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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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