Ironstone

Mr Speaker – Casey’s Dreamin’, by Unbridled’s Song

Bred in Ontario by Kingview Farms ($5,365 purchase by Carlos Grant at 2020 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Ontario division yearling sale)

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.  

Rondure

Oxbow – Carat Weight, by Trajectory

Bred in Ontario by Borders Racing Stable Ltd.

Oxbow is an American classic winner, and had a major contender in the Triple Crown series last year. Now, he takes aim on the Canadian Triple Crown with Rondure, winner of the Grade 3 Marine Stakes at Woodbine.

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.

The 5-year-old American Theorem is from the first crop of American Pharoah, who is based at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky. The Bing Crosby, at six furlongs, was the gray’s second consecutive graded stakes victory sprinting in California, and continued to highlight his sire’s versatility.

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.

A year after Horse of the Year Gun Runner shattered the North American earnings record for a freshman sire, Three Chimneys Farm has another young stallion poised to make a run at this year’s freshman accolades. Sharp Azteca, who stands at the Midway, Ky., facility, was represented by two first-crop stakes winners on Saturday, both of whom posted efforts that rank among the best Beyer Speed Figures this year for 2-year-olds.

Sir for Sure

Sligo Bay – Serena’s Rose, by My Way Only

Bred in Ontario by Norse Ridge Farms

Sir for Sure, two-length upset winner of the Plate Trial last Sunday at Woodbine, has plenty of connections, both via his equine relatives and his human connections, to Lexie Lou, winner of the 2014 Queen’s Plate and other major events.

Horse of the Year Gun Runner continued the white-hot start to his stud career by sweeping the exacta in the Grade 1 Haskell Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth, with Cyberknife edging Taiba by a head.