Crawford Farms

2nd-Keeneland, $79,675, Msw, 4-11, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, :52.86, sy, 4 3/4 lengths. PERFECT SHANCES (f, 2, Shancelot--American Baby, by Bayern) became her freshman sire's first to get her picture taken. The bay took most of the action at the windows as she went off as the 1-2 favorite after drilling regularly at three furlongs over the course of March and into this month. As she battled sheets of rain, the filly made the front and moved to the rail around the far turn. The homebred straightened in control for...

Stakes winner Goldleafed Mirror (Gold Alert) is the first mare confirmed in foal to graded stakes winner Shancelot (Shanghai Bobby--True Kiss, by Is It True), Buck Pond Farm and Crawford Farms Racing announced Monday. The 11-year-old mare is the dam of stakes-placed Allaboutcaroline (Value Plus). Shancelot, winner of the 2019 GII Amsterdam S. and second in that year's GI Breeders' Cup Sprint and GI Santa Anita Sprint Championship, is standing his first year at stud at Buck Pond Farm for $7,500 LFSN.

 When Michelle Crawford came across the 25-year-old blue hen Tizso (Cee's Tizzy), a full-sister to Hall of Famer Tiznow, in the Keeneland January catalogue, she immediately knew she had to have her. The longtime Standardbred owner/breeder, who operates Crawford Farms in Durhamville, N.Y. with her husband Al, wanted to ensure that the mare received the retirement she deserved. "I started going through the catalogue and she was number 90, so I didn't get very far before I said that is it, she is the one I'm getting," Crawford said from...