10th-KEE, 110K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 5:48 p.m. John Stewart's Resolute Bloodstock went to $775,000 to acquire SCARLET WAVE (Justify) at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Out of a Canadian multiple stakes-placed first dam, the filly is a three-quarter sister to GI Frizette Stakes winner Nickname (Scat Daddy) who went through the ring herself [...]

Ahead of a weekend which offers no fewer than 26 graded stakes races spread across three days, the GIII Matron Stakes at Aqueduct offers a warm up of sorts as 2-year-old fillies sprint six furlongs on the outer turf course in New York. Snow Face Princess (Midshipman) made headlines over the summer, taking the listed [...]

Friday's GII Beldame Stakes, scratched down to just four horses with the morning diversion of Majestic Oops (Majestic Harbor) to Sunday's GIII Delaware Handicap, still had plenty of drama as 9-2 shot Gun Song (Gun Runner) sprung the upset on heavily-favored Randomized (Nyquist) to break a winless streak that dated back over a year. Mark [...]

Friday's GII Beldame Stakes at Aqueduct drew a compact field of five led by the wide-drawn Randomized (Nyquist) who looks to get back on track after a less-than stellar finish, winding up sixth and well beaten behind Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) as the early speed in the GI Personal Ensign at [...]

5th-CD, 120K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 6:59 p.m. SOARING HIGH (Curlin), the latest “baby bird” out of dual champion Songbird, debuts for Cherie DeVaux as a Whisper Hill Farm homebred Thursday at Churchill. Mandy Pope went to a sales-topping $9,500,000 to acquire the daughter of Medaglia d'Oro back in 2017 at Fasig-Tipton's November Sale. [...]

Keeneland September may be winding down time-wise with only one session remaining, but the momentum from the record-breaking sale continued in kind Friday in the 11th session with an 88.57% increase in through-the-ring sales. The session's top price belonged to a colt by Vekoma (hip 4190) as bloodstock agent Mahmud Mouni's buying spree continued. Bred [...]

Keeneland September Book 5 opened Wednesday with continued strong trade across the board led by a Midshipman colt (hip 3056) who topped the session at $270,000 to trainer Wesley Ward. Increases were seen on all fronts as 303 yearlings sold through the ring for $15,405,500, up 12.09% from last year's Session 9 gross of $13,744,000 [...]

5th-KD, 170K, Msw, 3yo/up, f, 61/2fT, 3:39 p.m. Besilu Stables homebred QUEEN DANCING (GB) (Kingman {GB}) debuts Wednesday for trainer Bill Mott on closing day at Kentucky Downs. The well-bred filly is a daughter of GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Crown Queen (Smart Strike), who Besilu acquired at KEENOV [...]

6th-DMR, 80K, Msw, 2yo, f, 1mT, 8:32 p.m. Don Alberto had to stretch to $950,000 to acquire YURAK (Tapit) as a yearling at Keeneland last September. Debuting Friday for John Sadler, the filly is exceptionally well-bred with no fewer than four black type earners as half-siblings led by GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile victor and [...]

The Repole Stable connections have heard it for nearly as long as their star has been racing, that 'TDN Rising Star' Fierceness (City of Light) can be blazing hot when he gets his own way and ice cold when he doesn't. Their Eclipse-winning 2-year-old has spent much of his career in a win-loss pattern that [...]

Spendthrift homebred Tommy Jo (Into Mischief), who announced herself as a 'TDN Rising Star' in a 3 3/4-length maiden win going six furlongs at the Spa July 26, backed up that effort and then some in Saturday's GI Spinaway Stakes, booking herself a ticket to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. The daughter of Bob [...]

Starting Saturday's graded stakes action off in style, Praying (Vekoma), the longest shot on the board at 21-1, sprung the upset over 'TDN Rising Star' Delightful Claire (Thousand Words) in the GIII Prioress Stakes at Saratoga. Stakes-placed as a juvenile in the Myrtlewood at Keeneland as  a juvenile, this $410,000 OBS April grad came off [...]