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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced juveniles from a variety of top national outfits. Summer Breezes, sponsored by OBS Sales, highlights debuting and stakes-entered 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, including links to their under-tack previews. Here are the horses entered for Friday at Saratoga, Ellis Park and Del Mar. Friday, August 1, 2025 Ellis 5, $100k, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 2:44 p.m. Horse (Sire), Sale, Price ($), Breeze Dewi's Denali (Violence)-AE, OBSAPR, 105,000, :10 1/5 C-1880 Bloodstock, agent; B-Kelsey Danner Rare Eclipse (Yaupon), FTMMAY, 60,000, :10 3/5 C-Wavertree Stables Inc (C Dunne), agt; B-Three Diamonds Farm Street Beast (Street Sense), OBSAPR, 85,000, :10 2/5 C-Eddie Woods, agent; B-Davant Latham, agent Stunning Sapphire (Win Win Win)-AE, OBSAPR, 230,000, :10 C-Shooting Star Sales LLC; B-Niki Goodwin, agent Saratoga 6, $100k, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 4:02 p.m. Brooklyn Styles (Munnings), OBSAPR, 140,000, :10 1/5 C-Niall Brennan Stables, agent; B-Case Clay T'bred Management Del Mar 3, $80k, 2yo, 5fT, 8:02 p.m. Sendit Mo (Yaupon), OBSMAR, 180,000, :9 4/5 C-Paul Sharp, agent; B-Tom Kagele, M M, agent The post Summer Breezes Sponsored By OBS: Friday, August 1, 2025 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Smarty Jones (Elusive Quality), winner of the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness Stakes, leads a class of seven who will be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Friday morning. The champion 3-year-old of 2004, the lone selection in the contemporary category, joins racehorses Decathlon, Hermis and trainer George H. Conway, who were chosen by the 1900-1959 Historic Review Committee; and Edward L. Bowen, Arthur Hancock, III, and Richard Ten Broeck, who were elected by the Pillars of the Turf Committee. The induction ceremony will be held at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion beginning at 10:30 a.m. Friday and will be broadcast live on the museum's website, www.racingmuseum.org. Emceed by Tom Durkin, the event is open to the public and free to attend. The post Smarty Jones Leads 2025 Hall of Fame Class to be Inducted Friday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
A total of 47 sires will be represented at next week's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. Here's a breakdown of how many yearlings each stallion has cataloged, along with a closer look at some of the individuals boasting Grade I pedigrees. First-Crop Yearling Sires: 29% of Catalogue Corniche: 2 Cyberknife: 3 Drain The Clock: 1 Epicenter: 4 Flightline: 9 Golden Pal: 8 Idol: 1 Jack Christopher: 3 Jackie's Warrior: 7 Life Is Good: 9 Mandaloun: 2 Mystic Guide: 1 Olympiad: 5 All eyes will be on the first crop of yearlings from Horse of the Year Flightline, a million-dollar graduate of this sale back in 2019. Fresh off a successful JRHA Select Sale, where his three yearlings there averaged over $1.18 million, the Lane's End sire will send nine to Saratoga. Among those, Hip 34 is a half-sister to this year's GII San Vicente winner Barnes (Into Mischief), Hip 102 is a half-sister to the late Grade I winner Cave Rock (Arrogate) and Hip 118 is a colt out of Stonestreet's Grade I winner and producer Hot Dixie Chick (Dixie Union). Ranked second in his division last year by weanling average, WinStar's Life Is Good will have nine yearlings on offer including Hip 209, the half-sister to dual Grade I winner Seize the Grey (Arrogate). Coolmore's Jack Christopher was represented by the $350,000 sale topper at the Fasig-Tipton July Sale and his nine yearlings there averaged $162,778. Two of Spendthrift's first-crop sires, Cyberknife and Jackie's Warrior, also contributed to the list of toppers at the July Sale with a $330,000 yearling and a $310,000 yearling, respectively. Second-Crop Yearling Sires: Charlatan's $1.5 million colt at the 2024 Saratoga Sale | Fasig-Tipton 5% of Catalogue Charlatan: 5 Maxfield: 2 Yaupon: 3 The race for leading first-crop sire is just getting started, but Spendthrift's Yaupon carries the torch going into August with eight winners on the year. Meanwhile Charlatan took the crown for leading freshman yearling sire by sales average last year, led by a $1.5 million colt sell in Saratoga. Maxfield has seen five seven-figure