Category Archives: Racing

M Racing Group’s EL MAGNATE overcame a troubled start and traffic problems to win a 5 1/2-furlong Maiden Special Weight at Woodbine on May 17 in his racing debut.  The victory earned the 3-year-old colt the designation of “TDN Rising Star,” and he become 60th runner by Leading Sire Into Mischief to earn that status. 

Klaravich Stable’s GROWTH EQUITY was a heavy favorite in a Maiden Special Weight at Aqueduct in March and rolled home with impressive  4 1/4- victory.  Making the jump to stakes company last Saturday in the $200,000 Peter Pan S.-G3, the 3-year-old colt proved his connections were correction in their assessment by winning the 1 1/18-mile feature by a comfortable two lengths.  After tracking the leaders into the far turn, GROWTH EQUITY was asked to run as they neared the quarter pole, and he went wide to make his bid.  Under mild urging, he took the lead at the head of the stretch and then drew clear from his rivals for his first graded stakes win.

FORD ROADSTER and STRIKE, 2-year-olds representing 1st crop sire ROADSTER, finished one-two in a maiden race at Gulfstream on April 19.  The race was the racing debut for both colts and they battled with each other from the onset.  Daniel Alonso’s FORD ROADSTER prevailed by a half-lenth at the wire over favorite STRIKE, who races for Arindel.  The colts’ sire, ROADSTER, was bred and raced by Stone Farm. 

Klaravich Stable’s GROWTH EQUITY, a  3-year-old colt by Nyquist, was the heavy favorite in a one-mile Maiden Special Weight at Aqueduct on March 20.  The colt looked the part, going to the outside leaving the chute, then stalking the pace down the backstretch.  After taking the lead in the turn GROWTH EQUITY maintained it down the stretch, and then drew clear in the final sixteenth to post a 4 1/4-length win.

SWORE has been named one of the three finalists for the 2025 Eclipse Award honoring the year’s Champion Steeplechaser.  A son of Broken Vow out of the Ghostzapper mare Cara Bella, SWORE was bred, foaled and raised at Stone Farm and races for the farm in partnership with Upland Flat Racing. 

Coming off back-to-back Grade 1 wins in 2024, Lael Stable’s SHE FEELS PRETTY did not make her 2025 debut until Kentucky Oaks day, when she won the Modesty S.-G3 on the turf at by a comfortable 2 1/4 lengths. She came back to win the New York S.-G1 at Saratoga in her next start, then finished second by a head in the hard-fought Diana S.-G1 at Saratoga.  She followed that with a narrow win in the E. P. Taylor S.-G1 at Woodbine, and then finished out the year with a second-place ffinish in the Breeders’ Cup Filly Mare Turf-G1.

SWORE has been named one of the three finalists for the 2025 Eclipse Award honoring the year’s Champion Steeplechaser.  A son of Broken Vow out of the Ghostzapper mare Cara Bella, SWORE was bred, foaled and raised at Stone Farm and races for the farm in partnership with Upland Flat Racing. 

AMBAYA broke her maiden in her first start on June 12 at Horseshoe Indianapolis.  Since then, the 3-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper earned blacktype in the Christiana Stakes at Delaware Park and placed in four of five other races, including finishing second by a nose in a one mile optional claiming event going a mile on the turf at Del Mar in her California debut.  Her connections saw promise and made the decision to jump her Graded stakes company.

FULLY SUBSCRIBED posted her second consecutive Graded stakes win in Aqueduct’s 1 1/8-mile Comely S.-G3 on December 7.  The 3-year-old filly raced second for six furlongs, began her move in the turn, and then took the lead in the stretch to prevail by four lengths at the wire.  She finished in front of Shortleaf Stable’s QUIETSIDE, also a two0time Graded stakes winner this year who like FULLY SUBSCRIBED, has the distinction of having been foaled and raised at Stone Farm

Arthur Hancock’s  “Dark Horses: A Memoir of Redemption” is prominently featured in an article written by Lenny Shulman on Hancock’s life and family in the recently published winter issue of Keeneland Magazine.  The 11-page feature recounts Hancock’s upbringing, his time at Vanderbilt University, his battles with alcoholism, and his break with the family farm. In addition, the piece acknowledges Hancock’s reamrkable success in the Thoroughbred industry and his passion and talent as a musician.