By Claire Novak, @BH_CNovak   Photo: Courtesy Richland Hills Farm Sightseeing   Sightseeing  , sire of 2012 Spinaway Stakes (gr. I) winner So Many Ways, died Dec. 8 from complications due to intestinal surgery, Richland Hills Farm president Nathan Fox confirmed Dec. 12. The 8-year-old son of recently deceased sire Pulpit   was in Chile at Haras Read more »

By Blood-Horse Staff   Got the Last Laugh  , a graded stakes winner at 2, will stand the 2013 breeding season at Glenn and Becky Brok’s Diamond B Farm near Mohrsville, Pa., for a fee of $2,500. The 8-year-old son of Distorted Humor   formerly stood at McKathan Bros. Training Center in Florida. Got the Last Laugh Read more »

  By: Keith Jones Officer Alex rallied in the middle of the racetrack, caught the favored Res Judicata inside the final sixteenth of a mile and went on to win the $75,000 Pennsylvania Nursery by a solid length Saturday at Parx Racing.  Owned by Choctaw Racing Stable & Winning Horse Stable, Officer Alex won for Read more »

By: Keith Jones Last fall the American Graded Stakes Committee upgraded three stakes at Parx Racing to Grade 3 status, suddenly giving the track six graded races on its calendar.  The Committee also upgraded the Cotillion Stakes giving the track its first Grade 1 race in its history.  This weekend it was announced that two Read more »

By: Keith Jones There is little question that the most important running of the $75,000 Pennsylvania Nursery came in November of 2003 when a young colt named Smarty Jones, making just the second start of his dynamic career, burst onto the national scene with a 17 length romp that produced the highest speed figure for Read more »

By Claire Novak, @BH_CNovak   Photo: Coady Photography Philly Ace overtakes Hollinger to win the Tropical Turf Handicap. Philly Ace closed with a good kick in the $100,000 Tropical Turf Handicap (gr. IIIT) at Calder Race Course & Casino Nov. 30, running down 9-5 favorite Hollinger to record his first graded stakes score on the Florida Read more »

By Blood-Horse Staff Multiple stakes winner Talent Search   will stand in 2013 at Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Ramsey Farm near Nicholasville, Ky. Nine-year-old Talent Search will stand for $2,500. Talent Search (Catienus  –Mrs. K., by Dixieland Band) won the Teddy Drone Stakes and the Jim McKay Stakes. He ran second in five stakes including the Vosburgh Stakes Read more »

By Blood-Horse Staff George Strawbridge Jr.’s homebred grade II winner Smart Bid will enter stud in 2013 with Highcliff stallions at Mill Creek Farm near Stillwater, N.Y. The 6-year-old son of Smart Strike   will stand for $4,500 live foal. Winner of the Fair Grounds Handicap (gr. IIIT) and the East Hanover Stakes on grass earlier this year, Read more »

Foxy Sara, under jockey Matt Rispoli, won the $75,000 Blue Mountain for Pennsylvania 2-year-old fillies. Trained by Norm Pointer and bred by Heart Hill Farm, Foxy Sara held off a late charge by favorite Kelwynne to score by a length for owner Karen M. Benshoff.  Humble Street was third in the 11-horse field, 1 3/4 Read more »

By Blood-Horse Staff Dr. William Solomon’s Pin Oak Lane Farm, located near New Freedom, Pa., has dropped the fee for Rockport Harbor   to $7,500. He stood in 2012 for $12,500. Pin Oak Lane also announced it will offer multiple mare discounts to Rockport Harbor and Offlee Wild. Stallion Fee 2 Mares Bred 3 Mares Bred Read more »