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Goldencents filly has fastest quarter-mile at OBS Under Tack Show
The final day of the OBS March 2-year-old Sale Under Tack Show produced the fastest quarter-mile of the three days when a filly by Goldencents zipped though the distance in :20 2/5... Read More
Race Day juveniles sparkle at OBS Under Tack Show
Spendthrift stallion Race Day, whose first foals are 2-year-olds of 2019, will be represented by three juveniles at the March 12-13 OBS March sale... Read More
Wicked Strong filly fires bullet at OBS Under Tack show
A filly from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Wicked Strong worked an eighth-mile in a swift :9 4/5 seconds during Thursday's session of the Under Tack Show... Read More
Spendthrift launches “Safe Bet” program for breeders
B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm has introduced a new breeding program for 2019 called the “Safe Bet” program, designed to incentivize breeders to support the farm’s fourth-year stallions. The Safe Bet program assures breeders that a stallion’s first crop of two-year-olds will have at least one Graded/Group stakes winner… Read More
G1 winner Free Drop Billy gets first mare in foal
Free Drop Billy, the only G1-winning son of Union Rags Spendthrift Farm’s new stallion Free Drop Billy, the Grade 1-winning 2-year-old by Union Rags, had his first mare confirmed in foal. Autumn Gold, a Smart Strike mare that was bred through Spendthrift’s “Share The Upside” program, checked in… Read More
2018 APEX ABC Runners: Into Mischief topples the giants
Into Mischief | Barbara Livingston Photo Into Mischief was a $180,000 OBS 2-year-old in 2007, bought by Spendthrift Farm owner B. Wayne Hughes and trained by Richard Mandella in California during the synthetic-track era; indeed, all of Into Mischief’s six career starts were on synthetic tracks at Hollywood… Read More
Itsmyluckycharm keeps rolling in Mrs. Presidentress S.
Itsmyluckycharm ran her winning streak to four straight with a gallant score in the Feb. 18 Mrs. Presidentress S. at Gulfstream Park... Read More
Valedictorian goes gate to wire in Suwannee River S. (G3)
Temple City's 5-year-old daughter Valedictorian got her first graded stakes win and third black type victory overall with a front-running score in Saturday's $150,000 Suwanee River S. (G3)... Read More
First foal is a colt for three-time G1 winner Lord Nelson
Lord Nelson’s first foal – a colt – was born Jan. 28 Lord Nelson, the three-time Grade 1-winning son of Pulpit, became a sire on Monday, Jan. 28 when his first reported foal – a chestnut colt – was born at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, KY. Bred by… Read More
Cross Traffic’s Jaywalk named Eclipse Champion 2-year-old filly
Spendthrift Farm's leading First-Crop Sire of 2018 Cross Traffic got his first champion when Jaywalk was named the Eclipse Award Winner as the top 2-year-old Filly... Read More
First foal is a colt for multiple G1-winning millionaire Gormley
Spendthrift Farm's Gormley, the Grade 1-winning 2-year-old and 3-year-old son of Malibu Moon, sired his first reported foal on January 6th... Read More
Classic winner Cloud Computing retires to Spendthrift
Cloud Computing shown defeating champion Classic Empire in the Preakness-G1 Cloud Computing, last year’s Preakness S. (G1) hero and millionaire 3-year-old, has been retired from racing and will enter stud in 2019 at B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, KY. The dark bay colt will become… Read More
