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Four stakes for 2-year-olds—including a pair of graded races—highlight the six-day Winter Thoroughbred meet at Los Alamitos Race Course Dec. 5-14.

Canterbury Park concluded its 2025 season Sept. 20 with an increase in average daily attendance and daily average on track wagering remaining consistent with the prior season.

Record-breaking Tattersalls Horses In Training Sale buy Sir Delius announced himself as a spring staying force with a win in the Sept. 20 Underwood Stakes (G1), supplying Juddmonte Farms' Frankel with his 40th group 1 winner in the process.

The Keeneland September Yearling Sale concluded Sept. 20, with the highest gross sales ever achieved at a Thoroughbred auction. At the end of 12 sessions, 3,076 horses had changed hands for a record $531,634,400, including post-ring sales.

Off three straight wins at Canterbury Park, Mad House shipped to Parx Racing and pulled the upset in the $400,000 Gallant Bob Stakes (G2) Sept. 20 to give trainer David VanWinkle and owner James Thares their first graded victories.

Despite a slow start, Godolphin homebred Ragtime rallied from sixth and drew clear in the stretch to win the $300,000 Dogwood Stakes (G3) by 2 1/4 lengths Sept. 20 at Churchill Downs.

Cool Kiss, sent off at 17-1, gets up in the final jumps to win the $112,348 Durham Cup Stakes (G3) Sept. 20 at Woodbine.

Haulin Ice is headed to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) as the highest-earning Arkansas-bred in history after crushing her foes in the $200,000 Princess Rooney Stakes (G3) Sept. 20 at Gulfstream Park.

Ready for Candy went from last-out winner to graded stakes heroine in the $175,000 Winter Memories Stakes (G3T) and in the process, provided her trainer, Lindy Farms' Philip Antonacci, with the first black-type victory of his burgeoning career.

Baeza, who settled for third in two classics this spring, rated in seventh early, circled rivals in the far turn, took command from Goal Oriented in the stretch and drew off in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) Sept. 20 at Parx Racing.

Clicquot made a splash in her grade 1 debut, outfinishing Dry Powder and Ourdaydreaminggirl in a dramatic battle to the wire in the $1 million Cotillion Stakes (G1) Sept. 20 at Parx Racing.

Hip 207, a colt by Constitution bred by Thirty Year Farm in Saratoga Springs, sold for $675,000 to lead all New York-breds at the Keeneland September yearling sale. Photo courtesy of Taylor Made Sales Agency.

The record-setting Keeneland September yearling wrapped up Saturday with New York-breds helping add to the more than $531 million in total receipts.

Fifteen New York-breds brought for $100,000 or more during the 12-session sale, including colts that commanded bids of $675,000 and $500,000 apiece. Keeneland reported sales on 91 of the 113 New York-breds through the ring or via private post-sale for a total of $6,099,500, an average price of $67,028 and median of $23,000.

Hip 207, a colt by Constitution bred by Kristen and Matt Esler’s Thirty Year Farm, brought the top price of $675,000 from Case Clay Thoroughbred Management during Book 1. Foaled at Thirty Year Farm in Saratoga Springs, the colt is the sixth foal out of Walking Miracle. He was consigned by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent.

Thirty Year Farm bought the mare carrying the Constitution colt in utero for $525,000 at the 2023 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. She delivered the colt about two months later, January 26, at the farm not far from Saratoga Race Course.

Walking Miracle, a half-sister to the Grade 3 winner and $279,052-earner Sound Money, is the dam of stakes winners Swill and Stitched. She’s also the dam of a New York-bred weanling colt by Good Magic, foaled March 12 at Thirty Year Farm.

The $500,000 colt, a son of leading second-crop sire and multiple Grade 1 winner Vekoma, sold during the first Book 2 session last week. Bloodstock agent Barry Berkelhammer, bidding on behalf of Albaugh Family Racing, West Point Thoroughbreds and Team Railbird, landed Hip 566.

Bred by and foaled at Sequel New York LLC in Hudson, the colt is out of the winning Yes It’s True mare True History. She’s the dam of the 3-year-old Violence gelding Rout, who sold for $280,000 at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale; and the five-time winning New York-bred Destin mare True Destiny.

Consigned by Hunter Valley Farm, agent, the colt originally sold out of the Burleson Farms consignment for $180,000 to Cherry Knoll Farm at this year’s Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.

Thirty Year Farm also sold the sale’s top-priced New York-bred filly and fourth highest priced New York-bred yearling overall. Mike Repole’s Repole Stable landed Hip 231, a filly by Life Is Good and half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Casa Creed, for $350,000 during Book 1.

