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Boxed Wine edges past Fabulous Fox late to win the Jack Betta Be Rite at Finger Lakes. SV Photography.

Flying P Stable’s Boxed Wine continued to show her affinity for racing on the dirt and gave jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. a stakes double Monday at Finger Lakes with a come-from-behind victory in the $50,000 Jack Betta Be Rite Stakes.

The 4-year-old daughter of Vino Rosso, claimed by Jay Provenzano’s Flying P and trainer Jorge Abreu two starts back for $35,000 on the turf August 15 Saratoga Race Course, Boxed Wine made it back-to-back victories in the Jack Betta Be Rite. She won her first start off the claim 14 days later in a 9-furlong allowance on the main track

Bred by Repole Stable Inc. and out of the stakes-winning New York-bred Congrats mare Temper Mint Patty, Boxed Wine won her first stakes and improved to 3-for-16 with earnings of $179,551.

A $25,000 purchase out of the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale, Boxed Wine made her debut in a 6-furlong auction maiden in mid-August 2023 at Saratoga. She made 13 straight turf starts from there, compiling a 1-2-1 record, for owners Lindy Farms and trainer Phil Antonacci.

Flying P and Abreu claimed Boxed Wine out of her eighth-place finish in a 1-mile open company turf race and moved her back to the main track.

Sent off as the 8-5 favorite in the field of nine New York-bred fillies and mares in the Jack Betta Be Rite, Boxed Wine raced toward the back of the field early while Fabulous Fox led uncontested through opening splits of :23.72 and :48.48.

Santana stayed patient on Boxed Wine up the backstretch and into the far turn before tipping out in the stretch. Fabulous Fox, the 13-1 fifth choice coming off a victory last month at Finger Lakes, stayed on into the stretch and opened up by 3 lengths at the eighth pole.

Boxed Wine cut into the advantage from there and took control inside the sixteenth pole and won going away in 1:46.70. Fabulous Fox held second, a neck ahead of Walk With Me. Midtown Lights, Shezanarticqueen, Shelly, Sweet Anniversary, Inouaintalkintome and Miss Lao completed the field.

Boxed Wine is the fifth foal out of Temper Mint Patty, winner of the 2014 Joseph A. Gimma Stakes and 2015 New York Oaks and earner of $415,916. She’s a half-sister to winners Slow Decision and Kajus. Temper Mint Patty is also the dam of a yearling filly by Cyberknife who was a $72,000 RNA at the 2025 Keeneland January horses of all ages sale and a weanling colt by Maclean’s Music foaled March 5.

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Cut the Cord and Reylu Gutierrez cruise to the finish of Monday’s Genesee Valley Breeders’ Stakes at Finger Lakes. SV Photography.

Cut the Cord returned to stakes company for the first time since early in his sophomore season and came away with a victory in Monday’s $50,000 Genesee Valley Breeders’ Stakes at Finger Lakes.

Two starts removed from being claimed for $45,000 out of a victory in a 1-mile optional-claimer at Saratoga Race Course, Cut the Cord came up the inside to win the 1 1/16-mile Genesee Valley over multiple stakes winner Allure of Money and four others. Reylu Gutierrez rode the 6-year-old Creative Cause for trainer and co-owner Ilkay Kantarmaci and Gaiety Stables.

Bred by Michael Anthony Slezak, Cut the Cord improved to 8-for-27 with the victory, picked up $30,000 and boosted his bankroll to $393,192.

Sent off as the 3-5 favorite in the field of six, Cut the Cord raced in fourth early as Mo Trump and Allure of Money vied for the lead into the first turn and to the opening quarter-mile in :23.71 over the fast track.

Mo Trump, the 5-1 second choice coming off three straight turf starts on the NYRA circuit, continued to lead past the half in :47.62 with Allure of Money just off the pace. The trio of Zeebear, Cut the Cord and Rhymes Like Dimes chased on the backstretch and toward the far turn.

