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Vanta overcame trouble during several stages of her five-furlong maiden special weight debut July 31 at Del Mar to ultimately prevail by 1 ¼-lengths and give First-Crop sire Greatest Honour his fifth winner. Vanta’s trouble started right out of the gate, when she got away slowly and was… Read More

Anakarina took the lead early in Saturday’s $100,000 Love Sign S. and never relinquished the top spot, battling to a neck victory over Conquerthosewecan to give the 4-year-old daughter of Vekoma her first stakes win [WATCH RACE]. Vekoma, who currently sits atop the 2026 Third-Crop sire list… Read More

Spendthrift Farm LLC’s homebred 2-year-old filly Effusive had much to live up to with her royal pedigree in her career debut July 18 at Saratoga, and the filly showed potential star power with a gritty 1 ¼-length win in a six-furlong maiden special weight contested over a sloppy racetrack. Read More

Coming off a double-digit length win in last month’s Pegasus S. at Monmouth Park, Baby Vino stepped up to take on a top-class field in Saturday’s $1 million Haskell S. (G1), and the 3-year-old Vino Rosso colt came away with a thrilling victory over Preakness S. (G1) winner Napoleon… Read More

And One More Time scored a gate-to-wire win in the $150,000 De La Rose S. July 17 at Saratoga to give the 4-year-old Omaha Beach filly her third lifetime stakes win. With eight stakes winners and over $6.8 million in progeny earnings to date in 2026, Omaha Beach… Read More

Arabian Lion, along with fellow Spendthrift Freshman sires Forte and Taiba, had robust results at Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton July Selected Yearlings sale on Tuesday in central Kentucky. Leading the way for Arabian Lion was hip No. 77, a filly consigned by Gainesway, agent and purchased for $270,000 by Baccari… Read More

Champion Forte’s 2026 live yearling auction season got off to a strong start July 14 at the Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings sale when hip No. 161 sold for $280,000 to Offshoot Farm. The Warrendale Sales, agent consignee would finish as the second highest-price filly, and the second highest price… Read More

Three-time Grade 1 winner Taiba topped all First-Crop sires at the Fasig-Tipton July Select Yearlings sale on Tuesday with a $300,000 colt from the Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent for Don Alberto Corporation consignment. Purchased by Taproot Bloodstock’s Phil Hager, hip No. 36 wound up as the co-third… Read More

Vekoma’s hip No. 135 brought a winning bid of $600,000 Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton July Select Yearlings sale, which would ultimately prove to be the top price paid during the one-day auction in central Kentucky. Vekoma was also responsible for the third-highest price of the day when hip… Read More

B Yutifil Carly flew through the Saratoga stretch to tally a stunning come-from-behind maiden special weight win on Saturday afternoon at the historical oval. The 2-year-old filly is the second winner this week for First-Crop sire Greatest Honour, whose 2026 fee is $7,500 S&N. After a very… Read More

With a big late move coming into the stretch, In the Stars rolled to a two-length win in Saturday’s Indiana General Assembly Distaff H. at Horseshoe Indianapolis. The victory was the first stakes score of the 4-year-old daughter of Into Mischief, who now has a nation’s-best 19 stakes… Read More

Spendthrift Farm’s four freshman sires: Arabian Lion, Forte, Taiba and Zandon, will all be represented by their first yearlings at auction in next Tuesday’s Fasig-Tipton July sale. The quartet has a total of 19 lots catalogued in the one-day sale, with four for Forte and Taiba, five for… Read More