First Dude reached another milestone yesterday by way of victories engineered by a pair of tote-board-busting ladies, Miss Star Lo at Parx Racing and Our Lizzy Lou at Turf Paradise. Miss Star Lo, a 7-year-old mare bred by Marti Erin Haught and ridden by Gerardo Milan, gave her sire 700 career winner’s circle visits. She …
For the second straight day, Double Diamond’s stallions each had a winner, with First Homestead scoring at Tampa Bay Downs and Sierra Diamond at Mahoning Valley. Ironically, First Homestead had broken his maiden exactly one year and one day ago at Tampa, on Feb. 26. But the 4-year-old First Dude gelding had been unable to …
Double Diamond Farm’s stallions accounted for two of the most eye-catching performances at Gulfstream Park yesterday by a pair of highly-promising 3-year-old fillies. Ray Arewethereyet opened the program with a sharp score at 5 1/2 furlongs under Jose Ortiz in just her second start. The filly owned and bred by Raymond Mamone slipped through on …
Gaitana is a holdover from First Dude’s initial crop, which reached the races in 2015. The 8-year-old mare was bred by Jose Carro in Puerto Rico, and has campaigned at Camarero Race Track for every one of her 62 starts. If she had run elsewhere, no doubt Gaitana’s earnings would be a great deal higher …
Picking Up Pennies picked up a great deal more than pennies after breaking his maiden in his third start for trainer/co-owner Saffie Joseph Jr. in the second race at Gulfstream Park yesterday. The winner’s check for the First Dude gelding came to $17,400 – or 1,740,000 pennies. With Tyler Gaffalione aboard, Picking up Pennies went …
The strange saga of Seattle Bay reached a new level yesterday when the 4-year-old First Dude filly broke her maiden in style at Nebraska’s Fonner Park. Seattle Bay began her odyssey as a $22,000 OBS October yearling in 2018, but she didn’t make her first start until August of last year at Gulfstream Park. She …
It took Workinonbeinsingle six tries to break her maiden, but when she did it was a thing of beauty. The 4-year-old daughter of Bahamian Squall went wire-to-wire under Roberto Alvarado Jr. at Tampa Bay Downs yesterday, at the direct expense of favored Billysbirthdaygirl. Alvarado gunned his filly out of the gate and into the lead, …
Fast Dude picked up winner No. 8 this year at Mahoning Valley and is now only six away from having 700 runners who have visited the winner’s circle. Romantic Jewel, a 4-year-old filly bred by Steve and Bryan Tucker, went wire-to-wire at 5 1/2 furlongs and is now 2-2-0 in seven starts. She left the …
Fast Dude went wire-to-wire racing a flat mile at Delta Downs yesterday, giving First Dude seven winners of eight races in the new year, 693 winning races lifetime, and progeny earnings of $192,219 for the first 33 days. After a few weeks in sixth place on the Florida general sire list, he has now moved …
In 2020, Bahamian Squall’s runners produced nine winners and progeny earnings of $419,795. The son of Gone West promises to easily eclipse those numbers this year; he has already notched four winners, earnings of $81,656 and added his first stakes-winner. Sun Squall became that fourth winner yesterday at Tampa Bay Downs, winning under Ademar Santos …