On Travers Day in 2010, Uncle Mo announced himself to the world, with a 14 1/4-length debut victory on the undercard at Saratoga. A decade later in the 2020 Runhappy Travers, his son Caracaro continued to give a good account of himself at Saratoga, running second to Kentucky Derby favorite Tiz the Law in the 151st renewal.
A racing rarity occurred as He's No Lemon edged his older half-brother Midnight Tea Time by a neck in a third-level allowance race Sunday on the Saratoga turf.
An old maxim is that Thoroughbred breeders breed the best to the best and hope for the best. Another is that they go back to the well with what works
Country House, who in his final start won the 2019 Kentucky Derby via an unprecedented disqualification, will enter stud at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., in 2021.
As Daily Racing Form's 2020 Queen's Plate Watch debuts, Clayton sits atop the list. The colt sports classic connections on both sides of his pedigree.
Stakes-placed Wooderson, a half-brother to Hall of Famer Rachel Alexandra, will begin his stud career for Burdette Thoroughbred Farm of Arkansas in 2021, becoming the latest stallion from this family in a regional marketplace.
As the season for the younger set heats up, freshman sires swept the weekend's graded stakes races for 2-year-olds at Del Mar.
Dual Eclipse Award champion Covfefe helped Into Mischief to his first leading sire title in 2019 by flaunting her speed. The filly's four stakes wins on the season – capped by the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint – included a track record-setting performance in the Grade 3 Miss Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, and a win in the Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs in which she missed champion Groupie Doll's track mark by just seven-hundredths of a second.
Starlight Racing’s commitment to their craft has launched them into the top five racing syndicates in the country and continues this year with the promising Authentic, recent winner of the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell. His next stop: the Kentucky Derby.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Uncle Chuck
