Owner Joel Politi and trainer Tom Amoss teamed to win the Groupie Doll Stakes on Sunday with Li'l Tootsie. It was Politi's first stakes win at Ellis Park in five years and came nearly five years to the day that Serengeti Empress carried Politi's silks to victory in the Ellis Park Debutante.
For the second year in a row, Spendthrift Farm had a connection to the winner of the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap on the Saratoga turf.
Grade 1 winner Americanrevolution was honored as the New York-bred horse of the year on Friday evening at a ceremony at Fasig-Tipton's Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion.
Queen's Plate pedigree profile: Ironstone
The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale coincides with two dark days at Saratoga Race Course and begins Monday at 6:30 p.m.
City of Light emerged as the loudest of all the first-crop stallions during their 2021 debut yearling sale season – but had been very quiet to begin 2022 at the 2-year-old sales and races. His runners are beginning to rumble now, however, as he bookended this week with maiden special weight winners as he heads into some major-market yearling sales.
The late Broodmare of the Year Leslie's Lady can now officially add "dam of a Hall of Famer" to her long list of accomplishments, as her champion daughter Beholder was officially inducted on Friday. The ceremony came in the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion just days before the company’s selected yearling sale, where Leslie’s Lady’s sons and grandsons are expected to make an impact on the sire leaderboard.
Queen's Plate pedigree profile: Rondure
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah recorded the sixth individual Grade/Group 1 winner of his stud career on Saturday, with those six evenly split between dirt and turf as American Theorem won the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes.
Perennial leading New York breeders Chester and Mary Broman were represented by two winners they bred and sold on Friday’s card at Saratoga, with Fingal’s Cave and Acoustic Ave both descended from a program foundation mare, Seeking the Ante.
