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From Last to First, Quality Road’s Greenwich Village Takes the Baffle
Greenwich Village (c, 3, Quality Road–Houtzen) not only got his blinkers off and switched surfaces, but also completely changed tactics Sunday in Santa Anita's Baffle Stakes, eschewing his pace-setting and pace-pressing past while opting instead to drop back to last...
Malibu Stakes Winner Goal Oriented Retired to Spendthrift
Goal Oriented (Not This Time–Bizzy Caroline, by Afleet Alex), most recently winner of the Dec. 28 GI Malibu Stakes, has been retired from racing and will take up stud duties at Spendthrift Farm this year. His introductory fee will be $30,000, stands and nurses. “We...
Barnes, Dual Graded Stakes Winner and $3.2-Million Saratoga Grad, Retired to Hill ‘n’ Dale
Barnes (Into Mischief–All American Dream, by American Pharoah), a $3.2 million Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase by bloodstock agent Donato Lanni on behalf of Amr Zedan's Zedan Racing Stables, has been retired because of a tendon injury and will take up stud...
Nysos Edges Nevada Beach to Win Laffit Pincay Stakes
Nysos (Nyquist) followed up on his win in the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile with a thrilling victory over stablemate Nevada Beach (Omaha Beach) in the GII Laffit Pincay, Jr. Stakes on Santa Anita's delayed opening-day card Sunday. Sent off the 1-5 favorite, Nysos was a...
Tiz The Law’s Usha Dazzles In La Brea
Making her Grade I debut and just her second start in stakes company, Usha (Tiz the Law) dazzled through the final two furlongs to romp home in the GI La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita Sunday, giving her sire his first Grade I winner. A highly-touted debut runner during...
Goal Oriented Sensational in Malibu, Scores First Elite Level Victory
Goal Oriented (Not This Time) notched a Grade I feather to his 2025 cap, but also further gilded a fabulous year for his sire, as he strolled home powerfully to take the GI Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita on opening day. The 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' burst...
Nyquist’s Litmus Test Leads Home Baffert Trifecta in Los Al Futurity
When the GII Los Alamitos Futurity–formerly the Hollywood Futurity, which was also known for a time as the CashCall Futurity–was renamed in 2014, perhaps it should have been labeled as the Bob Baffert Futurity, as the Hall of Famer has now won the race a record 15...
‘TDN Rising Star’ Boyd Shines In Ed Brown Under Twin Spires
Purchased for $50,000 over a cool million by Zedan Racing at this year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale and named for that auction house's chief cook and bottlewasher Boyd Browning, Boyd (Violence) was sent to Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. The juvenile debuted a...
Not This Time’s Magnitude Causes Good Vibrations in the Clark
In what was probably America's most anticipated race in the older horse division since the GI Breeders' Cup Classic nearly four weeks ago, the 151st running of the GII Clark Stakes at Churchill Downs Friday lived up to expectations and then some. Runaway GII...
Gun Runner’s Nimah Graduates at First-Asking Against Del Mar Maidens
NIMAH (f, 2, Gun Runner–E. T. Indy, by A.P. Indy) went right to the front on this debut and led the pack through an opening quarter in :22.49 and four furlongs in :45.07. Clearing her inside rivals and challenged by Miss Watermelon (Cairo Prince) at the three-eighths...
Gun Runner’s Nimah Graduates at First-Asking Against Del Mar Maidens
In Del Mar's Race 8, a 6.5-furlong, $61,500 Maiden Special Weight for 2YOs, NIMAH (Gun Runner–E. T. Indy, by A.P. Indy) went right to the front on this debut and led the pack through an opening quarter in :22.49 and four furlongs in :45.07. Clearing her inside rivals...
$2.2 Million Weanling for Zedan at Keeneland November
Zedan Racing was adding horses to the team all the way up to the last major sale of the year when purchasing a weanling colt for a sale topping $2.2 million at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale – the highest priced weanling in North America in the past...