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When Kopion returned from a near nine-month layoff Dec. 26 to pull off a 37-1 upset in the seven-furlong La Brea Stakes (G1) Dec. 26 at Santa Anita Park, she not only earned her first grade 1 victory but also cemented herself as a leading member on the long honor roll of horses bred by […]

Spendthrift Farm, forced to scratch Grade I winner Tamara (Bolt d’Oro) with an elevated temperature Thursday morning, had a more than suitable understudy in the afternoon’s GI La Brea Stakes when Kopion (Omaha Beach) romped home a geared-down 2 3/4-length winner at Santa Anita. Returning from nine months on the sidelines and dismissed at 35-1, […]

A pair of dazzling maiden winners, Kopion, bred in Kentucky by Toronto’s Ivan Dalos, and Kinza, stretch out and head a competitive field of five sophomore fillies and mares going one mile on the main track in Saturday’s Grade III, $100,000 Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita. (Originally scheduled to be run this past Sunday, […]

Spendthrift stallion Omaha Beach got the first graded win of his nascent sire career with a blowout victory by Kopion (f, 3, Omaha Beach–Galloping Ami, by Victory Gallop) in Santa Anita’s GIII Santa Ynez S. Sunday. Three of the four fillies in the gate were by first-crop sires, but it was the least experienced of […]

With stablemate and fellow Spendthrift Farm color bearer Tamara on the sidelines, Kopion took advantage of her own chance to shine with a 5 3/4-length romp in the $100,000 Santa Ynez Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita Park. Kopion made her debut in November well after Tamara had raced to victory in the Del Mar Debutante […]

1st-Del Mar, $61,500, Msw, 11-26, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:16.13, ft, 3 3/4 lengths. KOPION (f, 2, Omaha Beach–Galloping Ami {Outstanding Broodmare-Can}, by Victory Gallop) did not disappoint her backers who made her the 1-5 favorite for this debut. The $270,000 Keeneland September buy trailed towards the rear of the field as a pair showed […]

Canadian classic winner AMI’S HOLIDAY, among the leading sires in Canada with just four crops of racing age, will stand the 2024 breeding season at 2 Points Ranch near Winnipeg, Manitoba in partnership with owner and breeder Ivan Dalos, who has stood the son of Harlan’s Holiday at Colebrook Farms Ontario. Colleen Dalos, president of […]

Zippy Gizmo won the Bull Page Stakes Sept. 24 at Woodbine and gave his sire, Amis Gizmo, his first blacktype stakes winner. The 2-year-old chestnut won his second career race in four starts by edging rival Brave Dancer by a neck in 1:22.77 on the turf. It was a come-from-behind triumph that saw Zippy Gizmo running last in the field […]

Veteran 9-year-old gelding Channel Maker proved that age has not caught up to him when powering to a front-running two-length score for trainer Bill Mott in Sunday’s $250,000 Bowling Green (G2), a 1 3/8-mile inner turf test for older horses at Saratoga Race Course. “He’s one of the happiest horses going to the track,” said […]