Simply in Front

Surviving a lengthy objection, And One More Time (Omaha Beach) returned to winning ways with a gate to wire victory in the Plenty of Grace Stakes. Making only two starts last season, the optional claiming contest in mid-September at Woodbine was her first start since she won that venue's GI Natalma Stakes almost a year prior in 2024. Her second, and final jump, as a 3-year-old was a runner-up effort in the Dec. 13 Tropical Park Oaks to 2026 GII Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational victress Destino...

Based in Miramar Beach, Florida, Greg Tramontin of Greenwell Thoroughbreds purchased what was formerly known as Siena Farm outside of Paris, Kentucky and the breeder/stable owner has also continued to add to his broodmare band. At the recent Keeneland January Sale, Tramontin went to $2-million to acquire GISW Simply in Front (Summer Front) who will visit Into Mischief, and he also purchased for $550,000 Closing Statement (Blame) who is entered in Not This Time's book for this spring. Tramontin sat down with TDN to offer highlights from his 2026 matings...

LEXINGTON, KY - The 2026 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale opened with the first of two sessions Monday and optimism remained high across the board as a pair of top-class mares crossed the seven-figure mark for the first time in two years. "Today was a great day," said Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy. "Obviously, it's a long day, but I think the structure of what we did in creating two big sessions sort of lent itself into building a momentum that carried through right to the end...

Keeneland's January Horses of All Ages Sale, which produced 2025 GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint winner Shisospicy, has cataloged 1,046 horses for the 70th edition of the auction, which will cover two sessions on Jan. 12-13, 2026, that each begin at 10 a.m. ET. Click here for the catalog, which offers broodmares and broodmare prospects, newly turned yearlings, horses of racing age and stallion prospects. "The January Sale is where breeders and owners are able to launch the new year with confidence," Keeneland Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy said....

Grade I winner and $2.8 million earner Simply in Front (Summer Front--Complicated, by Blame) has been cataloged to the 2026 January Horses of All Ages Sale on Monday, Jan. 12. Richard G. Hogan, agent for Colebrook Farms, is consigning the 4-year-old who is cataloged as a broodmare prospect. Simply in Front is a three-quarter sister to both GISW And One More Time (Omaha Beach) and stakes winner Churchtown (Air Force Blue). She is a half-sister to Grade II winner Honor D Lady (Honor Code). "Simply in Front is a gorgeous...

JCB Stables' Sarawak Rim (Arg) (Remote {GB}) will likely be the final horse trainer Ignacio Correas IV saddles before retiring to his native Argentina in mid-November when she goes postward in the Nov. 1 GI Breeders' Cup Distaff. The 4-year-old filly--beaten just once in five trips to the post in Argentina--worked four furlongs from the gate in :48.60 (6/22) Wednesday at Keeneland. Sarawak Rim won the May 1 G1 Gran Premio Criadores at Hipodromo Argentino De Palermo in her most recent race and she has been with Correas at Keeneland...

Turf distaffers trained by Chad Brown had taken the seven most recent renewals of the GI First Lady Stakes at Keeneland, and the New York native looked to have a fair chance to extend that streak in the Bluegrass on Saturday afternoon. But it was Colebrook Farm's Simply in Front (Summer Front) split rivals inside the final eighth of a mile and found the line first to cause a 13-1 upset in a bunched finish and snap the Brown domination, however temporarily. The mount of Ben Curtis, the $115,000 Keeneland...

4th-CD, $120k, Msw, 2yo, f, 4 1/2, post time: 2:13 p.m. EDT Charlotte Weber's Live Oak Plantation paid $750,000 for AND ONE MORE TIME (Omaha Beach) at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, the priciest filly from her sire's second crop and second-dearest overall from 95 yearlings reported as sold last season. The pedigree has taken off all around it, as, subsequent to the purchase, the filly's half-sister Simply in Front (Summer Front) finished second in Woodbine's GI Natalma S., while Honor D Lady (Honor Code) scooped the GIII Remington Park...