The filly is the eighth foal out of the unraced Bellamy Road mare Achalaya, who is the dam of five winners from five foals to race. Also foaled at Thirty Year Farm in Saratoga Springs, she was consigned by Paramount Sales, agent.

The five winners include Charlotte’s Heart, a New York-bred daughter of Authentic bred by Thirty Year Farm who sold for $ 725,000 at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale of selected yearlings. Campaigned by Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation, Charlotte’s Heart won her debut in 2024 at Saratoga Race Course before a second in the Glorious Song Stakes at Woodbine. She’s 1-2-0 in six starts with $114,732 in earnings.

Hip 4123 brought the top price for a yearling by a New York-based sire on a bid of $55,000 during Book 5B at Keeneland September. Photo courtesy of Johnson Cross.

Grassroots Training & Sales LLC purchased the sale’s top-priced yearling by a New York-based sire, going to $55,000 for a colt by Mind Control. The colt also topped the final two sessions of the sale, leading the way for Book 5B.

Hip 4123, who is out of the unraced Flatter mare First Valentine, sold out of the Johnson Cross consignment. Bred by Rockridge Stud LLC, Animals in Motion and Chesapeake Farm, the colt is the third foal out of First Valentine. She’s the dam of the New York-bred 2-year-old Known Agenda gelding Chairmanoftheboard, who sold for $55,000 at the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale.

The colt is from the first crop of multiple Grade 1 winner Mind Control, a 9-year-old son of Stay Thirsty who stands for $8,000 as part of a Rockridge Stud/Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Venture at Rockridge in Hudson.

The next major yearling market featuring New York-breds comes later this month with the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic yearling sale September 30 in Timonium, Maryland.

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Winner of the GIII Vagrancy Stakes at the Belmont at Aqueduct meet in May, Haulin Ice (f, 4, Coal Front–She's Smoke, by Half Ours) secured her trip to the GI Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint with victory in Saturday's GIII Princess Rooney Stakes at Gulfstream Park, a 'Win and You're In' race for the championship in November.

The gray speedball hustled straight to the front in Hallandale, setting uncontested fractions of :23.01 and :45.50 with her ears flicking back and forth. She didn't stop, shifting into another gear at the top of the lane before powering clear to victory by 4 3/4 lengths while notching her second graded score. Never challenged, she got the seven furlongs in 1:22.80. Gulfstream local and MSP Nerazurri (Protonico), who at 40-1 chased Haulin Ice throughout, held second, while Colonial's last-out Tyson Gilpin Stakes winner Reputation (Bolt d'Oro) got up for third.

“Today, she was the speed of the speed, and she put up pretty easy fractions and then sprinted home,” said winning rider Edgard Zayas.

He continued: “She really finished out very nice. I know seven furlongs might be a little stretch for her, but the way she put up the fractions in the beginning, she really came home very nice.”

A private purchase for C2 Racing Stable, Paul Braverman, Miller Racing, and Timothy Pinch at Oaklawn in 2024 after she started her career going three for five for trainer Lindsay Schultz, Haulin Ice is conditioned by Saffie Joseph, Jr. Her six black-type wins under his care include five of her six most recent starts.

Saffie's Princess Rooney win was his third in a row. His 2024 winner, Soul of an Angel (Atreides), was named the Eclipse champion female sprinter after going on to win the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint for a partnership that included C2 Racing, part-owner of Haulin Ice. His 2023 winner, Three Witches (Into Mischief), was third in the Breeders' Cup.

“She's incredible,” said C2 managing partner Clint Cornett about Haulin Ice. “This little horse, we bought her out of Oaklawn. She's a little grinder. We couldn't be more excited for C2, Miller Racing, all of our partners. This is great.”

Now the leading money earner ever to be bred in Arkansas, Haulin Ice will attempt to follow the same path as Soul of an Angel. While she is not currently nominated to the Breeders' Cup, Haulin Ice is eligible to be nominated for $100,000.

“Back-to-back Rooneys and headed back to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint,” exclaimed Cornett.

Pedigree Notes:

After spending his first five seasons in Central Kentucky, Coal Front moved to Red River Farms for 2025 and the timing couldn't have been better for his introduction to Louisiana. The Stay Thirsty stallion is having a 2025 to remember with four black-type winners to date this year, including graded winners Coal Battle, Crazy Mason, and Haulin Ice on the national stage. Overall, Coal Front has six black-type winners from his two crops aged three and up.

