Agave Racing

Promising allowance winner Maximum Bourbon (Maximum Security) topped the 2026 March Digital Sale which closed Tuesday evening with gross sales of $4,430,500 for 142 horses sold. The sale, which opened Thursday, March 19, included horses of racing age, racing/broodmare prospects, broodmares--including mares with foals at foot--2-year-olds in training, 'short' yearlings, and a fractional interest in graded stakes winner Just Beat the Odds (Munnings). Maximum Bourbon (hip 5) sold for $400,000 to Agave Racing Stable to top the sale. Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent, consigned the 4-year-old gelding. A three-time winner...

GI Del Mar Oaks winner Iscreamuscream (Twirling Candy) (hip 385) is set to go through the ring Monday as part of the Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale in Lexington, Kentucky. And while she may not be accompanied by the upbeat jingle of an ice cream truck, she appears set to provide her new owner with just as sweet a future. Consigned as part of the Taylor Made Sales Agency contingent, the 5-year-old daughter of Twirling Candy sells with a confirmed nomination to top stallion Not This Time who is already booked...

You could be forgiven if the fifth race at Louisiana Downs Monday evening was well off your radar screen, but Don'tcrossthedevil (Cross Traffic)'s 4 1/4-length victory in the one mile and 70 yard allowance completed a long and winding road to redemption for co-owner Kevin Knuckley and trainer and breeder Jaylan Clary. Clary bred the 4-year-old gelding with her late father, trainer Michael Neatherlin, and the bay made his winning debut at Remington Park just weeks after Neatherlin died in the fall of 2021. A second open-lengths victory briefly had...

Cannon Thoroughbreds' Smooth Like Strait (Midnight Lute) will attempt to defend his title in the GI Shoemaker Mile--a Win and You're In event for the GI Breeders' Cup Mile--when he faces five rivals in the Santa Anita contest Monday. The 5-year-old, the 4-5 morning-line favorite, was runner-up in four graded events following last year's Shoemaker, setting the pace before getting past late by Space Blues in the Nov. 6 GI Breeders' Cup Mile. Making his 2022 debut, he set the pace before ending up third in a blanket finish in...