Charlatan

Labwah gifted her sire Charlatan the first graded/group winner of his young stallion career when running off with the G3 UAE Oaks at Meydan on Friday. Thanks to her 7 1/2-length victory, the Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum-owned filly earned 50 points toward a start in the GI Kentucky Oaks in May. One of the quickest away, the bay set out under pressure from Pretty And Famous (Known Agenda) to her outside. Able to walk the dog through the early stages, Labwah was still under fire with less than...

RIYADH, KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA -- Bob Baffert may have won two Triple Crowns, six Kentucky Derbys, 21 Breeders' Cup races, and four Dubai World Cups but there is an itch that still needs to be scratched: the Saudi Cup. "We've gotten pretty close," he said Thursday morning from King Abdulaziz Racecourse, and he's not wrong. Baffert has been represented in five of the six runnings of the world's richest race and has finished second twice, with Charlatan (Speightstown) then Country Grammer (Tonalist). Last year was his sole omission, and...

EASY DECISION (c, 3, Charlatan--All Laced Up, by Bernardini) was unveiled as the 9-5 choice here. The chalk initially took on longshot pacesetter Lord King (King for a Day), but was reigned in to stalk up the backstretch. Taking aim at the leader and Complex Charlie (Complexity) around the far turn and into the lane, the 3-year-old was forced to tip to an outside lane. The bay became uncorked, struck the front with a furlong left and graduated by 6 1/4 lengths. Complex Charlie was the runner-up. A $120,000 buy...

5 - CAPTAIN SHREVE, SA, 1/31-6th, 6 furlongs  (Video) Beyer Speed Figure-78 (2nd) (g, 3, by Runhappy--Sierra Electrica, by Tapit) O/B-Kretz Racing (Ky). T-George Papaprodromou. J-Kyle Frey. If one considers Potente (below) a 3-year-old to monitor going forward, Captain Shreve has to be somewhere on the same screen. He nagged Potente from the start, drew alongside turning for home, then couldn't quite keep pace late in another legit runner-up finish (he was a debut 2nd to Secured Freedom). Rustin and Juliana Kretz are Southern Californians, but named the gelding after...

FORCED ENTRY (f, 3, Charlatan--Violent Times {SW, $228,701}, by Violence) contested the pace before fading to last in her six-furlong debut over the lawn Jan. 11. Moving to the main track and stretching out to a mile in this second start, the 7-2 shot sprinted out to the early lead and was shadowed by favored Wolf Hill (Upstart) down the backstretch through a quarter in :23.05 and a half in :47.07. She skipped clear nearing the stretch and sailed home unchallenged to graduate by 7 1/4 lengths. Wolf Hill trailed...

In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this Saturday running at Kyoto Racecourse: Saturday, January 17, 2026 6th-KYO, ¥15,200,000 ($96k), Allowance, 3yo, 1800m BOOM BAP BEAT (c, 3, Into Mischief--Point of Honor, by Curlin), a $1.25-million Keeneland September acquisition for owner Susumu Fujita, has acquitted himself well in his two previous...

5th-GP, $84k, Msw, 3yo, f, 5fT, 2:20 p.m. ET A $325,000 purchase at the 2023 Keeneland November Sale, ALQAB (Charlatan) gets her career under way for Shadwell Stable and trainer Todd Pletcher. A Jan. 24 foal, the chestnut is a half-sister to Turnerloose (Nyquist), a stakes winner and Grade II-placed on the grass at two who made a successful transition to the main track when taking out the GII Rachel Alexandra Stakes the following winter. Alqab is also kin to Fend (Street Sense), whose son Kentucky Outlaw (Outwork) was victorious...

7th-OP, $100K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 4:22 p.m. ET. Set for her unveiling is SANGARETTE (Charlatan), a 2-year-old who was purchased for $500,000 by Tom Durant during the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale last year and sent to trainer Ray Ashford. The filly's dam, GISP Sweet Shirley Mae (Broken Vow), produced SW Mae Never No (Ire) (No Nay Never). Sangarette's extended female family includes GSW Chaos Theory (Curlin). Also making the starting gate on opening day of the Oaklawn meet is Don Alberto homebred Eagle Dance (Audible). Trained by Brad Cox,...

Little Miss Curlin became the first black-type winner for freshman sire Charlatan (Speightstown) with a sharp performance in Friday's Donovan L. Ferguson Memorial S. at Fair Grounds. The 9-5 favorite battled through fractions of :21.69 and :46.09 and powered home to win by five lengths. The Coteau Grove Farms homebred previously won her debut, also versus fellow Louisiana-breds, by 4 1/4 lengths at Delta Downs Oct. 22. Little Miss Curlin's dam had a colt by Life Is Good in 2024 and a filly by Constitution this year. She was bred...

1st-Woodbine, C$90,133, Msw, 11-15, 2yo, f, 7f (AWT), 1:25.72, ft, 1 1/4 lengths. LIKELY STORY (f, 2, Charlatan--Caren {Horse of the Year, Ch. 3yo Filly & GSW-Can, $821,790}, by Society's Chairman) found some trouble at midstretch of her five-furlong debut over the local turf course Oct. 18, having to alter course and losing her momentum en route to a fifth-place finish. The lesser-preferred of the two entries in the race for her sire (by Speightstown) behind drifting favorite Beautiful Things, the $260,000 KEESEP yearling was content to bide her time...

Early Saturday morning at Belmont Park, Silent Scheme (Charlatan) became loose on the training track before colliding with More for Sure (ire) (Cracksman {GB}), resulting in both horses passing away due to their injuries, the New York Racing Association (NYRA) announced via press release. The juvenile gelding by Charlatan was trained by Mark Hennig while the 3-year-old Irish-bred filly hailed from the Anthony Dutrow barn. The former sustained a broken neck and died instantly while More for Sure had a catastrophic injury to her left shoulder. She was humanely euthanized....

6th-GP, $70K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6f, 3:30 p.m. ET. A $630,000 buy at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling sale, LITTLE GEORGIE (Charlatan) makes her first start for trainer Saffie Joseph. Sporting the same distinctive chestnut color as her sire, the filly is out of MSW Swingit (Victory Gallop), the dam of 10 foals, eight to race and seven winners. Chief among her produce are MGISP Neolithic (Harlan's Holiday) and MGSW Travel Column (Frosted). The latter--initially an $850,000 yearling purchase by OXO Equine--went to Spendthirft Farm for $2-million at the...