Also one of 10 black-type winners for Half Ours as a broodmare sire, Haulin Ice is a daughter of the unraced She's Smoke, who was picked up at the 2015 Breeders' Sales Company of Louisiana September Yearling Sale for $9,000 by Eugenia Thompson, who bred Haulin Ice in Arkansas. The Princess Rooney winner was the mare's first foal. She has an unraced 2-year-old full-sister to Haulin Ice named She's So Coal and a Feb. 15-foaled colt by Yorkton. She's Smoke was bred back to Laurie's Rocket for 2026.

 

HAULIN ICE ($7.00) iced out the field in the $200,000 Princess Rooney Stakes (G3) at @GulfstreamPark. The 4YO filly earned her entry into the @BreedersCup F&M Sprint with this @LanesEndFarms #WAYI! @zayas_edgardo rode for trainer @SaffieJosephJr. @C2RacingStable pic.twitter.com/PlWavAUVNv

— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) September 20, 2025

 

Saturday, Gulfstream
PRINCESS ROONEY S.-GIII, $200,000, Gulfstream, 9-20, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:22.80, gd.
1–HAULIN ICE, 123, f, 4, by Coal Front
              1st Dam: She's Smoke, by Half Ours
              2nd Dam: Ready At Nine, by More Than Ready
              3rd Dam: Nine Pines, by Pine Bluff
O-C2 Racing Stable LLC, Paul Braverman, Miller Racing LLC,
and Timothy Pinch; B-Eugenia Thompson -Benight (AR);
T-Saffie A. Joseph, Jr.; J-Edgard J. Zayas. $115,200. Lifetime
Record: 17-10-4-0, $958,650. Werk Nick Rating: A+++.
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or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Nerazurri, 117, f, 3, Protonico–Beautiful Liar, by Candy
Ride (Arg). 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. O/B-Porta Pia Stables
LLC (KY); T-Angel Quiroz. $38,400.
3–Reputation, 118, f, 3, Bolt d'Oro–Final Reward, by Arch.
1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($170,000 RNA Ylg '23 KEESEP;
$135,000 Ylg '23 OBSOCT; $450,000 2yo '24 EASMAY). O-JR
Ranch and MyRacehorse; B-H. Steve Conboy Maple Lane
Farm (KY); T-Gustavo Delgado. $21,120.
Margins: 4 3/4, HF, 1HF. Odds: 2.50, 41.20, 2.90.
Also Ran: Vincey Girl, Claret Beret, Gallop d'Hermes, Ultimate Authority. Scratched: Mystic Lake.
Click for the Equibase.com chart or the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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1st-Los Alamitos, $46,000, Msw, 9-20, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:15.88, ft, 3 1/2 lengths.
MEANING (f, 2, Gun Runner–Figure of Speech {GISP}, by Into Mischief) worked a sharp half-mile out of the gate in :47 1/5 (2/60) at Santa Anita Sept. 13 and was hammered into 1-5 favoritism for this debut run. Fourth in the very early stages, she rushed up to grab the lead following an opening quarter in :22.34. She was put to the test by GIII Sorrento S. third-place finisher Thank You India (Practical Joke) on the far turn, but had plenty left for the stretch, drawing free to score by 3 1/2 lengths. Figure of Speech had a filly by Curlin in 2024 and a colt by Flightline this year. She was bred back to Nyquist. Sales history: $440,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $27,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O-Bridlewood Farm & Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners; B-Stonehaven Steadings (KY); T-Michael W. McCarthy.

MEANING ($2.60) meant business on debut in the opener at @losalracing. It was an impressive performance by the daughter of Gun Runner (@Three_Chimneys) for trainer @mwmracing. @umbyrispoli rode for owners @EclipseTBP & Bridlewood Farm.

Play the Pick 4: https://t.co/VMp2klsvcr pic.twitter.com/SsEarcaKzj

— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) September 20, 2025

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Royal Ascot winner Docklands is set to bid for a first win for a European-trained runner in Japan's Mile Championship (G1) Nov. 23, with the prestigious grade 1 forming the second leg of a plan that also includes the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1). 

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Sept. 19 the reappointment of Dennis Alfieri to the California Horse Racing Board, where he has served since 2018.

A year after his father won the Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes (G2) with Roses for Debra, trainer Miguel Clement earned the top prize with West Point Thoroughbreds, Chris Larsen, and Titletown Racing Stables' Gal in a Rush at Presque Isle Downs.

A colt by Vekoma from the family of Canadian champion Regal Intention sold for $220,000 to Mahmud Mouni to top the Sept. 19 penultimate session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Grade 1 winner and producer Hot Dixie Chick has died at age 18, Stonestreet Farm announced Sept. 19. The farm posted on X the mare was euthanized due to complications from colic.

C R K Stable's Englishman sparkles on debut at Churchill Downs, zipping seven furlongs in 1:21.35 under Jose Ortiz.