Silken Cat News Today

WinStar Farm’s Speightstown, Eclipse Award-winning Champion Sprinter of 2004, was euthanized this week at the age of 25.

Preakness Stakes winner Early Voting has been removed from the 2024 stallion roster for Coolmore's Ashford Stud due to an inability to breed.

Bloodstock editor Joe Nevills examines the most successful sires of the 2023 2-year-old auction season by breeze time and median sale price.

The number of sires eligible for consideration in the Power Rankings has grown from 39 after the Texas 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale to a whopping 90 after we passed the season's midway point. We finished with 94 last year, and I expect we'll blow that number out of the water by the time the last horse goes through the ring in 2023.

Gun Runner (by Candy Ride) picked up his first classic winner when Early Voting won the 2022 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 21 by 1 ¼ lengths over Epicenter (Not This Time). Early Voting also became the fifth Grade 1 winner for his sire, following juvenile champion Echo Zulu, 2021 Hopeful Stakes winner Gunite, then a trio in the past two months: Taiba (Santa Anita Derby), Cyberknife (Arkansas Derby), and the Preakness winner.

Early Voting gets jump on Epicenter in Preakness at the Kentucky Derby. The 2023 Kentucky Derby is the 149th renewal of The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports. Live odds, betting, horse bios, travel info, tickets, news, and updates from Churchill Downs Race Track.