First Dude remained within four winners of Florida leader Khozan with the convincing victory of Bella Serena at Tampa Bay Downs yesterday. The 3-year-old filly owned and bred by Joe and Vivi Serena broke her maiden in her ninth start and earned a check for $9,890 while becoming the 24th winner for First Dude this …
Sun Squall no doubt greatly benefitted from the presence yesterday of Nicolas Arriagada, who piloted the son of Bahamian Squall to the easiest of victories at Tampa Bay Downs. Arriagada is a 21-year-old apprentice jockey who won his first career race last Friday riding with a 10-pound allowance for his owner/trainer father, Juan Arriagada. Nicolas …
Bahamian Squall’s 10th winner of 2021 is My Mane Man, who broke his maiden at Gulfstream Park yesterday in a $40,000 maiden special in his second start, raising his sire’s progeny earnings at the beginning of his third season to $1,005,715. He became Bahamian Squall’s third winner in two days. Emisael Jaramillo rode My Man …
First Dude had 10 runners of various ages compete at five tracks on Friday and Saturday, and he wound up with two winners, three seconds, a third and a fourth. Nearly 40 percent of his runners this year have finished in the top three, and his progeny earnings recently passed $600,000 for the season and …
Double Diamond Farm’s talented Running Memories scored her second impressive victory at Gulfstream Park yesterday, winning a $38,000 allowance optional claiming race by three lengths under Victor Lebron in just her third start. The 3-year-old filly by Bahamian Squall had broken her maiden in her career debut by 2 1/2 lengths, and in between the …
Ragatagtag broke her maiden in her career debut as a 3-year-old at Oaklawn Park in February of 2019, winning by 2 1/2 lengths and paying $25.40. The daughter of First Dude raced in Hot Springs twice more before leaving town, and spending her next 16 races at Arlington Park, Hawthorne, Fair Grounds and Churchill Downs. …
Bahama Breeze lived up to her name at Parx Racing yesterday, winning in a breeze racing six furlongs in the rain under Abner Adorno. The 3-year-old Bahamian Squall filly bred by Double Diamond Farm had finished second two races back, and broke her maiden in her fourth try at odds of 19-1. Leaving from the …
First Dude’s extraordinary success since the 10th of March reached new heights yesterday when Chelsey Keiser guided the 4-year-old filly Due North to victory by an eye-opening 20 3/4 lengths in the seventh race at Mahoning Valley. Due North was sitting on the tote board at odds of 5/2 as post time for the six-furlong …
With two days left on the March racing calendar, First Dude has now registered nine winners since the 10th of the month, along with last weekend’s two stakes-placed runners. Winner No. 9 is Myhessexpress, who annihilated the field yesterday in a 6 1/2-furlong maiden race at Parx Racing. The 3-year-old gelding bred in Pennsylvania by …
First Dude celebrated the weekend with a pair of stakes-placed runners, lightly-raced Ray Arewethereyet finishing third in the $110,000 Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies Stakes on the Florida Cup program at Tampa Bay Downs, and Rogue Too getting third in the $100,000 Latonia Stakes at Turfway Park. Ray Arewethereyet had finished first and second at …