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Innovator out-fought Dreaminblue to earn his first win in a $110,000 maiden special weight contest for 2-year-old Sunday at Oaklawn Park, winning by a head in the six-furlong race. The dark bay colt is the 24th winner for top-5 First-Crop sire Authentic. Also on Sunday at Oaklawn, Authentic’s Adeera got… Read More

Maximus Meridius outdueled Full Moon Madness to win Saturday’s $150,000 Gravesend S. at Aqueduct by a half-length and give Maximus Mischief his 10th lifetime stakes winner. The victory comes just one day after the Spendthrift stallion tallied his first Grade 1 winner when Raging Torrent won the Malibu S. (G1)… Read More

Lastabitlonger’s front-running maiden special weight win Dec. 27 at Tampa Bay Downs gave Vekoma his 38th winner from his first crop, putting him one away from the all-time mark of 39 set by Wildcat Heir. Vekoma has four entries, three of them maidens, yet to run in the last three… Read More

Kopion made a triumphant return to the races in Thursday’s $300,000 La Brea S. (G1), winning the seven-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies by 2 ¾-length to give Omaha Beach is second career Grade 1 winner. Kopion joins And One More Time, winner of the Natalma S. (G1) in September, as… Read More

Raging Torrect closed out 2024 with his fourth win in five starts on the day after Christmas at Santa Anita Park with a resounding victory in the $300,000 Malibu S. (G1). The 3-year-old colt, who won the Pat O’Brien S. (G2) against older horses in August, is Maximus Mischief’s first… Read More

With two allowance wins to his credit in the past two weeks, J B Strikes Back made his Dec. 26 stakes debut a winning one with a 1 ¼-length victory in the $200,000 Laffit Pincay S. (G2) at Santa Anita Park. The 3-year-old son of Goldencents is one of a… Read More

Into Mischief got his third stakes winner of the week on day after Christmas when Hoosier Philly won the Joseph Broussard Memorial S. at Fair Grounds. With Rocket Can and Coppola collecting stakes win earlier in the week, Into Mischief pushed his progeny earnings past the $35.1 million mark as… Read More

Surging between the narrowest of openings in deep stretch, Major Dude took the $215,000 Fort Lauderdale S. (G2) Dec. 21 at Gulfstream Park by a neck in a three-way photo. With the winner’s share of the purse, Major Dude became racing’s newest millionaire and the first for his sire Bolt… Read More

Into Mischief’s Coppola wrapped up a terrific 2024 with a gate-to-wire victory in the $140,000 Janus S. on Dec. 21 at Gulfstream Park. The 5-year-old bay won four stakes over the course of the year, starting in February in the Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint. He took the Silks Run S. Read More

Into Mischief’s Rocket Can turned in a career-best performance Saturday at Gulfstream Park when the 4-year-old won the $165,000 Harlan’s Holiday S. (G3) to close out his 2024 campaign. Rocket Can is the 17th graded stake winner of 2024 for Into Mischief. The winner’s purse pushed Into Mischief over the… Read More

Led by 9 ¼-length maiden special weight winner Acknowledge, Authentic was represented by a trio of winners on Dec. 13 to up the top-five First-Crop sire’s winners tally to 22. Acknowledge, trained by Joe Sharp for Repole Stable, was a runaway winner in the one-mile race on the Fair Grounds’… Read More

Donut God was on top of his game once again in Saturday’s Inaugural S. at Tampa Bay Downs, winning the six-furlong race for 2-year-olds in front-running style. The Into Mischief colt has never been headed in two starts as his connections look forward to 2025. He is the sixth juvenile… Read More