LNJ Foxwoods

Tampa Bay Derby Undercard Features Promising Maidens

2nd-TAM, $60k, Msw, 3yo, 7f, 12:45 p.m. ET ACE FROM SPACE (Into Mischief) brings both an imposing pedigree and worktab into this career debut. The Stonestreet homebred is the latest runner out of the SW & GSP Glinda the Good (Hard Spun), whose four winners includes dual Grade I-winning champion and leading sire Good Magic (Curlin). Glinda the Good is herself a half-sister to GSW and stakes-producing Take the Ribbon (Chester House) and SW & GSPs Flash Forward (Curlin) and Flash Mash (Smarty Jones). Irad Ortiz, Jr. has the call...

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Paradise Earns Oaks Points In The Busher

The beautifully-bred Paradise (Gun Runner) made easy work of a short field in Saturday's Busher Stakes to claim her first points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks. A $700,000 Saratoga yearling purchase for a partnership which is now NK Racing and LNJ Foxwoods, the daughter of MGSW/MGISP Venetian Harbor (Munnings) just broke her maiden at Gulfstream going this same one-mile distance Jan. 4 before shipping into New York to face just four rivals for 37.5 Oaks points. Third in the opening furlong but clearly wanting to do more under...

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Letter To The Editor: Calling For Meaningful Change

The concerns voiced by Mike Repole and Aron Wellman reflect what many in our industry have felt for years - a disconnect between leadership and the realities of the sport. For that reason, I have resigned from my position as a member of The Jockey Club. While I valued the opportunity to serve as a member, the role offered little meaningful visibility into the direction or decision-making that shapes our sport. My time as a member left me with the impression that influence remains concentrated among a small group rather...

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Seven-Furlong Specialist Beauvatier Following the Wootton Bassett Path at Etreham

La Route des Etalons returns next week when, as ever, you can bet your bottom dollar that bloodstock enthusiasts won't be able to resist straying slightly off the beaten track to view the seven-strong roster at Haras d'Etreham. Situated roughly an hour west of Deauville, a fair distance from most of the other farms participating in the two-day extravaganza, Etreham has a long history of standing stallions, with a certain Wootton Bassett featuring among its famous residents of yesteryear. In 2014 and 2015, the privilege of sending a mare to...

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Champion Covfefe's Rothko Earns Belated Graduation at the Fair Grounds

Making only this third career start in as many seasons to race, the impeccably-bred Rothko (Tapit--Covfefe, by Into Mischief) proved best as the heavy favorite to graduate in a one-mile maiden test at Fair Grounds on Sunday. The LNJ Foxwoods homebred was fourth in his career debut at Ellis Park in the summer of 2024 but wouldn't be seen again until the fall of his sophomore year, when he finished a solid second going 6 1/2 panels at Churchill Downs this past November. Sent off the hot 1-5 choice while...

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LNJ Homebred Gallivant Displays Big Kick To Get Bowman Mill At Keeneland

Still a maiden after putting in a strong third against 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Local Knowledge (Yaupon) on debut over course and distance Oct. 4., Gallivant was rewarded with an 89 Beyer Speed Figure and that prompted a try Saturday in the Bowman Mills Stakes. Responding well to the jump up in class, the 2-1 second choice handled this scratched-down field with ease to pick up his first stakes win. Fourth of the four while showing a lack of any early speed, Gallivant trailed the pacesetting favorite Spun...

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Beauvatier to Join Haras d'Etreham Roster for 2026 after Hong Kong Swansong

Beauvatier, an impressive winner of the G2 Challenge Stakes earlier this month, will take up stud duties at Haras d'Etreham for the 2026 breeding season, after an intended swansong in December's G1 Hong Kong Mile. A stud fee will be announced at a later date. Trained by Yann Barberot for a partnership consisting of Philippe Allaire, LNJ Foxwoods and Haras d'Etreham, Beauvatier won each of his first four races as a juvenile, including the G3 Prix la Rochette, before ending that season with a third-place finish in the G1 Prix...

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Moonshine Memories
Saturday Insights: Into Mischief Filly Out of Moonshine Memories Debuts at Keeneland

3rd-KEE, $110k, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 2:04 p.m. ET Naughty by Nature (Into Mischief), a daughter of GI Del Mar Debutante S. and GI Chandelier S. winner Moonshine Memories (Malibu Moon), debuts for LNJ Foxwoods and Church Street Stable and trainer Rusty Arnold. The $450,000 KEESEP yearling purchase was bred in Kentucky by Orpendale/Chelston/Wynatt, Westerberg Ireland ULC, et al. Tyler Gaffalione has the call. TJCIS PPs

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'This Year It's Been Back To Reality' – Alex Solis Leads American Buying Bench at Tattersalls October

Alex Solis, one of the American buying bench's most prolific operators, described trade at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale as being "back to reality", after signing for another five yearlings this week to take his overall number of purchases across Books 1 and 2 to 14. Solis and Jason Litt, his partner in Solis/Litt Bloodstock, were registered as the buyers of four fillies and a colt at Book 1, as well as signing for four fillies in the name of leading American owner Mike Repole. The total spend on those...

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Friday Insights: Pricey Into Mischief Colt Valiant Set For First Start At Ellis

6th-ELP, $100K, Msw, 2yo, 6f, 3:12 p.m. ET. Robert Clay's Grandview Equine went to a cool $1-million to acquire VALIANT (Into Mischief) at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling Sale. Partnering with LNJ Foxwoods and Hubert Vester, the ownership group sent the colt to trainer Brad Cox. The debuting bay is the first foal out of unraced Validest (Medaglia d'Oro)--a Vester purchase for $350,000 from the 2021 Keeneland November Sale while she was in foal to Authentic. Validest is a half-sister to GII American Turf Stakes hero Global View (Galileo {Ire})...

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United's Next Chapter: From Turf Star to Aftercare Ambassador

When it came time for United (Giant's Causeway) to retire from the racetrack, there was never any doubt that he would remain with LNJ Foxwoods, the parents-and-daughter team of Larry, Nanci and Jaime Roth who had campaigned him throughout his four-year career. A seven-time graded stakes winner, the towering chestnut had become the family's all-time leading earner and they were committed to giving him a forever home. What they didn't expect, however, was just how much the competitive gelding would take to a second career. Now flourishing in the show...

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Well-Related Gold Round Euthanized At Old Friends

Gold Round (Ire) (Caerleon--Born Gold, by Blushing Groom {Fr}), a French Group 3-winning half-sister to three-time GI Breeeders' Cup Mile heroine Goldikova (Ire) (Anabaa), was euthanized in her paddock at Old Friends Retirement Facility in Georgetown, Kentucky, on Dec. 19. She was 27 years old and had resided at Old Friends since September 2020, when she was retired by LNJ Foxwoods' Larry, Nanci and Jaime Roth. Bred by Wertheimer et Frere and trained for the brothers by Criquette Head, Gold Round won her maiden in her fourth career start and...

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