After favored runs in two grade 1 races on her home soil in Southern California, Kaleem Shah’s homebred American Gal broke through for her first graded win on the opposite coast July 9 with a determined victory in the Victory Ride Stakes (G3).

The Fasig-Tipton July selected yearling sale offers buyers the first opportunity to see yearlings from first-crop sires and one of the top horses to watch at the July 11 sale is a colt sired by Cairo Prince.

Enstone, ridden by Patrick Husbands, fended off favorite Mythical Mission to win the $225,000 Bison City Stakes July 9 at Woodbine.

Four-time Maryland Horse of the Year Ben’s Cat remains in critical condition but is said to be improving since undergoing surgery at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute to repair an epiploic foramen entrapment July 6.

Jecara Farms’ homebred Eskiminzin became the first winner for his sire Cold Harbor when he took a maiden special weight for juveniles at Woodbine July 9 by a neck. 

With more than 15 stakes winners among the offerings, the Fasig-Tipton horses of all ages sale will begin July 10 at 5 p.m. ET.

Don Alberto’s Rubilinda and Spinaway Stakes (G1) third place finisher Cherry Lodge dominated a field of nine at the betting window July 9, and the two finished 1-2 in a $77,000 allowance race on Belmont Park’s turf.

Kimberlea K, the first winner for her sire Indian Evening, is now two for two and her sire’s first black-type stakes winner after outrunning a group of eight males in the July 8 Everett Nevin Stakes at Oak Tree at Pleasonton. 

Thunder Snow led all the way to win the Prix Jean Prat (G1) for 3-year-old colts and fillies July 9 at Chantilly.

The catalog for the third annual Barretts August Select Yearling Sale is now on-line and will be mailed soon.

Wrote, winner of the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T), is the only son of two-time Eclipse Award winner High Chaparral at stud in North America.

Merry Fox Stables homebred Guilty Twelve put in a sustained stretch drive to nip favored Zipessa in the $200,000 Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (G3T).

After many close placings in graded stakes races, Whispering Oaks Farm’s Iron Fist finally notched his first graded stakes win in the $300,000 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap (G3) at Prairie Meadows July 8.

A claimer put away a champion and a grade 1 winner July 8 at Los Alamitos Race Course.

Lothenbach Stables’ Sonic Boom, unbothered by early pace pressure, opened a clear lead on the backstretch and held firm for a dominant 1 3/4-lengths win in Saturday’s Grade III $100,000 American Derby at Arlington International Racecourse.

In his 46th career start, Ghost Hunter notched his first career graded stakes triumph when he shot through up the inside in the lane to prevail by three-quarters of a length in the $100,000 Arlington Handicap (G3T)

Wrote, winner of the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T), is the only son of two-time Eclipse Award winner High Chaparral at stud in North America.