Allure of Money took command coming off the turn while Cut the Cord stayed inside and Zeebear rallied on the outside. Cut the Cord accelerated from there and drew off to win by 1 1/2 lengths in 1:46.43. Allure of Money edged Zeebear by a neck for the place spot with Crypto Causeway, Rhymes Like Dimes and Mo Trump completing the field.

Cut the Cord won his debut Sept. 1, 2001 at Finger Lakes. He made his stakes debut in his next start, finishing fifth in the Rego Park Stakes in early January 2022 at Aqueduct. He followed that up with another fifth in the Gander Stakes a month later at Aqueduct.

Cut the Cord is the eighth foal out of the multiple graded stakes-placed Dynaformer mare Cable. He’s a half-brother to the New York-bred winning Redesdale gelding Cable Ready, the earner of $172,459; and winners Royale, Stephanies Jewel and Holy Kingdom.

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Stablemates Tamara (Bolt d'Oro) and Kopion (Omaha Beach) were among several Breeders' Cup hopefuls to make an appearance Monday morning on the worktab at Santa Anita ahead of a multi-day rainstorm that's expected to arrive in the area later in the evening.

Trained by Richard Mandella, Grade I winners Tamara and Kopion both worked three furlongs with the former being clocked in :37.40 (7/19) on the main track while the latter went to the synthetic training track and was timed in :39.80 (4/4). Kopion wears glue-on shoes, according to Mandella, and was barefoot for a few days. The trainer included that the move was more meant to 'do something with her' before the poor weather came in than it was intended to be a real work.

Both fillies are owned by Spendthrift Farm, and might be on track for entry in the same Breeders' Cup race. Tamara, the 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' daughter of Hall of Famer Beholder is ticketed for the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint while Kopion has a slight chance of tackling the males in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. If that does not pan out, Mandella says she'll be joining Tamara in the Filly & Mare contest.

“We're just taking everything in, but at the moment I would say it's more than likely they both run in the Filly & Mare (Sprint).”

Also sending out a noteworthy team was Bob Baffert, whose Explora (Blame), Bottle of Rouge (Vino Rosso), and Desert Gate (Omaha Beach) all went out in preparation for their expected tilt on Future Star Friday Oct. 31.

Grade I-placed, and the recent winner of the GII Oak Leaf Stakes, Explora breezed four furlongs in :48.80 (19/63) in her first move since that aforementioned graded victory. It had been her first time going two-turns after an immediate jump into elite company two back Sept. 6 in the GI Del Mar Debutante. That start was post 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' debut Aug. 17 at the venue. She was defeated in the Grade I contest by stablemate Bottle of Rouge, who drilled five furlongs in 1:00.40 (3/43) Monday morning. Both runners are being pointed toward the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.

Well beaten in both of the above graded races after she claimed the GIII Sorrento Stakes in just her second start, another of Baffert's 'Rising Stars' Himika (Curlin) was also clocked going through her paces Monday with a three-furlong drill in :37.60 (8/19).

Of his potential candidates for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Baffert's Desert Gate produced a four-furlong work in :50.60 (55/63) in his first move since running second in the GI American Pharoah Stakes Oct. 4.

The older divisions also saw a strong contender for next month's World Championships take a spin around the track, namely MGISW Formidable Man (City of Light) from the Michael McCarthy barn. The winner of the 2025 GI Frank E. Kilroe Mile was timed doing four-furlongs on the main track in 1:02.60. He is being pointed for the GI Breeders' Cup Mile.

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Coolmore has announced that Prix du Jockey Club (G1) and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (G1) winner Camille Pissarro will stand at Coolmore for 2026. 

Shadow Of Light, the champion 2-year-old of last year and just the third horse to complete the Middle Park Stakes-Dewhurst Stakes double since the Pattern began, has been retired from racing and will stand at Darley's Kildangan Stud next year.

The versatility of Thoroughbreds was on display just a few miles from Keeneland Oct. 8-11 when the Retired Racehorse Project crowned 10 Thoroughbred Makeover champions at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.

