Janice and Robert McNair, who sold their successful Stonerside Stable breeding and racing operation to Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum three years ago, are back in the racing game. The Houston, Texas-based couple have not campaigned a horse since 2009, when their homebred millionaire Cowboy Cal retired to stud.
Tom Simon's Vinery operation has opened a new bloodstock division at its Kentucky farm by privately acquiring Steve Castagnola's Kempton Bloodstock agency.
Zenyatta, the 2010 Horse of the Year and the only mare to win the Breeders' Cup Classic, is in foal after a second mating to Bernardini. Vets performed an ultrasound Tuesday morning, about 60 days after the mare’s second mating with Bernardini, which took place around April 2. The 7-year-old Street Cry mare failed to maintain her first pregnancy that resulted from her initial mating to Bernardini in February.
Dean Pederson, who began moving his stable to Southern California earlier this spring, registered his first stakes win at his new location when Logical Secret upset the Fran's Valentine Stakes at Hollywood Park.
Fasig-Tipton’s reformatted Midlantic 2-year-old sale ended Tuesday afternoon in Timonium, Md., with a $600,000 Indian Charlie colt the sale-topper.
Fasig-Tipton's reformatted Midlantic 2-year-old sale ended Tuesday afternoon in Timonium, Md., with a dozen horses fetching $200,000 or more, including the $600,000 sale-topping Indian Charlie colt.
Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic 2-year-old sale continued to show strength at the top Tuesday in its last of two sessions as a $600,000 Indian Charlie colt took over as price leader.
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation will honor Adena Springs owner and racetrack operator Frank Stronach this summer for his efforts to improve horses’ safety and welfare, the organization announced Tuesday.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's May 2-year-old auction opening session got off to a quick start Monday at the Timonium fairgrounds in Maryland, where horses with fast times at the under-tack preview brought some of the opening session's highest prices.
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s May 2-year-old auction got off to a quick start Monday at the Timonium fairgrounds in Maryland, where horses with fast times at the under-tack preview brought some of the opening session’s highest prices.
