Girvin

Lael Stables' Luv Your Neighbor (Constitution), who hadn't visited the winner's circle since her debut win last September, marked her return to the winner's circle with stylish victory in Saturday's GIII Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park. Sent off the 2-1 second choice, Luv Your Neighbor was settled in a two-wide fifth as 8-5 choice Dazzling Dame (Girvin) shot to the front, leading 5-1 chance Jumping the Gun (Gun Runner) through an opening quarter mile in :23.76. Narrowing the gap on the front running pair through a :47.82 half, Luv Your...

PICKITUPTHATSGOOD (Girvin--Heart of Midway, by Stevie Wonderboy) was unveiled as the 4-5 choice here and settled midpack up the backstretch. With good energy around the far turn, the favorite began turn up the heat to the outside as the field entered the lane. The filly fired on all cylinders, seized the lead inside the final furlong and won by four lengths over the 'Insighted' Janie Not Jeanie (Mandaloun). The winner's dam is responsible for 3-year-old filly in-training On Ramp (Beau Liam) and a yearling filly by Complexity. A half-sister to...

MADELEINE SWANN (Girvin--Jump Up, by Jump Start) made her first start as the 2-5 choice against three others here. The filly exited the gate and vied for control up the backstretch. Rolling along nicely through the far turn, the 2-year-old was briefly confronted by Midnight Voodoo (Sea Wizard), but the chalk zoomed home to graduate by five lengths. The winner is a half-sister to Amy's Challenge (Artie Schiller), MSW & MGISP, $687,273. Jump Up handed Madeleine Swann a full-sister Mar. 2. 2nd-Monmouth, $48,150, Msw, 6-6, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, :53.07,...

From his home in Fenton, Michigan, some 60 miles northwest of Detroit and 40 miles due north of Ann Arbor, 87-year-old Fred Allor paid a top price of $230,000 for Citizen Judy (American Freedom) during the Fasig-Tipton Digital April Sale, which closed on Tuesday, Apr. 21. Consigned by Eaton Sales, agent, the 4-year-old filly--offered on a Mar. 4 cover and believed to be in foal to Girvin--is something of a poster child and a terrific advertisement for the Fasig-Tipton digital platform, which offers the buying public ready access to bloodstock...

by Jessica Martini & Stefanie Grimm OCALA, Fl - Following its third of four sessions Thursday, the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training needed just north of $14 million to secure its highest-ever gross. That amount was almost entirely secured Friday through the sale of one horse when Donato Lanni, bidding on behalf of Saudi businessman Amr Zedan, went to all-time high $10.5 million to acquire a colt by champion Flightline from the Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbred consignment. By the close of business Friday, the Spring sale had...

Cataloged as hip 1221 as part of the supplemental catalog for the OBS April Sale, a filly by Girvin--Soma (Curlin) was hammered down to Robert and Lawana Low for $1.6 million, in so doing becoming the last of seven horses to fetch $1 million or more over the course of the four-day auction in Central Florida. Bred in Kentucky by Jim and Donna Daniell, the Mar. 7 foal is out of an unplaced half-sister to GSW Celestial City (Uncle Mo) and was consigned to the sale by Top Line Sales,...

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 143 offerings for its April Digital Sale, which includes a pair of broodmares closely related to Derby and Oaks contenders. Bidding is now open through Tuesday, Apr. 21, when the online event begins to close at 2 p.m. ET., the auction company said in a press release on Thursday. "With more than 140 catalogued, up more than a third from last year's catalogue, the April Digital Sale catalogue shows the continued strength and popularity of our digital platform," Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron said. "Offerings...

The final day of the under-tack preview show ahead of next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training finished up with a trio of :9 3/5 marks, including one set by the very first horse to work. The filly (hip 1221), by Airdrie Stud's Girvin, was a $165,000 Keeneland September grad last year for CMT Rentals and is out of a Curlin half-sister to GSW Celestial City (Uncle Mo). Consigned by Top Line Sales, she counts GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner Cy Fair (Not...

Cannoneer (Into Mischief) was third in his unveiling at Churchill Downs last June. The colt took a six-month break then returned to earn a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', when he won by 7 1/4 lengths in Louisville Nov. 29. In his lone start this year, the bay finished a well-beaten fourth in the GIII Holy Bull Stakes. The Triple Crown nominee at 60 cents on the dollar here fired out of the blocks to lead up the backstretch. Though tracked by Lincoln's Law (Liam's Map) around the far...

by Joel Politi I have been around horses since I was young and grew up with a 12-horse barn in our backyard. My Dad bred and raised almost all of the horses that he ran and I've been paying attention to breeding my whole life. I love this aspect of horse racing, have owned horses myself for more than 20 years and I bred our first mare in 2017. Currently have 12 broodmares, and Mark Taylor and Travis White with Taylor Made help me with all of my matings. We...

The air is getting thinner now, as we explore those stallions standing between $30,000 and $59,999, but this penultimate instalment of our series does open access to genuine elite quality. Several in this range have a proven ability to sire horses who go on, in turn, to take a lucrative place at stud; and a number, within that group, have reached a stage in their careers where their fees have been cut temptingly within reach. Take MACLEAN'S MUSIC. Doubling his fee to $50,000 for 2022--after two sons contested the finish...

Dazzling Dame (Girvin) shot out to the front and romped in Saturday's $150,000 Busanda S. at the Big A, good for 20 points on the road to the Kentucky Oaks. The 2-1 chance showed the way through fractions of :23.55 and :47.20, let it out a notch on the far turn and dropped the hammer in the stretch to win by 11 1/2 lengths. Two Bits (American Pharoah) was second. The final time for the one-turn mile was 1:38.30. My World (Essential Quality) completed the same distance in 1:38.96 in...