Joey Tran

Ag Bullet (Twirling Candy) and Sweet Azteca (Sharp Azteca), a pair of Grade I winning gray mares trained by Richard Baltas, will continue their racing careers, according to a report from the Daily Racing Form. Currently a 5-year-old, Ag Bullet notched her first top-level score this past summer when she took on the boys in the GI Jaipur Stakes at Saratoga. After hitting the board in the GI Prevagen Breeders's Cup Sprint at Del Mar in 2024, the Calvin Nguyen & Joey Tran color bearer finished as the runner-up to...

Calvin Nguyen always figured that he and his brother Joey Tran had found their once-in-a-lifetime horse right out of the gate. In 1999, they claimed their very first runner for $32,000. Freedom Crest turned that gamble into a 13-race in-the-money streak, climbing his way into graded company and making it to the 2001 Breeders' Cup Classic. But two decades later, a filly who was never supposed to run in their silks has proven that she is worth her weight in silver—literally. The grey Twirling Candy filly named Ag Bullet has...

Looking to repeat as the winner of the GII Never Say Die Ladies Turf Sprint Stakes at Kentucky Downs, Ag Bullet once again set the tone from the bell and got to the wire first as she broke the track record going 6 1/2 furlongs on Saturday. A year ago, the Calvin Nguyen and Joey Tran-owned gray set the pace and torched the Ladies Turf Sprint field by a comfortable 5 1/4 furlongs. After finishing off the board in the GI First Lady Stakes at Keeneland in early October, the...

Ag Bullet stamped her ticket to the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint with a powerful victory over the boys in the GI Jaipur Stakes at Saratoga Sunday. The race had originally been scheduled for the loaded GI Belmont Stakes card, but was moved to Sunday after heavy rains hit the upstate track Saturday. The transfer allowed jockey John Velazquez to pick up the mount from Flavien Prat, who was in Kentucky to ride Final Gambit in the GIII Matt Winn Stakes Sunday. Sent off at 5-2, Ag Bullet broke in...

Heavily favored Scipio sailed home a much-the-best winner of the Baffle Stakes at Santa Anita. The dark bay colt, twice graded-placed while still a maiden, earned his first career victory going one mile over the Santa Anita turf last time out and was the 4-5 favorite to make it two in a row while making his first start down the hill Sunday. He raced near the back of a compact field and was buried behind a wall of horses approaching the stretch. Tipped to the center of course at the...