A filly by 2024's champion freshman sire and current leading third crop sire Vekoma (hip 876) stole the show Saturday during the final breeze show ahead of next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Consigned by Jesse Hoppel's Hoppel LLC, the New York-bred put up a co-sales best quarter in :20 [...]

Mitts (Gretzy the Great), a well-beaten albeit rallying third in his debut over course and distance May 22, picked up the first win for his freshman sire (by Nyquist) Saturday via disqualification. The 5-1 shot was a close-up third up the backstretch while just a length back of pacesetter Watson (Brethren). Tipped outside of that [...]

A pair of OBS March graduates lined up side by side in the gate at Santa Anita Friday but it was the longer shot of the two, 8-1 third choice Kennyten (Drain the Clock), who earned his diploma en route to becoming his freshman sire's (by Maclean's Music) second winner and first 'TDN Rising Star, [...]

A colt by the now-pensioned Darley heavyweight Medaglia d'Oro (hip 824) was one of two to share the fastest furlong time during Friday's penultimate breeze day ahead of next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale. Now named Bulmaro, this half-brother to MSP Naughty Lottie (Midnight Lute) was bred in Kentucky by [...]

3rd-CD, 120K, Msw, 3yo/up, 7f, 1:43 p.m. After bringing just $125,000 as a yearling at Keeneland September in 2024, PRESIDE (Tiz the Law) impressed the partnership of Spendthrift Farm, St. Elias Stable and West Point Thoroughbreds enough at the 2025 OBS April Sale to inspire a $1.5-million bid after working in :10 flat. Out of [...]

1st-SAR, 115K, Msw, 3yo/up, f, 7f, 11:00 a.m. What CROWNING GLORY (Uncle Mo) may lack in race experience, she makes up for in pedigree power. A daughter of Eclipse-winning older mare and MGISW Close Hatches, this filly is a half to a trio of talented runners each sired by the legendary Tapit in MGSW/MGISP Tacitus, [...]

1st-SAR, 115K, Msw, 3yo/up, 1 1/8m, 11:45 a.m. The first foal out of SW/GISP Lady Kate, STORMING (Curlin) cost $850,000 at Keeneland September in 2024 for the partnership of Arnmore Thoroughbreds, Pine Racing Stables, Belmar Racing and Breeding and Legendary Thoroughbreds. Bred by Stonestreet who purchased Lady Kate for $1.15-million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale [...]

1st-SAR, 115K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 12:35 p.m. Trainer Todd Pletcher debuts a pair of 2-year-old fillies in the Thursday opener at Saratoga. Rail-drawn PERPETUAL (Drain the Clock) impressed at OBS March earlier this year, working a quarter-mile in :20.1 before selling to Lee Ackerley Racing & Gainesway for $500,000. Her unraced Street Boss [...]

4th-CD, 125K, O/c, 3yo, f, 1m, 2:15 p.m. 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' MASHALLAH (Maxfield) earned an eye-popping 106 Beyer Speed Figure in her Keeneland debut going six furlongs for Brendan Walsh Apr. 23. That form was flattered when the third-place runner from that field, In Scope (Gun Runner), went on to earn the [...]

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3rd-CD, 120K, Msw, 2yo, 5fT, 5:58 p.m. Trainer Mark Casse and Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Jose Ortiz team up on PLAY IT AGAIN (Speightstown) from the rail in this five-furlong turf sprint. A $725,000 Keeneland September grad, the Kindred Stables-bred, from his sire's last crop, is the first to the track for an unraced daughter of [...]

The connections of Movie Night (Speightstown) may have been the only ones happy to see the deluge that turned the Churchill Downs main track to slop Saturday as their filly, already experienced over an off surface, skipped over it to become a new 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard'. Second going just a half-furlong longer [...]