Juddmonte Farms, Winchell Thoroughbreds, Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey, and Kaleem Shah have earned regional Owner of the Year honors from the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA), and will be honored at the organization’s annual awards dinner Friday, Sept. 11 at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Lexington, Ky.

The TOBA awards honor the achievements of Thoroughbred owners in the four major North American racing regions and breeders in 23 states and Canada. A National Owner of the Year will be named at the dinner from the four regional award winners.

Although flashy, high-profile stallions tend to get all the publicity, the key to building a breeding program in a regional market requires good broodmares. Ease of transportation today makes it possible for broodmares to be sent to national breeding centers such as Kentucky to be covered by top sires, but if the broodmare population for a state program is not up to national standards, that program will not consistently produce top-level horses, regardless of the quality of its stallions.

Grade 2 winner Horse Greeley has been sold to Haras La Leyenda in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Racing Post reports.

The 11-year-old son of Mr. Greeley previously resided at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., where he retired to stud for the 2009 breeding season. He stood in 2015 for an advertised fee of $2,500.

Thoroughbred owner and sports radio personality Jim Rome will deliver the keynote address when OwnerView, The Jockey Club, and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association host the second Thoroughbred Owner Conference in Hallandale Beach, Fla., next January.

Multiple Grade 2 winner and globetrotting sire Twining died Sunday in Japan due to an aortic rupture.

The 24-year-old son of Forty Niner’s death was confirmed Tuesday by the Japanese-based Paca Paca Farm’s Twitter account. Twining resided at Breeders Stallion Station in Hokkaido, Japan.

By Joe Nevills and Nicole Russo

Genuine Reward, one of only two live foals produced by Kentucky Derby-winning filly Genuine Risk, will become one of the newest residents of Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky.

The 22-year-old son of Rahy began his stud career at a Thoroughbred farm in Virginia, but later moved into other disciplines. He most recently stood as a polo stallion in Sheridan, Wyo., with the American Polo Horse Association listing Perk Connell as his owner.

Hard Aces won the Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on Saturday to highlight a big day for sire Hard Spun. According to Daily Racing Form's SirePowered Results, Darley's son of Danzig was represented by three winners on Saturday.

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission unanimously approved on Monday a series of amendments to the Kentucky Thoroughbred Breeders’ Incentive Fund, including measures to allow pregnant mares covered by a Kentucky stallion and purchased at a public auction outside of the state to nominate for the fund.

American trainer Wesley Ward has a good thing going.

Six years ago, the innovative former champion apprentice rider turned trainer suspected some of his more advanced American-bred and -trained 2-year-olds might be more precocious and advanced than their European counterparts and American riding tactics could give them a further advantage over the slower-starting Europeans. When his good older sprinter Cannonball was invited to participate in the King’s Stand Stakes at the 2009 Royal Ascot meeting, he decided to test that theory at Ascot’s prestigious June festival.

by Denise Steffanus

Diligence of horse owners in keeping their horses free of parasites has resulted in overuse of dewormers. As a result, resistance to current classes of dewormers is a mounting problem worldwide, especially in roundworms and strongyles.

Roundworms, or ascarids, hatch in the stomach and then migrate through the bloodstream to the lungs and liver, where they can cause serious damage and even death, especially in foals and young horses.