This week’s highlight was a new personal best for STAY HUNGRY two-year-old Heeza Malteeza (bred by R Xerri) who clocked 1:53.5 in his NSW Breeders Challenge heat win at Menangle! CAPTAINTREACHEROUS mare Gina Del Ray (D & J Quinlan, K Rollinson, E Rayner, P White, N Tyrrell, I Braszell) also put in a blistering time…
Published in Harness Racing Update by Bob Hayden On Jug Day, Sept. 19, 1999, JET LAAG, a 6-year-old son of Laag trained by Linda Toscano for Ira Schwartz, Alan Minkoff and the Zooming By Stable, scorched his way around Delaware’s half-miler in 1:49 winning the Senior Jug by 12 lengths. That was two-fifths faster than…
A second win for the exciting son of STAY HUNGRY, Stay Foolish at Bathurst this week added to the North American two-year-old result for our sire in Joel And The Jets who claimed the $50,000 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Consolation in 1:52.1 at The Meadows. Also flying at The Red Mile were TALL DARK STRANGER sons…
CAPTAINTREACHEROUS just continues to produce the results, with three big-end winners of his eleven winners over the past week. Catch A Wave boosted his earnings to $1.79m and became the sire’s richest Australasian progeny with his 1:55.7 win in GR1 The Nullabor at Gloucester Park. Lux Aeterna his $445,000 after capturing the Nutrien Equine 3YO…
Well it was CAPTAINTREACHEROUS‘ week as his progeny’s earnings in Australia hit $17m – an incredible average of $72,000 each, a figure to keep in mind on Sunday at the Nutrien Equine – Standardbred yearling sales in Melbourne! It was in a heat of the rich Nutrien Classic series for 2YO fillies at Ballarat that…
CAPTAINTREACHEROUS does it again with another solid haul of winners for the week including a new 3YO winner at Pinjarra in Kabochon who won by 9m. At Newcastle, Gina Del Ray notched up her fourth win, Captain Blood made it back-to-back wins with his Penrith salute, speedsters Captains Pick (1:54.5, Albion Park) and Iam The…
Yes, that’s another winner for STAY HUNGRY! Filly Sugar Rush easily put paid to her rivals at Bathurst on debut, winning by more than 10m – that’s two winners now for our exciting sire. CAPTAINTREACHEROUS claimed a double with 3YO colt Double Jeopardy up at Addington, making for two wins and two placings from just…
A half-dozen for CAPTAINTREACHEROUS locally this week and some exciting results in America too for both him and STAY HUNGRY. First though – a Redcliffe treble with Captains Pick hitting the $120K mark, Highly Respected in win #9 and Gidup Captain saluting again in Queensland, and three-year-old winners elsewhere… Dontstopmenow at Alexandra Park, Captain Tom…
We’ll take a look at the incredible Lexington Sales results for TALL DARK STRANGER and CAPTAINTREACHEROUS separately but for now, CAPTAIN‘s local winners are a worth a closer look! At Addington this week, two exciting winners – Millwood Nike took a heat of the Success series in 1:55.2 to maintain her unbeaten run, extending it…
Let’s start with the STAY HUNGRY results out of the USA – wins in their respective $100K Kentucky Commonwealth Series Finals were 3YO filly Hungry For Love in a smoking 1:49.0 at The Red Mile ahead of Late For Dinner giving the sire a quinella, and 2YO colt Sir John B, who posted 1:51.4 in…