With two new Graded stakes winners in a 15-minute span on July 3rd, Eddie Woods became the nation’s leading juvenile consignor of Graded stakes winners for 2010.

Woods’ two-year-olds in training consignments have produced five Graded stakes winners this year, nearly twice as many as any other juvenile consignor.

First to strike over the holiday weekend was the veteran Haynesfield, who took on a top field in the $300,000 Suburban H. (G2) at Belmont. The 4-year-old son of Speightstown took charge at the three-eighths pole, and was never seriously threatened en route to a 2 ¾-length triumph in 1:48 2/5. This was his fourth consecutive win going back to 2009, and his eighth victory overall. Eddie Woods sold Haynesfield to Vision Racing at the 2008 Keeneland April Sale. Running for owner Turtle Bird Stable, the colt has amassed earnings of $629,481, from a record of 11-8-1-1.

Less than 15 minutes after the Suburban, undefeated two-year-old Kantharos set the racing world on its edge, with his scintillating 9 ½-length domination of the Bashford Manor S. (G3) at Churchill Downs. The Stonestreet color-bearer was the crowd’s odds-on choice, after breaking his maiden by 11 ¾ lengths over the Louisville surface on May 13. Despite leaving the gate a step slowly, Kantharos forged to the lead approaching the stretch, then opened up at will under Robby Albarado. His Beyer Speed Figure of 89, is the best by a 2-year-old on dirt in the Midwest this year.

Trainer Steve Asmussen told the press afterwards, “John Moynihan bought him out of the March OBS sale from Eddie Woods, and he came into the barn a professional. He’s not made a mistake.”

Pegasus Holding Group purchased Kantharos for $80,000 at the 2009 Keeneland September Sale, and Woods sold him for $250,000 at OBS this past March.

Eddie Woods sales consignments have now produced 16 stakes horses, 10 stakes winners, this year.