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It was another accomplishment for Highgate graduate HE’S NOT JOKING at the Sovereign Awards when the Practical Joke colt was named Canada’s Champion 2-Year-Old Male. HE’S NOT JOKING was a dominant force in Woodbine’s 2-year-old division last year from the start. Debuting going six furlong, he missed the win by just a neck in August […]

Courtesy of Blood-Horse. VIXEN rebounded from a sixth-place finish in the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) with a commanding victory in the $150,000 Sweetest Chant Stakes Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Flanking a pacesetting La Gioconda Through brisk early fractions of :23.32 and 47.04, the 8-5 favorite overhauled her rival down the backstretch and uncorked […]

Stakes placed in her third start, juvenile GLEE was a stakes winner in her fourth on Saturday with a 15 ½ length win in the E. L. Gaylord Memorial. GLEE went off as the favorite in the 6 ½ furlong Remington Park race and quickly showed her backers had put their faith in the right […]

Highgate graduate POUNCE was back in the winner’s circle on Saturday with a win in the Lake George Stakes (G3) at Saratoga. Coming here after finishing third in the Penn Oaks, POUNCE was happy to settle near the back of midpack in the one-mile turf race. It wasn’t until the field turned into the stretch […]

Courtesy of Thoroughbred Daily News Canada’s 2022 champion 2-year-old filly CAIRO CONSORT (Cairo Prince), winner of the GIII Sweetest Chant S. in 2023 who also placed in both the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and GI Natalma S. in 2022, sold for $820,000 to Town and Country Racing at Fasig-Tipton’s June Digital Sale, which […]

As Highgate gears up for our third yearling sale season, MIUCCIA represented our inaugural yearling class well on Saturday with a victory in the Game Face Stakes for her stakes debut. Registering a maiden breaking victory two starts ago at the same track, MIUCCIA was ready to go in this start. She was never far […]

It didn’t take POUNCE long to reward her connections for paying a sale topping $370,000 for her at last month’s Fasig-Tipton February Digital Sale when registering her first stakes victory in Saturday’s Herecomesthebride Stakes (G3). Making her stakes debut for new owner Resolute Racing while continuing under the tutelage of trainer Mark Casse, POUNCE made […]

Courtesy of Blood-Horse. The digital world moves fast, and Pounce is an example of how efficient the emerging online market for racehorses can be. Pounce won an allowance optional claimer Feb. 11 at Gulfstream Park. Nine days later she topped the Fasig-Tipton February Digital Sale when she sold to Resolute Bloodstock for $370,000. Four days […]

Courtesy of Thoroughbred Daily News Pounce (Lookin At Lucky–Bouncy, by Twirling Candy) topped the Fasig-Tipton February Digital Sale, selling for $370,000 to John Stewart’s Resolute Bloodstock. The sale closed Tuesday evening with 116 horses sold for $4,308,800. The catalogue featured horses of racing age, breeding stock, and yearlings. Also featured in the catalogue were breeding stock and […]

Highgate Sales’ second year in operation saw the consignment reach many milestones both in the ring and on the racetrack. In the sales ring, Highgate’s consignments were again a must-stop destination for buyers at every sale. The consignment’s offerings were led by last year’s Champion 3-Year-Old Filly NEST, who was one of the most popular […]