Archives

Verifire strutted to a 6 ½-length allowance win in the opening race Friday at Pimlico in what was the second open-length victory in as many starts for the 3-year-old Authentic colt. After winning his March 15 debut by 6 ¼-lengths and being named a TDN ‘Rising Star’ with a 92… Read More

Spendthrift Farm’s Grade 1 winner Rock Your World was represented by his first winner as a sire on May 15 at Churchill Downs when his first starter Color Comin’ In scored a three-length victory in a five-furlong maiden special weight affair for 2-year-old fillies. The impressive performance netted the dark… Read More

Omaha Beach’s 3-year-old colt Freedom’s Not Free tallied his second straight stakes win Sunday at Santa Anita Park with his victory in the $100,000 Cinema S. The dark bay colt won the Pasadena S. over the same turf course two months ago, and is now 3-0-2 in six starts and… Read More

One week after Sovereignty gave Into Mischief his third Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, Love Cervere became her sire’s 10th stakes winner of 2025 with a rousing stretch run to win the $150,000 Take the A Train S. at Aqueduct. Into Mischief now has 174 lifetime stakes winners and over $212… Read More

Mitole’s 3-year-old filly Shisospicy racked up her third win in a row Saturday at Churchill Downs with a near track-record performance in the Mamzelle S. (G3). Going 5 ½-furlongs on the turf, Shisospicy pushed Dreamaway through rapid fractions of :21.72 and :44.03, then with a big kick in the lane,… Read More

One day after Kopion took the Grade 1 Derby City Distaff at Churchill Downs on Derby Day, On Command gave Omaha Beach his second stakes winner of the weekend with a front-running score in the $150,000 License Fee S. at Aqueduct. The 4-year-old filly was making her stakes debut following… Read More

When Sovereignty crossed the finish line first in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby (G1), he became the third Derby winner for Into Mischief, making him just one of five sires, and the first since 1957, to achieve the feat. What is more remarkable is that Into Mischief’s three winners have come in… Read More

Kopion’s powerhouse win in Saturday’s Derby City Distaff (G1) at Churchill Downs gave the 4-year-old Omaha Beach filly her third straight graded stakes win in what was the toughest field she has faced in her career. Kopion is Omaha Beach’s leading earner this year and has helped put him in… Read More

Look Forward got a clean trip over a sealed Churchill Downs surface to win the Eight Belles S. (G2) on Kentucky Oaks Day at the Louisville oval. The 3-year-old daughter of Bolt d’Oro was in post 10 in the 11-horse field going seven furlongs, and after a good break, found… Read More

Sassy C W flew out of the Churchill Downs starting gate in her debut on April 30 and never looked back, rolling to a 5 ¼-length maiden special weight win and earn a TDN ‘Rising Star’ tag. The 2-year-old filly, the first starter for freshman sire Yaupon, got the Spendthrift… Read More

Citizen Bull and Sovereignty will be in opposite ends of the Kentucky Derby (G1) starting gate Saturday at Churchill Downs, when both will attempt to become Into Mischief’s third winner of the Run for the Roses. A victory by either would tie Into Mischief for the all-time record for Derby… Read More

Rodriguez wrapped up his serious Kentucky Derby (G1) preparations on April 27 with a five-furlong work in one minute flat, a sparkling effort that had all who watched, including his trainer Bob Baffert, very impressed. The son of 2020 Kentucky Derby winner Authentic was, “Amazing,” according to his rider Martin… Read More