by rob_onlion | Apr 28, 2023 | Media
In posting a 1 1/2-length victory in the $297,500 Bewitch Stakes (G3T) Friday, War Like Goddess became just the third horse in the history of the Lexington track to win the same stakes three years in a row, and the first to do so since Knight Counter won a third...
by rob_onlion | Apr 28, 2023 | Media
George Krikorian’s War Like Goddess added her name to the Keeneland record books when she scored her third consecutive victory in the $300,000 Bewitch (G3) Friday on closing day of the Spring Meet. Trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Joel Rosario, War Like...
by rob_onlion | Apr 28, 2023 | Media
Racegoers can be forgiven a bit of deju vu when War Like Goddess (m, 6, English Channel–Misty North, by North Light {Ire}) won the GIII Bewitch S. at Keeneland Friday as it was, indeed, the third straight year she won the race. She is only the third horse in Keeneland...
by rob_onlion | Apr 27, 2023 | Media
The third session of the Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, April 27 at Ocala Breeders’ Sales, went off in workmanlike fashion but sprung to life when a son of Gun Runner drove the bidding up to $2.2 million to top the day. Agent Donato Lanni struck again...
by rob_onlion | Apr 27, 2023 | Media
For the third straight day, the team of Bob Baffert and Donato Lanni, acting on behalf of Saudi businessman Amr Zedan, made the highest bid of the session, this time going to $2.2 million–top price of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s Spring Sale of...
by rob_onlion | Apr 26, 2023 | Media
Bloodstock agent Donato Lanni continued his OBS April shopping spree Wednesday, going to $700,000 to acquire a colt by Bernardini from the Northwest Stud consignment. Lanni, who was bidding on behalf of an undisclosed client, said the youngster will be trained by Bob...