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Colloquial scored a front-running victory in Monday’s $400,000 Lafayette S. at Keeneland, rolling to a 2 ¼-length win over Smoken Wicked. The 3-year-old Vekoma colt was making his stakes debut following a Feb. 7 maiden special weight win, where he won by seven lengths and earned a huge 106 Beyer… Read More

Omaha Beach was represented by a new black type winner on the rescheduled opening day of the Keeneland spring meet when his rising 3-year-old colt Normandy Coast won going away in the $300,000 Palisades Stakes.  Ridden by jockey Ben Curtis, the talented bay colt stalked the early pace in the… Read More

Thousand Words’ Cool Cowboy won his stakes debut in the Lafayette S. April 5 at Evangeline Downs for his second win in as many starts [WATCH RACE]. Three-year-old Cool Cowboy was a front-running maiden winner March 7 at Sam Houston Park, and employed the same style in the Lafayette. Read More

Rodriguez earned his first stakes win and assured himself a starting spot in next month’s Kentucky Derby (G1) with a powerhouse performance in Saturday’s $750,000 Wood Memorial (G2) at Aqueduct. The 3-year-old Authentic colt led the entire 1 1/8-mile trip, turning back several challenges through six furlongs, then drawing off… Read More

Saturday, April 5, 2025 proved to be a banner day for promising young stallion Maximus Mischief, as he was represented by a pair of impressive graded stakes winners from his first crop with world-class miler Raging Torrent and leading female sprinter Irish Maxima winning the Grade 3 Distaff Stakes at… Read More

Bourbon Memory bested Family by a head after a stretch-long duel to win the $125,000 Serena’s Song S. March 29 at Turfway Park. The 3-year-old Bolt d’Oro filly was making her first stakes start after a trio of wins by a combined 17 ½-lengths during the Turfway meet. Family was… Read More

Into Mischief’s Kentucky Derby (G1) hand got even stronger when the Spendthrift stallion’s Tappan Street and Sovereignty finished 1-2 in Saturday’s Florida Derby (G1). Already the sire of Kentucky Derby winners Authentic and Mandaloun, Into Mischief also has Citizen Bull and Barnes as potential starters in this year’s Derby. Tappan… Read More

Five G earned her first graded stakes win and stamped her ticket to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) with a gate to wire victory in Saturday’s $250,000 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) at the south Florida track. The 3-year-old filly is one of Vekoma’s five stakes winners to date this year. Vekoma… Read More

Tirupati earned her first stakes win Saturday at Santa Anita Park with a front-running score in the $100,000 Wilshire S. (G3). The 4-year-old filly is the second graded stakes winner of the month for her sire, who currently ranks fourth on the Third-Crop sire list with over $16 million in… Read More

A Thousand Miles cruised home a 3 ½-length winner of Saturday’s Arizona Oaks to score her first stakes win and become the third stakes winner of the month for her sire [WATCH RACE]. With a trio of stakes placings already on her resume, 3-year-old A Thousand Miles earned the… Read More

Booth posted his second straight dominating stakes score with his victory in the $250,000 Whitmore S. (G3) March 15 at Oaklawn Park. The 4-year-old Mitole colt romped by 2 ¼-lengths and earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 107, topping the 105 he earned last month over the same track… Read More

Vekoma, the nation’s leading Second-Crop sire by a wide margin, tallied his fifth stakes winner of the year March 15 at Gulfstream Park when Rolando fought off Multiverse to win the Hutcheson S. Saturday’s six-furlong race was the first stakes start for the 3-year-old colt, who was a sharp allowance… Read More