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Icona Mama earned her first stakes win in dominating fashion Nov. 27 at Penn National as the 2-year-old filly scampered to a 9 ½-length win in the $100,000 Shamrock Rose S. [WATCH RACE] The bay juvenile is one of eight stakes winners this year for Maximus Mischief. With 16… Read More

Printer’s Alley relished stretching out to two turns Sunday at Gulfstream Park as the 2-year-old Thousand Words colt came home a half-length winner in the one mile and 70-yard maiden special weight contest. Thousand Words, a top-five First-Crop sire, now has a total of 17 individual winners and five stakes… Read More

With the Angels kept her record intact after scoring a two-length victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Key Cent S. at Aqueduct. The 2-year-old daughter of leading Second-Crop sire Omaha Beach has won all four of her starts, three of them in stakes, by a combined 26 ½-lengths. Unlike her three prior… Read More

With two new winners and a pair of new stakes horses over the weekend, Vekoma has made his way to the top of the 2024 General Sire list. The Spendthrift stallion now has 35 winners, 13 stakes horses and $2,433,391 in progeny earnings, all tops among his peers. He is… Read More

Cool Intentions streaked to a four-length maiden special weight win Nov. 16 at Gulfstream Park to become the 19th overall winner for top-10 First-Crop sire Authentic. The 2-year-old colt was making his second lifetime start, and first beyond six furlongs, in Saturday’s one-mile affair. After sitting patiently in third for… Read More

The ultra-consistent Stormcast, a first-crop daughter of Mitole, won her first graded stakes on November 9th in the Grade 3 Bessarabian Stakes at Woodbine. Already a stakes winner this year, Stormcast has placed in all 8 starts, including three wins and four seconds. Ridden to victory by jockey Rafael… Read More

National Treasure, the three-time Grade 1-winning son of Quality Road, has been retired from racing and will take up residence at Eric & Tamara Gustavson’s Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, KY, where he will stand stud in 2025 for an introductory fee of $40,000 S&N. National Treasure, a classic winner of… Read More

Denim and Pearls will be joining her sire Into Mischief as part of Spendthrift’s broodmare band after she was purchased by the farm for $2.8 million Monday at the Fasig-Tipton November sale. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for owner Red White and Blue Racing LLC, the 3-year-old filly… Read More

Champion Jackie’s Warrior’s first foals offered at auction drew high praise and robust bidding Monday evening at the Fasig-Tipton November sale, with all nine lots offered selling for an average of $173,333, the highest average price for any First-Crop sire with multiple lots sold. Five of the nine weanlings brought… Read More

Into Mischief has now accounted for the winners of eight Breeders’ Cup races following Citizen Bull’s scintillating victory in Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) at Del Mar. Into Mischief is now tied with Curlin for the most wins in the 41-year history of the championship event. Citizen Bull… Read More

Leading Second-Crop sire Omaha Beach tallied his tenth stakes winner of the year Friday at Aqueduct when Warheart went gate-to-wire in the $135,000 Atlantic Beach S. The 2-year-old broke on top from his outside post position in the field of eight and never looked back in the six-furlong contest. He… Read More

Raging Torrent, winner of three straight races, will put his winning streak on the line in Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Del Mar. The 3-year-old son of Maximus Mischief won his most recent start, the Pat O’Brien S. (G2) Aug. 24 at Del Mar. His first stakes… Read More