Three Chimneys presents Good News Friday

As the last-minute holiday shopping season gets into full swing, the organizers at the Kentucky Equine Humane Center in Nicholasville, Ky. are hoping that racing fans will be competing to put a halter under their Christmas trees. The Center launched its first eBay auction of halters from well-known racehorses and breeding stock on Sunday, Dec. […]

If you were priced out of Keeneland’s recent sporting art auction (the sales from which totaled over $3.1 million), supporters of ReRun are hoping that you might add to your art collection during their upcoming Moneigh auction. The paintings, each done and “autographed” by notable racehorses or breeding stock, have been increasingly popular since their […]

Thoroughbred injuries are clearly an ongoing and major concern for the sport of racing. Scientists around the world have been studying the issue for decades, and in recent years, have seen significant progress towards a better understanding of why certain injuries occur and what can be done to prevent many of them. At the University […]

When Goldencents crossed the wire a winner in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, those who were in the Santa Anita winner’s circle and cashing tickets weren’t the only people cheering. For Thoroughbred Program Director Anna Ford and others associated with New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program, the most important part about the Breeders’ Cup wasn’t […]

If the first few days of the season’s November breeding stock sales demonstrated anything (besides an economic revival for the industry), it was that racing, and even auctions, are not all about dollars and cents. When 5-year-old Groupie Doll, sporting a sticker reading “Hip 350” left the barns at Keeneland on Wednesday, she was accompanied […]

While flying at 30,000 feet above the Rocky Mountains it occurred to me that taking a jet from Kentucky to California for the Breeders’ Cup is a lot faster than driving to the Golden State. But for the Paulick Report’s fifth annual Breeders’ Cup or Bust fundraiser on behalf of Breeders’ Cup Charities, we couldn’t […]

As the 40th anniversary of Secretariat’s Triple Crown run has come and gone, Big Red’s blood seems to fade further into the distance of today’s Thoroughbred breeding. But in the sport horse world, that blood is still very much in demand. In 1988, the Mr. Prospector mare Sue Babe foaled a strapping bay colt by […]

Nieema Thasing wasn’t about to let anything, including the government shutdown, rain on her parade. “I want to be able to be a ray of sunshine,” she said. “If it’s too much sunshine, then I can get you a pair of sunglasses. I do the best that I can with what I have.” Thasing is […]