Berks continued his sensational 2023 season yesterday at Laurel Race Course with a wire-to-wire performance in a $62,930 Allowance Optional Claiming race under Jaime Rodriguez. The 4-year-old First Dude gelding who has been so outstanding for owner/breeder Jagger Inc. and trainer Jamie Ness made it two victories in a row, and …
Orange Theory, at odds of 29-1, finished third in the $50,000, black-type Lynn Chouinard Founders Distaff Stakes at Century Downs in Canada, a race she had won last year before it received the black-type designation. The 5-year-old daughter of First Dude sat close to the pace early with Renaldo Cumberbatch, but …
There are a slew of “from last to first” race calls made around the country every week, but no run from last place has been as impressive as the one Roan Mountain achieved in the fourth race at Parx on Tuesday. The 6-year-old First Dude gelding bred by Don Dizney broke …
When El Duque broke his maiden as a 3-year-old at Mountaineer Resort and Casino on Nov. 2 of 2020, the First Dude gelding was listed on the official chart with Patrick Rhodes as his owner and Cally Herrington as his trainer. On Sunday, some 38 races later, the gelding bred by Donald Dizney …
One would be hard-pressed to find a runner this year who has performed as stoutly as Berks, the 4-year-old gelding by First Dude owned and bred in Maryland by Jagger Inc. Berks won at Laurel Park Friday, going wire to-wire under Jaime Rodriguez, scoring by nearly two lengths while clocked in 1:52.28 for …
Loopy Dude finally shed the embarrassing designation of “always a bridesmaid, never a bride” with a convincing, rail-skimming 4 1/2-length victory at Albuquerque Wednesday night, breaking a losing streak of 17 straight races. It wasn’t that the 3-year-old gelding by First Dude was performing poorly, he had only finished off the board four …
Maryquitecontrary spent the early part of the Gr. III Princess Rooney Invitational at Gulfstream Park in eighth and last place, about eight lengths off the pace-setters, then made a strong late run under Luca Panici that fell half a length short at the wire. The seven-furlong race went in 1:22.89. …
First Dude’s 38th winner of 2023 is Defender Gal, who went wire-to-wire going six furlongs in a $26,400 maiden special at Thistledown with Ricardo Feliciano in the saddle. The 3-year-old filly bred by Bruce Andersen, a $22,000 OBS October yearling, scored by three-quarters of a length and paid just $2.80, coming …
If there was to be a vote to determine which of First Dude’s runners should become his poster child for longevity, it would have to go to Super Dude. The gelding bred by Moreau Bloodstock International is nine years old, comes from First Dude’s initial crop of 2014, and with yesterday’s victory at …
Last year, First Dude finished fourth on Florida’s general sire list with progeny earnings of $2,356,491. Surpassing that figure for 2023 should come in October; Dudewiththediamond sent the son of Stephen Got Even over the $2.2 million mark with his second victory at Presque Isle Downs. Addiel Ayala gave the …