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Top-three Fourth-Crop sire Bolt d’Oro earned her first stakes win in scintillating fashion Sunday at Ellis Park with a 3 ¾-length victory in the $400,000 Pucker Up S. (G3). Bolt d’Oro has a half-dozen stakes winners and over $6 million in progeny earnings to date in 2025. With Drop the… Read More

Beach Gold had quite an afternoon in winning the $250,000 Kentucky Downs Preview Mint Millions Turf Aug. 2 at Ellis Park. Not only did the 4-year-old Omaha Beach colt set a course record in the one-mile race, he also earned a fees-paid berth in Kentucky Downs’ $2.5 million The Mint… Read More

Tomasello won a race-long duel with Yinzer to earn his first stakes win in the $250,000 Kentucky Downs Preview Nashville Derby Aug. 2 at Ellis Park. By virtue of the win, the 3-year-old Authentic colt is guaranteed a starting spot in the $3.5 million Nashville Derby Invitational (G3), which runs… Read More

After her 9 ¼-length maiden special weight romp Aug. 2 at Saratoga, Delightful Claire was a shoe-in to be named a TDN Rising Star, which she was and also the first for Thousand Words. With five stakes winners to date this year, Thousand Words ranks third on the Second-Crop sire… Read More

Scarlet Sands and Mondogetsbuckets both scored their first stakes wins over the past weekend for Omaha Beach, bringing his total number of black type winners up to 12 for the year. Omaha Beach is the leading Third-Crop sire list by nearly every metric and is tied for second by stakes… Read More

In what was termed a “prep” by trainer Bill Mott for next month’s Travers S. (G1), Sovereignty turned in another winning performance in Saturday’s $500,000 Jim Dandy S. (G2) at Saratoga in his first start since winning the June 7th Belmont S. (G1). With his victory, the 3-year-old Into Mischief… Read More

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