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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 […]

He’s raced at Fonner Park, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races, Canterbury Park, and Remington Park, to name some of the 11 racetracks he has visited in a 15-race career. He’s been tested at 6 1/2 furlongs, 1 1/8 miles, and 1 1/2 miles on turf. And after a little more than two years of […]

There is no trainer more thankful than Ray Ashford that the turf course was shut down by Remington Park when it was this fall. After that, he sent Dipping In to the main dirt surface here and she went 2-for-2, including a win in the $70,000 Useeit Stakes on Friday, December 18, her first black-type victory. This stakes triumph […]

WinStar Farm and China Horse Club Inc.’s debuting Prime Factor, a $900,000 purchase out of the Legacy Bloodstock consignment at the 2019 Keeneland September yearling sale – the joint-second priciest Quality Road yearling to sell that year – was off as the 21-10 second choice and turned his first trip to the post into a one-horse affair en […]

Favored Sleepy Eyes Todd rallied under Joel Rosario and knifed his way through stretch traffic to post a 1 1/2-length victory over True Timber. Edgemont Road was third. The winner, a 4-year-old son of Paddy O’Prado owned by Thumbs Up Racing and trained by Miguel Angel Silva, raced seven furlongs in 1:21.77. The son o Bred in Kentucky […]