by Frank Mitchell|09.20.2023|12:25pm Bloodlines Presented By Walmac Farm: All Lines Lead To Tapit Among Weekend’s Juvenile Graded Winners Tapit, the near-white son of Pulpit (by A.P. Indy), reaffirmed his position as one of the most significant sires and pervasively important grandsires in contemporary breeding with the results of racing for 2-year-olds over the weekend. The three-time leading national sire figured closely in the pedigrees of juvenile graded stakes winners V V’s Dream at […]
by Frank Mitchell|09.13.202309.13.2023|12:22pm1:21pm Bloodlines Presented By Walmac Farm: ‘Alfred The Great’ Breeds Another Budget-Priced Score With Get Smokin When I mention Alfred the Great to most people, they think of the 9th century king of the Saxons who created the concept of a united kingdom that became England. But when I mentioned that to a friend from Midway, Ky., he said, “Aye, he lives down the pike a bit.” This is Alfred Nuckols, […]
by Frank Mitchell|09.06.2023|3:14pm Bloodlines: Patience Paid Off On Many Levels For Nutella Fella, Sire Runhappy Was anyone cheering as hard for Nutella Fella in the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga as racing man and sports gambler “Mattress Mack” McIngvale? Jim McIngvale bought and raced the winner’s sire, champion sprinter Runhappy, a bay son of Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver (by Maria’s Mon). McIngvale had famously backed Runhappy at good […]
by Frank Mitchell|08.30.2023|8:31am Bloodlines Presented By Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders And Owners Association: Travers Stakes Result Extends Rivalry Between Arrogate, Gun Runner Seven years ago, a gray colt named Arrogate (by Unbridled’s Song) won the Grade 1 Travers Stakes in a galloping tour de force on his way to becoming the season’s champion 3-year-old colt, and on Aug. 26, a gray colt from the second crop by Arrogate followed suit by winning the Saratoga centerpiece. Arcangelo has […]
by Frank Mitchell|08.23.202308.23.2023|10:48am10:48am Bloodlines Presented By Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders And Owners Association: Henry Longfellow More Poetry In Motion For Deep Family Through every fibre of my brain, Through every nerve, through every vein, I feel the electric thrill, the touch Of life, that seems almost too much. Thus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow expressed the feelings of joy and youthful exuberance in his poem “A Day of Sunshine,” and the unbeaten 2-year-old colt named Henry Longfellow caught a […]
by Frank Mitchell|08.16.202308.16.2023|2:41pm5:03pm Bloodlines: Dreamfyre Sparks Flameaway’s Bid In The Freshman Sire Race In the great race toward sire success, the first thing that a freshman sire needs is to get a stakes winner on the board, and the only thing better is getting the winner of a graded stakes. That’s exactly what has happened for Darby Dan stallion Flameaway (by Scat Daddy), whose his first-crop daughter Dreamfyre […]
by Frank Mitchell|08.09.2023|12:02pm Bloodlines: Brightwork’s Adirondack Victory, And The Uncle Mo Sire Tree Brightwork’s victory in the Grade 3 Adirondack Stakes at Saratoga made the daughter of Outwork (by Uncle Mo) a second graded stakes winner for her sire, who won the G1 Wood Memorial in a brief racing career, winning three of his five starts. A fourth-crop sire in the same group as freshman leader Nyquist (Uncle […]
by Frank Mitchell|08.02.2023|4:12pm Bloodlines Presented By McKenna Thoroughbreds Broodmare Reduction: The Links Between Elite Power And Cigar Winning his eighth consecutive race in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes at Saratoga, last season’s champion sprinter Elite Power (by Curlin) prompted a question to trainer Bill Mott from one of the television commentators about what it took to win eight races in a row. Mott wryly remarked that he knew how hard […]
by Frank Mitchell|07.26.2023|1:19pm Bloodlines Presented By McKenna Thoroughbreds Broodmare Reduction: Geaux Rocket Ride Forges New Paths For Best, Bernhards When trainer Richard Mandella sent three-time starter Geaux Rocket Ride (by Candy Ride) all the way across the country to Monmouth Park for the Grade 1 Haskell Stakes, perceptive handicappers and racing fans took note. However, with Kentucky Derby winner Mage (Good Magic) and the unbeaten Arabian Knight (Uncle Mo) headlining the race lineup, the […]
by Frank Mitchell|07.19.2023|10:40am Bloodlines: Saratoga Stakes Spark Third-Crop Sire Race For Practical Joke, Danzing Candy A pair of third-crop sires sent out the racers who won Saratoga’s graded stakes for juveniles last week: the Grade 3 Sanford and the G3 Schuylerville. Yo Yo Candy (by Danzing Candy) won the Sanford for his second victory from three starts, and the California-bred colt had come into the race following a third-placing in […]