Valpredo elected CTBA president
Donald Valpredo was elected on Monday to serve his fourth term as president of the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association.
DRF Breeding StaffFeb 13, 2014
Donald Valpredo was elected on Monday to serve his fourth term as president of the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association.
The Jockey Club has denied all privileges of the American Stud Book to four trainers for medication violations.
Novelist Merle H. Horwitz has announced that he will donate all profits from the sales of his latest mystery novel, “Winners,” to the Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses (CANTER), an aftercare organization dedicated to re-homing off-the-track Thoroughbreds.
Grade 2 winner Neko Bay will relocate to Elite Thoroughbreds in Folsom, La., for the 2014 breeding season, standing for an advertised fee of $3,000.
Prominent owner/breeder J. Mack Robinson died Feb. 7 following complications due to Alzheimer’s disease. He was 90.
Two of the most eagerly-anticipated foals of 2014 arrived over the weekend, as Horse of the Year Havre de Grace and Kentucky Oaks winner Plum Pretty each produced their first foals.
Michigan’s Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, and Arabian horsemen’s groups announced their year-end awards for the 2013 racing season.
A barn fire at Equine Integrated Medicine veterinary clinic near Georgetown, Ky., killed eight horses on the morning of Feb. 9, BloodHorse reports.
With two high-class daughters in his first crop, however, Old Fashioned, along with Dunkirk and eventually horses like Will Take Charge, might finally validate Unbridled’s Song’s reputation as a sire of sires.
The frigid temperatures that have blanketed the East for the better part of the new year swept in at a busy time for the Central Kentucky Thoroughbred community, with new foals arriving daily and several major mixed sales falling early in the year. Although the basic principles of horse care remain unchanged, extra attention must be paid to a few details during the winter months to ensure good health.