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$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
Itsmyluckycharm keeps rolling in Mrs. Presidentress S.
Itsmyluckycharm ran her winning streak to four straight with a gallant score in the Feb. 18 Mrs. Presidentress S. at Gulfstream Park... Read More
Valedictorian goes gate to wire in Suwannee River S. (G3)
Temple City's 5-year-old daughter Valedictorian got her first graded stakes win and third black type victory overall with a front-running score in Saturday's $150,000 Suwanee River S. (G3)... Read More
