Unbeaten Santa Anita Derby winner Justify stands out among the favorites in this year's Kentucky Derby as he tries to break the “Apollo curse.” But among his challengers will be not only another major prep winner but his former stablemate, Wood Memorial victor Vino Rosso.
Giant’s Causeway, Europe’s 2000 Horse of the Year and a cornerstone of Coolmore’s international racing and breeding operations, died Monday night at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., following a brief illness. He was 21.
Khaled Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms has bred or raced way more than its fair share of great racehorses over the last 40 years, but by far the best sire Juddmonte has produced is Danehill.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah will again shuttle to stand the Southern Hemisphere breeding season at Coolmore's Australia farm, the international operation confirmed as it released the stud fees for that roster on Thursday night.
Lemons Forever, the dam of champion Forever Unbridled and Grade 1 winner Unbridled Forever, was named 2017 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year on Wednesday by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association.
Magnum Moon is attempting to do something that hasn't been done since 1882 – win the Kentucky Derby without having raced at age 2. But backing him up, the colt has a distance-oriented pedigree that has found recent success in the American classic series.
Mind Your Biscuits, who recently became the highest-earning New York-bred of all time, was named the state’s 2017 Horse of the Year by New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. for the second straight year on Monday.
Analyze It has asserted himself as a leader in the 3-year-old male turf division with a 5 1/4-length win in the Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland, and he strengthened the resumes of his young sire and dam.
An active weekend of prep races for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks left the late Scat Daddy at the top of the Beyer Sire Performance Standings by 3-year-old Beyer Speed Figures at the 90-plus and 100-plus levels in 2018.
The fall of the hammer on a seven-figure auction purchase is usually where the breeder's part in a horse's story ends, but Barbara Banke's Stonestreet Stables doesn't always play by that narrative.
