Lucas Hits Pinhooking Home Run With Girvin Filly

Lucas Hits Pinhooking Home Run With Girvin Filly

Mauro Lucas and Nathan McCauley hit a pinhooking home run at Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale when they sold the top-priced filly (Hip 2597) of the Sept. 16 session for $535,000 to Winter Creek Stables. The pair purchased the Girvin   filly for $65,000 as a short-yearling from the Mulholland Springs consignment at Fasig-Tipton’s Kentucky Winter Mixed…

Turf Champions Day Proves Fruitful for Woodbine

Turf Champions Day Proves Fruitful for Woodbine

Notable Speech ‘s impressive victory in the Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1T) highlighted a strong Turf Champions Day for Woodbine Entertainment.  Turf Champions Day featured three Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In races. All three races were held on Woodbine‘s inner turf course for the first time due to the E. P. Taylor Turf Course renovation…

Fasig-Tipton Catalogs 280 for Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale

Fasig-Tipton Catalogs 280 for Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 280 entries for its Saratoga Fall Mixed sale, to be held Oct. 14 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The sale will be conducted in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion and begin at 10 a.m. “Saratoga Fall is New York’s breeding stock sale,” said Fasig-Tipton president Boyd Browning Jr. “There are nearly 230 weanlings…

Top Thoroughbred Poll Unchanged; Sovereignty Leads

Top Thoroughbred Poll Unchanged; Sovereignty Leads

Graded stakes action from Churchill Downs and Woodbine this past week did little to alter the National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top Thoroughbred Poll. The leading 10 horses in the poll from week 34 remain unchanged relative to week 33. The latest poll covers racing performances through Sept. 14. Again on top is Godolphin’s Sovereignty , the undisputed leader of…

Precise Upstages Favorites in Moyglare Stud Stakes

Precise Upstages Favorites in Moyglare Stud Stakes

Derrick Smith, Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Westerberg’s Precise  put in a sterling performance Sept. 14 to deny stablemate Beautify  by three-quarters of a length to win the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1) at The Curragh in a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series race for an automatic position into the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf…