Picking Up Pennies picked up a great deal more than pennies after breaking his maiden in his third start for trainer/co-owner Saffie Joseph Jr. in the second race at Gulfstream Park yesterday. The winner’s check for the First Dude gelding came to $17,400 – or 1,740,000 pennies. With Tyler Gaffalione aboard, Picking up Pennies went …
The strange saga of Seattle Bay reached a new level yesterday when the 4-year-old First Dude filly broke her maiden in style at Nebraska’s Fonner Park. Seattle Bay began her odyssey as a $22,000 OBS October yearling in 2018, but she didn’t make her first start until August of last year at Gulfstream Park. She …
It took Workinonbeinsingle six tries to break her maiden, but when she did it was a thing of beauty. The 4-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall went wire-to-wire under Roberto Alvarado Jr. at Tampa Bay Downs yesterday, at the direct expense of favored Billysbirthdaygirl. Alvarado gunned his filly out of the gate and into the lead, …
Fast Dude picked up winner No. 8 this year at Mahoning Valley and is now only six away from having 700 runners who have visited the winner’s circle. Romantic Jewel, a 4-year-old filly bred by Steve and Bryan Tucker, went wire-to-wire at 5 1/2 furlongs and is now 2-2-0 in seven starts. She left the …
Fast Dude went wire-to-wire racing a flat mile at Delta Downs yesterday, giving First Dude seven winners of eight races in the new year, 693 winning races lifetime, and progeny earnings of $192,219 for the first 33 days. After a few weeks in sixth place on the Florida general sire list, he has now moved …
In 2020, Bahamian Squall’s runners produced nine winners and progeny earnings of $419,795. The son of Gone West promises to easily eclipse those numbers this year; he has already notched four winners, earnings of $81,656 and added his first stakes-winner. Sun Squall became that fourth winner yesterday at Tampa Bay Downs, winning under Ademar Santos …
Red-hot First Dude solidified his hold on third place on Florida’s general sire list yesterday when M J’s Lady won the third race at Laurel under Charlie Marquez, giving the son of Stephen Got Even his sixth January winner and raising his progeny earnings for the month to $171,317. M J’s Lady was off fourth …
Thoroughbred racing is a sport revolving around the odds board, and what are the odds that one breeder could have two winners by the same sire two hours apart at tracks in different states. That’s just what happened yesterday with long-time Ocala breeder Lynne Boutte, who had This Dudes No Fool win at Gulfstream Park …
At the age of seven, Super Dude continues to move up on the list of First Dude’s leading earners, jumping up two spots with an eye-catching wire-to-wire victory at Aqueduct yesterday. The gelding bred by Moreau Bloodstock International collected $27,500 for his score at a mile and one-eighth, increasing his career total to $361,555, seventh …
When the field for the fifth race at Gulfstream Park yesterday was moving toward the gate, oddly-named Elliereeseaston was sitting on the tote board at odds of 7/2. When the fillies had traveled 100 yards, the 3-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall suddenly dropped to 6/5. Elliereeseaston had made just one previous start, finishing fourth by …