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Golden Vekoma winning the 2024 UAE 2000 Guineas Trial S. – DRC photo The white-hot start to 2025 for Vekoma continued on Thursday at Meydan Racecourse in the UAE when Golden Vekoma rolled to a 2 ½-length victory in the UAE 2000 Guineas Trial sponsored by the Kentucky Derby. The… Read More

Mi Bago winning the Dania Beach S. on Jan. 1 at Gulfstream Park – Lauren King Fresh off earning honors as the champion First-Crop sire of 2024, Vekoma kicked off the new year with a quartet of winners on the first day of 2025, topped by Five G and Mi… Read More

Into Mischief’s record-setting year as Leading General Sire ended fittingly on New Year’s Eve when he got yet another stakes winner with Nelson Avenue’s 11 ¼-length score in the Blitzen S. at Parx. Into Mischief finished the year with 36 stakes winners and led the General Sire List in every… Read More

Maximus Mischief’s filly Irish Maxima collected her second stakes win of the year in dominating fashion Dec. 31 at Parx, rolling to a 13 ¾-length victory in the Mrs. Claus S. The 3-year-old has had a stellar year, winning four of five starts for trainer John Servis and owner Irish… Read More

Innovator out-fought Dreaminblue to earn his first win in a $110,000 maiden special weight contest for 2-year-old Sunday at Oaklawn Park, winning by a head in the six-furlong race. The dark bay colt is the 24th winner for top-5 First-Crop sire Authentic. Also on Sunday at Oaklawn, Authentic’s Adeera got… Read More

Maximus Meridius splashes to victory in the 2024 Gravesend S. – NYRA photo Maximus Meridius outdueled Full Moon Madness to win Saturday’s $150,000 Gravesend S. at Aqueduct by a half-length and give Maximus Mischief his 10th lifetime stakes winner. The victory comes just one day after the Spendthrift stallion tallied… Read More

Lastabitlonger’s front-running maiden special weight win Dec. 27 at Tampa Bay Downs gave Vekoma his 38th winner from his first crop, putting him one away from the all-time mark of 39 set by Wildcat Heir. Vekoma has four entries, three of them maidens, yet to run in the last three… Read More

Kopion wins the Grade I La Brea S. on December 26, 2024 at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, CA. – Benoit Photo Kopion made a triumphant return to the races in Thursday’s $300,000 La Brea S. (G1), winning the seven-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies by 2 ¾-length to give Omaha Beach… Read More

Raging Torrent wins the $300,000 Malibu S. (G1) on December 26, 2024 at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, CA. Benoit Photo Raging Torrect closed out 2024 with his fourth win in five starts on the day after Christmas at Santa Anita Park with a resounding victory in the $300,000 Malibu S. Read More

J B Strikes Back wins the $200,000 Laffit Pincay S. (G2) at Santa Anita Park – Benoit photo With two allowance wins to his credit in the past two weeks, J B Strikes Back made his Dec. 26 stakes debut a winning one with a 1 ¼-length victory in the… Read More

Into Mischief got his third stakes winner of the week on day after Christmas when Hoosier Philly won the Joseph Broussard Memorial S. at Fair Grounds. With Rocket Can and Coppola collecting stakes win earlier in the week, Into Mischief pushed his progeny earnings past the $35.1 million mark as… Read More

Major Dude (orange cap) surges between horses to win the Fort Lauderdale S. (G2) – Lauren King Surging between the narrowest of openings in deep stretch, Major Dude took the $215,000 Fort Lauderdale S. (G2) Dec. 21 at Gulfstream Park by a neck in a three-way photo. With the winner’s… Read More