ALTERNATION was represented by two new 3-year-old winners from his second crop on Saturday. DREAMER’S MOON broke well from the inside post and led all the way to win a one mile Maiden test at Parx by an impressive 12 1/2 lengths. In her second start as a juvenile last year this filly finished runner-up […]
Making her first start after a four-month layoff, THE VILLA’S START took the lead in upper stretch and held it to the wire to win a Maiden Special Weight by 1/2 length. The 3-year-old filly from the second crop of ALTERNATION stalked the pace early until she began to move on the top three heading […]
Making his second start since a move from the West Coast, EARNEDNEVERGIVEN seized the lead on the turn and pulled away for a 4 1/2-length victory at Oaklawn Park. With a bullet four-furlong work in :48.60 a week earlier, the 4-year-old son of ALTERNATION pressed the pace from the start in this six-furlong sprint. EARNEDNEVERGIVEN […]
ALTERNATION chalked up three winners today, including victories at Santa Anita and Oaklawn. Three-year-old NATIONS HOPE, the 13th winner from ALTERNATION’s second crop, was coming off a runner-up finish last time out, where he was more than five lengths a head of the third-place horse. In this one mile event at Santa Anita, NATIONS HOPE […]
Kicking off her 3-year-old campaign, SERENGETI EMPRESS proved she was ready to get back to racing with an impressive 4 1/2-length wire-to-wire win in the Grade 2 Rachel Alexandra S. at the Fair Grounds. A daughter from the second crop of ALTERNATION broken well from post three to seize the lead in this 1 1/16-mile […]
Having placed in two of her last three starts, SWEET ALTERNATIVE moved up between horses as they approached the top of the stretch and pulled away late for a two-length win in a Maiden Special Weight at Tampa Bay. Racing one mile and 40 yards over a sloppy, sealed track, the 12th winner from the […]
With a bullet four-furlong work in :46 4/5 three weeks back, NUMEROLOGIST had to battle through the stretch to win his Maiden Special Weight debut. The 4-year-old colt from the second crop of ALTERNATION stalked the early pace in third in this 6 1/2-furlong sprint. He moved off the rail going into the turn, but […]
At the end of 2018, ALTERNATION finished as the Co-Leading Second-Crop Kentucky Sire with two Graded stakes winners and Co-Second-Leading Sire with FIVE Blacktype winners. Among them were Graded winners SERENGETI EMPRESS, a 2-year-old filly who won the Pocahontas S.-G2 by a recording-setting 19 1/2 lengths and the Ellis Park Debutante S. by 13 1/2 […]
Coming off a 5 3/4-length Maiden Special Weight win in his debut at Gulfstream Park West in mid-October (pictured), COMBINATION jumped right into stakes competition and placed in Gulfstream Park’s six-furlong Buffalo Man S., finishing four lengths in front of the next horse. The 2-year-old colt from the second crop of ALTERNATION became his sire’s […]
After two runner-up performances in her last two starts, ELLANATION fought through the stretch to get the win at Laurel Park. The 2-year-old filly from the second crop of ALTERNATION broke well from the inside post to sit second in this eight-horse field racing six furlongs. She began to move closer to the leader on […]