Thu, 08/28/2025 - 14:27

UNCLE MO’s Multiple Stakes Winner and Twice G1-Placed Son GULFPORT Joins Pleasant Acres

TDN Rising Star brings elite pedigree and proven performance to Florida’s premier stallion roster and Pleasant Acres Stallions’ Florida-Bred Excellence program.

Morriston, Florida USA – August 28, 2025 – Pleasant Acres Stallions proudly announces that GULFPORT, multiple stakes winner and son of champion sire UNCLE MO, will join its distinguished Florida stallion roster for the 2026 breeding season for a $7500 fee.

Thu, 08/28/2025 - 14:27

UNCLE MO’s Multiple Stakes Winner and Twice G1-Placed Son GULFPORT Joins Pleasant Acres

TDN Rising Star brings elite pedigree and proven performance to Florida’s premier stallion roster and Pleasant Acres Stallions’ Florida-Bred Excellence program.

Morriston, Florida USA – August 28, 2025 – Pleasant Acres Stallions proudly announces that GULFPORT, multiple stakes winner and son of champion sire UNCLE MO, will join its distinguished Florida stallion roster for the 2026 breeding season for a $7500 fee.

Thu, 08/14/2025 - 13:15

American Pharoah's son Waiting represented by stakes filly Nacho Problem

Adam Coglianese/NYRA
Nacho Problem shifted to turf for her third start on June 29 at Aqueduct and won.

STILLWATER, N.Y. – It was thematically fitting when American Pharoah was bred to Wait No More in his first season at stud. After all, American Pharoah was the horse who ended America’s 37-year wait for a Triple Crown winner.  

Fri, 08/01/2025 - 11:39

Maritime Traveler, last living foal of Secretariat, dies at 35

Barbara D. Livingston
Preservaitonist, who died July 19 at age 12 in Korea, won both the Grade 1 Woodward and Grade 2 Suburban.

Maritime Traveler, the last known living foal by the legendary Secretariat, died on July 27 at the age of 35 at his longtime home, Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla.

Thu, 07/03/2025 - 11:02

Into Mischief on top of sire standings at midway point of 2025

Barbara D. Livingston
Into Mischief had 2025 progeny earnings of $16,645,829 through June 30.

Halfway through this year, Into Mischief is in a familiar position atop the North American general sire list as he chases his seventh consecutive earnings title.

Into Mischief, who stands at Spendthrift Farm, has progeny earnings of $16,645,829 through June 30, according to Daily Racing Form statistics. His leading earner is dual classic winner Sovereignty, who has banked more than $4.7 million as one of Into Mischief’s nation-leading 13 individual stakes winners.

Mon, 06/30/2025 - 12:25

Lukas had grand influence in the sales ring and breeding shed

There was no aspect of the Thoroughbred industry that the legendary D. Wayne Lukas left untouched – and that includes the bloodstock and commercial engines of the sport. While training for many top stables in their heyday – including William T. Young’s Overbrook Farm, multiple iterations of historic Calumet Farm, the beloved Robert and Beverly Lewis, global power Coolmore, and many others – Lukas developed a number of top broodmares and stallions, and, as their offspring became available, was an influential player in the sales ring.

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 14:37

CTHS Alberta Launches $60,000 Incentive Program for Alberta-Bred Two-Year-Olds

Presented at the 2024 CTHS Yearling Sale. First 2YO Race of the Season Set for This Friday.

The Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Alberta Division) is proud to announce the launch of its 2025 Two-Year-Old Incentive Program — a initiative designed to reward the early racing success of Alberta-bred horses presented at the 2024 CTHS Alberta Yearling Sale.

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 10:50

Derby winner Mystik Dan to stand at Airdrie Stud upon retirement

Barbara D. Livingston
Mystik Dan, winner of the 2024 Kentucky Derby, will joing 2023 Derby winner Mage at Airdrie Stud upon his retirement.

Mystik Dan, winner of the 2024 Kentucky Derby, will stand at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., upon the conclusion of his ongoing racing career, the farm announced on Monday.

Mystik Dan is trained by Kenny McPeek for the ownership group of Lance Gasaway, 4G Racing LLC., Daniel Hamby III, and Valley View Farm. He most recently won the Grade 3 Blame Stakes on May 31 at Churchill Downs, and is targeting the Grade 1 Stephen Foster on June 28 beneath the twin spires.

Wed, 06/04/2025 - 17:39

Belmont Stakes 2025: Journalism tough like his sire

Barbara D. Livingston
Journalism's sire is Curlin, shown here winning the 2007 Preakness Stakes over Street Sense.

Curlin ran with distinction through the three Triple Crown races in 2007. He finished third in the Kentucky Derby in just his fourth career start, won the Preakness Stakes, and finished a hard-fought second to fellow champion Rags to Riches in the Belmont Stakes. On Saturday, his son Journalism, who has helped cement Curlin’s reputation as one of the most consistent active sires in the American classics, will become the only member of his crop to start in all three 2025 Triple Crown races.

Tue, 06/03/2025 - 14:04

Belmont Stakes 2025: Rodriguez following sire Authentic's late-blooming path

Barbara D. Livingston
Rodriguez was scratched from the Kentucky Derby with a foot issue that also caused him to miss the Preakness Stakes.

One June 7, 2020, the Triple Crown series had not yet begun due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Authentic had finished second in his first Grade 1 start, the Santa Anita Derby. Fate dictated that his emergence on the Triple Crown scene would come late, and it worked out for him. Authentic won the Haskell Invitational in July and the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby – the second leg of the Triple Crown that year following the June 20 Belmont Stakes – before finishing second in the Preakness Stakes and winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic to earn Horse of the Year honors.