A Fine Chardonnay

The catalogue for the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale of 2-Year-Olds In Training, to be held at the Maryland State Fairgounds in Timonium, Maryland, Monday and Tuesday, May 18 and 19 and featuring 593 juveniles, is now available at www.fasigtipton.com. "Our consignors have shown tremendous support for Midlantic May this year, resulting in an outstanding catalogue," said Paget Bennett, Midlantic Director of Sales. "Growth in both numbers and sire power makes this one of our strongest editions to date." There will be a series of three under-tack previews ahead of the auction...

Using some late heroics on opening day, A Fine Chardonnay (Maclean's Music--Andele, by Bernardini) popped another cork in the winner's circle at Keeneland as she captured the GII MiddleGround Capital Beaumont Stakes on Friday afternoon. A maiden winner on debut by two lengths at Churchill Downs last September, A Fine Chardonnay took the Myrtlewood Stakes over the Keeneland main track a month later. Finishing off her juvenile campaign, the Ian Wilkes trainee was third in the Fern Creek Stakes at Churchill Downs Nov. 29. The newly minted 3-year-old was back...

Taylor Made's Not This Time, who currently leads all North American-based sires by black-type winners for 2025, further padded that number when Albaugh Family Stables homebred On Time Girl (f, 2, Not This Time--Girl Daddy, by Uncle Mo) captured Churchill's Fern Creek Stakes for juvenile fillies Saturday afternoon, bringing her sire's stakes winner count to 26 for the year. The bay 2-year-old, a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', left the gate sharpest of all, almost immediately putting a length on the field, but Keeneland maiden winner Solemn Vow (Constitution)...

She may've been in another zip code early, but A Fine Chardonnay (Maclean's Music) was moving fastest late to inhale her rivals en route to victory in the Dean Dorton Myrtlewood Stakes at Keeneland. Debuted beneath the Twin Spires Sept. 11, she came off the pace and closed smartly to win by two lengths as a massive 45-1 longshot. She went off here at a much lower 2-1 on the back of some strong works at Churchill since that unveiling. A Fine Chardonnay jumped evenly with the field, but soon...