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Destino d’Oro wrapped up a very good year with a come-from-behind victory in Saturday’s $125,000 Tropical Parks Oaks at Gulfstream Park. The 3-year-old daughter of Bolt d’Oro was a convincing winner of the Pucker Up S. (G3) in August and completed the year with three wins in five starts. Ranked… Read More

Rising Inflation bounded home a 6 ¾-length winner in the $125,000 Ladies Turf S. at Fair Grounds to give the 4-year-old Mitole filly her third stakes win in her last four starts. Much like she did in the Valene Memorial S. a month ago on Fair Grounds’ main track, Rising… Read More

Dirty Rich broke on top in Friday’s $150,000 Advent S. at Oaklawn Park and never looked back, rolling to a 1 ¾-length win in the 5 ½-furlong sprint for 2-year-olds. Dirty Rich is the seventh stakes winner this year for Thousand Words, whose 2025 progeny earnings have surpassed $3.1 million. Read More

Liberation repelled a stiff challenge from Cecilia Street to win Sunday’s Soviet Problem S. at Los Alamitos by a half-length. The win was the first stakes score for the 2-year-old daughter of Omaha Beach, who now has 16 black type winners in 2025. Omaha Beach is leading the Third-Crop sire… Read More

Into Mischief’s 2025 total stakes winners now stands at 26, including 17 graded winners, after both Consequent and Sneaky Good tallied their first stakes victories on Dec. 6. Consequent, a Juddmonte homebred 2-year-old filly, was the “star” of the day with her victory in the Starlet (G2) at Los Alamitos. Read More

Solitude Dude powered his way to an eight-length victory in Saturday’s $100,000 Inaugural S. at Tampa Bay Downs, the second blowout win in as many starts for the 2-year-old Yaupon colt. Solitude Dude is the eighth stakes winner this year, and one of 30 individual winners, for his sire. Both… Read More

Spendthrift Farm’s Further Ado won his stakes debut Saturday at Churchill Downs with a gritty performance in the $400,000 Kentucky Jockey Club (G2). The 2-year-old colt, who broke his maiden by an astonishing 20 lengths Oct. 10 at Keeneland, found himself tested in the 1 1/16-mile affair. Further Ado… Read More

Zero Blitz surged in the final furlong to win the $100,000 City of Laurel S. Saturday at Laurel Park by a half-length over Otter Mischief (Maximus Mischief) to complete a Spendthrift Farm-sired exacta in the seven-furlong race for 3-year-olds. The 3-year-old son of Jimmy Creed was making his stakes debut… Read More

Cannoneer outclassed a strong field of 2-year-old maidens Saturday at Churchill Downs, rolling home a 7 ¼-length winner to become Into Mischief’s 58th lifetime TDN Rising Star. The bay colt was in charge from the outset of the seven-furlong contest. In hand through a half-mile of :45.34, Cannoneer lengthened his… Read More

Satono Voyage (JPN) earned his first 10 points on the Road to the 2026 Kentucky Derby (G1) with a victory in the $194,621 Cattleya S. Nov. 29 at Tokyo Racecourse. The 2-year-old son of Into Mischief won the 1,600 meter (about one mile) race by 1 ¼-lengths. He was third… Read More

Maximus Mischief kicked off the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in stellar fashion on the eve of the holiday with three stakes winners to up his 2025 total to 10. Maximus Mischief is a top-five Third-Crop sire of 2025 by stakes winners, stakes horses, Grade 1 stakes winners, overall winners and by… Read More

Faster Gator became leading Second-Crop sire Vekoma’s 15th stakes winner of 2025 with a commanding performance in the $300,000 Steel Valley Sprint S. Nov. 24 at Mahoning Valley. The 3-year-old colt, who was second in the Bay Shore S. in January, won Monday’s six furlong contest by a 1 ¾-lengths. Read More