Mike Campbell's gut told him he would follow the lead of his grandfather and father by becoming a trainer. The former jockey never anticipated the awful turn that would lead him to that second career and, now, a second trip to the Breeders' Cup.

The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program Championships were held at Stable View in Aiken, S.C., from Oct. 2-5.

The International Thoroughbred Breeders' Federation announced the launch of its Stud Farm Supporters initiative, a move to help meet the not-for-profit organization's increased running costs.

The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association's Breeders Sales of Louisiana held its 2025 Yearling Sale, followed by a mixed session, Oct. 12 at the Louisiana Equine Sales and Event Center in Opelousas. The gross for the overall sale was $881,400.

Trailing early on the all-weather track, Piper's Gift hung close to the lead through the opening half-mile of the 7-furlong contest. Moving off the rail, Piper's Gift challenged two wide at the turn before taking control early in the stretch.

A quick early tempo in the $390,950 Franklin Stakes (G2T) set the stage for a closer on the Keeneland turf Oct. 12, and Time to Dazzle took the cue. Living up to her name, the 4-year-old Not This Time filly dazzled to the tune of a 3 1/4-length win.

War of Will, the multiple grade 1-winning stallion, will be moving from Claiborne Farm near Paris, Ky., to Rockridge Stud near Hudson, N.Y., for 2026.

WinStar Farm announced its 2026 stud fees for its stallion roster Oct. 12, headed once again by Constitution and Life is Good.

Arctic Beast (Yaupon) made it three-for-three in his young career with a second straight romping success in stakes company in Monday's New York Breeders' Futurity at Finger Lakes.

Sent off at a nickel on the dollar to build on a 7 1/4-length success over Diamond Child (Weekend Hideaway) and Party in the Army (Army Mule) in the 5 1/2-furlong Aspirant Stakes Sept. 22, the two-time Fasig-Tipton graduate was content to track outside of Diamond Child through the early exchanges as Party in the Army made up for lost time after going in the air at the break. Cruising up to the front-runner nearing the stretch, Arctic Beast wrested command under a hold and raced away to yet another convincing victory. Party in the Army was along late to complete the exacta as the 12-1 second choice.

Arctic Beast is the lone winner for his dam, a close relative of the dual stakes-winning Freudie Anne (Freud). He is the last listed produce for Frostie Anne. Click for the Equibase.com chart.

NEW YORK BREEDERS' FUTURITY, $155,667, Finger Lakes, 10-13, (S), 2yo, 6f, 1:11.47, ft.
1–ARCTIC BEAST, 122, c, 2, by Yaupon
1st Dam: Frostie Anne (MSW, $584,443), by Frost Giant
2nd Dam: Lake Toccet, by Toccet
3rd Dam: Lake Honey, by Meadowlake
($120,000 Wlg '23 FTNMIX; $275,000 Ylg '24 SARAUG). O-Paradise Farms Corp, JP Racing Stable, David Staudacher, Zilla Racing Stables & Jennifer Rice; B-Rockridge Stud LLC & Saratoga Glen Farm & Beal's Racing Stable LLC (NY); T-Michael J Maker; J-Ricardo Santana Jr. $93,400. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $205,503.
2–Party in the Army, 122, c, 2, Army Mule–Party Like Grandma, by Desert Party. O/B-Flower City Racing LLC, Christopher J Meyer & Richard Spiesman (NY); T-Jeremiah C Englehart. $34,247.
3–Diamond Child, 122, c, 2, Weekend Hideaway–Boss Barney's Babe, by Street Boss. O-Irish Hill Century Farm; B-Irish Century Hill Farm & Morgan O'Brien (NY); T-Melanie Giddings. $18,680.
Margins: 5 3/4, 4, NO. Odds: 0.05, 12.45, 24.07.
Also Ran: Hey Pal. Scratched: Pepper J.

