Owner-breeder Morton Fink and trainer Charles LoPresti will have some tough decisions to make as the 2013 racing season progresses—but it's a good problem to have.

When Winning Cause crossed the finish on Saturday in the Coolmore Lexington Stakes, he extended his career record over Keeneland’s synthetic Polytrack to a perfect three-for-three.

Studying the Giant’s Causeway colt’s pedigree, it becomes clear that Winning Cause was groomed for success on the all-weather surface.

Homebred Departing carried the famed gold silks of Claiborne Farm to victory in the Grade 3 Illinois Derby Saturday at Hawthorne, becoming the latest graded stakes winner for the farm and partner Adele B. Dilschneider.

Grindstone showed his class in winning the 1996 Kentucky Derby, rallying in the final strides to prevail by a nose in what would be his final career start.

He showed his class again on another Derby Day some 14 years later, when veterinarian Jack Root vanned the stallion from his Oakhurst Thoroughbreds in Newberg, Ore., to parade him before the crowd at Portland Meadows in Portland, Ore.

After edging up on the mark on Friday, Kentucky owner-breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey wasted no time in breaking the record for wins by an owner at a Keeneland Race Course meet Saturday afternoon, sending out Scealeile to win the first race of the day, a maiden claiming event for fillies and mares.

It was the 13th win of the meet for the Ramseys, who had shared the previous record of 12 wins at a meet with Calumet Farm, which established the mark in spring 1941, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Roberts, set in fall 1968.

The Lumber Guy and his connections claimed six awards, including the evening’s most coveted trophy, as the New York Thoroughbred Breeders honored its standout performers of 2012.

The Lumber Guy was named New York-bred Horse of the Year as well as champion 3-year-old male and champion male sprinter at the organization’s annual awards banquet in Saratoga Springs last Monday. The colt races as a homebred for Barry K. Schwartz, whose Stonewall Farm was honored as the state’s outstanding breeder. The Lumber Guy’s dam, Boltono, was named Broodmare of the Year.

Ramsey Farm’s homebred stallion Talent Search was represented by his first winner from his first foal to race on Friday, when Hollywood Talent won a maiden race at Keeneland Race Course by 3 ½ lengths.

The dark bay or brown colt completed the 4 ½ furlong race in :51.25 over Keeneland’s synthetic Polytrack surface. He was bred in Pennsylvania by owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey and is trained by Wesley Ward.

A full brother to 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta was foaled April 9 at Coolmore's Ashford Stud near Versailles, Ky.

The Street Cry colt is out of the winning Kris S. mare Vertigineux, Kentucky's Broodmare of the Year in 2008. The mare was privately purchased by Coolmore from breeder Eric Kronfeld in the fall of 2008.

"He's a good-quality bay colt, both mare and foal are doing well," Ashford Stud manager Dermot Ryan said.

Popular theory in breeding suggests that the very best racemares struggle to duplicate their success as broodmares. So, we decided to look at a key race for 3-year-old fillies, the Kentucky Oaks, to evaluate that theory.

As it turns out, Kentucky Oaks winners, much like their Kentucky Derby-winning counterparts, proved to be a mixed bag of hits and misses in the breeding shed, but a handful have become transcendent as producers.

Leighton Farm of Upper Marlboro, Md., has announced that it will host a series of clinics focused on the re-training of former Thoroughbred racehorses for other disciplines. The series began April 18 and runs through Aug. 24, with all proceeds benefitting the non-profit Thoroughbred Placement Resources.