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Deterministic Manny Franco
10
Sep
  • Colonial Downs
  • Graham Motion
  • Jonathan Thomas
  • Manny Franco
  • Virginia horse racing

Manny Franco’s magnificent seven

  • Nick Hahn / 1 year
  • 1
  • 9 min read

Jockey Manny Franco’s talents were on full display Saturday at Colonial Downs, as he won seven races and nearly swept the track’s six stakes.

Deterministic
07
Sep
  • Colonial Downs
  • Deterministic
  • Manny Franco
  • Steven Duncker
  • Virginia Derby
  • Virginia horse racing

Deterministic rallies to win G3 Virginia Derby

  • Frank Vespe / 1 year
  • 0
  • 4 min read

Jockey Manny Franco’s sixth win of the day at Colonial Downs came in the Grade 3 Virginia Derby aboard Deterministic, now a graded winner on turf and dirt.

Siesta Key
07
Sep
  • Colonial Downs
  • Godolphin
  • Governor Sam
  • Jim Cox
  • Kitten's Joy Stakes
  • Manny Franco
  • Siesta Key
  • Virginia horse racing

Siesta Key takes Kitten’s Joy thriller

  • Frank Vespe / 1 year
  • 0
  • 4 min read

Two-year-old Siesta Key found a seam and narrowly won the Kitten’s Joy Stakes Saturday at Colonial Downs in his first try on turf.

Tiz the Law
09
Aug
  • Barclay Tagg
  • Jack Knowlton
  • Manny Franco
  • Saratoga
  • Tiz the Law
  • Travers S.
  • Triple Crown

Tiz the Law gallops in Travers romp

  • Press Release / 5 years
  • 0
  • 6 min read

Six horses lined up late on a picturesque summer afternoon Saturday at Saratoga Race Course to fight the law, and the Law won.  Sackatoga Stable’s Tiz the Law further entrenched himself as the leading 3-year-old in the country, following up his dominant triumph in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes on June 20 with a command […]

Tiz the Law
20
Jun
  • Barclay Tagg
  • Belmont Park
  • Belmont Stakes
  • Jack Knowlton
  • Manny Franco
  • Sackatoga Stable
  • Tiz the Law
  • Triple Crown

Tiz the Law sweeps to Belmont triumph

  • Frank Vespe / 6 years
  • 0
  • 5 min read

In the strangest of all years for the Triple Crown, Saturday’s running of the Belmont Stakes provided an utterly formful outcome as Tiz the Law romped.

Sharing
21
Sep
  • Graham Motion
  • Laurel Futurity
  • Laurel Park
  • Manny Franco
  • Maryland horse racing
  • Selima S.
  • Sharing

Selima win could have Sharing bound for Breeders’ Cup

  • Ted Black / 6 years
  • 0
  • 6 min read

Sharing, a Graham Motion-trained juvenile filly impressed in the Selima and may be Breeders’ Cup-bound, and stablemate Irish Mias took the Laurel Futurity.

Sunny Ridge
12
Mar
  • Aqueduct
  • Manny Franco
  • Stymie S.
  • Sunny Ridge

NJ-bred Sunny Ridge surges to Stymie win

  • Press Release / 9 years
  • 0
  • 4 min read

New Jersey-bred Sunny Ridge too his second consecutive stakes win in today’s Stymie at Aqueduct.

15
Jan
  • Aqueduct
  • Jazil S.
  • Manny Franco
  • mid-Atlantic horse racing
  • New Jersey horse racing
  • Sunny Ridge

Sunny Ridge takes Jazil Stakes

  • Press Release / 9 years
  • 0
  • 3 min read

New Jersey-bred Sunny Ridge won the Jazil Stakes at Aqueduct yesterday over the same strip where he won last year’s Grade 3 Withers.

Deeply Undervalued
24
Sep
  • Chad Brown
  • Commonwealth Derby
  • Deeply Undervalued
  • Laurel Park
  • Manny Franco
  • Maryland horse racing

Deeply Undervalued cashes in Commonwealth Derby

  • Press Release / 9 years
  • 1
  • 4 min read

Deeply Undervalued earned the first stakes win of his brief career with a one-length score in the Grade 2 Commonwealth Derby today at Laurel Park.

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