At the tender age of eight, What’s Up Dude shows no sign of slowing down. The First Dude gelding scored his 10th career victory yesterday in a $57,040 allowance optional claimer at Hawthorne, and accomplished it in an eye-catching 1:09.80 for the six furlongs. With Rocco Bowen pitching in with a …
The English translation of El Zopilote is “The Buzzard,” and the First Dude colt of the same name picked them clean in the ninth race at Laurel Park yesterday. With Maclovio Enrique Jr. riding, the 4-year-old bred by Red Oak Stable was off well in the 5 1/2-furlong race, settling into …
It took Luis Rivera three trips aboard Island Winter at Mahoning Valley before he found the hole card for the 3-year-old Bahamian Squall filly. Then, on March 26, he guided the filly bred by Donald Dizney to a solid second-place finish, beaten only by a 2/5 shot. Island Winter earned an Equibase ‘E’ …
Bahamian Girl continued her march toward the $200,000 mark in earnings via her second straight Charles Town victory at 4 1/2 furlongs, oddly enough, both by 4 3/4 lengths. The 5-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall flew out of the gate with apprentice Marshall Mendez, opened up a four-length lead in a :21.68 quarter, and nobody …
The list of trainers who would rather their horses didn’t draw the No. 1 post is quite long, but Carol Cedeno proved last evening their fears are unfounded if their riders know how to make the best of it. Aboard the 3-year-old gelding Neigh Dude in an $18,000 starter optional claimer …
First Dude reached the half-million level in 2022 progeny earnings yesterday with the victory of First Homestead at Mahoning Valley. The 5-year-old gelding bred by Peggy Dellheim and Pete Mattson earned a check for $15,540 in the $28,900 allowance test and raised his total to $90,345, while his sire’s earnings hit $500,184. …
Bahamian Squall picked up his second stakes-winner of the season yesterday when Jacks or Better Farm’s highly-promising Spirit Wind captured the $100,000 Any Limit Stakes at Gulfstream Park. Spirit Wind started just once as a 2-year-old last year for trainer Ralph Nicks, finishing second back on May 6 in a 4 …
First Dude enjoyed another superior Saturday as he approaches $500,000 in progeny earnings for the year. Valiant Virtue scored his second runaway victory in a row at Tampa Bay Downs, Due North was equally impressive at Mahoning Valley, and Lady Milagro passed the $100,000 mark in earnings with a fourth-place finish in the …
Icy Dude passed the $100,000 mark in earnings at Parx Racing yesterday, benefitting from a heady, rail-skimming ride by Jeremy Laprida, and becoming First Dude’s 14th winner of 2022. Laprida took Icy Dude away in mid-pack on the inside and parked him there down the backstretch. He then picked off horses one …
Like so many of First Dude’s runners before him whose speed figures have improved with age, Here Comes Bullet has fired his best shot at the age of five in his 17th start. The gelding bred by Thomas L. Croley posted an excellent 90 at Gulfstream Park yesterday, highest Equibase ‘E’ number of …