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Monday, October 21, 2024

Brengungirl, trained by Kevin Attard for Canuck Racing Club, looks to build off a strong debut in Sunday’s $100,000 South Ocean, for Ontario-sired 2-year-old fillies, at Woodbine. Sired by Point of Entry out of the Silent Name (JPN) mare Silent Sister, the filly made her career bow on Sept. 28, in a 5 ½-furlong main […]

Monday, October 14, 2024

Ecstasy, supplemented to the race by her connections, won Saturday’s $125,000 Ontario Damsel for 3-year-old fillies going 1 1/16 miles over the Woodbine main track. Bred in Kentucky by Martha H. Buckner, Ecstasy was purchased by owner by Tucci Stables at the 2023 OBS June Sale on advise of the astute team at Hidden Brook […]

Monday, September 30, 2024

Looking every bit the speed of the speed, Straight No Chaser (Speightster–Margarita Friday, by Johannesburg) dominated the GII Santa Anita Sprint Championship in just his second start of the season. Bred by John Eaton & Steve Laymon, Straight No Chaser was Foaled & Raised at Hidden Brook Farm in Paris, Kentucky. He´s owned by the […]

Friday, September 27, 2024

Chris Larsen’s Moonage Daydream took them all the way to win her second consecutive state-bred stakes in the September 26 $125,000 John Hettinger, a nine-furlong inner turf test for New York-bred fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at Belmont at the Big A. Moonage Daydream was one of three entrants for trainer Jorge Abreu, but […]

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Bourbon Lane Stable and Six Column Stables’ Uno Mas Bourbon came from off the pace to earn his second career victory in his first stakes appearance after surviving an objection in Saturday’s 42th running of $250,000 Super Derby. Uno Mas Bourbon, who had shipped from Kentucky off a third-place finish in an allowance race at […]

Monday, September 9, 2024

In a nail-biting edition of the $250,000 Woodford Reserve Virginia Oaks on Saturday at Colonial Downs, Cheyenne Stable’s Style Points and John Gunther and Eurowest Bloodstock Services’ Deep Satin dueled down the stretch and were declared dead heat winners. Trained by Christophe Clement, Style Points was piloted by Manny Franco, who won five stakes and […]

Monday, August 26, 2024

One fantastic day made up for six weeks of frustration this summer for trainer Jorge Abreu, who won three races on Saratoga’s New York Showcase Day program on Sunday capped by a 13-1 upset recorded by Moonage Daydream in the $200,000 Yaddo Stakes. Moonage Daydream, coming out of a fourth-place finish in the Perfect Sting […]

Friday, August 16, 2024

Sackatoga Stable’s Courtly Banker dug in gamely down the stretch to get his head down over the pacesetting Fidelightcayut in Thursday’s $125,000 Rick Violette, a 1 1/16-mile Mellon turf route for New York-bred sophomores, at Saratoga Race Course. Bred in the Empire State by John Eaton and Steve Laymon, Courtly Banker is out of the […]

Monday, August 12, 2024

In the final stages of Sunday’s $500,000 Beverly D. at Colonial Downs, Lanni Bloodstock, Madaket Stables, and SF Racing’s Moira laid her heart on the line to beat out the defending winner Fev Rover by a head. Moira, Canada’s Horse of the Year of 2022, returned $3.40 for the win. With her Beverly D. victory, […]

Sunday, August 4, 2024

Red White and Blue Racing’s Neat came with a late surge to win the Grade 2, $500,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame on August 1 at Saratoga Race Course. Trained by Rob Atras, the Constitution chestnut leveled up from a pair of Grade 3 scores this year, including the one-mile Manila in June […]