sales from his first two crops including a $1.25 million OBS March graduate. It's anyone's race, but these three young sires have proven they can produce the kind of individual that can get to the Saratoga stage. Third-Crop Yearling Sires: 6% of Catalogue McKinzie: 3 Tiz The Law: 2 Vekoma: 5 Volatile: 1 McKinzie at Gainesway Farm | Sarah Andrew Last year's leading freshman sire by earnings, winners, blacktype winners and blacktype horses, Vekoma has continued the trend this year. McKinzie is not to be outdone, though, and is making noise with the likes of his top earner Baeza, plus GI Coaching Club American Oaks victress Scottish Lassie and Curlin Stakes winner Chancer McPatrick. Established Sires: 60% of Catalogue Blame: 1 Bolt d'Oro: 1 Candy Ride (Arg): 1 City of Light: 2 Constitution: 6 Curlin: 4 Good Magic: 5 Gun Runner: 10 Into Mischief: 10 Justify: 7 Liam's Map: 3 Maclean's Music: 3 Medaglia d'Oro: 3 Munnings: 4 Not This Time: 12 Nyquist: 7 Omaha Beach: 1 Oscar Performance: 2 Practical Joke: 2 Quality Road: 6 Speightstown: 1 Street Sense: 4 Tapit: 3 Twirling Candy: 1 Uncle Mo: 11 Violence: 3 War Front: 1 Not This Time was responsible for the sale topper of last year's Saratoga Sale when a colt out of stakes-placed Kayce Ace (Tiznow) sold for $3.4 million to Zedan Racing and he'll lead the way this year with the highest number of progeny on offer. The Taylor Made sire will send 12 through the ring including the half-sister to champion Jackie's Warrior (Hip 14), a filly out of dual Grade I winner American Gal (Concord Point) (Hip 38) and the half-brother to GI Del Mar Debutante Stakes victress Union Strike (Union Rags) (Hip 66). $3.4 million Not This Time colt tops the 2024 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale | Fasig-Tipton Uncle Mo's 11 Saratoga yearlings will be among the penultimate crop to reach the starting gate for their late sire, who passed away last December at the age of 16. Hip 103 is the half-brother to GI Del Mar Futurity victor Pinehurst (Twirling Candy) and Hip 191 is a half-sister to Breeders' Cup champion Battle of Midway (Smart Strike). Gun Runner was represented by 10 seven-figure yearlings last year, including a $1.9 million filly in Saratoga. This year, he'll send a trio of Saratoga yearlings out of Grade I producers: GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes victress Time and Motion (Tapit) (Hip 7), dual Grade I winner Paradise Woods (Union Rags) (Hip 175) and GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil) (200). In addition, Hip 37 is the half-brother to MGSW First Captain, who brought $1.5 million in Saratoga in 2019. Now one of five stallions in history to produce three Kentucky Derby winners after the success of his son Sovereignty, Into Mischief is well on his way to earning a seventh champion general sire title. His 10 Saratoga yearlings include Hip 123, a son of GI Cotillion victress It Tiz Well (Arch) and Hip 163, a son of another Cotillion winner in I'm a Chatterbox (Munnings), but the biggest star for Into Mischief will likely be Hip 165, the half-sister to MGISW Journalism (Curlin) bred by Don Alberto. The filly's dam, Mopotism (Uncle Mo), passed away suddenly just before her first foal stormed home to win the GI Haskell Stakes. A Grade II winner herself, Mopotism leaves just four foals behind in Journalism, a 2-year-old Tapit colt owned by Flying Dutchmen, this yearling filly and a filly by Flightline born this year. After producing four Grade I winners and receiving a stud fee bump from $85,000 to $175,000, Nyquist has continued his upward trajectory this year with seven graded winners including GII San Diego Handicap winner Nysos, Royal Ascot victress Crimson Advocate and GI Preakness and GI Haskell runner-up Gosger. He will have seven yearlings on offer in Saratoga. Among other notable entries, Quality Road's six yearlings include the full-brother to champion and sire National Treasure (Hip 10). International sire sensation Justify will see seven yearlings led by Hip 29, the half-brother to Breeders' Cup champion Caravel (Mizzen Mast). The Saratoga Sale takes place August 4 and 5. Hips 1-109 go through the ring on Monday. Hips 110-222 will sell on Tuesday. View the full catalogue here. *Please note that this story was last updated on July 31. Numbers will likely change prior to the start of the sale. The post The Sire Primer: Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The