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Smokem Kitten, off at odds of 7-1, overcame a very wide draw to win impressively at first asking going two turns over the Gulfstream lawn on the opening day card. The blinkered gray broke alertly from post 12 and cleared the field while racing under his own restraint heading into the clubhouse turn. Uncontested through...

Dortmund looks like he could be on his way to following in his Kentucky Derby-winning sire's hoofprints after a spectacular first-level allowance victory going Churchill's one-turn mile. The chestnut was sent off the 11-10 favorite for his 6 1/2-furlong debut sprinting at Santa Anita one day after fellow Shah runner Bayern (Offlee Wild) took down the...

Taylor S remained perfect in two tries at sprint distances and outside of stakes competition with a romping 6 1/4-length allowance victory Saturday at Churchill, a performance which earns the well-related filly a TDN Rising Star. The homebred, a daughter of this track's GIII Winning Colors S. victress and $880,000 earner Miss Macy Sue, was forced...

Mawthooq looked to have this field of maidens over a barrel on the strength of a troubled and distant runner-up effort to next-out romper Ready for Rye (City Zip), who validated a runner-up effort behind ‘TDN Rising Star’ and subsequent GISW and GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile second Carpe Diem (Giant’s Causeway) over similarly sloppy conditions...

Even taking into account that she's a half to MGISW Close Hatches (First Defence), $2,707,300, Skywarn took a ton of money at first asking for a Bill Mott horse, and showed why with a strong runner-up try at 8-5 odds in an off-the-turf, one-mile maiden over this strip on Halloween. A smart play here at...

Lady Shipman set a pressured pace and tired to finish third, beaten two lengths, as the 6-5 chalk going 5 1/2 furlongs in her Gulfstream West dirt debut Oct. 18. Switching to grass after posting a pair of easy works here, the 8-5 chalk was not for catching. On the engine through fractions of :21.89...

Ocho Ocho Ocho, a good-looking one-length winner going 5 1/2 panels on the main track here Oct. 11, had worked well on the turf for this Oct. 25, and was heavily backed despite not getting the surface his connections had intended. The dark bay dueled Tizcano from the inside through seemingly suicidal fractions of :21.46...

Overprepared earns J”TDN Rising Star” J status with this decisive career debut. The $125,000 FTKOCT yearling breezed :10 2/5 as a juvenile at OBSMAR and was snapped up by Mike Repole for $310,000–the third most expensive of her sire's 2-year-olds to sell this year–from the consignment of Niall Brennan. Off at 7-2, she stalked the...

One Lucky Dane, the most expensive of his freshman sire (by Smart Strike)'s 54 yearlings to sell at public auction in 2013, broke through with a 9 1/2-length tour-de-force going two turns on dirt for the first time Saturday afternoon at Santa Anita. The bay was no better than an 11-1 gamble in his six-furlong...

Enchantress, backed as the 8-5 favorite to complete an all-John Velazquez pick four and cap a big day for Todd Pletcher-trained juveniles, ran to her $950,000 Barretts March price tag to win as much the best. Quickly in front, the bay filly doled out pressured splits of :22.63 and :46.03 while off the rail. She...

VANCOUVER (AUS) (c, 2, Medaglia d'Oro–Skates {Aus} {SP-Aus}, by Danehill) earned TDN Rising Star status while handing trainer Gai Waterhouse her fourth straight renewal of this prestigious juvenile event. Driven straight to the lead, Vancouver set a hot pace with favored Sooboog (Aus) (Snitzel {Aus}), an A$1.5 million Inglis Easter purchase by Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al...

Puca displayed versatility reminiscent of her GI Kentucky Derby-winning sire and blew her rivals away by 16 1/4 lengths to earn her diploma and a TDN Rising Star Wednesday afternoon at Belmont Park. Racing without Lasix, Puca allowed some early traffic to clear and was a stalking fourth upon settling before tugging Junior Alvarado up...