Blue Horse Charities, an organization funded by contributions from Fasig-Tipton horse auctions, announced Thursday that it has awarded grants totaling $119,700 to 30 non-profits that work to rehabilitate, retrain and adopt off-the-track Thoroughbreds.
Silvano, a globetrotting Grade/Group 1 winner during his racing career, finished the 2012-2013 Southern Hemisphere racing season as South Africa’s leading general sire.
The first winner for Grade 2 winner and freshman sire Papa Clem came on Aug. 1 at the Sonoma County Fair, when Hirschy rallied to win a maiden special weight race by three-quarters of a length.
Bridlewood Farm in Ocala Fla., one of the state’s top breeding operations, has been purchased by media company chairman John C. Malone and his wife Leslie.
Unbridled's Song became a highly successful sire at Taylor Made Farm, and changed the lives of Buzz Chace and the Taylor family as he rose to prominence.
Points Offthebench’s game score in last Sunday’s Grade 1 Bing Crosby at Del Mar gave trainer Tim Yakteen his first top-level stakes win and heralded the emergence of another high-caliber runner for California stallion Benchmark.
Darley shuttle stallion Exceed And Excel has finished the 2012-13 season as Australia's leading general sire.
Calidoscopio, the winner of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Marathon whose final victory came in a dramatic running of the Grade 2 Brooklyn Handicap earlier this year, will stand his first season at stud at Haras La Quebrada in Argentina, Racing Post reports.
Animal Kingdom, winner of the 2011 Kentucky Derby and 2013 Dubai World Cup, is in quarantine in Australia as he prepares for his debut season at Arrowfield Stud in New South Wales.
The July 30 ruling against the prohibition of cloned horses in the American Quarter Horse Association’s registry could have a far-reaching effect into the breed’s racing industry.
