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 …
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 …
Red-hot First Dude solidified his hold on third place on Florida’s general sire list yesterday when M J’s Lady won the third race at Laurel under Charlie Marquez, giving the son of Stephen Got Even his sixth January winner and raising his progeny earnings for the month to $171,317. M J’s Lady was off fourth …
Thoroughbred racing is a sport revolving around the odds board, and what are the odds that one breeder could have two winners by the same sire two hours apart at tracks in different states. That’s just what happened yesterday with long-time Ocala breeder Lynne Boutte, who had This Dudes No Fool win at Gulfstream Park …
At the age of seven, Super Dude continues to move up on the list of First Dude’s leading earners, jumping up two spots with an eye-catching wire-to-wire victory at Aqueduct yesterday. The gelding bred by Moreau Bloodstock International collected $27,500 for his score at a mile and one-eighth, increasing his career total to $361,555, seventh …
Before she showed up in a six-furlong race at Fair Grounds yesterday, Much About It had scored victories at Gulfstream Park, Gulfstream West, Tampa Bay Downs and Remington Park. With apprentice Santos Rivera in the saddle, the 6-year-old daughter of First Dude made New Orleans her fifth winning venue while becoming her sire’s third winner …
After leading Florida’s sires with 64 winners in 2020, First Dude has shown he’ll be going after a repeat in that category with only seven days gone in the new year. The son of Stephen Got Even already has two winners after Debonnaire Dude cruised to a stylish victory under veteran Tim Thornton at Delta …
Following on the heels of Bahamian Squall’s first winner of the new year, First Dude kept pace yesterday when Petulant Delight captured his third straight at Parx Racing, becoming his sire’s initial winner of 2021. After the 6-year-old gelding bred by Ocala Stud had posted just one victory in his previous nine starts dating back …
First Dude moved within one victory of 100 for the year when Winking At Thedude scored at a flat mile yesterday over a track labeled ‘good’ at Mahoning Valley. The 5-year-old gelding bred by Dee-Ellen Cook and Suzette Parker is also just one victory behind Khozan for that title with seven racing days remaining, but …