2023 Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Blazing Sevens
2023 Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Blazing Sevens
Nicole RussoMar 01, 2023
2023 Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Blazing Sevens
Summer Wind Farm enjoyed a stellar 2022 season with unbeaten Horse of the Year Flightline. Now, the farm is enjoying continued success on the track with a new rising star. Confidence Game, who Summer Wind bred and sold, established himself as a prominent Kentucky Derby candidate with a victory in the Grade 2, $1 million Rebel Stakes on Saturday at Oaklawn Park.
2023 Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Reincarnate
Two-time Eclipse Award champion Monomoy Girl has delivered her first foal, a colt by four-time reigning leading sire Into Mischief.
2023 Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Hit Show
Owner and breeder Charles Fipke's adventures – and misadventures – in geology and prospecting have taken him around the globe. Now, his Thoroughbreds are doing the traveling.
Second careers for many major runners, including 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline, begin in earnest in the coming days as North American breeding sheds open during and around this second week of February.
Tapit Trice is a major mover on this week's Derby Watch Top 20 list following a one-mile allowance-level score on Saturday at Gulfstream in which he rolled by eight lengths and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 92.
Peace and Justice was an immediate draw in Pennsylvania as the only son of prominent sire War Front in the state. He lived up to his early billing as the state's standout freshman sire of 2020, and has since continued to make an impact in the Keystone State's general sire ranks.
With the addition of Colonel Liam late in the game, Ocala Stud will debut three new stallions for 2023, all Grade 1 winners, giving them one of the strongest new hands of any farm on the East Coast.