 

#3 ARTIC BEAST ($2.10) was a beast again today improving to 3 for 3 in his career after dominating the $155,667 NY Breeders' Futurity at Finger Lakes. The son of Yaupon (@spendthriftfarm) was ridden by @RSantana_Jr and is trained by Michael Maker. pic.twitter.com/w2NsULz030

— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) October 13, 2025

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The Fasig-Tipton November sale added another pair of supplements to the catalogue with Grade I star power to their families Monday, namely Streak of Luck (Old Fashioned), the dam of MGISW Ted Noffey (Into Mischief), and MSW Avana (Vino Rosso).

The former, who is by a son of leading broodmare sire Unbridled's Song, will go through the ring as HIP 220 via the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment for Aaron and Marie Jones. She was purchased by said owners back in 2021 for $620,000 at the KEENOV sale. The 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard' is the mare's second foal with her first being Fully Authorized (Authentic), a two-time winner in his own right as a juvenile. Ted Noffey was recently seen dominating the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland to firmly stamp himself as the one to beat at the Breeders' Cup this November at Del Mar. Her yearling filly by Munnings sold to Repole Stables at KEESEP for $425,000 last month.

The mare is being offered in foal to red-hot sire Not This Time, who counts 12 individual graded winners in 2025 and two Grade I winners on the turf in the last two months–those being Rhetorical and Troubleshooting. He also sired the exacta in Saturday's GII Franklin Stakes, won by Time to Dazzle–herself out of an Unbridled's Song broodmare, with In Our Time running second. He again made his power known Sunday when siring the bottom two-thirds of the trifecta in the GIII Glen Cove Stakes via Flat Out Time and Abientot. He claimed the entire board in the GII Jessamine Stakes Oct. 3 on opening weekend at Keeneland among other fruitful results for the stallion this year.

Catalogued as HIP 219 is Avana, an 11-time winner in her career with five victories coming during her 2025 campaign. She's a multiple stakes winner who is out of a full-sister to MGISW Belle Gallantey (After Market), and counts a half-sibling named Revealing Quality (Quality Road), the dam of SP Mo Quality (Mo Town). That pair also has a four-time winning half-brother by Good Magic. This is the extended female family of the late champion, MGISW Arrogate.

Avana will go through the ring as a racing or broodmare prospect consigned by Indian Creek, agent for the Complete Dispersal of Peter Redekop B.C. Ltd.

The entire catalogue, complete with the most recent supplements, may be viewed here. Print versions of the supplemental catalogue will be available on-site at sale time.

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Arctic Beast proves too good ahead with victory in Monday’s New York Breeders’ Futurity at Finger Lakes. SV Photography.

Ricardo Santana Jr. looked back five times from the end of the far turn to the sixteenth pole of Monday’s $155,667 New York Breeders’ Futurity and saw the same thing every time – the competition getting further, and further away.

Santana’s mount and 1-9 favorite Arctic Beast helped provide that view with another dominating victory in a New York-bred stakes for 2-year-olds at Finger Lakes. The son of Yaupon improved to 3-for-3 in the Breeders’ Futurity with a decisive score, looking very similar to his win in last month’s Aspirant Stakes.

Arctic Beast, a $275,000 purchase out of last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale, won the Aspirant by 7 1/4 lengths over Diamond Child. He won the Breeders’ Futurity by 5 3/4 lengths over Party in the Army, who finished third in the Aspirant, with Diamond Child third in the field of four. Hey Pal checked in fourth in the Aspirant and Breeders’ Futurity.

Owned by Paradise Farms Corp., JP Racing Stable, David Staudacher, Zilla Racing Stables and Jennifer Rice and trained by Mike Maker, Arctic Beast returned to Finger Lakes for his third start from Maker’s string at Churchill Downs. He and Santana came away fast from the gate for 6-furlong Futurity before Diamond Child took over from his inside.

Diamond Child led by less than a length through the opening quarter-mile in :22.98. Party in the Army, who came away last from the gate and poorly for the second straight start, made up some ground on the backstretch and chased the top pair heading into the far turn.

