Resolute Racing

7th-CD, 120K, Msw, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 3:55 p.m. The half-sister to Eclipse winner and GI Longines Kentucky Oaks winner Pretty Mischievous (Into Mischief), PRETTY SASSY (Medaglia d'Oro) debuts as a homebred for Godolphin Sunday. The third foal out of GI Spinaway Stakes winner Pretty City Dancer, who sold to Stroud Coleman Bloodstock for $3,500,000 at FTKNOV in 2018 and is a half to GISW Lear's Princess (Lear Fan), Pretty Sassy gets jockey Tyler Gaffalione aboard for trainer Brendan Walsh. Lined up just inside of that runner is Brown Sugar...

You can say this much for John Stewart, he doesn't think small. Looking to build a stable that can compete at the highest level not only in the U.S. but all over the world, the owner will compete in Sunday's G1 Japan Cup with his newest acquisition, the gelding Goliath (Ger) (Adlerflug {(Ger)}. Stewart purchased a majority interest in Goliath after he won the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Qipco Stakes at odds of 25-1. Since, he has won the G2 Prix du Conseil de Paris Stakes at...

Three of Europe's top 2400-metre gallopers face an 11-strong local challenge in Sunday's G1 Japan Cup, looking to snap an 18-year run of success for Japanese-based horses. While it has become next to impossible for the raiders to walk away with the Tokyo spoils, that was not always the case. In the first 17 renewals, horses from overseas prevailed on no fewer than a dozen occasions, including theretofore unprecedented consecutive winners for Sir Michael Stoute with Singspiel (Ire) and Pilsudski (Ire) in 1996 and 1997, respectively. But since that time,...

OwnerView named Resolute's John Stewart and former MLB star Jayson Werth as the co-winners of the 2024 New Owner of the Year Award, sponsored by 1/ST RACING, the Jockey Club of America said via a press release on Wednesday morning. A lifelong racing fan, Stewart bought his first horse at the 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. From his farm in Midway, Kentucky, the owner of Resolute Racing focuses on breeding to race instead of to sell. "It's very important as I grow the breeding program at Resolute Racing to breed...

Tickets for the 54th annual Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards, held Jan. 23 at the Breakers Palm Beach, officially went on sale Monday. The awards, which honor horse racing's finest each year since 1971, will welcome co-hosts Britney Eurton and Lindsay Czarniak along with Caton Bredar who will serve as the ceremony announcer. In addition to the awards ceremony, there will also be an Eclipse Awards Charity Golf Tournament benefitting the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance held the morning of the ceremony. All ticketing information can be found here.

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) named John Stewart's Resolute Racing as a title sponsor of the 54th Annual Eclipse Awards, which will be held on Thursday, January 23, at The Breakers Palm Beach, the organization said in a press release on Wednesday morning. The multi-year partnership between the NTRA and Resolute will include not only the title sponsorship of the awards ceremony, but also the event's after party. "I love this sport because it demands excellence," said John Stewart, president and CEO of Resolute Racing. "As we at Resolute...

9th-CD, $120,000, Msw, 2yo, 1m, post time: 4:55 p.m. ET OH MONACO (Curlin), a $650,000 purchase by John Stewart's Resolute Racing out of last year's Keeneland September sale, is a son of Byrama (GB) (Byron {GB}), winner of the GI Vanity Handicap on synthetic and a dual stakes winner and multiple graded-placed performer on the grass. The mare's two winners to date include this colt's full-brother Known Agenda, third in the GII Remsen Stakes in 2020 and victorious in the GI Curlin Florida Derby the following spring. Known Agenda now...

American owner-breeder John Stewart of Resolute Racing has completed a deal to buy a majority share in the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Goliath (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}). The four-year-old gelding, who is trained in Chantilly by Francis-Henri Graffard, was bred by Gestut Schlenderhan and races in the colours of Schlenderhan's Baron Philip von Ullmann. The owner's father, Georg, raced the 2005 GI Breeders' Cup Turf winner Shirocco (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}) among a host of top-class horses, and this year's Breeders' Cup will be among the options...

By Brian Sheerin and Adam Houghton DEAUVILLE, France--John Stewart has made more of a splash in a year trading in bloodstock than most people will in an entire lifetime and the effervescent character behind the ever-expanding Resolute Racing sent more ripples through the industry by snapping up the €1.4 million Wootton Bassett (GB) top lot (lot 105) on day one of the August Yearling Sale at Arqana. Irishman Gavin O'Connor has been representing Resolute Racing at Arqana this week while Stewart tuned in from his base in America. Bred by...

Sierra Leone (Gun Runner), who rallied from last to finish second behind Fierceness (City of Light) in the GII Jim Dandy Stakes Saturday, will continue on to the Aug. 24 GI DraftKings Travers Stakes, trainer Chad Brown confirmed Sunday. "I thought he ran great. He put in a really good performance," Brown said of his charge's Jim Dandy effort. "He's come out of it well, so we'll move forward and point to the Travers. We're looking forward to getting back out to a mile and a quarter." Sierra Leone won...

If you didn't know the sophisticated people behind the mating, you might imagine that Puca went to Good Magic on no better premise than to double down on the alchemy implicit in both names. Because a puca (or pooka) in folklore is a shape-changing sprite, capable of bringing good or bad fortune. Shakespeare named Puck accordingly in A Midsummer Night's Dream, but my favourite example is Elwood P. Dowd's invisible drinking buddy Harvey, a rabbit standing just under six feet four inches. Perhaps you've noticed his silhouette at Harvey's Bar...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Add Virgin Colada (More than Ready) to the Resolute Racing's burgeoning list of firsts. So, so many firsts in its first season of racing. With her huge finish in the stretch in the seventh race Sunday at Saratoga Race Course, Virgin Colada got to the wire first, a half-length in front of Running Away (Gun Runner) in the 1 1/16-miles maiden special weight contest for 2-year-old fillies and was promptly tabbed a 'TDN Rising Star.' She won her, yes, first start in 1:44.32 and paid $11.20...