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Look Forward’s tenacious victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Santa Ynez S. earned the 3-year-old Bolt d’Oro filly 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1), which is scheduled for May 2 at Churchill Downs. The bay filly now has a total of 15 points in the series after earning… Read More

Into Mischief’s first stakes winner of the year came Saturday at Santa Anita Park in the San Vicente S. (G2) when the 3-year-old colt Barnes drew off to a 5 ½-length victory in his stakes debut. Named for Bob Baffert’s long-time assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes, the colt sold for $3.2… Read More

Authentic’s first winner of the new year Rodriguez was named a ‘TDN Rising Star’ following his eye-catching victory in a one-mile maiden special weight race at Santa Anita Park on Jan. 4 The 3-year-old dark bay was simply too good for his competition at every point of call. He broke… Read More

The white-hot start to 2025 for Vekoma continued on Thursday at Meydan Racecourse in the UAE when Golden Vekoma rolled to a 2 ½-length victory in the UAE 2000 Guineas Trial sponsored by the Kentucky Derby. The 3-year-old colt won the 1,400-meter race with a decisive move coming into the… Read More

Fresh off earning honors as the champion First-Crop sire of 2024, Vekoma kicked off the new year with a quartet of winners on the first day of 2025, topped by Five G and Mi Bago, who both won stakes at Gulfstream Park. Five G, who narrowly missed winning the Tepin… Read More

Into Mischief’s record-setting year as Leading General Sire ended fittingly on New Year’s Eve when he got yet another stakes winner with Nelson Avenue’s 11 ¼-length score in the Blitzen S. at Parx. Into Mischief finished the year with 36 stakes winners and led the General Sire List in every… Read More

Maximus Mischief’s filly Irish Maxima collected her second stakes win of the year in dominating fashion Dec. 31 at Parx, rolling to a 13 ¾-length victory in the Mrs. Claus S. The 3-year-old has had a stellar year, winning four of five starts for trainer John Servis and owner Irish… Read More

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