First Dude pole-vaulted over the $1 million mark in 2023 progeny earnings yesterday, compliments of Kentucky-bred Lady Milagro, who picked up a check for $45,100 after going wire-to-wire in an $82,000 allowance race at Aqueduct. That lifted First Dude’s total to $1,034,261. Lady Milagro had the services of 7-pound apprentice rider …
Berks has made it two victories in his last three races at Laurel Race Course, and as a result two important milestones are closer to being achieved. With the $28,800 the 4-year-old gelding collected for owner/breeder Jagger Inc. in the $48,600 allowance race, he boosted his earnings to $190,230 and is on the …
Starship Renegade, the 5-year-old son of First Dude bred at The Acorn by Bill and Lynn Rainbow, and who didn’t make his first career start until October of last year, continued his rapid rise to stardom yesterday with a convincing seven-furlong score at Gulfstream Park. Co-owned by veteran South Florida trainer …
Dr. Rod Lundock has bred many winners during his decades in the business in Marion County, including such as Didn’t Take It ($312,794) and Rage of Aquarius ($211,844), but he has currently hit the jackpot with a 4-year-old filly by First Dude. What makes the daughter of Double Diamond’s premier stallion …
Congratulations are in order to trainer Rafael Romero, who breezed Impacto once at Tampa Bay Downs to get a gate card, then twice more at the Williston Mile, and was rewarded with an authoritative victory yesterday in a 5 1/2-furlong claiming race in Oldsmar. The 4-year-old First Dude gelding was overpowering …
In five starts at ages two and three, Spirit Wind compiled a record of 3-2-0, which included a second in the Gr. II Princess Rooney Stakes and a victory in the Musical Romance. After the Princess Rooney in July, Jacks or Better Farm’s filly by Bahamian Squall took an enforced vacation of nine months, …
First Dude has unveiled another budding star – Charlie’s Wish, who raised her record to 2-2-1 in six starts with a victory yesterday in a $54,000 allowance race at Gulfstream Park. The 3-year-old filly bred by Three Gin Guys Stable became her sire’s 19th winner of 2023 and added $32,400 to …
Bahamian Squall’s eighth winner of 2023 is Axcel, a first-time starter owned and bred by SCF Inc. who won at Tampa Bay Downs yesterday via a slick ride by Richard Bracho. The 3-year-old gelding was slow to begin from the No. 1 post and raced sixth and last going to …
Time to Cruise cruised over the $100,000 mark in earnings yesterday after only his sixth start, via a convincing 2 1/2-length victory as the 6/5 favorite in a $52,000 allowance test at Parx Racing. The First Dude colt had Ruben Silvera in the saddle for his rocking-chair ride, in which the …
It’s anybody’s guess how many people know that Rillito Park is in Tucson, Arizona, but that’s where Bahamian Squall had Taino House become his seventh winner of 2023, and the first to win twice. The 6-year-old gelding recorded his best career Equibase ‘E’ speed figure, an 87, with a nearly six-length …