by Joe Nevills|01.18.202301.18.2023|4:51pm5:05pm American Graded Stakes Standings Presented By Virginia Thoroughbred Association: Tapit Tops Broodmare Sires In 2022 Being a successful broodmare sire isn’t necessarily a young man’s game, or even a game for active stallions, but the graded stakes results of 2022 revealed that many of the industry’s top broodmare sires are just starting to build their resumes. Of the 14 stallions with five or more individual North American graded stakes winners […]
by Joe Nevills|03.19.202103.19.2021|10:58am8:49pm American Graded Stakes Standings Presented By Muirfield Insurance: Godolphin Sets The Pace Among Breeders Following a season where the Godolphin operation took home the Eclipse Award as outstanding owner, the blue team has set a blistering pace on its quest to collect its second trophy as outstanding breeder. Godolphin leads all breeders with five North American graded stakes winners through March 9, all homebreds, with the most recent addition […]
by Joe Nevills|01.03.202001.03.2020|11:10am8:11pm Select Sales Agency Presents American Graded Stakes Standings: Late Surges Shake Up Final Standings Of 2019 There’s nothing quite like a down-to-the-wire finish, and the American Graded Stakes Standings closed with a few of them when the 2019 racing season hit the line. Two of those races closed the year as dead heats, after some late-season rallies brought trailing connections even with established leaders. Calumet Farm and Stonestreet Farm battled for […]
by Joe Nevills|12.06.201912.06.2019|11:25am6:18pm Select Sales Agency Presents American Graded Stakes Standings: The Races To Fill Out The Podium Following the rush of graded stakes races that occurred during and around the Breeders’ Cup in early November, the racing calendar eased off the gas pedal in the latter part of the month, and the very top of the American Graded Stakes Standings went practically unchanged. Without much activity at the very top of the […]
by Joe Nevills|11.11.201911.11.2019|11:10am5:19pm Select Sales Agency Presents American Graded Stakes Standings: Not All Are Lonely At The Top After Breeders’ Cup The Breeders’ Cup weekend has a way of swinging the American Graded Stakes Standings in one of two directions: It either throws the rankings into chaos after the right connections get hot over a pair of graded stakes-filled cards, or it confirms the leaders that were in place when the weekend began. With the 2019 […]
by Joe Nevills|10.08.201910.08.2019|10:19am10:27am Select Sales Agency Presents American Graded Stakes Standings: Midnight Bisou Keeps On Winning It’s getting to the point of the year when the serious Horse of the Year contenders start staking their claims in earnest, and top filly Midnight Bisou has done nothing to knock her case so far. The 4-year-old daughter of Midnight Lute is an impressive seven-for-seven in graded stakes competition this year through the end […]
by Joe Nevills|09.13.2019|12:30pm Select Sales Agency Presents American Graded Stakes Standings: Taylor Made, Calumet Head Into Fall On Top With three-quarters of the calendar in the books and the marquee Keeneland September Yearling Sale in progress, Taylor Made Sales Agency and Calumet Farm sit atop their respective divisions as the year’s leading consignor and breeder of North American graded stakes winners through the end of August. Taylor Made, a perennial leader in the sale […]
by Joe Nevills|08.02.2019|11:52am Select Sales Agency Presents American Graded Stakes Standings: Calumet, Stonestreet Battle For Dominance Among Breeders Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings has had a firm grasp of the top spot in the American Graded Stakes Standings by graded winners since March, and it remains on top at the close of July. For the first time, though, the operation of Barbara Banke has some company at the summit. Channel Cat’s front-running score in the […]
by Joe Nevills|07.08.201907.08.2019|11:09am10:07pm Select Sales Agency Presents American Graded Stakes Standings: Trio Of Win Machines Highlight First Half Of 2019 Half of the 2019 racing calendar is in the rear-view mirror, and the race for Horse of the Year is tight, but there are certainly front-runners. The quality of graded stakes wins is just as important as the quantity, of course, but three horses have been unstoppable at racing’s highest levels through the end of […]
by Joe Nevills|05.29.201905.29.2019|12:02pm7:19pm Select Sales Agency Presents American Graded Stakes Standings: Curlin Climbs To The Top The Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes rightfully dominate headlines every May, but the sons and daughters of Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms’ Curlin put in quality work during the month, not only rocketing their sire to the top of his division in the American Graded Stakes Standings but giving him a comfortable lead. Curlin had five […]