Duke of Love

Cupid – Tell the Duchess, by Smart Strike

Bred in Ontario by Caldara Farm, Patrick Costello, David Whitford, and Tom Zwiesler ($15,000 Keeneland November weanling purchase by War Horse Place; $40,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling purchase by Julie Davies, agent; $85,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-old purchase by MyRacehorse)

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 a dark bay filly, also trained by Amoss, carried Politi’s silks to victory in the Ellis Park Debutante. That was the first of six stakes victories for Serengeti Empress, highlighted by Grade 1 wins in the 2019 Kentucky Oaks and 2020 Ballerina Stakes.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - 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.

Casa Creed, by Spendthrift stallion Jimmy Creed, made his third appearance in the race a winning one after finishing third in the past two editions of the race. Last year, he finished behind Got Stormy, who carried Spendthrift colors.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – 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.

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.