Saratoga Maidens, Presented By Keeneland With the 2023 mating season approaching, Barry Irwin and his wife Kathleen drew up a plan for their mare Spangled Banner (Tiz Wonderful), who they had acquired for $225,000 in the Fasig-Tipton Digital Sale the previous August. The results from that nicking on Saturday were a bottle christening, as second-time [...]

1st-SAR, $115K, Msw, 2yo, 7f, 12:05 p.m. ET. Lance Gasaway, Daniel Hamby, and Brent and Sharilyn Gasaway's 4 G Racing celebrated mightily when Mystik Dan (Goldencents) won the 2024 GI Kentucky Derby. Now the same connections are sending out the Derby hero's half-brother in MYSTIK BAYOU (Wells Bayou). Out of Ma'am (Colonel John), the Oklahoma-bred [...]

Saratoga Maidens, Presented By Keeneland After rating nicely for most of the race, Domestic Agenda (American Pharoah–Smuggle, by Gun Runner) sorted out the maiden special weight victory late in the game to graduate in the Spa opener on Friday. The 8-5 choice watched as Charlotte's Beach (Not This Time) was intent on making the pace [...]

1st-SAR, $115K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:10 p.m. ET FLAMENCO (Justify) makes the races for Gainesway, who also bred her. Graham Motion cares for the filly and he trained her half-sister, New York-bred Horse of the Year & GISW Spendarella (Karakontie {Jpn}). Winning dam Spanish Bunny (Unusual Heat) produced GISW Spanish Queen (Tribal Rule) [...]

In-person Thoroughbred sales are like a small town in that it's normal to run into the same individuals around the show ring. On a digital platform though the scope of interactions can multiply quickly, sometimes tenfold. According to Tommy Eastham of Legacy Bloodstock, who regularly uses Fasig-Tipton's digital auctions and consigned the topper–Little Miss Vivi [...]

Saratoga Maidens, presented by Keeneland Dr. Joel Politi's red-checkered colors came flying down the lane in a maiden special weight at the Spa on Saturday as Virabhadrasana (Jackie's Warrior–Montana Native, by Yes It's True) struck a 'warrior pose' all the way to the winner's circle. The 2025 Keeneland September grad made her first start upstate [...]

Saratoga Maidens, presented by Keeneland In what was the second start of her career, Bittersweet Memory (The Factor–Candy Floss, by Twirling Candy) controlled the tempo and went all the way to graduate at the Spa on Friday afternoon. The NBS homebred made her first start going two turns over the turf upstate Aug. 1. That [...]

Affairs of honor–ones that involve a different kind of pacing and seconds–will once again take center stage at the all-grass venue known as Kentucky Downs. Literally the former site where various levels of 'code duello' unfolded some two centuries back–hence the track's early name 'Dueling Grounds'–the European-style course on the Tennessee line has evolved over [...]

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX – A Texas-bred colt by Gunite topped the Texas Thoroughbred Association's (TTA) single-session Summer Yearling Sale at Lone Star Park's Mary Ruyle Thoroughbred Sales Pavilion on Tuesday, Aug. 25. Susan Montanye signed the $140,000 ticket on behalf of her client Ken Reimer after a recent endorsement from Hall of Fame trainer Steve [...]

GRAND PRAIRIE, TX – With temperatures continuing to post triple digits in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area this past week, the Texas Yearling Sale hosted by the Texas Thoroughbred Association (TTA) will try to match the heat starting at 11:00 a.m. CT on Tuesday, Aug. 25 in the Mary Ruyle Sales Pavilion at Lone Star Park. [...]

A 'Win and You're In” Challenge Series race for the GI Prevagen Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, the GII Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar on Saturday went to Sorrento Sky (Ire) (Prince of Lir {Ire}), who punched his ticket to Keeneland for late October. The Phil D'Amato trainee had plenty of quality starts since he [...]

Saratoga Maidens, Presented By Keeneland Looking a picture for the books down the lane, American History (Constitution–Bloody Point, by War Front) broke his maiden at first asking and netted himself a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard,' at Saratoga on Saturday. The third race on the card was a loaded maiden with four entries having [...]