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When Cyberknife’s hip No. 259 hammered for $330,000 at the Fasig-Tipton’s July sale on Tuesday afternoon, it would be the highest price of the auction paid for any offspring of a First-Crop sire during the one-day auction. With four lots selling for at least six figures and an overall average… Read More

Champion sire Jackie’s Warrior, whose first crop are yearlings of 2025, had the top filly by a freshman sire and one of the top five highest-priced lots Tuesday at the Fasig-Tipton July sale. Consigned by Gainesway, agent, hip No. 85 went to Ciannello Bloodstock Services for $310,000. The bay filly… Read More

Top-five First-Crop sire Rock Your World’s first offering at the Fasig-Tipton July sale in central Kentucky brought a winning bid of $180,000 from Ken McPeek, agent. Consigned by Warrendale Sales, agent and catalogued as hip No. 106, the dark bay colt is out of the Speightstown mare Private Estate, also… Read More

Creed’s Gold, a 4-year-old daughter of Jimmy Creed, was much the best in the $150,000 Hendrie S. (G3) Saturday at Woodbine, rolling to a 3 ¾-length win for her first stakes victory. The flashy chestnut filly is the 24th lifetime stakes winner for Jimmy Creed, as well as being his… Read More

Glengarry led at every point of call en route to a 1 ½-length victory in the $100,000 Iowa Sprint S. at Prairie Meadows. The 4-year-old son of Maximus Mischief, who has finished first or second in all five of his starts this year, won the Ed Skinner S. last month… Read More

Sassy C W dug in late to win the $100,000 Prairie Gold Lassie S. on July 4 at Prairie Meadows to run her record to a perfect three-for-three. The 2-year-old daughter of Yaupon, who was named a TDN Rising Star following her debut win April 30 at Churchill Downs, subsequently… Read More

Into Mischief tallied a pair of stakes winners on Independence Day, with Bring Theband Home getting his first added-money win in the $150,000 Harvey Pack S. and the veteran Coppola setting a track record in the $100,000 William Garrett H. at Horseshoe Indianapolis. Bring Theband Home, who had made just… Read More

Kingsolver surged past My Sweetheart in deep stretch to win the $150,000 Schuylerville S. on Independence Day at Saratoga. The 2-year-old filly is the ninth stakes winner of 2025 for Omaha Beach, who leads this year’s Third-Crop sire list in almost every category. Coming into the Schuylerville off her fifth-place… Read More

Verifire turned in a stellar performance in Sunday’s $239,665 Maxfield S. at Churchill Downs, winning going away by three lengths to give the 3-year-old son of Authentic his first stakes win. Verifire, who won both a maiden and allowance race by over a half-dozen lengths each in his first two… Read More

Dazzle d’Oro rocketed out of the gate and never looked back in his June 29 debut at Churchill Downs in a $120,000 maiden special weight contest. The 2-year-old son of Bolt d’Oro blasted out of the gate and immediately opened up a two-length lead in the first furlong. He rolled… Read More

Nevada Beach surged past Varney with about three furlongs to run in Saturday’s $100,000 Los Alamitos Derby, going on to win the 1 1/8-mile race by 4 ¼-lengths and top a Spendthrift-sired exacta. Nevada Beach is the eighth stakes winner of 2025 for Omaha Beach, the across-the-board leader on this… Read More

Papa Ken became the second winner for First-Crop sire Yaupon on June 28 in the first race at Churchill Downs with a hard-fought victory in a five-furlong maiden special weight affair for 2-year-olds. Yaupon’s first winner, Sassy C W, has gone on to win the Astoria S. at Saratoga. She… Read More