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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

Citizen Bull will be the first of four Breeders’ Cup starters for Into Mischief when he goes postward in Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) at Del Mar. The 2-year-old colt, hailing from the powerful Bob Baffert barn, won the American Pharoah S. (G1) Oct. 5 at Santa Anita… Read More

Vodka With a Twist, who will be Thousand Words’ first Breeders’ Cup starter, drew the rail in the field of 10 2-year-olds in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) Friday at Del Mar. The Phil D’Amato trainee brings a solid resume into the 1 1/16-mile race, including runner… Read More

Vekoma, the leading First-Crop sire of 2024 by winners and stakes horses, will have his first Breeders’ Cup starters Friday at Del Mar with Vixen in the Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) and Jonathan’s Way in the Juvenile (G1). Vixen, trained by Mark Casse for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and D. J. Read More

Sovereignty became Into Mischief’s 16th graded stakes winner of 2024 on Oct. 27 with a dynamic, come-from-behind victory in the $200,000 Street Sense S. (G3) at Churchill Downs. Though he was still a maiden coming into the Street Sense, Sovereignty had run very well in his two prior starts in… Read More