First-crop sire To Honor and Serve, who already has a pair of stakes horses to his name, earned his fourth winner Sept. 4 when first-time starter For Honor dominated a field of 2-year-old fillies in a seven-furlong maiden special weight race at Saratoga.
Tapit’s pair of 2-year-old fillies, Pretty City Dancer and Sweet Loretta, separated themselves from the field but couldn’t be split at the wire in the $350,000 Spinaway S. (G1) Sept. 3 at Saratoga, with the duo dead-heating 5 3/4 lengths ahead of the competition.
A Fleet Attitude raised his lifetime earnings to nearly a half-million dollars Sept. 3 with a gutty half-length win in Parx Racing’s $100,000 Banjo Picker Stakes.
The nation’s leading sire Tapit got his 20th TDN Rising Star on Aug. 27 when the regally-bred Life’s Blessings powered to a 4¼-length victory in a 5½-furlong maiden special weight contest at Del Mar.
To Honor and Serve, who already has a pair of stakes horses in his first crop, got his third winner on Aug. 14 when Honor River rallied for a 1½-length maiden special weight victory at Woodbine.
Tapit, the two-time reigning leading North American sire, hit another stallion career milestone July 16 when Cupid won the $500,000 Indiana Derby (G2), pushing the Gainesway stallion past the $100 million mark in lifetime progeny earnings.
Monster Bea turned in the best performance of his career July 15 at Del Mar with a powerful two-length victory in the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes on opening day of the summer meet.
Hawkbill’s stellar stretch run carried the 3-year-old colt to victory in the July 2 Coral Eclipse S. (G1) at Sandown racecourse in Great Britain, the sixth straight win for the Gainesway sales grad.
Zartera strolled to a two-length win in his debut June 16 at Churchill Downs as the 2-year-old Tapizar colt became the fourth winner for his sire, tying him for the most by any freshman sire in North America.