Diamond Child clung to the lead past the half in :46.68 with Arctic Beast latched to his outside approaching the stretch. Arctic Beast took over in the lane, passed 5 furlongs in :58.82 and widened his advantage from there. Party in the Army finished well clear in second, 4 lengths in front of Diamond Child and Hey Pal, who were a nose apart at the finish.

Arctic Beast picked up $93,400 for his latest victory and boosted his bankroll to $205,503.

Bred by Rockridge Stud LLC, Saratoga Glen Farm and Beal’s Racing Stable LLC, Arctic Beast is the second foal out of the Frost Giant mare Frostie Anne, a multiple New York-bred stakes winner and earner of $584,443.

Originally a $120,000 weanling at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale, Arctic Beast returned to that same sales ring the following August and brought $275,000 from Maker on behalf of his current connections.

Frostie Anne, a finalist in 2018 and 2019 for champion New York-bred older dirt female honors, is also the dam of the unraced Malibu Moon colt Malibu Frost who sold for $65,000 at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale.

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Bidding returns to the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion in upstate New York for the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Fall Mixed Sale, which begins Tuesday at 10 a.m. A total of 281 horses, including weanlings, broodmares, and broodmare prospects, have been catalogued for the one-session auction.

Lili Kobielski saw plenty to be optimistic about as she oversaw her The New Hill Farm consignment at barn seven Monday.

“The activity has been wonderful,” she said. “We have been non-stop yesterday and today. We've seen some new faces today that I think just got in. The energy is amazing.”

After a busy day of showing Monday at his Vinery Sales' consignment, Derek MacKenzie said, “It looks like a very strong group of buyers this year. I would say the numbers are definitely up. I saw a lot of new faces–not new faces in the business, but new to this sale.”

Some of those new faces may have been encouraged to shop the Fall sale after seeing the results of the record-setting Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Yearlings Sale in August, which set highwater marks for gross and average, as well as a record-tying median.

“Absolutely,” MacKenzie agreed of the correlation. “They probably noticed a lot of the guys that bought out of this sale last year made really good money. So they thought they better be here.”

The record-setting August sale this summer was a boon to several pinhookers who had purchased weanlings at the 2024 Fall sale. The $525,000 co-sale topping daughter of Early Voting had been purchased for $150,000 last October, while a daughter of Practical Joke purchased for $62,500 last year, sold in August for $500,000.

Pinhookers shopping The New Hill Farm consignment last October also found success in August, with a daughter of Upstart purchased as a weanling for $80,000 selling this year for $350,000 and a colt by Vekoma purchased for $90,000 selling for $325,000.

“We are very grateful to the pinhookers,” Kobielski said. “It's always good news for everyone when someone buys from you and they do well with your horses. Then they come back and hopefully buy more.”

The Saratoga auction comes as an ultra-competitive yearling sales season nears its finale.

“The yearling sales were so strong, I would certainly expect that everyone would be excited to buy babies,” Kobielski said. “I would think all the yearling sellers would be feeling confident and have some cash in their pockets.”

The newly passed tax code, which features bonus depreciation, allowing buyers to write off the up-front cost of a horse in its first year, has helped drive much of the national demand for yearlings this summer and fall. On a regional level, purse parity will begin in 2026, allowing New York-breds to race for equal purse money to open company horses on the New York Racing Association circuit. Both factors figure to make for a competitive market in Saratoga, according to Kobielski.

“I think depreciation is a big deal right now,” Kobielski said. “And there is also purse parity in New York starting soon, so New York-breds will be running for the same money as open company. That's another great incentive to buy one. And purses are so big. It's a really exciting time to be buying.”

Asked what he thought was driving the competitive market, MacKenzie said, “I think depreciation is a big factor. And purses are so good right in Kentucky and New York. I think those purses are really starting to pick the market up, as well as the depreciation.”

