As WinStar Farm selects a jockey for its Kentucky Derby contender Revolutionary, the outfit has taken the novel approach of asking fans to share their opinions. The Versailles, Ky., racing and breeding operation is allowing members of its StableMates online club to vote for their favorite jockey candidate in a poll on WinStar’s website.
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Reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan, who won his season debut Friday at Keeneland Race Course, is one of several successful runners out of the mare Lisa Danielle for owner-breeder Morton Fink.
Of the 14 horses in the main body of the field for the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland, five will run for their breeders solely or in partnership. Two entrants in the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park are homebreds.
The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association on Friday announced the creation of “Take The Lead,” a retirement program for Thoroughbreds stabled at Aqueduct, Belmont Park, and Saratoga.
Five classic-winning mares, including three champions, have been added to what is already an outstanding first book for unbeaten champion Frankel, who is currently standing his first season at Juddmonte Farm's Banstead Manor Stud near Newmarket, England.
Grade 1 winner Idiot Proof was represented by his first winner on March 18, when On Autopilot won a maiden race by 3 1/2 lengths at Hipodromo de las Americas in Mexico City, Mexico.
Spendthrift Farms stallion Into Mischief became a late-arriving standout among first-crop sires last fall when a trio of juvenile performers won stakes within a span of 22 days.
The United States Department of Agriculture has included language in its 2014 budget proposal that would prevent horse slaughterhouses from reopening legally in the United States, according to a New York Times report.
First-year Coolmore stallion and 2012 Irish Two Thousand Guineas winner Power will shuttle to Cambridge Stud in Cambridge, New Zealand for the 2013 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
The career trajectory of Unbridled’s Song is in many ways more prototypical of the modern commercial Thoroughbred than that of A.P. Indy, the horse regarded as the ideal modern Thoroughbred.
