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Another horse from trainer Ingrid Mason’s go-to sale is headed for a stakes race at Oaklawn in Hot Springs, Ark., this time in Friday’s $150,000 Smarty Jones for 3-year-olds. Lykan, purchased for $15,000 at the 2019 Ocala Breeders’ Sales June 2-Year-Olds and Horses of Racing Age Sale, will be making his stakes and two-turn debut in […]

Only one percent of twin pregnancies in Thoroughbreds are carried successfully to term, experts estimate. Those odds didn’t stop the pair of Twin Turbo and Catch Ya Later Bro from making their way into the world on May 8, 2017, and now both have beaten even steeper odds and found their way to the winner’s […]

Ingrid Mason became the second female trainer in Oaklawn history to reach 100 career victories when Redneck Attack won the ninth race March 22, according to Equibase, horse racing’s official data gathering organization.  Mason started her first horse in Hot Springs in 2010 and Redneck Attack represented her 13th victory at the meet. The only female […]

The second session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale continued to display steady trade during the North American auction calendar’s most populous mixed event, led by the $750,000 racing or broodmare prospect Marquee Miss. Tuesday’s session kicked off Book 2 of the sale with 223 horses sold for revenues of $34,942,000. The average sale […]

Joe Ragsdale’s Sarah Sis returned to the winner’s circle Monday after a pair of tough outings at Saratoga. The 4-year-old daughter of Sharp Humor took the lead out of the gate in the G2 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes, and was just able to hold off the defending champion Living the Life by a head […]

Rags Racing Stable’s Sarah Sis made every pole a winning one in the Grade 3 Chicago Handicap on Saturday, crossing the wire a full length in front. A 4-year-old daughter of Sharp Humor, Sarah Sis covered seven furlongs on Arlington’s polytrack, rated fast, in 1:23.16, earning her first victory since Keeneland’s G2 Raven Run last […]

Rags Racing Stable LLC’s Marquee Miss stormed home to her second consecutive stakes victory of the meet, while upsetting 1-2 favorite Nickname in Saturday’s $100,000 Martha Washington Stakes. The win was also vindication for trainer Ingrid Mason who was denied the upset last year when eventual Grade 2 winner Sarah Sis reluctantly gave way to […]

The year-end goal for multiple graded stakes winner Sarah Sis is the 7-furlong Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) in November at Santa Anita, trainer Ingrid Mason said. But, the year begins at Oaklawn, where Sarah Sis is scheduled to make her 4-year-old debut in Saturday’s $100,000 American Beauty Stakes for older fillies and […]

On a day when longshots prevailed in nearly all races on the opening day card, it shouldn’t have been a surprise to see Marquee Miss win Friday’s $100,000 Dixie Belle Stakes at odds of 17-1. With an estimated crowd of 17,500 watching, jockey Channing Hill guided the winning 3-year-old filly to the front soon after […]