Twilight Ridge, winner of 1985 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, died April 2 at owner Mike Rutherford's Manchester Farm near Lexington, Ky. The daughter of Cox's Ridge was 30.
Vinery Farm in Lexington, Ky., the anchor property of the international racing and breeding operation, has been listed for sale with a price tag of $13,970,000.
Group 1 winner Intense Focus was represented by his first winner on April 1 when his daughter Intense Feeling won at Warwick Racecourse in Warwick, England.
Financially embattled Australian mining tycoon Nathan Tinkler has decided to put his entire Patinack Farm operation on the market, including more than 1,000 Thoroughbreds and farms in New South Wales and Queensland.
Enter DRF Breeding's 2013 Freshman Sire Contest for a chance to win a free unlimited Formulator Past Performance Plan for one year.
Champion Zenyatta delivered her second foal, a colt by popular commercial sire Tapit, late the night of Monday, April 1 at Lane's End Farm in Versailles, Ky.
Faltaat, a leading sire in New Zealand and a champion sprinter in the United Arab Emirates, died at Westbury Stud in Karaka, N.Z., on March 30 at age 23.
March 30 brought forth an embarrassment of riches for U.S. racing fans, as the Dubai World Cup card at Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates drew several accomplished American-based horses and the final leg of Churchill Downs’ Road to the Kentucky Derby series of 3-year-old prep races kicked off with the Group 2 U.A.E. Derby at Meydan, the Grade 1 Florida Derby at Gulfstream, and the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds.
The Turfway Aftercare Program (TAP), a joint effort funded by Turfway Park and owners who race their horses at the Florence, Ky., track, awarded $13,740 to four aftercare organizations that work to rehabilitate and retrain Thoroughbred ex-racehorses and transition them into second careers.
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If you want to catch up with Ted Bassett, you have to move at a brisk trot. The former Keeneland Association chairman, now trustee emeritus at age 91, has a full schedule, starting with an important morning ritual: feeding the family pets at Lanark Farm, the Midway, Ky., property that Bassett’s wife, Lucy, inherited from her father in 1983.
