GIII Stonestreet Lexington Stakes

Stonestreet Lexington Hero Trendsetter Supplemented To Keeneland April HORA Sale

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...

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Breeding Digest: The Cat That Got The Claret

So this week it was Not This Time who landed two big punches: a 13th career Grade I scorer, Claret Beret, in the Apple Blossom Handicap; plus the Grade II prize named for his own sire Giant's Causeway, through In Our Time. If Not This Time and Into Mischief are going to slug it out all year long, they will of course be drawing on the same well--each extending a different branch of Storm Cat. How do you trademark that horse's legacy? Well, a couple of years ago we tapped...

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Preakness Possibles Shape Up after Saturday Graded Action

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...

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