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Tennessee Belle gave Yaupon his fifth winner of the week on Aug. 16 when the 2-year-old filly romped to a 7 ¼-length maiden special weight win at Saratoga. The dark bay filly was named a ‘TDN Rising Star’ following the superlative effort. Caught up in a three-way duel in the… Read More

Crown the Buckeye turned the $100,000 Cleveland Kindergarten S. into a one-horse race with a powerhouse performance to win the six-furlong race for 2-year-olds by 12 ¼-lengths. The bay colt is the second stakes winner of the year for leading First-Crop sire Yaupon, who now has 11 winners overall. Crown… Read More

Desert Gate toyed with the competition in Saturday’s $150,000 Best Pal S. (G3) at Del Mar, rolling home an 8 ¾-length winner in the six-furlong race for 2-year-olds. The Omaha Beach colt was making his stakes debut following June 13 maiden special weight win at five furlongs. Desert Gate, ridden… Read More

Rolando rolled to a four-length victory in the $100,000 Petramalo Mile at Colonial Downs in a track record-breaking performance by the 3-year-old Vekoma colt. Rolando, who had been away from the races since early April, broke quickest of all from the outside post in the field of eight and opened… Read More

Bolt d’Oro’s 3-year-old filly could not have been more impressive in Saturday’s $100,000 Tyson Gilpin S. at Colonial Downs, galloping to a 6 ¾-length victory in the seven-furlong main track contest. The bay filly was making her stakes debut following a handy allowance win on July 13 at Ellis Park,… Read More

Diciasette did not have the easiest of trips in Saturday Proud Man S., but the 2-year-old son of Mitole found a way to win after changing paths multiple times in the Gulfstream Park stretch. Now undefeated in two starts following his July 20 maiden debut win, Diciassette is the sixth… Read More

On a Tuesday night with endless fireworks in the Saratoga sales ring, no sire shone brighter than Into Mischief, with four of his yearlings bringing seven figures, led by the sales-topping $4.1 million colt sold by Hill ‘n’ Dale at Xalapa, agent for the Don Alberto Corporation. After two days… Read More

Led by a colt that brought $625,000 that ultimately was the top price paid for a colt by a freshman sire, Jackie’s Warrior had a stellar first day at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling sale on Monday. From five lots sold, Jackie’s Warrior had an average of $337,000, more than… Read More

Ted Noffey, a 2-year-old Into Mischief colt named after Spendthrift Farm general manager Ned Toffey, came home a 1 ½-length winner in his Aug. 2 debut at Saratoga to become the latest TDN ‘Rising Star’ for his sire. Ted Noffey, who was named after an inadvertent typo on a social… Read More

Into Mischief’s ultra-fast turf sprinter Bring Theband Home earned his first graded stakes win Sunday at Saratoga with a front-running score in the $300,000 Troy S. (G2). The 5-year-old Live Oak Plantation’s homebred, who the July 4 Harvey Pack S., also over the Saratoga turf, is 6-3-1 in 13 starts… Read More

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