by Joe Nevills|03.21.2023|11:15am BC Juvenile Winner Texas Red Moves To Ohio’s Buckeye Stallion Station Texas Red, the winner of the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, has relocated to Buckeye Stallion Station, a subsidiary of Hurst Racing Stables, in Hubbard, Ohio for the 2023 breeding season. The 11-year-old son of Afleet Alex will stand for an advertised fee of $3,000, with special considerations available. Texas Red began his stallion career at […]
by Joe Nevills|03.20.202303.20.2023|2:05pm4:55pm Pennsylvania Leaderboard: How Blackstone Farm Ended 2022 As Top Earner Of Breeder’s Awards Pennsylvania features one of North America’s most lucrative breeder’s awards structures for Thoroughbred racing, and no farm took advantage of that in 2023 quite like Blackstone Farm. The Pine Grove, Penn.,-based operation of Christian Black and Douglas Black (no relation) finished 2022 as the state’s leading earner of breeder’s awards, bringing in $423,292, well ahead […]
by Joe Nevills|03.20.2023|10:47am The 2022 2-Year-Old Sale Sire Power Rankings: Justify Earns Another Crown A horse being offered at a 2-year-olds in training sale has two main jobs: Breeze fast and sell for as much money as possible. Fortunately, we’ve got figures to measure the success of both. In this segment, we will attempt to pinpoint the most successful sires of the juvenile auction season by ranking each qualifying […]
by Joe Nevills|03.03.2023|8:04pm The Price Of Success: North America’s Leading Graded Stakes Sires Of 2023 By Stud Fee How much does a graded stakes win cost? The answer can go in plenty of directions, but one of the most obvious is tied to the stud fee paid to conceive a graded stakes winner in the first place. That initial fee can go a long way in dictating expectations for a Thoroughbred, setting a […]
by Joe Nevills|02.20.2023|4:18pm ‘He Could Do Just About Anything’: Belmont Stakes Winner Sir Winston Enters A New Frontier At Stud Ever since he first set foot on the racetrack, Sir Winston’s modus operandi has centered around defying expectations. He was an unorthodox pick for the 2019 Belmont Stakes after his highest career achievement up to that point came over the all-weather Tapeta surface at Woodbine. Then, he won the biggest race of his life. Owner […]
by Joe Nevills|02.20.2023|3:16pm Stakes-Placed Hot Seat Took The Long Way From Parx To Kazakhstan Hot Seat, who finished second to Sharp Azteca in the 2016 City of Laurel Stakes, is standing in Kazakhstan for the 2023 breeding season, the Russian racing news website Hippodrom.ru reports, and his path to get there has dotted points all over the map. The 10-year-old son of Unbridled’s Song arrived in Kazakhstan in late […]
by Joe Nevills|02.13.202302.14.2023|3:46pm11:39am The 2022 Freshman Sire Yearbook: Far More Than Just A ‘Big Three’ When a Triple Crown winner retires to stud and gets a murderer’s row of mares for his debut book, it can feel like everyone else in that freshman sire class is racing for second. Instead, much like when American Pharoah faced a salty rookie class in 2019, Triple Crown winner Justify found himself posting great […]
by Joe Nevills|02.07.2023|6:50pm ‘I Was A Believer Before Anything’: Goodwin Introduces Pinehurst, Walmac Farm To Breeders On A Short Clock On Sunday afternoon, a day before the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale, an Oklahoma breeder ventured out to Walmac Farm in Lexington, Ky., to get a look at first-year stallion Pinehurst and chat with new stallion sales man Jay Goodwin during the farm’s open house. The 4-year-old son of Twirling Candy was put through his […]
by Joe Nevills|02.07.2023|5:54pm Grade 3 Winner Mo Mosa Sold To Stand In Jamaica Grade 3 winner Mo Mosa will begin his stallion career at Paradise Farms at Spring Village in Jamaica after selling for $50,000 late during Tuesday’s session at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale. The 6-year-old son of Uncle Mo was cataloged as a racing or stallion prospect, but he was later switched to being offered […]
by Joe Nevills|02.06.2023|5:19pm ‘It Felt Like The Right Time’: Draper Aims To Grow Consignment At Fasig-Tipton February Sale Draper Farm is far from a new name on the consignor line of North American sale catalog pages, but their offering at this year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale might be the largest of its two decades in operation. That was by design. The seven mares on offer from the Draper Farm consignment marked an […]