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Cross Traffic filly all heart in first stakes win

Pat's No Fool made a huge move on the turn then dug in gamely in deep stretch to score her first stakes win in Sunday's $100,000 Maddie May S. at Aqueduct... Read More
Pat's No Fool captures the $100,000 Maddie May S. at Aqueduct - NYRA photo

Career day for Into Mischief at F-T Gulfstream 2YO sale

Into Mischief's remarkable stallion career reached new heights Wednesday at the Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale of 2-year-olds... Read More

$750,000 filly anchors F-T Gulfstream sale for Malibu Moon

Malibu Moon's lone offering to go through the ring at the March 27th Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream 2-year-old sale brought a winning bid of $750,000... Read More
Malibu Moon's $750,000 filly, hip No. 20, breezing at the FT Gulfstream 2yo sale - photo by Z

Goldencents colt comes up huge in $1 million Louisiana Derby (G2)

By My Standards thrust himself squarely into the Kentucky Derby (G1) picture with a hard-fought victory in Saturday's $1 million Louisiana Derby (G2)... Read More

Outstanding results for Race Day as OBS March wraps up

Spendthrift stallion Race Day's $170,000 filly during Wednesday's session of the March 12-13 OBS 2-year-olds in Training Sale... Read More

$425,000 for Wicked Strong filly Tuesday at OBS

The 2-year-old sales season kicked off with a bang on Tuesday for First-Crop sire Wicked Strong... Read More
Wicked Strong's $425,000 filly, hip No. 134, at the 2019 OBS March 2yo sale - photo by Z

Goldencents filly has fastest quarter-mile at OBS Under Tack Show

The final day of the OBS March 2-year-old Sale Under Tack Show produced the fastest quarter-mile of the three days when a filly by Goldencents zipped though the distance in :20 2/5... Read More
Goldencents's hip No. 399 works a quarter mile in a bullet :20 2/5 at OBS

Race Day juveniles sparkle at OBS Under Tack Show

Spendthrift stallion Race Day, whose first foals are 2-year-olds of 2019, will be represented by three juveniles at the March 12-13 OBS March sale... Read More
Race Day's Hip 232 breezing at the OBS Under Tack Show - photo by Z

Wicked Strong filly fires bullet at OBS Under Tack show

A filly from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Wicked Strong worked an eighth-mile in a swift :9 4/5 seconds during Thursday's session of the Under Tack Show... Read More
Hip 110 breezes 20.4 at OBS March

Spendthrift launches “Safe Bet” program for breeders

B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm has introduced a new breeding program for 2019 called the “Safe Bet” program, designed to incentivize breeders to support the farm’s fourth-year stallions. The Safe Bet program assures breeders that a stallion’s first crop of two-year-olds will have at least one Graded/Group stakes winner… Read More
Spendthrift's Safe Bet Program, New for 2019

G1 winner Free Drop Billy gets first mare in foal

Free Drop Billy, the only G1-winning son of Union Rags Spendthrift Farm’s new stallion Free Drop Billy, the Grade 1-winning 2-year-old by Union Rags, had his first mare confirmed in foal. Autumn Gold, a Smart Strike mare that was bred through Spendthrift’s “Share The Upside” program, checked in… Read More
Free Drop Billy is the only G1 winner at stud by Union Rags

2018 APEX ABC Runners: Into Mischief topples the giants

Into Mischief | Barbara Livingston Photo Into Mischief was a $180,000 OBS 2-year-old in 2007, bought by Spendthrift Farm owner B. Wayne Hughes and trained by Richard Mandella in California during the synthetic-track era; indeed, all of Into Mischief’s six career starts were on synthetic tracks at Hollywood… Read More
Into Mischief | Paddock 2014 | Barbara Livingston Photo