Into Mischief

5th-LRC, $50K, Msw, 3yo/up, f&m, 6 1/2f, 6:03 p.m. ET. RABEEBA (Curlin) gets unveiled for owner Michael Lund Petersen and trainer Bob Baffert. A $750,000 Keeneland September grad, the 3-year-old filly has a younger full-brother in-training named Stone Aged who Juddmonte purchased for $450,000 during the 2026 OBS Spring Sale. The siblings' dam is Arthur Hancock mare MSP Chatham (Maria's Mon). Out of her 10 foals to race, she has eight winners, including current sire Air Force Blue (by War Front). Rabeeba's extended female family includes MSW Shea D Summer...

El Magnate (Into Mischief), who was tabbed a 'TDN Rising Star presented by Hagyard' following his eventful debut win going 5 1/2 furlongs at Woodbine May 17, doubled up with an effortless score at the Ontario oval Sunday. Sent off the even-money favorite for this second outing, El Magnate was off half a step slowly, but recovered quickly to charge up the rail to the early lead. He was pressed through an opening quarter in :22.25, but began inching clear after a half in :44.78 and he strode home an...

'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Chasten (Into Mischief) won her third race of the 2026 season when she ran off to a powerful 6 1/4-length score in Delaware's Obeah Stakes on Saturday. Chasten, who earned TDN Rising stardom when winning her sole start at two in a seven-furlong test at Churchill Downs, was two-for-two kicking off her 4-year-old campaign with an allowance score at the Fair Grounds in January before adding another notch to her belt with a track-record setting victory in Colonial's one-mile Sandy Bottom Stakes on Mar....

Reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty (Into Mischief), G1 Dubai World Cup hero Magnitude (Not This Time), GI Pegasus World Cup victor White Abarrio (Race Day), and GI Pennsylvania Stakes winner Baeza (McKinzie) headline 17 nominations to what is shaping up to be a blockbuster summer event Saturday, June 27 in the GI Stephen Foster Stakes at Churchill Downs. One of seven stakes races set for that card, nominations for the 'Win and You're In' contest for the GI Breeders' Cup Classic also include the likes of Nysos (Nyquist), last...

Plutarch (Into Mischief) worked for the first time Friday since winning the GIII Robert B. Lewis for 3-year-olds Feb. 7. He was timed going four furlongs 49.6 seconds at 'The Great Race Place.' Trained by Bob Baffert, the colt out of champion Stellar Wind (Curlin) exited the Lewis with 'body soreness' that limited him to only light training prior to Friday's work. Plutarch won the Lewis by 3/4 length. It was his first stakes victory. As a 2-year-old, Plutarch most notably finished third in the GI American Pharoah at Santa...

By the early 2000s, the commercial Thoroughbred breeding industry still resembled a relatively broad ecosystem. Elite stallions mattered enormously, but a wide range of sires maintained meaningful market share, regional programs remained viable, and biological limits naturally constrained how dominant any one stallion could become. That landscape has changed dramatically. A review of sire progeny earnings distributions from 2001 through 2025 reveals one of the clearest long-term structural shifts in modern Thoroughbred breeding: an increasingly small number of stallions now account for a growing share of the sport's economic output....

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - She's got the 'Golden' touch. After pulling off a historic 23-1 upset in the GI Kentucky Derby, the Cherie DeVaux-trained 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Golden Tempo (Curlin) doubled up in Saturday's GI Belmont Stakes, held for the third and final time at Saratoga. The Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stable homebred and future Lane's End stallion followed in the footsteps of Sovereignty (Into Mischief), who also secured the first and third legs of last year's Triple Crown after famously skipping the GI Preakness Stakes....

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - You better get used to failure and you better get used to losing if you're striving to do something historic or epic. Those are the words of Mike Repole after coming within a neck of winning his first GI Kentucky Derby with Renegade (Into Mischief), the 2-1 morning-line favorite for Saturday's GI Belmont Stakes at Saratoga. "I probably take losing better than I take winning," said Repole, who campaigns the $975,000 Keeneland September graduate in partnership with breeders Robert and Lawana Low. "If you ask me...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Led by GI Preakness S. winner Journalism (Curlin) and GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Nysos (Nyquist), a talented field of seven will line up for Saturday's 'Win and You're In' GI Hill 'N' Dale Metropolitan Handicap on the GI Belmont Stakes program at Saratoga. TDN's Senior Racing Editor Steve Sherack takes a closer look at the pedigrees for the entire field entered in the stallion-making race. #1 NYSOS (h, 5, Nyquist--Zetta Z, by Bernardini) Lifetime Record: GISW-US & G1SP-Sau, 9-7-2-0, $4,738,500 'TDN Rising Star, presented...

If you want a fast and precocious winning juvenile to add to the stable, a son or daughter of Early Voting seems to be the most expedient method to get one this year. In the stretch of less than a month, the stallion has had five starters, three winners, one runner-up, and a third-place finisher. And now he tallies his second 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', this time in the form of sensational maiden winner Early Encore at Santa Anita Park. A week removed from He Is No Lie's...

9th-GP, $68k, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, post time: 5:04 p.m. ET STREET PLAY (Into Mischief), a $700,000 Keeneland September purchase, makes her first trip to the races for Mandy Pope's Whisper Hill Farm and trainer Kent Sweezey. A May 1 foal, the bay looks to become the second winner out of a daughter of Contrive (Storm Cat), whose daughter Folklore (Tiznow) was champion 2-year-old filly of 2005 when taking out the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies for Wayne Lukas and Bob and Beverly Lewis. Folklore's GSP half-sister Delightful Quality (Elusive...

The 3-year-old sprint division just keeps getting better. Deep Flame (c, 3, Into Mischief--Barbadia, by Speightstown) looks like another major player in the stacked division following a head-turning, seven-length maiden victory over older horses at third asking at Churchill Downs May 17. The Juddmonte homebred sat a press-and-pounce trip beneath Irad Ortiz, Jr. and stopped the timer for six furlongs in a sharp 1:08.96. He earned a 95 Beyer Speed Figure. He was previously a well-beaten second behind next-out Lafayette S. winner Trouble Calling (Dialed In) on debut for Brad...