Naohiro Sakakuchi's Demian (c, 2, Flightline–Mira Alta, by Curlin) was produced by the visiting Damian Lane with a bit less than a furlong to race and quickened up nicely to become the first winner from the much-anticipated initial crop of his freshman sire (by Tapit) in Saturday's sixth race for unraced 2-year-olds going 1400 meters

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A pair of OBS March graduates lined up side by side in the gate at Santa Anita Friday but it was the longer shot of the two, 8-1 third choice Kennyten (Drain the Clock), who earned his diploma en route to becoming his freshman sire's (by Maclean's Music) second winner and first 'TDN Rising Star,

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Freshman sire Olympiad claimed his first winner as a stallion when Techwerkian went gate-to-wire in the third race at Belterra Park. Despite floating late, and with blinkers on in her third try, the 8-5 favorite comfortably got the job done for trainer Rey Hernandez and owners Rey Hernandez, Ricardo Labra, and Rhonda Cornum. She was

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Harper's Corner became the first winner for her freshman stallion (by Street Sense) with an eye-catching debut victory Friday afternoon at Laurel Park. Crunched into 17-5 from an 8-1 morning line off a sound-enough worktab at Fair Hill, the $30,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling and $70,000 OBS April breezer dipped at the break, but quickly recovered

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Plutarch (Into Mischief) worked for the first time Friday since winning the GIII Robert B. Lewis for 3-year-olds Feb. 7. He was timed going four furlongs 49.6 seconds at 'The Great Race Place.' Trained by Bob Baffert, the colt out of champion Stellar Wind (Curlin) exited the Lewis with 'body soreness' that limited him to

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