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Arabian Lion, along with fellow Spendthrift Freshman sires Forte and Taiba, had robust results at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton July Selected Yearlings sale on Tuesday in central Kentucky. Leading the way for Arabian Lion was hip No. 77, a filly consigned by Gainesway, agent and purchased for $270,000 by Baccari Bloodstock and… Read More

Champion Forte’s 2026 live yearling auction season got off to a strong start July 14 at the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings sale when hip No. 161 sold for $280,000 to Offshoot Farm. The Warrendale Sales, agent consignee would finish as the second highest-price filly, and the second highest price of either… Read More

Three-time Grade 1 winner Taiba topped all First-Crop sires at the Fasig-Tipton July Select Yearlings sale on Tuesday with a $300,000 colt from the Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for Don Alberto Corporation consignment. Purchased by Taproot Bloodstock’s Phil Hager, hip No. 36 wound up as the co-third highest price… Read More

Vekoma’s hip No. 135 brought a winning bid of $600,000 Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton July Select Yearlings sale, which would ultimately prove to be the top price paid during the one-day auction in central Kentucky. Vekoma was also responsible for the third-highest price of the day when hip No. 219… Read More

B Yutifil Carly flew through the Saratoga stretch to tally a stunning come-from-behind maiden special weight win on Saturday afternoon at the historical oval. The 2-year-old filly is the second winner this week for First-Crop sire Greatest Honour, whose 2026 fee is $7,500 S&N. After a very tardy start in… Read More

With a big late move coming into the stretch, In the Stars rolled to a two-length win in Saturday’s Indiana General Assembly Distaff H. at Horseshoe Indianapolis. The victory was the first stakes score of the 4-year-old daughter of Into Mischief, who now has a nation’s-best 19 stakes winners in… Read More

Spendthrift Farm’s four freshman sires: Arabian Lion, Forte, Taiba and Zandon, will all be represented by their first yearlings at auction in next Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton July sale. The quartet has a total of 19 lots catalogued in the one-day sale, with four for Forte and Taiba, five for Zandon and… Read More

Vekoma, the nation’s leading Third-Crop sire, got his 11th stakes winner of 2026 Friday evening at Prairie Meadows when Wild Vekoma rallied late to win the $100,000 Prairie Gold Lassie S. The 2-year-old filly was making her stakes debut after breaking her maiden in her first lifetime start June 20,… Read More

Sippin Pretty surged past Goodall in the final sixteenth to win Friday’s Victory Ride S. (G3) by 1 ¼-lengths and complete a Yaupon-sired exact in the 6 ½-furlong sprint for 3-year-old fillies. Sippin Pretty is one of three graded stakes winners for leading Second-Crop sire Yaupon. The Spendthrift stallion also… Read More

Multiple Grade 1 winner Cyberknife was represented by his first winner on July 9 at Ellis Park when the 2-year-old filly Velvet Beretta tallied a sharp three-length maiden special weight victory at 5 ½-furlongs on the main track. The chestnut filly, who was making her career debut for trainer Michel… Read More

First-Crop sire Greatest Honour was represented by his first winner on July 6 at Presque Isle Downs when the 2-year-old filly Greatest Joy pounced late to win a five-furlong maiden special weight affair by a widening 1 ¼-lengths [WATCH RACE]. The bay filly, a Divine Light Healing Ministries homebred,… Read More

Mi Bago became the latest graded stakes winner for leading Third-Crop sire Vekoma with his gallant dead-heat victory in Sunday’s Kelso S. (G3) at Saratoga. Vekoma, who has 10 stakes winners this year, now has 12 lifetime graded winners, with five of them coming in 2026, including Hollywood Gold Cup… Read More