Ben Colebrook

Trendsetter (Modernist), winner of the GIII Stonestreet Lexington Stakes at Keeneland Apr. 11, has been supplemented (Hip 32) to the Keeneland April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale to be held the evening of Friday, Apr. 24 following the races on closing day of the Spring Meet, the sales company said via a press release on Friday. Colebrook Racing, agent for Midway Racing, is consigning Trendsetter, a 3-year-old gelding by Modernist. At 2, Trendsetter began his career with two wins on the dirt and ran fifth in Keeneland's 5 1/2-furlong...

Third in the GI Toyota Blue Grass Stakes on Keeneland's opening weekend, Talkin (Good Magic) will skip the GI Kentucky Derby and be pointed toward the GI Preakness Stakes at Laurel Park by trainer Danny Gargan. Eleven lengths behind 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Further Ado (Gun Runner) as that one dominated the Blue Grass, Talkin would be the trainer's chief hope for a second win in the Triple Crown series behind Dornoch, also a son of Good Magic, who claimed the GI Belmont Stakes in 2024. Gargan said...

Good prognoses and day-after thoughts abound Sunday morning as connections reported in on their stars after a Saturday of exciting racing that included a dead-heat victory in the GI Jenny Wiley Stakes as well as a stylish win in the GIII Stonestreet Lexington Stakes. Concerning the aforementioned two victresses of the Jenny Wiley, a rare feat at any level, the Brendan Walsh camp reported that Expensive Queen (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) emerged from the effort in good form as did the Chad Brown barn for Segesta (Ghostzapper). "She's good...

Have a spring meeting Ben Colebrook! Trendsetter (g, 3, Modernist--Suyapa, by Astrology) came rolling down the center of the stretch to win going away at 32-1 in Saturday's GIII Stonestreet Lexington S. at Keeneland. The Hell We Did (Authentic) was second. Pacesetter Corona de Oro (Bolt d'Oro) was third. The victory adds to a huge beginning of the Keeneland meeting for Colebrook, who also saddled Percy's Bar (Upstart) to a win in last Friday's GI Central Bank Ashland S. "I wouldn't say I was surprised," Colebrook said. "I thought he...

When last seen in Grade I company at Keeneland, Hat Creek Racing's Percy's Bar (Upstart) crossed the wire an apparent open-lengths winner of the GI Darley Alcibiades S. last October, only to be demoted from the victory for causing interference and placed second. The $52,000 Keeneland September bargain was back in Lexington in Friday's opening-day feature, the GI Central Bank Ashland S., and with a rail-skimming run into the short stretch, Percy's Bar went on to an authoritative 2 1/4-length defeat of heavily favored Zany (American Pharoah). French Friction (City...

Repole Stable's Zany (American Pharoah), the 4-1 favorite in the lone Kentucky Oaks Future Wager, headlines a field of seven set for the GI Central Bank Ashland S. on Keeneland's opening day program Friday. The unbeaten GII Demoiselle S. heroine kicked off her sophomore campaign for Todd Pletcher with a 2 3/4-length victory over subsequent GII Fasig-Tipton Fair Grounds Oaks winner Life of Joy (Gun Runner) after racing greenly down the stretch in the Suncoast S. at Tampa Feb. 7. "Zany is a special, special filly," Repole said following the...

Multiple Grade I-placed Percy's Bar (Upstart), unraced since running third in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies behind juvenile champion Super Corredora (Gun Runner) and one of the likely favorites in the Kentucky Oaks in Explora (Blame), will make her return to the races Friday in the GI Central Bank Ashland Stakes at Keeneland. The Ben Colebrook trainee has been something of an enigma on the work tab, with an initial breeze Jan. 6 marked as her first since her troubled Breeders' Cup start, but nothing publicly listed after that...

DEL MAR, Calif. - Super Corredora (Gun Runner) cleared her eight rivals beneath an aggressive Hector Berrios heading into the clubhouse turn, and never looked back in Friday's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar. Favored 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Explora (Blame) was second. Fellow 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Percy's Bar (Upstart) was third. Super Corredora becomes the fourth Breeders' Cup winner for trainer John Sadler and first for Berrios. "She's a filly we had really high hopes for," Sadler said. "We're in our own...

Still a maiden after putting in a strong third against 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Local Knowledge (Yaupon) on debut over course and distance Oct. 4., Gallivant was rewarded with an 89 Beyer Speed Figure and that prompted a try Saturday in the Bowman Mills Stakes. Responding well to the jump up in class, the 2-1 second choice handled this scratched-down field with ease to pick up his first stakes win. Fourth of the four while showing a lack of any early speed, Gallivant trailed the pacesetting favorite Spun...

Bentornato (Valiant Minister), runner-up in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Sprint, breezed five furlongs in company in a bullet 1:00 (1/24) Saturday morning at Keeneland in preparation for a return trip to Del Mar for this year's race on Nov. 1. He had jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. aboard for the work with Araucano (McKinzie), a 3-year-old maiden. Bentornato finished three lengths clear of his workmate at the wire and lengthened the advantage on the gallop out. "He will have his final work here next week," trainer Jose D'Angelo said of...

   A debut second at Ellis Aug. 1 before winning just nine days ago over allowance company at Kentucky Downs, Street Beast earned his first stakes victory in the Global Tote Juvenile Mile Stakes when returning to Kentucky Downs Sunday. Away well from the gate, the even-money favorite was content to sit just off the speed up the backstretch. Chasing a lone leader around the far turn, Street Beast bided his time, but quickly rallied past the pacesetter, widening his advantage in the final furlong and scoring by seven lengths...

Percy's Bar (Upstart) set the mark high when she ran home a winner in the Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs on Sunday. Posting a debut score by four lengths this past spring at Keeneland, the filly came into this race with a strong series of morning works under rider Luan Machado. Made a 3-1 shot with some tough company to contend with here, she watched the race unfold after the break behind a :21.29 opening quarter. Making an eye-catching sweep through the turn, she sailed by her rivals and rolled...