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Yaupon, the top-ranked sire on the 2025 First-Crop sire list, now has a half-dozen individual winners after Bonsai Warrior and Sav’n Money both tallied maiden special weight wins on July 13th. First-time starter Bonsai Warrior earned his victory at Monmouth Park in a five-furlong affair, closing strongly in the stretch… Read More

Andrea fought off a stiff challenge from Nerazurri to earn her first stakes win in Saturday’s $75,000 Azalea S. at Gulfstream Park. The 3-year-old Thousand Words filly, who was second in the May 31st Game Face S. over the same surface, proved best in Saturday’s seven-furlong contest with a stalking… Read More

Sugaree rallied strongly in the stretch to become the first winner for Spendthrift Farm’s By My Standards on July 12 at Monmouth Park in a 5 ½-furlong maiden race for 2-year-old fillies [WATCH RACE]. Away in midpack in the field of eight, Sugaree was in the three path going… Read More

Dr. Agne, a son of champion Lady Eli by six-time champion sire Into Mischief, lived up to lofty expectations in his debut on July 11 at Saratoga, winning a seven-furlong “off the turf” maiden special weight affair with an impressive stretch run. The 2-year-old colt was named a TDN ‘Rising… Read More

When Cyberknife’s hip No. 259 hammered for $330,000 at the Fasig-Tipton’s July sale on Tuesday afternoon, it would be the highest price of the auction paid for any offspring of a First-Crop sire during the one-day auction. With four lots selling for at least six figures and an overall average… Read More

Champion sire Jackie’s Warrior, whose first crop are yearlings of 2025, had the top filly by a freshman sire and one of the top five highest-priced lots Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton July sale. Consigned by Gainesway, agent, hip No. 85 went to Ciannello Bloodstock Services for $310,000. The bay filly… Read More

Top-five First-Crop sire Rock Your World’s first offering at the Fasig-Tipton July sale in central Kentucky brought a winning bid of $180,000 from Ken McPeek, agent. Consigned by Warrendale Sales, agent and catalogued as hip No. 106, the dark bay colt is out of the Speightstown mare Private Estate, also… Read More

Creed’s Gold, a 4-year-old daughter of Jimmy Creed, was much the best in the $150,000 Hendrie S. (G3) Saturday at Woodbine, rolling to a 3 ¾-length win for her first stakes victory. The flashy chestnut filly is the 24th lifetime stakes winner for Jimmy Creed, as well as being his… Read More

Glengarry led at every point of call en route to a 1 ½-length victory in the $100,000 Iowa Sprint S. at Prairie Meadows. The 4-year-old son of Maximus Mischief, who has finished first or second in all five of his starts this year, won the Ed Skinner S. last month… Read More

Sassy C W dug in late to win the $100,000 Prairie Gold Lassie S. on July 4 at Prairie Meadows to run her record to a perfect three-for-three. The 2-year-old daughter of Yaupon, who was named a TDN Rising Star following her debut win April 30 at Churchill Downs, subsequently… Read More

Into Mischief tallied a pair of stakes winners on Independence Day, with Bring Theband Home getting his first added-money win in the $150,000 Harvey Pack S. and the veteran Coppola setting a track record in the $100,000 William Garrett H. at Horseshoe Indianapolis. Bring Theband Home, who had made just… Read More

Kingsolver surged past My Sweetheart in deep stretch to win the $150,000 Schuylerville S. on Independence Day at Saratoga. The 2-year-old filly is the ninth stakes winner of 2025 for Omaha Beach, who leads this year’s Third-Crop sire list in almost every category. Coming into the Schuylerville off her fifth-place… Read More