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Pioneer Spirit gives Malibu Moon Saturday stakes double
Pioneer Spirit gamely held off Seeking the Soul by a head to take the $100,000 Michael G. Schaefer Memorial S. on Saturday evening at Indiana Downs. The win was the first stakes victory for 5-year-old Pioneer Spirit, who was joined by Apalachee Bay as another first-time stakes winner for Malibu… Read More
Goldencents atop First-Crop Sire list after getting first stakes winner
Pickett winning the D. S. Shine Young Futurity – Coady photography Goldencents scored his first stakes winner and vaulted to the top of the 2018 First-Crop Sire list on Saturday when Pickett romped to a nine-length win in the $75,000 D. S. Shine Young Futurity at Evangeline Downs… Read More
Itsmyluckydaycolt romps again
Mi Nieto Ryan, who won his June 29 debut by some eight lengths, scored another blowout win on July 14 when he took a Camarero Racetrack allowance by 12 1/2-lengths. The 2-year-old colt is the first two-time winner for Itsmyluckyday, who has a total of three winners to date… Read More
Cross Traffic firster very sharp in maiden score
Dame Plata rolled to a 5 1/2-length victory in a 2-year-old maiden special weight race on July 13 at Canterbury Downs [VIDEO]. Cross Traffic now has three winners from his first crop and ranks second among all freshman sires standing in Kentucky, ahead of the likes of… Read More
Golden Mischief scores fifth career stakes victory
Golden Mischief rolled to a five-length victory in the $100,000 Saylorville S. on July 5 at Prairie Meadows to give the 4-year-old Into Mischief filly her first stakes win of 2018 and fifth overall. The six-furlong Saylorville was never in doubt after Golden Mischief launched her bid with three furlongs… Read More
Itsmyluckyday has third winner in a week
Goldencents’ first-timers continue torrid win streak
Veritas became the latest winner on July 3 for leading First-Crop Sire Goldencents when the bay colt sped to a front-running, 4 1/4-length win at Indiana Downs in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race on the main track. Goldencents already has a total of six winners, including four in… Read More
Itsmyluckyday colt rolls by 8 in debut
Mi Nieto Ryan dismantled his competition in his five-furlong maiden special weight debut on June 29, winning by 8 1/2-lengths at Camarero Racetrack in the debut for the 2-year-old Itsmyluckyday colt. The victory came one day prior to Cohenscollegefund broke his maiden at Evangeline Downs, which marked the first… Read More
Silvercents golden in powerful MdSpWt score
The latest winner from first crop by Goldencents came on Sunday at Lone Star Park when Silvercents rolled to a nearly five-length maiden special weight tally (VIDEO). The gray filly is the fifth winner for her sire and the third in the last eight days, pushing him… Read More
Itsmyluckyday’s first winner scores big
Spendthrift Farm’s Grade 1 winner Itsmyluckyday was represented by his first winner on June 30 when the 2-year-old filly Cohenscollegefund sped to a 4 3/4-length win in a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race at Evangeline Downs. The chestnut filly, who was making her debut for owner Brooke Guidry, led… Read More
Flat Out colt game in first stakes win
Forewarned out-battled Fusaichi’s Wind to capture the $75,000 Cleveland Gold Cup by a head Saturday at Thistledown, the first stakes victory for the 3-year-old Flat Out colt (VIDEO). Forewarned is one of Flat Out’s 30 winners who have earned more nearly $1.2 million this year, ranking in… Read More
Instagrand blasts to Rising Star status in debut
Instagrand coasts to his maiden win – Benoit photo Into Mischief’s $1.2 million Fasig-Tipton March sales-topping colt Instagrand paid immediate dividends in his five-furlong maiden special weight unveiling June 29 at Los Alamitos, rocketing to a 10-length score and earning a TDN Rising Star tag (… Read More