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Grade I winner Defunded, who skipped a shot at the Breeders' Cup, kept it rolling with a popular score in the GIII Native Diver S. Sunday at Del Mar.Going wire to wire to capture the GI Awesome Again S. last out Oct. 1 in Arcadia, the chestnut was knocked down to...

Pinehurst has been purchased by a domestic farm which will announce in due time," Tom Ryan of SF Bloodstock told BloodHorse Nov. 22 after the Fasig-Tipton Pinehurst Flash Sale concluded. The final price was not named, along with the purchaser for the 3-year-old son of...

Looking to collect his second graded stakes win of the season, Havnameltdown proved he was up to the task with a professional score over stablemate Newgate in Sunday's GIII Bob Hope S. at Del Mar. One of three Baffert trainees in the short five-horse field,...

The Ontario Sire Heritage Series concluded Friday at Woodbine with Strega winning the $100,000 Ashbridges Bay Stakes and Full Screen taking the $100,000 Lake Ontario Stakes.Sent off as the 9-5 second choice.  Strega, with leading rider Kazushi Kimura in the irons,...

Sent right to the front after a fast beginning by jockey Flavian Prat, FAIZA (Girvin–Sweet Pistol, by Smart Strike), a $725,000 2-year-old purchase by agegent Donato Lanni out of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale, hooked up early with Teena Ella (War Front) and...

Donato Lanni will have a busy weekend at the Breeders' Cup World Championships which attract the best male and female thoroughbreds to compete in Grade 1 races at a variety of distances on both turf and dirt. The 2022 event runs Friday and Saturday (Nov 4th-5th) and...

Queen’s Plate and Woodbine Oaks winner MOIRA leads a small Canadian contingent to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships next week at Keeneland racecourse in Kentucky. Donato Lanni's X-Men Racing – 2 and Madaket have LAST CALL, a Kentucky-bred trained by Attard in the...

Woodbine trainer Kevin Attard is confident that his spectacular filly Moira has another big race in her this year. Attard has pre-entered Moira in the $2 million Maker’s Mark Breeders Cup Filly & Mare Turf race at Keeneland on Nov. 5. The Breeders Cup is...

Queen's Plate winner Moira , demoted from second to eighth for interference in the Oct. 8 E.P. Taylor Stakes (G1) at Woodbine, will pick up legendary European jockey Frankie Dettori for an intended start in the Nov. 5 Maker's Mark Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf...

I called the elite bloodstock agent Donato Lanni last Wednesday only to tell him I'd call him again Sunday and to expect my call. I didn't want to jinx him, with Cave Rock (Arrogate), War Like Goddess (English Channel), and Moira (Ghostzapper) entered in three Grade l...

War Like Goddess made history in the $500,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (G1T) Oct. 8 at Aqueduct Racetrack and paved the way for her to potentially make more during the upcoming Breeders' Cup World Championships next month. George Krikorian's 5-year-old daughter of...

Baffert, who won his eighth Awesome Again, entered four horses in the 1 1/8-mile race, which offers a Breeders' Cup Challenge berth to the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1). The Awesome Again was Defunded's first stakes win. He ran second in this year's Hollywood...