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Parabellum, who attracted Arqana’s record price of €2.6-million when topping the sheets at the 2015 August sale, was compromised by inexperience when narrowly defeated in his Apr. 16 Chantilly debut and again at this track last time May 19, and went some way to justifying his lofty price tag with a blistering display here. Professional...

Verbal Dexterity (Ire), sent off at 8-1, tracked the leading trio without cover throughout the early stages. Moving forward to take command with 1 1/2 furlongs remaining, the imposing homebred stayed on strongly to win by 9 1/2 lengths from Sebastiano Ricci (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), with Caffe Macchiato (Ire) (Fast Company {Ire}) 1...

Trying 11 furlongs off a fast-finishing third going a mile and a quarter last time, Centennial Farm’s Rocketry (<a href="https://www.darleyamerica.com/stallions/our-stallions/hard-spun " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Hard Spun</a>) ran to his moniker and raced home to become Friday’s second TDN Rising Star on the Belmont program. The scopey bay colt dropped better than 10 lengths out of it early on as they went...

Emancipation (Malibu Moon), a full-brother to none other than 2013 GI Kentucky Derby winner and promising first-crop sire Orb ($2,612,516), came with a stinging late rally down the center of the Belmont main track and raced past favored Marshall Plan (Speightstown) to cause a 29-1 upset in Friday’s fourth race at Belmont Park. Drawn widest...

Winchell homebred Reride (<a href="https://lanesend.com/candyride " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Candy Ride</a> {Arg}) was backed down to 11-10 off a fairly tame set of drills for this first go, and performed to expectations with a facile tally worth of the ‘TDN Rising Star’ distinction. In an early tussle outside of chief market rival Nothings Changed (Street Boss) after an alert break, the...

Stormy’s Song led wire-to-wire to win her career debut and earn ‘TDN Rising Star’ honors, kicking off GI Belmont S. week with a bang. The gray posted a steady series of works at Keeneland and Belmont in recent weeks and was let go at odds of 9-1 here. Away without incident, she showed the way...

September (Ire) broke well to stalk the leading quartet against the rail before being angled off turning for home. Rushing to the front with a furlong remaining, the 9-2 joint-favourite surged clear to win by 5 1/2 lengths from Himmah (Ire) (Intikhab). “I think that’s the first one we’ve had that’s won first time out...

Rubilinda (<a href="https://bit.ly/2KNga16 " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Frankel</a> {GB}) became the first U.S. winner for turf sensation and sophomore sire <a href="https://bit.ly/2KNga16 " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Frankel</a> with an ultra-impressive last-to-first victory to become the newest “TDN Rising Star.� Hammered down to 3-2 favoritism from a 6-1 morning-line quote, the Don Alberto homebred broke slowly from post 10, trailing the field through a swift first quarter in...

The second foal and first to race out of the G2 UAE Derby heroine Khawlah, Masar was sent off the 5-2 favourite but William Buick was in no hurry and allowed him to languish in rear early. Needing a run passing the quarter pole, the homebred found a gap between rivals in time to collar...

Copper Bullet was hammered down to 3-2 favoritism for this second go and ran to the money with an ultra-impressive performance to become the second “TDN Rising Star� of the day. Away alertly, the $200,000 KEESEP buy seized the early advantage and appeared well within himself as he clocked an opening quarter in :22.47. Lengthening his massive...

Saudi Chroma was the first starter for new owner Amr Zedan’s Zedan Racing Stables and she gave the Saudi businessman a great introduction to the Sport of Kings with a dominant debut victory at Santa Anita Thursday to become the lastest “TDN Rising Star.� Floating up to 5-2 from 8-5 morning-line favoritism, the chestnut shot out of the gate...

Sent off the 7-2 second favourite for this maiden won 12 months ago by the subsequent Derby flop and rebounding class act Ulysses (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Dubai Thunder who is a half-brother to the stable’s G1 Champion S. and G1 Lockinge S. hero Farhh (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), Co-Hwt. Older Horse-Eng at 9.5-11f, Co-Hwt. European Older...