By 8 p. m. this evening, Bahamian Squall may have passed the $1 million mark in progeny earnings for the first time. It’s all up to Free to Run, who is 9/2 in the morning line for the third race at Mountaineer Casino & Racetrack. With a purse of just under $8,000, the …
Berks has made it easy for his backers at the mutuel windows to decide when to bet on him – he wins every other race. The 3-year-old First Dude gelding has raced eight times at five tracks, and has won four times; in outing No. 2 (at Pimlico), No. 4 (at …
Bahamian Squall came $21,600 closer to his first million-dollar season yesterday when Bahama Pearl went wire-to-wire racing six furlongs at Pimlico under J. D. Acosta. The healthy check boosted Bahamian Squall’s earnings for 2022 to $983,014, and he went over $2.6 million lifetime. Bahama Pearl jumped out to the …
Tijuana Racing Stables and Juan Pablo Silva, owners and trainer of Free to Run, couldn’t have been upset when they found out there were four scratches from yesterday’s fifth race at Mountaineer Casino & Resort, leaving their filly with just two opponents in the five-furlong race. When the trio broke from …
Tuesday, Sept. 13, was a good day for one of the Ohtanis, the equine version. Twenty-eight-year-old Los Angeles Angels’ slugger and pitcher Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-3 as his team lost to the Cleveland Guardians; Ohtani, the 6-year-old First Dude gelding bred by Donald Dizney won at Assiniboia Downs and raised his record to …
Each time Running Memories sets foot on the racetrack. she makes Don Dizney’s $20,000 OBS July purchase price in 2020 look like a greater bargain. At Gulfstream Park yesterday, with Edgar Perez aboard and carrying 125 pounds, the 4-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall scored a hard-earned victory in the North Miami, …
With Maryquitecontrary winning the $65,000 Sheer Drama Stakes at Gulfstream Park yesterday, and Ready to Runaway finishing second in the $100,000 Bella Notte Minnesota Distaff at Canterbury Park, First Dude’s progeny earnings for 2022 soared to $1,657,361, and it shouldn’t be long before the son of Stephen Got Even surpasses $2 million for …
After Yarmarie Correa was involved in a major spill at Thistledown a year ago, it was touch and go whether she would ever ride again. Her performances in three recent races aboard Purdy Pumkin have proven she’s as good as ever. In Correa’s first two trips on the 3-year-old First Dude …
Shelley Brown paid just $3,000 for Orange Theory as a yearling at the 2019 OBS October sale and it’s somewhat of a surprise that the owner/trainer still has the 4-year-old First Dude filly in her barn after 24 starts. Orange Theory is 4-3-6 in those 24 races following her nearly five-length …
If the 33-1 First Dude gelding Sandy Dude’s fast-closing finish had been enough to catch even-money Kuhl Star for second place in the fifth race at Gulfstream Park yesterday, it might have resulted in a tote board power outage. As it was, Sandy Dude fell a length short of the favorite or the …