Dual Eclipse Award champion Covfefe helped Into Mischief to his first leading sire title in 2019 by flaunting her speed. The filly’s four stakes wins on the season – capped by the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint – included a track record-setting performance in the Grade 3 Miss Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, and a win in the Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs in which she missed champion Groupie Doll’s track mark by just seven-hundredths of a second.

By Jennifer B. Calder

As the horses turned for home on that warm June afternoon in 2018, the crowd of 90,000 plus at Belmont Park was electric.

The chestnut stallion with the large white blaze and long, elegant stride stood out amongst his competitors, not only due to his powerful ground-eating strokes as he raced for home, or as the only horse in the field not covered in the dust of Big Sandy, but also as only the 13th horse in the history of horse racing to win the Triple Crown.

Uncle Chuck

Uncle Mo – Forest Music, by Unbridled’s Song

Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet ($250,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase by Karl Watson, Mike Pegram, and Paul Weitman)

Uncle Chuck, among the late bloomers to arrive on this year’s elongated Kentucky Derby trail, will get a litmus test when he challenges divisional leader Tiz the Law this Saturday at Saratoga. The colt is the product of crossing a young classic sire over a classy sprint mare who has developed into an outstanding broodmare.

Perennial leading sire Tapit has a Kentucky Oaks winner on his résumé in Untapable, who won the filly classic and the Breeders’ Cup Distaff in 2014 to lock up a divisional Eclipse Award. Tapit’s son Tapizar, who stands alongside him at Gainesway, emulated the feat with just his second crop, as Monomoy Girl won the 2018 Oaks and Distaff to secure a championship.

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.

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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.

Timeline, by Hard Spun and from the female family of the great broodmare Courtly Dee, had his best season as a 3-year-old in 2017. He won the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont by 3 1/4 lengths, then took the Grade 3 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth by the same margin.

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.

In the release, Claiborne said that 4-year-old War of Will, who is trained by Mark Casse for Gary Barber, will enter stud in 2021, with a fee to be announced later this year.

Thousand Words

Pioneerof the Nile – Pomeroys Pistol, by Pomeroy

Bred in Florida by Hardacre Farm ($1 million Keeneland September yearling purchase by Albaugh Family Stable and Spendthrift Farm)

For Thousand Words, who will be looking to get back to his winning ways in this weekend’s Shared Belief Stakes at Del Mar, his pedigree is a classic case of stamina crossed over speed.

Eclipse Award champion juvenile and Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist was represented by his first winner as a stallion Sunday, as Dream Quist won her career debut at Ellis Park.

Dream Quist, who is trained by Ken McPeek for the partnership of C&H Diamond Racing and Baccari Racing Stable, stalked the pace before taking the lead in the stretch and drawing clear to win by 3 3/4 lengths. She finished the mile in 1:39.74.

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