes over the last weekend in October, while the promising 3-year-old Stakes winner Uno Mas Bourbon aquitted himself well in his first try versus older Graded Stakes company. On Friday, October 25 at Santa Anita, Silent Law broke like a shot, sped through quick fractions […]

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – John Velazquez thought his best chance for success in Friday’s $135,000 Carle Place Stakes was to have his horse in a forward position. He had a more-than-willing partner in Run Carson. Sent to the front out of the gate by Velazquez, Run Carson ran fast fractions early – he went the half-mile in […]

Spendthrift Farm‘s first-crop stallion Authentic was represented by his first stakes winner Oct. 12 when the 2-year-old filly Power Connection defeated the boys in the $60,000 Manzano Stakes at The Downs at Albuquerque. Out of the Officer mare Lady Leftennant, the dark bay or brown filly was bred in Kentucky by longtime Legacy Bloodstock client Scott Pierce. She was sold […]