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Sharp Aza Tack took his show across the country Saturday and couldn’t have been any more impressive while becoming the second stakes winner for his fast-starting freshman sire Sharp Azteca in Monmouth’s Tyro Stakes. Having belied 12-1 odds when scoring first out on the Santa Anita sod June 10, he was no secret this time around […]

Brewhouse backed up a dominant debut win with a stakes victory Saturday night when she edged She’s My Warrior by a neck in the Frances Genter at Canterbury Park. The race for 3-year-old fillies was one of four stakes on the card. Brewhouse ($6) was a 5 3/4-length winner of a maiden special weight on July […]

Under a heady ride from jockey Jose Ortiz, Paradise Farms Corp. and David Staudacher’s well-traveled Temple broke through with his first graded-stakes victory and gave trainer Mike Maker a piece of history in the March 5 $200,000 Mac Diarmida Stakes (G2T) at Gulfstream Park. Temple was bred in Kentucky by Mark Toothaker and Dan White. […]

After Joey Platts bought a yearling daughter of Into Mischief from Legacy Bloodstock at the 2020 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, he kept sending in names and getting them rejected. “I was sitting there and I said, ‘This ain’t easy,’ and there it was, Ain’t Easy,” Platts said. “And then I got to thinking about it; […]

Legacy Bloodstock kicked off their 2021 Keeneland September consignment with a bang, selling nine of the first 10 hips offered, including a striking colt by City of Light that brought a final bid of $710,000. Bred by T/C Stable out of the stakes-winning and stakes-producing Forest Wildcat daughter Fallseed, the colt is from the first […]

When the entries were drawn for the $600,000 Charles Town Classic Stakes (G2) at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, only one horse in the field was without a rider. Thumbs Up Racing’s Sleepy Eyes Todd rewarded the faith of Carlos Delgado, who jumped aboard for the 11th-hour assignment, with a front-running victory Aug. 28 in the […]

A 10-length winner of her Belmont unveiling as the 2-5 pick May 20, Miss Alacrity preserved her unbeaten record with a first stakes triumph in her first try on grass in the Colleen S. at Monmouth Park on August 1. Once again the crowd’s pick but at slightly higher odds, the chestnut battled with two rivals to […]

The July 17 “Arlington Million Preview Day” succeeded in many respects—drawing a big crowd to the track amid perfect weather, rewarding one of the track’s most successful trainers and another working his way up and identifying a likely candidate for the grade 1 races there Aug. 14. Naval Laughter scored in the $100,000 Modesty Stakes (G3T), […]

Excellent Timing gave part-owner Michael Dubb an early birthday present Sunday while giving him, his fellow owners and trainer Chad Brown a lot to ponder as winter turns into spring. In his first start for Dubb, Sol Kumin’s Madaket Stables, and Marc and Joe Lore’s Wonder Stable following a private purchase last December, Excellent Timing cruised […]

New York has its own road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), but it seems to be running through Bensalem, Pa. A second straight Kentucky Derby qualifying points race in New York went to a Parx Racing-based runner Jan. 1 as Bing Cherry Racing and Leonard Liberto’s Capo Kane cruised on the front end […]