A convincing winner from off the pace under Victor Molina, AUCTORITAS won a 7f event by 4 lengths. Bred by Jayeff B Stables & Denali Stud & Partners the gelded son of Exing (Chi) is a half-brother to MASH ONE (Chi) (Multiple G1 winner of $549,213), EXHORTADA (Chi) (G1) RECICLADA (Chi) (Multiple Graded stakes winner of […]
Sharp in return, Haynesfield, the reigning New York-bred horse of the year, returned from a layoff of nearly seven months to record a 2 1/2-length victory in a restricted allowance race Sunday. He ran one mile in 1:34.69 and earned a 99 Beyer. “Nice race, he got a lot out of it, glad to have […]
Denali takes six colts and one filly to the July 13-14 sale at Fasig-Tipton: Hip 146 Pulpit-Abba Gold colt, the only colt by Pulpit in the sale. Hip 199 Grand Slam – Disrupt colt, the only Grand Slam colt out of a daughter of the Multiple Graded Stakes Winner. Hip 231 Medaglia d’Oro-Future Act colt, […]
Denali sale graduate, GOLDEN BALLET, sold at the 2001 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale is the dam of 2010 Belmont winner DROSSELMEYER. Sold as a three-year-old broodmare prospect GOLDEN BALLET’s race record at the time of sale pointed to classic success. Racing for Heiligbrodt Racing Stable and Team Valor the stakes winning 2-year-old filly of […]
Denali sale graduate Chestoria scored a 1 ¼ length victory in Belmont’s Mount Vernon S. for NY-Bred fillies and mares. Well placed along the inside the Bill Badgett trainee waited patiently for room while saving ground on the turn she made a run to challenge in mid-stretch and edged clear under right hand encouragement. Owned […]
It was reported today that Serena’s Song, the 1995 champion three-year-old filly, produced a bay filly by Street Cry (Ire) on April 28 at Denali Stud. “Denali’s most famous resident, Serena’s Song, has been with us since her retirement from racing,” commented Denali owner Craig Bandoroff. “This is her twelfth foal and she is a […]
Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens got the 2010 Belmont Park spring meet off to a flying start when Le Grand Cru edged away in the final sixteenth of a mile to win the $100,000 Westchester Stakes (gr. III) on opening day April 30. Battling on the lead for jockey Cornelio Velasquez throughout the one-mile […]
Brushwood Stable’s Grade I winner Mushka (Empire Maker–Sluice, by Seeking the Gold) has been retired. The five-year-old will be bred to Distorted Humor. “She’s had a little bit of an ankle issue, and at her age it might be a little bit of time before she could come back to racing,” said Brushwood’s Elizabeth Moran. […]
BOURBON BAY became the first horse in 17 years to sweep Santa Anita’s stakes series when he held off Unusual Suspect to win the $150,000 San Juan Capistrano Handicap (gr. IIT) in the final race of 2009-10 season. Ridden by Rafael Bajarano for trainer Neil Drysdale in the 71st edition of the about 1 ¾-mile […]
The New York Thoroughbred Breeders honored the state-bred divisional champions of 2009 at their annual banquet held at the Gideon Putnam Hotel. HAYNESFIELD – Horse of the Year and Champion 3-year-old male of 2009. A Denali farm and sale graduate Haynesfield won the Discovery H.-G3 and three other New York stakes in 2009. Foaled and […]