Blue Prize Punches Breeders' Cup Ticket in Fleur de Lis
An affinity for Churchill Downs should serve Blue Prize well come November, and it came in handy June 16 as well.
Keyword: Kentucky
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Johannasan is Can The Man's First Winner
Johannasan, a gelded son of Spendthrift Farm's multiple stakes winner and freshman sire Can the Man, became his sire's first winner when he won a June 14 maiden special weight at Prairie Meadows by four lengths.
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Jon Miller is Keynote Speaker at OwnerView Conference
Miller is president of the NBC Sports Group
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How Ghostzapper's First Daughters Are Faring as Mares
Of Ghostzapper's first crop of 80 foals, 38 have become broodmares, including Stage Magic, the dam of Triple Crown hopeful Justify.
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Power Sisters: Preach and Yarn
Owner/breeder Tanya Gunther spied a potentially rich vein of talent while prospecting for mates for her family's graded-placed winner Stage Magic. A mating with Ashford Stud's Scat Daddy created a 4x4 inbreeding to the full sisters Preach and Yarn.
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Northern Afleet Euthanized at Age 25
Taylor Made Stallions has reported that Northern Afleet, a longtime stallion at the Nicholasville, Ky., farm, was euthanized June 1. The son of Afleet—Nuryette, by Nureyev, known for his versatility and consistency as a sire, was 25 years old.
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Chief Cicatriz Much the Best in Aristides
The 5-year-old Munnings gelding proved himself a serious contender with his sizzling score, which he earned after pressing a hot pace in the six-furlong sprint.
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Equestricon Lines Up Sponsors for 2018 Event
With exactly five months until the doors open for Equestricon 2018 at the newly renovated Kentucky International Convention Center, event organizers have released an initial wave of key sponsor and partner commitments for the convention.
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Lady Aurelia Preps at Keeneland for Royal Ascot Return
Scat Daddy filly worked four furlongs in :48 4/5 at Keeneland May 15 as she prepares to defend her title in the June 19 King's Stand Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot.
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Justify Continues Progress Toward Preakness
Undefeated Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) winner Justify continued his preparations for the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, the May 19 Preakness Stakes (G1), when he galloped 1 1/2 miles May 11 at Churchill Downs.
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Ghostzapper's Big Oaks/Derby Weekend
Adena Springs sire had three winners as a sire, two grade 1 winners as a broodmare sire at Churchill Downs.
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Justify Conquers 'Curse of Apollo' in Kentucky Derby
China Horse Club, Head of Plains Partners, Starlight Racing, and WinStar Farm's Justify in every sense earned his score in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) May 5 at Churchill Downs.
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Yoshida Gets First Grade 1 Win in Turf Classic
China Horse Club, WinStar Farm, and Head of Plains Partners' Yoshida drove forward at the wire to win the $500,000 Old Forester Turf Classic (G1T) May 5, going a mile and an eighth over turf rated good at Churchill Downs.
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Proctor's Ledge Rewards Walsh's Gamble
Patricia Moseley's homebred rewarded trainer Brendan Walsh Saturday with a half-length victory over On Leave in the Churchill Distaff Turf Mile (G2T), a rebound from her eighth in the April 14 Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland.
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Top International Owners Converge on Derby
Three of the leading international owners will pursue Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) glory May 5 at Churchill Downs.
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Dreaming Diamonds First Winner for Sire Cross Traffic
Dreaming Diamonds gave Spendthrift Farm's freshman sire Cross Traffic his first checkmark in the winner's column May 3, when she captured a 4 1/2-furlong maiden special weight at Churchill Downs in near gate-to-wire fashion by 3 1/4 lengths.
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ROAP Stewards Accreditation Course June 11-18 in KY
The Racing Officials Accreditation Program also will have a continuing education course June 11-12.
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Baffert Reminisces in Churchill Return With Abel Tasman
A year to the day after she took the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) with a last-to-first finish, China Horse Club and Clearsky Farms' Quality Road filly is back at Churchill Downs to launch her 4-year-old campaign.
