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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
Six-figure 2YOs: Spendthrift freshman sires at OBS
Spendthrift Farm's First-year sires Normandy Invasion, Palace and Race Day all had their first 2-year-olds go through the auction ring Tuesday at the March 12-13 OBS 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
Into Mischief filly tops Spendthrift trifecta in Bourbonette Oaks
Naughty Joker led the way to a 1-2-3 finish for Spendthrift Farm-sired fillies in Saturday's $100,000 Bourbonette Oaks at Turfway Park... 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
Multiple G1 winner Mor Spirit gets first mare in foal
Multiple G1 winner Mor Spirit at Spendthrift Spendthrift Farm’s new stallion Mor Spirit, winner of the Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) at two and Met Mile (G1) at four, had his first mare check in foal earlier this week. Set’n on Ready, a two-year-old stakes winner on the racetrack… Read More
Medal Count colt turns in excellent breeze at OBS
A colt from the first crop of Medal Count worked an eighth-mile in a lively 10 seconds flat... 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
