Handicappers who make a big score on a longshot have a tendency to reserve a soft spot in their hearts for the steed who fattened their bank accounts and will follow that horse for a while looking for a repeat. On May 20, He’s On the Fly won at Presque Isle Downs and …
In five starts as a 2-year-old at Horseshoe Indianapolis, the best Channah Del Mar could muster up was three fourth-place finishes and two fifths. After a five-month vacation, the 3-year-old Indiana-bred First Dude filly returned and finished third twice and second three times before finally breaking her maiden in start No. 11. …
In his first start of this year at Mahoning Valley, the 19th race of his career, Fivefive Six Champ cruised home by eight lengths and received his best Equibase ‘E’ speed figure – a 101. At Mountain Resort and Casino last night he won by 4 1/2 lengths in his 27th start and …
Bahama Pearl executed her own best imitation of Secretariat in the Belmont Stakes in a 5 1/2-furlong race at Parx, getting her second victory in eight starts this year. With apprentice Matilda Burnham in the saddle, the 7-year-old Bahamian Squall mare sat three lengths off the pace early down the backstretch, …
Like so many of First Dude’s runners before him, Petulant Delight doesn’t compete at the levels that he once did, but at the ripe old age of nine, he still continues to make his presence felt in his current company. In the fourth race at Parx yesterday, a six-furlong test with …
The holiday weekend was good to First Dude, with Neigh Dude winning at Monmouth Park and inching closer to joining the $200,000 club, and Tiz D Amazin Lady breaking her maiden at Delaware Park in her third start. NEIGH DUDE – The 5-year-old gelding bred by Porter Racing Stable tracked the field with …
As the field was settling in the gate for the fourth race at Belterra Park on Thursday, Kohaku was 6/5 on the tote board, despite the fact that he was still a maiden after 22 races. When the gate was sprung, the 4-year-old First Dude gelding shot out quickly with Leander Sanchez, and …
There seems to be no stopping Conrado. The 4-year-old First Dude gelding made it four straight victories since June 28 with a narrow score in an $8,000 allowance race at Grand Prairie in Western Canada. With regular rider Juan Apango aboard, the $9,000 OBS October yearling came from behind in a …
It isn’t often that two of a stallion’s biggest money-winners show up in the same race, but it happened with First Dude in the $100,000 Sheer Drama Stakes at Gulfstream Park. Winner of the race at seven furlongs was the 9/10 favorite, Beth’s Dream, but checking in second, four lengths behind, …
Nik Juarez isn’t too far removed from his impressive run as an apprentice, but he showed his current skills to a T getting First Dude’s 24th winner home in a mile and a sixteenth maiden test at Monmouth Park. Co-highweight at 123 pounds, First Reign broke last in the field …