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By Frances J. Karon Candy Ride has two significant, Kentucky-based G1-winning sons — Gun Runner and Mastery — with first foals arriving in 2019. Or three significant sons, even, if you consider that Unified was a G1-placed multiple GSW. So you can imagine that the farms that stand these young stallions — Three Chimneys (Gun … Continue reading And what a sweet ride it is
By Sid Fernando Jim Rome and partners’s Shared Belief, a gelded son of Argentine-bred Candy Ride from Common Hope, by Storm Cat, was taken off the Triple Crown trail due to injury after a championship season at two. Patiently brought back for a mid-summer campaign by trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, the undefeated champ announced on Sunday … Continue reading Shared Belief in a Candy Ride nick
By Sid Fernando One week after Candy Ride’s first-crop 4-year-old Misremembered won the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap in front-running style, his second-crop 3-year-old colt Sidney’s Candy won the Grade 2 San Felipe Saturday at the same track, in the same manner, leading throughout. For the Lane’s End sire, 2010 is already looking as good … Continue reading Candy Ride’s background
By Jack Werk On Saturday at Saratoga, Tapit’s Canadian-raced daughter Careless Jewel (click here to view pedigree) won the G1 $600,000 Alabama Stakes by 11 lengths! (Click here to view the chart) Let’s face it, not many fillies win Grade 1 races by margins like that, but another one that does these days is Rachel … Continue reading Tapit vs. Medaglia d’Oro: Battle of the Young Guns Continues!
Yesterday my blog was about the young guns Medaglia d’Oro and Tapit. Both of them are second-crop sires with their oldest runners now 3-year-olds and they are 1-2 on the second crop list by earnings and by number of unrestricted SWs with 7 each. This may be one of the strongest crops of young stallions … Continue reading Birdstone Joins the Fray!