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  • Proud Citizen sire of Up Jumps a Monster 1st Alw (May 21, 8th NP). Owner, Chabot, Rob, Kane, Tim and Schayer, Joshua; Breeder, The Neuman Group...
  • Old Forester sire of Highlanddixiebelle 1st Alw (May 21, 9th WO). Owner, Highland Thoroughbred Farm; Breeder, Highland Thoroughbred Farm...
  • Where's the Ring sire of Gypsy Ring 1st New Providence S. (May 21, 8th WO). Owner, Paul M. Buttigieg; Breeder, Paul Buttigieg...
  • Bluegrass Cat sire of Go Blue Or Go Home 1st Mdn (May 21, 10th WO). Owner, Hill, Jim and Susan; Breeder, Morgan's Ford Farm & Winstar Farm LLC...
  • Read the Footnotes sire of Eminent Tale 1st Alw (May 21, 8th FL). Owner, Winter Park Partners, Sequel Racing and Narlinger, Dennis; Breeder, Thomas-Narlinger LLC & Tony Grey...
  • Elusive Quality sire of Chin the Moon 1st Mdn (May 21, 8th MNR). Owner, Jurado, Luis A., Nardelli, Rodney and Nardelli, Kim; Breeder, Kim Nardelli & Rodney Nardelli...
  • Stormy Atlantic sire of Bigstormbrewin' 1st Alw (May 21, 6th WO). Owner, Sam-Son Farms; Breeder, Sam-Son Farm...
  • Posse sire of Dusterino 1st Alw (May 22, 2nd PRX). Owner, Lynch Racing LLC; Breeder, Kildare Stud...
  • Flashy Bull sire of Balooga Bull 1st Alw (May 21, 3rd ASD). Owner, Paul Brandt; Breeder, Bernard Vertuca & Michelle Vertuca...
  • Giant's Causeway sire of Giant Sensation 1st Alw (May 21, 8th DEL). Owner, Overbrook Farm and Andrew Farm; Breeder, Southern Equine Stables, LLC & Hill 'n'Dale Equine Holdings, Inc....

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Lord Shanakill first winner for champion Speightstown

Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:43 PM

Mark Gittins’s Lord Shanakill powered to a convincing 2 3/4-length triumph in a maiden race on Thursday at York to become the first winner for champion and freshman sire Speightstown.

The Kentucky-bred dark bay or brown colt, who is out of the unraced Theatrical (Ire) mare Green Fern, a half sister to Grade 1 winner Spanish Fern, covered six furlongs in 1:12.05 on turf rated as good. He is trained by Karl Burke.

Speightstown is a ten-year-old by Gone West out of 1995 Canadian champion juvenile filly Silken Cat, by Storm Cat. He stands at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Kentucky, for $40,000. Speightstown has 100 two-year-olds in his first crop.

Speightstown won ten of 16 lifetime starts and earned $1,258,256. He capped off his career with a 1 1/4-length win in the 2004 Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) en route to the Eclipse Award as champion sprinter after also scoring earlier in the Churchill Downs (G2), True North Breeders' Cup (G2), and Alfred G. Vanderbilt (G2) Handicaps.

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