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Being a successful broodmare sire isn't necessarily a young man's game, or even a game for active stallions, but the graded stakes results of 2022 revealed that many of the industry's top broodmare sires are just starting to build their resumes.

Simon, in search of his first Futurity triumph, will send out Twin City, a bay son of Klimt-Minnie Apple Is.

Upon his retirement from racing, Olympiad will take up stallion duties at historic Gainesway Farm.

Emory Hamilton's homebred Pleasant Passage overcame rainy conditions and a yielding turf course in Saturday’s $200,000 Miss Grillo (G2) with a gate-to-wire three-quarter-length victory at Aqueduct that could catapult her to the Breeders’ Cup on November 4.

Michael J. Ryan’s Irish homebred Be Your Best will vie for her second stakes score and first at the graded level for trainer Horacio De Paz in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Miss Grillo, a 1 1/16-mile inner turf test for juvenile fillies, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

Favorite Olympiad tracked pacesetter Tax for nearly a mile in the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) Saturday at Saratoga, then easily moved past nearing the stretch and powered away for the victory as runner-up Americanrevolution chased him home.

Trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, War Like Goddess is following a similar campaign to last year, arriving at the Flower Bowl once again from a win in the Glens Falls