Picked up as an OBS March grad just two months ago for $150,000, He Is No Lie (Early Voting) lit up a maiden special weight race at Santa Anita Friday, wiring the field by a widening margin under wraps to become his juvenile sire's (by Gun Runner) second winner and first 'TDN Rising Star, presented [...]

Contrary Thinking (Into Mischief), who ran in a trio of Grade I races as a 5-year-old last year, has a new home as Amanda Gillman, acting on behalf of Lucky Hat Racing and Eric Bensussen, went to $130,000 to acquire him through the Fasig-Tipton May Digital Sale. Consigned by EliTE as agent for White Birch [...]

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 94 entries for its May Digital Sale, which opened for bidding Thursday. Amongst the full catalogue, which may be viewed online here, is the five-strong consignment of Tessa Walden's Evergreen Equine, including an exciting 2-year-old maiden special weight winner from Keeneland in Blessed Flyer (Dialed In) (hip 1). “It's hard to get [...]

Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. picked up the first Grade I of Kentucky Derby day Saturday as 7-1 shot R Disaster (Awesome Slew) caught a flyer from the gate and took the field gate to wire under Tyler Gaffalione. Never off the board in 15 prior starts, the Florida-bred entered off a third when caught on [...]

Corporate Power (Curlin) out-finished the veteran Skippylongstocking (Exaggerator) and a closing Baeza (McKinzie) to earn his first graded stakes win in Friday's GII Alysheba Stakes at Churchill Downs. The 5-1 shot, making his third start here for trainer Steve Asmussen, was last second by just a half-length to classy Louisiana-bred Touchuponastar (Star Guitar) in the [...]

8th-OP, 110K, Msw, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m, 5:32 p.m. Windancer Farm went to $1.05 million to acquire SKYFORGE (Gun Runner), the full-sister to MGISW and young sire Cyberknife, at the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Dam Awesome Flower, herself an earner of over $556k on track, sold for $1.6 million at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale [...]

3rd-CD, 120K, Msw, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, 1:45 p.m. A deep field of juvenile fillies headlines Wednesday's action at Churchill Downs with trainer Steve Asmussen and owner/breeder Winchell Thoroughbreds debuting a pair of daughters by their champion Epicenter. Drawn side by side, JUST EPIC is the more well-bred of the two, being a daughter of [...]

In a photo finish that took the stewards several minutes to decipher, the GI Jenny Wiley at Keeneland Saturday finished in a thrilling dead-heat between Expensive Queen (Ire) (Lope de Vega (Ire) and Segesta (Ghostzapper). The race dynamic changed hours before the race Saturday as a pair of early-morning favorite, Lush Lips (GB) (Ten Sovereigns [...]

The final day of the under-tack preview show ahead of next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training finished up with a trio of :9 3/5 marks, including one set by the very first horse to work. The filly (hip 1221), by Airdrie Stud's Girvin, was a $165,000 Keeneland September grad [...]

Finally held under sunny skies Friday, the penultimate under-tack preview at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training kept the momentum rolling with another slew of fast works. Distinguishing themselves with the quickest quarter-mile times of the sale thus far were a pair of fillies both consigned by Tom McCrocklin who [...]

On a day where the rain gave way to cloudy skies and swirling winds in Ocala, Florida, two more 2-year-olds put up a sharp :9 3/5 time during Thursday's fourth under-tack preview show at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training. First of the pair was a New York-bred colt (hip [...]

Triple Crown-nominated Gilded Bandit (Charlatan) out-dueled fellow second-time starter Deep Flame (Into Mischief) to a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard'-worthy win at Keeneland Saturday for Pin Oak Stud and trainer Bill Mott. Racing with the blinkers added off a 'better than it looked' fourth-place run at Gulfstream Feb. 28 (highlighted here by the TDN's [...]