Twirling Candy

Opening for bidding with 31 offerings, the 2026 Inglis Digital USA June Sale is now online, and is led by in-form racing prospects coming off strong recent performances--namely Gigabit (Dialed In) and Range Goat (Bolt d'Oro). The former is a 3-year-old filly last seen earning a 92 Beyer for her allowance victory at Horseshoe Indianapolis by a widening 6 1/4 lengths. She is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Twirling Queen (Twirling Candy) and they're both daughters of MSW Adventurous Lady (Kantharos). Gigabit is consigned by Lantern Hill Farm, and...

Twirling Aces (Twirling Candy) took plenty of money as the even-money favorite despite being the only first-time starter in this auction price-restricted field. Encountering plenty of early trouble from the gate, she had to settle wide in the middle of the pack as Annie Bee (Collected) showed the way. Coming with plenty of steam down the outside of the track, Twirling Aces kept driving, pushed past late leader By La Rina (Echo Town) and cleared off to graduate on debut by 2 3/4 lengths. A $50,000 Keeneland September pick up,...

Pin Up Betty (Constitution) may have been looking for a repeat in the GIII Old Forester Mint Julep Stakes, but it was Full of Run Racing II LLC and Frank Silva's Sweet Treasure (f, 4, Twirling Candy--Stellium, by Empire Maker) who led every step of the way to capture the 1 1/16-mile turf contest on Stephen Foster Preview Day at Churchill Downs Saturday. It marked the dark bay's first stakes score. Despite Pin Up Betty--with her distinctive blinkers--breaking sharpest of all, it was Sweet Treasure from the farthest outside post...

Payson Stud's breeding program has been a fixture in the Thoroughbred industry for more than four decades, built by the late Virginia Kraft Payson. Since Mrs. Payson's passing in 2023, trustee Christian Erickson has carried her legacy forward, and I've been fortunate to serve as bloodstock advisor to the program. Our goal in recent years has been simple: upgrade the broodmare band. That goal led to some of the hardest--and best--decisions we've made. Together with the team at Gainesway Farm, we sold foundation mare Summer Sweet, the dam of champion...

A pair of juveniles from the Top Line Sales consignment led the penultimate OBS March under-tack show session Friday with a Drain the Clock filly (hip 508) and a Golden Pal colt (hip 598) sharing the co-fastest furlong breeze in :9 3/5. Setting the mark first of the two, the day's fastest-working colt was one that Top Line's Jimbo Gladwell admitted they stretched on to acquire for $275,000 at the Fasig-Tipton New York Saratoga Select Yearling Sale last August. "He had size and a beautiful walk [at Saratoga]," Gladwell said....

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...

In a well-watched race for the presence of 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Ewing (Knicks Go), it was Oscar's Hope (Twirling Candy) on his return to sprints who stepped forward to take home the Ozark Stakes at Oaklawn Park. The Tom Amoss-trainee entered this contest off an unsuccessful attempt at two-turns Jan. 3 in the local Smarty Jones Stakes, finishing eighth and off the board for the first time in his six-race career. The runner-up there was Silent Tactic (Tacitus), who returned Feb. 6 at this venue to claim...

Grade I Del Mar Oaks winner Iscreamuscream (Twirling Candy) lit up the Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale late, selling to Japan's Katsumi Yoshida for $1.5 million. Consigned by Taylor Made Sales, the 5-year-old was undefeated in her first four starts including the GII San Clemente Stakes before taking down the Del Mar Oaks in August of 2024. She last sold via the Fasig-Tipton Digital platform for $330,000 shortly before earning her Grade I win. Yoshida also picked up GSW 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' Maysam (Game Winner) earlier in the...

GI Del Mar Oaks winner Iscreamuscream (Twirling Candy) (hip 385) is set to go through the ring Monday as part of the Fasig-Tipton Winter Mixed Sale in Lexington, Kentucky. And while she may not be accompanied by the upbeat jingle of an ice cream truck, she appears set to provide her new owner with just as sweet a future. Consigned as part of the Taylor Made Sales Agency contingent, the 5-year-old daughter of Twirling Candy sells with a confirmed nomination to top stallion Not This Time who is already booked...

Third-crop stallion Sweetontheladies (Twirling Candy) will return to Florida where he will stand the upcoming 2026 breeding season stand at Solera Farm in Williston. A son of leading sire Twirling Candy, Sweetontheladies will stand as the property of The Four Horsemen Racing Stable and Lady Lindsay Racing Stable for $2,500 live foal. Sweetontheladies won or placed in 11 stakes from the ages of two to five before retiring sound with earnings over $400,000. As a juvenile, he won three of his first four starts, including the Juvenile Sprint Stakes and captured the Crystal River...

Litigation (Twirling Candy) posted four victories last season, with three in a row at one point, and he got right back to winning ways in his 2026 bow. Breaking his maiden in the middle of his campaign last year, he picked up two additional wins in succession against allowance company sprinting on the grass, defeating GISW Troubleshooting (Not This Time) while he was at it, and rallied belatedly at Keeneland in October to miss collecting his fourth in a row. He redeemed himself two back Oct. 31 when he defeated...

In the latest installment of 2026 Mating Plans, Anne Archer and Tom Hinkle discusses upcoming mating plans for Hinkle Farms. SEEKING GABRIELLE, 19, Forestry - Seeking Regina, by Seeking the Gold. Booked to Twirling Candy Seeking Gabrielle has been a very special mare for us and is the dam of Nyquist. Being 19, we know the number of foals she will have are few. Our hope is to get as many fillies as we can. Twirling Candy with Forestry mares is a proven cross and we believe this mating can...