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Spendthrift Farm has announced the stud fees for its roster of 29 stallions set to stand at the Lexington-based farm for the upcoming 2025 breeding season, once again led by North America’s reigning five-time champion General Sire, Into Mischief, who will stand for $250,000 S&N. “Into Mischief continues to push… Read More

Electric first year sire Vekoma was represented by another stakes winner, It’s Hammertime, in the Rocky Run Stakes at Delaware Park on October 9th, as well as a maiden winner at Keeneland during their exciting opening weekend. Undefeated in three starts, It’s Hammertime was coming into the Rocky Run… Read More

Pali Kitten closed with a fury to out-footed Smash It in the final furlong and win the $100,000 Speakeasy S. by a neck on Oct. 5 at Santa Anita Park. This was the stakes debut for the 2-year-old son of Vino Rosso, who now has a total of 15 stakes… Read More

Citizen Bull stamped his ticket to the Breeders’ Cup with a front-running victory in Saturday’s $300,000 American Pharoah S. (G1) at Santa Anita Park. The 2-year-old Into Mischief colt is the 22nd lifetime Grade 1 winner for his sire, as well as being the second of the day, following Gina… Read More

Gina Romantica won the $750,000 First Lady S. (G1) Saturday at Keeneland to give the 5-year-old daughter to Into Mischief her second straight win in the one-mile turf race. Into Mischief would add a second Grade 1 winner of the day to his 2024 skein when Citizen Bull scored in… Read More

Mi Bago became Vekoma’s third stakes winner from his first crop with a determined victory in Saturday’s $175,000 Algonquin S. at Woodbine. The 2-year-old colt was making his first start on the grass for owner Gary Barber and trainer Mark Casse. Mi Bago was never more than a few lengths… Read More

Jazzole, a 2-year-old Mitole colt, earned his first stakes win Oct. 2 at Horseshoe Indianapolis with a gritty victory in the $100,000 Circle City S. After finishing second in his July 29 debut, the dark bay colt has reeled off three straight wins. He is the sixth stakes winner this… Read More

Vekoma chalked up his 21st overall win, best among all First-Crop sires, on Sept. 29 at Belmont at the Big A when Super Swift came home a 2 ¼-length maiden special weight winner over a sloppy racetrack. The bay colt, who broke from the inside post in the six-furlong race,… Read More

Authentic moved well into the top-10 on the 2024 First-Crop sire list with his first overseas stakes winner and a blowout maiden winner at Santa Anita over the final weekend of September. In Saudi Arabia, regally-bred Alwajeeh ran his record to a perfect two-for-two with a game victory in the… Read More

Dornoch, a leading 3-year-old colt with impressive wins in the Belmont Stakes (G1) and Haskell Stakes (G1), has been diagnosed with bone bruising, which will force him to miss his planned final start in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. As a result, Dornoch has been retired from racing and will begin… Read More

Indigo Stunner made her second lifetime start a winning one with a comfortable 1 ½-length maiden special weight victory at a mile over the Horseshoe Indianapolis turf course. The 2-year-old daughter of Authentic, the 10th winner for her top-10 First-Crop sire, entered Thursday’s race off a good third-place effort over… Read More

Omaha Beach’s undefeated filly With the Angels cruised to a 9 3/4-length victory in Sunday’s $125,000 Joseph A. Gimma S. at Aqueduct, her second blowout win in as many starts. With the Angels won her Aug. 22 debut at Saratoga by 11 ½-lengths and was named a TDN Rising Star… Read More