Florida breeding program has a long and proud history that we all recognize is a major component of the racing industry in the state. Traditionally, we have been the strongest of the regional (non-Kentucky) programs, ranking ahead of California and New York despite our year-round racing program not being up to par with those two locations. Yet when The Stronach Group (TSG) took control of South Florida racing years ago, that status as a third-place racing state changed as our purses and handle numbers all trended upward while New York's were flat, and California's dropped. While experiencing some growing pains as the horseman and racetracks transitioned away from a Calder-dominated schedule to an exclusively Gulfstream year-round product, the quality of South Florida racing on a yearly basis has improved. Yet the Florida-bred program and desirability of Florida-breds in the open market has not seen any gain and as evidenced by this year's huge decrease in the number of Florida-breds foaled, the entire program seems to be floundering. These aren't opinions, these are facts. Major reforms need to be made to the Florida-bred program including all facets; the sire stakes, the open Florida bred stakes program, the Florida bred overnight race program and the FOA. We all need to work together; the breeders, the stallion farms, the racetracks, the owners and trainers and even the sales companies to create a Florida-bred program that is competitive with other state-bred programs, that rewards the breeder and owner of a good horse, that gives horsemen ample racing opportunities and creates demand for our product, the Florida-bred racehorse. What should we do? It's imperative that we take bold steps to remake the Florida-bred program. The time is now to refocus on building the Florida-bred brand. We need to create a racing program that rewards horsemen who buy or breed Florida-breds, that rewards the Florida breeders, that rewards the stallion owners and provides the racetracks and our betting customers with competitive content to wager on. First, there must be an emphasis on creating the foundation of any strong state-bred program, overnight racing. We must work together with the tracks to come up with Florida-bred restricted maiden and allowances races to develop horses to feed into our stakes program. We should strive to have Florida-bred stakes of some variety each month. This will give our horsemen targets to point to, our breeders more opportunities to get black type, and allow our horsemen and breeding groups more opportunities to promote the positive aspects of breeding and racing Florida-breds. There is still a place for the sire stakes races; however, we would be better served with more of those races better dispersed throughout the calendar. Grass races should be added to the sire stakes schedule as well as turf events are now our most popular types of races and are more likely to generate bigger fields and higher handle that the racetracks are looking for. The current overall Florida-bred program is ineffective, unpopular, and losing customers every year. Losing a percentage of your foal crop is a crippling blow to any state-bred program and unless drastic changes are made, what leads anyone to believe this trend won't continue? It's past time for the FTBOA, FHBPA, the TBHBPA and the racetracks to come together to fix this problem and make breeding and owning Florida-breds popular again. YEAR MARES BRED STALLIONS 2012 3,155 154 2013 2,994 159 2014 3,024 158 2015 3,057 145 2016 2,865 134 2017 2,311 125 2018 2,078 117 2019 2,078 121 2020 1,842 104 2021 1,626 84 2022 1,552 86 2023 1,478 75 2024 1,329 63 2025 963 61 That's a decline of 76%. Solution? The solution is very simple, OBS is a well-managed organization with an established infrastructure that should take over the FTBOA. They should sell or rent the FTBOA building, and use that money for breeders' awards. We need to restructure the breeding program in Florida; we cannot afford the decline to fewer than 900 mares and 61 stallions, the highest stud fee of which is $6,500. The post Letter To The Editor: Florida Breds, A Broken Program Or Just A Rudderless Ship? appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Six 2-year-old fillies will try the 6 1/2-furlong distance for the first time.View the full article
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