Starlight Racing’s commitment to their craft has launched them into the top five racing syndicates in the country and continues this year with the promising Authentic, recent winner of the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell. His next stop: the Kentucky Derby.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Uncle Chuck
As Tapit continues to emerge as a sire of sires, his sons could be taking aim on the 2020 Kentucky Oaks, as two of them swept the exacta in Saturday's Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks, one of the final prep races. Tapiture, who stands at Darby Dan Farm, sired the victorious Hopeful Growth, while Tapizar's daughter Project Whiskey, previously the winner of the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks, finished second.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, last year's leading freshman sire, hit another milestone in his stud career on Sunday. Pista was a 6 1/2-length winner of her debut going 10 furlongs on soft turf at Galway in Ireland, becoming her sire's 50th individual winner. The victories for the Coolmore stallion have come in seven different countries.
Summer Front has made Saratoga his battlefront this summer – and is making a statement there.
Multiple graded stakes winner Timeline will begin his stud career next year at Iowa State University, joining a solid group of stallions and mares at the teaching program, which has developed into a prominent regional commercial program.
Multiple Grade 1 winner War of Will will join his internationally successful sire War Front at Claiborne Farm upon his retirement from racing. The Hancock family's Paris, Ky., operation announced on Thursday that it had purchased an interest in the colt.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Thousand Words
Eclipse Award champion juvenile and Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist was represented by his first winner as a stallion on Sunday, as Dream Quist won her career debut at Ellis Park.
White-hot young sire Constitution has already emulated his sire, Tapit, by siring a Belmont Stakes winner. If he continues to follow in the footsteps of his sire, he may be a multi-surface threat as well, as his daughter Laura's Light is showing.
