On the board in a trio of stakes this season, including a well-beaten second in the GIII Pat Day Mile on GI Kentucky Derby day last out May 4, Something Special Racing's Hog Creek Hustle (Overanalyze) picked a good time to break through as he led home a parade of longshots in Saturday's GI Woody [...]

Insights, Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 4th-CD, $103K, ALW/OC ($75K), N1X, 3yo, 7f, 12:03 p.m. ET 'TDN Rising Star' Hidden Scroll (Hard Spun), who at one point looked like a potential GI Kentucky Derby favorite, looks to get back on track here while shortening up. A jaw-dropping 14-length debut winner going a one-turn mile in [...]

Lady Pauline (Munnings), a half-sister to none other than these connections' superstar Lady Aurelia (Scat Daddy), Hwt. 2yo Filly-Eng & Fr, G1SW-Eng & Fr, SW-US, $834,945, followed in that one's hoofsteps Friday with a practically pre-ordained first-out success worthy of the 'TDN Rising Star' distinction. Pounded at the windows and off at 1-5 with an [...]

Larry and Karen Doyle's KatieRich Farms typically sells most of its crop of youngsters as yearlings, but the commercial breeders will offer a solid eight-horse consignment at next Tuesday's Keeneland April Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale. “Generally, we race what we don't sell [as yearlings], but we have kept some in the past and sent them [...]

OCALA, FL–The Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's two-day March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training concluded Wednesday with dips in average and median but a significantly improved RNA rate that hinted at increased strength in the middle market and further adjustments made by both buyers in sellers since the auction was opened up and expanded in 2015. [...]

OCALA, FL– Heated competition for the perceived top offerings continued to be the trend as the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's two-day March Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale kicked off Tuesday. Topping the session was hip 33, a New York-bred Tapit colt out of MGISW Artemis Agrotera (Roman Ruler). Consigned by Becky Thomas's Sequel Bloodstock on behalf [...]

OCALA, FL–The 2-year-old sales season begins Tuesday with the two-day Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March sale at the newly renovated OBS complex. A trio of under-tack sessions were held last Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and the first half of a 577-head catalog will go through the ring beginning at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. Hip 418 was [...]

Joe Pickerrell and Courtney Roberts have seen their business as Pick View LLC grow steadily since they started their Ocala-based operation in 2011, and they enter the 2019 2-year-old sales season off their strongest year yet as consignors. They'll offer five juveniles–all colts–at next Tuesday and Wednesday's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March sale. The couple [...]

Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 8th-SA, $57K, Alw/OC ($80K), 3yo, f, 7f, post time: 7:00 p.m. ET Flor de la Mar (Tiznow) lived up to advanced billing to earn the 'TDN Rising Star' nod for a facile five-length debut score Jan. 20, and the Godolphin and Bob Baffert representative will look to build on the [...]

Robert and Lawana Low's Intrepid Heart (Tapit) caught a ride to Hot Springs from Palm Beach Downs along with trainer Todd Pletcher's other runners competing in graded stakes later on the card, and he stamped himself as one who could be making an impact in big races like those in the future with a powerful [...]

Dwight Pruett's speedy Gray Attempt (Graydar), who bested five returning rivals in the Jan. 25 Smarty Jones S., will look to see out an additional sixteenth against a formidable field in Monday's GIII Southwest S. at Oaklawn. The Jinks Fires pupil was a second-out winner sprinting at Churchill Nov. 25, and defeated a competitive group [...]

LEXINGTON, Ky– The second of two sessions of Fasig-Tipton's Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale featured strong trade heading into the opening of the breeding season later this month. The two-day sale saw gross receipts of $9,659,400 at an average of $29,539 and median of $15,000. Last year's average was $28,673 with a $10,500 median. The buyback [...]