The Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders has unveiled its statebred champions and associated merit award winners, led by Broodmare of the Year Beyond the Waves, via press release.
Beyond the Waves, a multiple stakes producer whose foals are led by Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar, has been bred to second-year stallion Oscar Performance, who stands at Mill Ridge Farm in Lexington, Ky.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the breeding season is well under way, and with mares and their attendant staff shipping to stallion farms, the farms have begun rolling out policies to limit interactions between people that may spread illness.
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The New York Thoroughbred Breeders’ announced Thursday it has canceled the organization’s awards dinner scheduled for April 6 in Saratoga due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner War Emblem, famous on the track and off for his strong will, has died at age 21.
In an outstanding class of first-crop sires whose runners debuted last year, led by a Triple Crown winner, arguably none is better bred than Mr Speaker. A Grade 1 winner who blossomed as a 3-year-old, Mr Speaker is represented by a classics hopeful in Three Technique.
SportBLX Thoroughbreds has aspects similar to other new horse ownership groups, such as a low buy-in into the ownership experience, but has put its own twist on the enterprise by envisioning its members as buying into the entire life of a horse, including potential breeding and bloodstock revenue.
Successful sire Belong to Me has died due to the infirmities of old age, his longtime home, Lane's End Farm, announced Thursday evening. The New Jersey-bred son of Danzig was 31.
Into Mischief, who claimed his first general sire title in 2019, is the sire of two classic-placed runners in the last two years. In Authentic, winner of the Grade 3 Sham Stakes by 7 3/4 lengths going a mile, he has another exciting prospect on this year's Kentucky Derby trail.
