A Gloucester Park double kicked off CAPTAINTREACHEROUS‘ week which included new three-year-old winner Miss Shahja by 15m and seasoned campaigner Rascal who took his bank to nearly $140,000 with his 10m victory. A new two-year-old winner appeared for CAPTAIN with filly Upstream taking a heat of the NSW Bred 2YO Series at Tamworth. At Pocono…
15 July 2024, from Oak Grove Racing Trainer Ron Burke had a stunning win when KARMA (TALL DARK STRANGER) with driver Todd McCarthy surged by 1-9 favorite Skywalker Sea to win the $100,000 Kentucky Sire Stakes 2-Year-Old Filly Final in 1:52.1. Skywalker Sea failed to settle once clearing the lead past a 26.4 first quarter…
By Frank Cotolo, HarnessLink, 15 July 2024 CAVIART BELLE (CAPTAINTREACHEROUS) won the first division of the $100,000 Jerry Silverman Memorial, for 3-year-old harness racing filly pacers, on Saturday at the Meadowlands. Yannick Gingras drove the filly to a career-best 1:49 mile in the stakes event, formerly known as the Mistletoe Shalee. The first three-quarters were…
STAY HUNGRY saw his first $100,000+ earner this weekend after filly Hunger Strike went back-to-back to win the $156,000 APG Sales Graduate 2YO Final at Albion Park. The win kept STAY HUNGRY at the top of the Australian First Season Sire table on average earnings, and winners to starters strike rate (52%) from a debut…
Five solid winners for CAPTAINTREACHEROUS this week including a new three-year-old winner in Destiny Stride, a filly who took her first 3YO win at Penrith. Elsewhere in NSW, Captain of Speed took her earnings to $61,000 at Leeton, and in 1:53.9, Cobalt Stride made it three wins from four starts when he saluted at Menangle.…
STAY HUNGRY remains firmly on top of the Australian Freshman Sires’ table on overall winners – ten from just 19 starters including now dual-winning filly Hunger Strike who clocked 1:54.9 to win by 12m in a heat of the APG Graduate 2YO Series at Albion Park. In North America, his progeny have just ticked over…
Up at Redcliffe it was CAPTAINTREACHEROUS son Captains Pick in the winners’ stall for the 18th time, his victory tipping his bank almost to $150,000! CAPTAIN continues to sit at the top of the Australian all-age sires table this season on average earnings, and the 2YO sires table for both average and overall prizemoney. In…
What a huge weekend for our world class sires! CAPTAINTREACHEROUS was the sire of no fewer than eleven winners across Australasia and an exciting 1:49.3 winner in North America – Flawless in a leg of the Pennsylvania Sires Stakes for 3YO Fillies. At home he was represented by new 3YO winners Squadron at Newcastle and…
Six solid winners for CAPTAINTREACHEROUS this week but first things first – TALL DARK STRANGER had his first big winner in the US this week with Realmenwearblu taking a $40,000 leg of the Kentucky Sires Stakes at Oak Grove in 1:54.2! That makes three winner so far in the recently started 2YO season, along with…
Harness Racing Victoria’s Horse of the Year awards for the 2023 season were announced at Melton on Saturday night, and Empire sires were well represented as always. CAPTAINTREACHEROUS had three winners while SOMEBEACHSOMEWHERE was represented once: Victorian 3YO Pacing Colt of the Year – Petracca (Captaintreacherous, $222,400; 1:54.5) Victorian 4YO Pacing Mare of the Year…