Mandy Pope boards her band of top-class mares, including Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, at Wayne and wife Cathy Sweezey’s Timber Town Stable in Lexington, Ky. – and champion Groupie Doll will soon join the ranks at the farm, continuing the long association between Pope and the Sweezeys.
Retired to stud at 4, the early results from Henny Hughes's stud career were disappointing, but in the past two years, he has enjoyed a major revival, especially through the exploits of his champion daughter Beholder.
A report released by the Retired Racehorse Training Project revealed the results of a nationwide study of how Thoroughbred ex-racehorses are transitioned into second careers.
Rumor, winner of the Grade 3 Las Flores Stakes in 2013 and three other stakes, has been retired and will be bred in coming months, trainer Richard Mandella said.
Albert Coppola Sr., a longtime owner and breeder whose greatest success came with 1982 Travers Stakes winner and Canadian champion Runaway Groom, died on Dec. 29 in Virginia. He was 89.
The 2013 Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association stallion season auction set a revenue record for the fourth straight year, with 101 seasons sold for $150,700.
Multiple Group 1 winner Moonlight Cloud has been retired and will be bred to Coolmore’s international titan Galileo this season, Racing Post reports.
The 2013 Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association stallion season auction set a revenue record for the fourth straight year, with 101 seasons sold for $150,700.
Sunshine Forever, the champion grass horse of 1988, died Tuesday at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky. He was 29.
Grade 3 winner Patton, a pensioned stallion at Old Friends in Georgetown, Ky., was euthanized Jan. 5 at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute following an illness. The son of Lord At War was 23.
