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Spendthrift Farm’s trio of Grade 1-winning first-season stallions – Dornoch, Kingsbarns, and National Treasure – have all had their first respective mares confirmed in foal. Dornoch, Good Magic’s multiple Grade 1 winner, classic winner & Eclipse finalist of 2024, had his first mare reported as in foal at Hidden Springs… Read More

Maximus Mischief tallied his fourth stakes winner of the year on March 4th at Parx when Baby Dukes fought off a stern challenge from Right Wing Runner to win the $75,000 City of Brotherly Love S. The pair of 3-year-olds battled for the top spot the entire 1 1/16-mile trip. Read More

Drexel Hill’s come-from-behind victory in Saturday’s $200,000 Busher S. earned the 3-year-old Bolt d’Oro filly 50 points in Road to the Kentucky Oaks championship series, virtually assuring herself of a starting position the May 2nd race at Churchill Downs. Bolt d’Oro has a trio of graded stakes winners, tops among… Read More

Sovereignty added his name to a burgeoning list of Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls by Into Mischief after a dramatic last-to-first run in Saturday’s $415,000 Fountain of Youth S. (G2) at Gulfstream Park. Joining the likes of Barnes and Citizen Bull as top 3-year-olds by Into Mischief, Sovereignty picked up an… Read More

Thousand Words has a likely Kentucky Oaks contender after The Queens M G dominated Saturday’s Davona Dale S. (G2) at Gulfstream Park, drawing off to win by 2 ¾-lengths and up her Oaks qualifying points to a total of 43.5, currently fifth on the list. The top 14 point-getters qualify… Read More

Vekoma’s Vixen earned her first graded win in dramatic fashion Saturday at Gulfstream Park, taking the $215,000 Herecomesthebride S. (G3) by a neck in a four-horse photo finish. Getting a stalking trip under John Velazquez, Vixen was never worse than third in the one-mile turf race for 3-year-olds. In the… Read More

Vekoma’s Mi Bago gave his sire the second of two stakes winners on Gulfstream Park’s Saturday card with a dominant performance in the $200,000 Colonel Liam S. The 3-year-old colt’s win came about two hours after Vixen took the Herecomesthebride S. (G3). Vekoma is leading the 2025 Second-Crop sire list… Read More

Full Moon Madness became the 170th lifetime black type winner for Into Mischief with his determined score in Saturday’s $175,000 Tom Fool S. (G3) at Aqueduct. The 5-year-old had been on the cusp of a stakes win in his last two starts, placing in both the Gravesend S. and Toboggan… Read More

A 2-year-old colt from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Yaupon topped the Fasig-Tipton February Digital Sale that ended Feb. 25. The colt brought a winning bid of $250,000 in the on-line sale that saw a total of 157 horses sell. Catalogued as hip No. 42, the colt went… Read More

Booth blasted out of the Oaklawn Park starting gate and never looked back in Monday’s $150,000 Commodore S., rolling to a 4 ¾-length win in the six-furlong contest. The victory marked the first stakes win for the 4-year-old Mitole colt trained by Steve Asmussen for Corinne & William Heiligbrodt, Jackpot… Read More

Landed took the lead shortly after the start of Sunday’s $125,000 Broadway S. at Aqueduct and never looked back, winning the seven-furlong race by a length in her first start of the year. The 4-year-old daughter of Omaha Beach now has three stakes wins to her credit after taking both… Read More

Cornucopian’s astounding maiden special weight win Feb. 23 at Oaklawn Park earned the 3-year-old Into Mischief colt the coveted ‘TDN Rising Star’ tag as well as a rare triple-digit Beyer Speed Figure in a career debut. The bay colt, trained by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, joins a star-studded list… Read More