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As a prelude to Sovereignty winning the Jim Dandy S. (G2) later on the card, Into Mischief picked up his 53rd lifetime TDN ‘Rising Star’ when Tommy Jo rolled to a 3 ¾-length maiden special weight win Saturday at Saratoga. The debuting Spendthrift Farm homebred 2-year-old was simply stellar in… Read More

Halina’s Forte passed front-running R Disaster inside the final furlong to win the $200,000 Honorable Miss S. (G2) in the first graded victory for the 4-year-old daughter of Mitole. Mitole now has four graded stakes winners in 2025, the most for any Third-Crop sire. He is also third on the… Read More

Leading First-Crop sire Yaupon got his seventh winner on July 19 at Saratoga when Emphasis won a six-furlong maiden special weight race for 2-year-olds by a length over a highly-regarded group of juveniles. Emphasis, in post 4, broke well and made the lead after a contentious start. He led through… Read More

Leslie’s Rose rolled to a 3 ¾-length victory in the $200,000 Shuvee S. (G2) July 18 at Saratoga, giving the 4-year-old daughter of Into Mischief her first graded stakes win since capturing the 2024 Ashland S. (G1). A former TDN Rising Star, Leslie’s Rose has competed exclusively in graded company… Read More

The initial international offering from the first crop of champion Jackie’s Warrior made a big splash at the recent Japan Horse Racing Association Select Sale when his regally-bred yearling colt sold for $777,028. Consigned by Japan’s leading breeding operation Shadai Farm, the bay colt sold locally to Maeda Hiroyuki. The… Read More

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