During last year's Saratoga Fall sale, 148 head sold for $3,920,500. The average was $26,490 and the median was $14,500. A filly by Cyberknife brought the auction's top price of $230,000 and the weanling was one of eight to sell for six figures.

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War of Will, here training before the 2019 Kentucky Derby, relocates to Rockridge Stud for the 2026 season. Coady Media.

War of Will, winner of the 2019 Preakness Stakes and currently ranked 10th on the North American second-crop sire list, will relocate from Kentucky to stand the 2026 season at Rockridge Stud in Hudson, the farm announced Sunday.

The 9-year-old son of War Front relocates from Claiborne Farm, where he stood the 2025 season for $15,000.

“We are honored to have this opportunity with Gary [Barber] on another stallion and thrilled to have Claiborne dipping a toe into the New York market,” said Rockridge President Lere Visagie.

Barber campaigned War of Will throughout his career, which featured five wins in 18 starts and earnings of $1,881,803. In addition to his Preakness victory, War of Will won the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes on turf in 2020 at Keeneland Race Course and the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes in 2019 at Fair Grounds on the dirt.

“I am very much looking forward to supporting War of Will in the lucrative New York breeding program,” Barber said. “With the new Belmont facility coming online with three surfaces, I know War of Will can provide many opportunities for my mares and stable to become a large part of the New York program.”

Claiborne will continue to be a shareholder in War of Will’s new syndicate at Rockridge. Claiborne President Walker Hancock is optimistic War of Will will be successful in the Empire State.

“War of Will is classic winner on dirt and a Grade 1 winner on turf,” he said. “The new facility at Belmont will provide a continuation of the success we have already seen on all three surfaces, and we are very excited to be a part of this new chapter.”

War of Will finished 2024 as North America’s ninth leading freshman sire with progeny earnings of $1,571,212. He sired 19 winners in his first season, including Grade 3 winner Will Then, stakes-placed $163,500-earner She’s Got Will, $112,291-earner Curahee and $102,500-earner Will Not Be Swayed. He’s sired the earners of $2,451,343 in 2025 through Sunday, including recent Grade 3 Matron winner Final Accord.

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Multiple graded stakes winner Arzak (Not This Time–Delightful Melody, by Tapit) has been purchased by Amsterdam Two Farm in Middleburgh, New York, where he will retire to stud for a fee of $6,000, with special consideration to approved mares.

A $575,000 OBS Spring 2-year-old in 2020, Arzak won the 2023 GII Woodford Stakes and 2024 GII Shakertown Stakes on the grass at Keeneland and he was also runner-up behind Cogburn (Not This Time) in the 2024 GI Jaipur Stakes. He won the 2022 GIII Jacques Cartier Stakes and Thorncliffe Stakes–where he set a new track record of 1:02.62 for 5 1/2 furlongs–on the Tapeta at Woodbine, and the 2021 Tom Ridge Stakes at Presque Isle Downs.

On the board in 16 of 36 starts, Arzak won eight times and earned $1,081,294 while racing in the colors of Marc Tacher's Sonata Stable for trainer Michael Trombetta.

“This horse was so sound and so willing–I never had a moment's problem with him,” Trombetta said. “Arzak was as clean-legged on retirement as the day he came to the barn. And I think, based on his sire's accomplishments and Arzak's own win going a mile at Tampa Bay in his third career start, his offspring will be well-suited to most distances offered at the new Belmont Park.”

Ken Williams, manager of Amsterdam Two, added, “Physically, Arzak is an absolute rocket ship. He's 16.2 hands, with tremendous bone, a powerful build and an absolutely monster walk–and he's got arguably the three most important qualities sought by New York breeders: speed, soundness and precocity. We knew we needed a special horse to launch Amsterdam Two's stallion operation, and Arzak fits that description to a tee.”

Bloodstock agent Michael Slezak brokered the deal to bring Arzak to New York and will stay involved to help Amsterdam Two sell shares and seasons.

Amsterdam Two has built a state-of-the-art stallion barn and will be offering an open house after Thanksgiving.

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