After winning the fifth race at Prairie Meadows yesterday, Ragatagtag collected a check for $9,300, raising her career total to $143,028. Not bad for a mare who was a $4,000 RNA as a yearling at the OBS October sale in 2017. The 5-year-old daughter of First Dude, bred by Adam and Suzette Parker at T-Square …
Roll On Dude was sent off at odds of 7/2 in a 5-furlong race on the grass at Penn National last evening. The way the 5-year-old gelding performed in breaking his maiden, he should have been 1/5. The story behind the son of First Dude began at Double Diamond where he was bred by James …
Riley’s Dude didn’t race as a 2-year-old last year, but he’s more than making up for it this season. With a little more than seven months gone on the racing calendar, the 3-year-old gelding is First Dude’s leading money-winner of 2021 with $73,380 in the till. He took over the top spot yesterday via a …
Baby Ice’s racing life is another tale that has emulated that of the legendary Arkansas Traveler, spending her first 36 races at Santa Anita, Del Mar, Los Alamitos, Gulfstream Park and Gulfstream West. Along the way, the 7-year-old daughter of First Dude has been in so many barns for so many owners and trainers she …
R B C Gold didn’t race at two and three, and in her first three starts at Tampa Bay Downs as a 4-year-old, she didn’t exhibit much promise. But a long van ride to Monmouth Park has turned it around for the 4-year-old filly by First Dude. With Mychel Sanchez aboard, R B C Gold …
It took Edgard Zayas two prep races aboard Here Comes Bullet – producing a second and a third – to get acquainted with the gelding, and now the son of First Dude has won two in a row. After breaking his maiden with Zayas at Gulfstream Park on July 4, Here Comes Bullet came right …
Since First Dude fell four behind Khozan in the race for most winners on Florida’s leading sire list, the son of Stephen Got Even picked up three victories in six days and now trails by only one, 44 to 43. No. 43 came in the third race at Finger Lakes yesterday, by first-timer Victoria’s Dance, …
El Zopilote is the Spanish term for ‘The Vulture,’ and the son of First Dude with the same name all but picked his rivals clean in his maiden-breaking victory at Colonial Downs yesterday. With Reylu Gutierrez riding, the 3-year-old colt bred by Red Oak Stable broke fourth in the six-furlong race, stalked the three leaders …
All it took for Exonerated Prez to break his maiden was a drop in class, and the 3-year-old son of First Dude made it look easy at Thistledown yesterday. With Yarmarie Correa aboard, the gelding bred by Don Dizney broke on top in the 5 1/2-furlong race and never gave anybody else a chance. He …
Ready to Runaway has struck again in Minnesota! The incredible 5-year-old Minnesota-bred daughter of First Dude captured the $50,000 Minnesota Distaff last evening, and added to her illustrious accomplishments: (1) The check for $30,000 raised her career earnings to $427,735, passing Sticksstatelydude and into fifth place among First Dude’s runners. Her record is 11-5-3 in …