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Spotlight on Runhappy’s first-crop runners

Eclipse champion sprinter Runhappy sparked the public’s attention after taking the Grade 1 King’s Bishop at Saratoga in stakes-record time, earning a lofty 113 Beyer Speed Figure. He followed that up with a heroic win in the slop in the Grade 2 Phoenix Stakes at Keeneland before a track-record performance in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Keeneland. He continued to flash his natural talent in the Grade 1 Malibu at Santa Anita to cap off his 3-year-old season. Runhappy retired with seven wins in 10 lifetime starts and never raced on medication. By Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver, Runhappy’s first 2-year-olds run in 2020. Check back here for their entries each week!

DRF StaffMay 28, 2020

Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Ny Traffic

Prior to his runner-up effort in the Matt Winn, Ny Traffic had been third in a division of the Risen Star and second in the Louisiana Derby. Should he break through with a major victory, he would be a standout for his young sire, and a standout for a female family that is light on black type.

Nicole RussoMay 27, 2020

Bernardini matrons have huge day at Churchill

Champion and prominent sire Bernardini is steadily emerging as a broodmare sire, following in the footprints of his late, great sire, A.P Indy. Bernardini recorded a triple with three stakes winners out of his daughters on Saturday at Churchill Downs.

Nicole RussoMay 25, 2020

Not This Time puts freshman sires into the win column, twice

Last week was the time for Not This Time. A graded stakes-winning juvenile himself, Not This Time got off to a fast start with two first-crop winners in as many days, taking command of the North American freshman sire list early. Through Sunday, no other freshman stallion in this region had yet recorded a winner.

Nicole RussoMay 25, 2020

Freshman stallion Not This Time has first winner at Churchill Downs

Graded stakes-winning juvenile Not This Time was represented by his first winner on Thursday at Churchill Downs, with his daughter Hopeful Princess outdueling Mad Maddy to win the first 2-year-old race of the year at Churchill Downs by three-quarters of a length.

Nicole RussoMay 21, 2020

Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Maxfield

Nicole RussoMay 20, 2020

Runhappy has first starter as sire Thursday at Churchill Downs

As more racing jurisdictions begin to emerge from their pandemic-forced shutdowns, there are more of the traditional early-season opportunities for juveniles – and therefore, more runners starting out for freshman sires. That’s obvious at Churchill Downs, where the second week of the track’s belated spring meeting features Kentucky’s first 2-year-old races, and the first entrants for several freshman sires, including Eclipse Award champion sprinter Runhappy.

Nicole RussoMay 19, 2020

Zenyatta delivers Candy Ride filly

Two foals with close connections to champions arrived over the weekend in Kentucky. Love the Chase, dam of 2014 and 2016 Horse of the Year California Chrome, delivered a colt from the first crop of Accelerate on Saturday at Atlas Farm in Nicholasville. One day later, 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta delivered a filly by leading sire Candy Ride at Lane’s End Farm in Versailles.

Nicole RussoMay 17, 2020

Jockey Club limit on stallion books draws mixed reaction

Triple Crown winner Justify was tied as the most active stallion in North America in his first season at stud in 2019. The young stallion covered 252 mares, many of them top-level winners or producers, according to The Jockey Club's Report of Mares Bred. Justify's first foals are arriving this season – but when his first sons enter stud some handful of years from now, the rules, competition, and market they face will be quite different.

Nicole RussoMay 14, 2020

Northview Stallion Station to sell Pennsylvania property

Northview Stallion Station, a perennial leader in the Mid-Atlantic region, will sell its Pennsylvania property and consolidate its operations on its Maryland division, it announced Monday.

Nicole RussoMay 11, 2020

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