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Scat Daddy a Rare Sire with Four KY Derby Starters
Three stallions in Kentucky Derby history have had four starters in the same year. The last sire to accomplish this feat was Chicle in 1923.
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KTOB Donates $250,000 to Gluck Research Center
The gift will be matched by the university and will enable the Gluck Center to renovate an equine infectious disease research laboratory.
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Deauville Takes On Beach Patrol in Turf Classic
European invader Deauville (IRE) returns to the United States for a third straight season to target the $500,000 Old Forester Turf Classic (G1T), where an old foe is waiting May 5 at Churchill Downs.
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Monomoy Girl Sitting on Go After Final KY Oaks Drill
The best-case-scenario campaign Monomoy Girl has obligingly followed since November came one step closer to fruition April 28, when the Tapizar filly put in her final work for the May 4 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) at Churchill Downs.
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Tim Bryant to Lead Churchill's New Gaming Center
Bryant, a former Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots executive, was named as president and general manager of Derby City Gaming.
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Giant's Causeway Dead at 21
The European champion racehorse and champion sire died April 16 at Ashford Stud, where he was born. A three-time leading North American sire; his progeny have won 178 black-type stakes including 104 graded/group stakes to date.
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Sistercharlie Fresh Off Bench in Jenny Wiley
Her last start was a runner-up finish in the July 8 Belmont Oaks Invitational (G1T) at Belmont Park, but Peter Brant's Sistercharlie was primed for a big effort April 14 in the $350,000 Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland.
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Triple Chelsea Upsets Lady Aurelia in Giant's Causeway
The 5-year-old daughter of Hat Trick dug deep to run down European champion Lady Aurelia in the final sixteenth of the $100,000 Giant's Causeway Stakes at Keeneland.
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Promises Fulfilled, Coach Rocks Work at Churchill Downs
Promises Fulfilled, winner of the March 3 Xpressbet Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2), and Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) winner Coach Rocks both turned in maintenance moves for trainer Dale Romans April 14 at Churchill Downs.
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Stonestreet's Good Mojo Creates Good Magic
Good Magic brings the Stonestreet dream to fruition
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Capo Bastone's First Winner Comes at Keeneland
Adena Springs Kentucky's grade 1 winner and freshman sire Capo Bastone got his first winner April 11 at Keeneland, where his son Hargus won in his first start by 2 1/2 lengths.
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TCA Co-Beneficiary of Derby, Oaks Handicapping Benefit
Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) has been named the co-beneficiary of the Charitable Impact Group's Kentucky Oaks and Derby Handicapping Benefit Dinner presented by LUXAIR Jets.
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Bolt d'Oro Strong in Final Drill for Santa Anita Derby
Ruis Racing's Medaglia d'Oro colt drew on even terms with a workmate in mid-stretch after he tracked about two lengths behind early, hit the wire in 1:01 1/5 in front by a neck, and surged into his gallop out with powerful strides.
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Quip, Monomoy Girl Beat Weather in Keeneland Works
Both out early April 1 to beat the threat of rain, Quip completed his major preparations for the $1 million Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2) while Monomoy Girl put in her last work ahead of the Ashland Stakes (G1) coming up April 7 at Keeneland.
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Pitino Sticks to Guns as KY Oaks Looms for Coach Rocks
Pitino was fired as Louisville's coach Oct. 16 following a federal investigation into fraud claims against the Cardinals basketball program. He then told people he would never return to Kentucky.
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Derby Hopeful Runaway Ghost Boosts Ghostzapper
Sunland Derby (G3) winner Runaway Ghost topped a trio of black-type winners for Adena Spring Kentucky's 18-year-old stallion Ghostzapper March 25 at Sunland Park.
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2018 TOBA Seminars and Clinics Schedule
TOBA's first ownership seminar is April 22 at Keeneland.
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Talks Ongoing About Returning Take Charge Indy to U.S.
The son of A.P. Indy was sold to the Korea Racing Authority in November 2016, but WinStar Farm has an option to buy him back.
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Hazit, Ride a Comet Headline Jeff Ruby at Turfway
Oddsmaker Mike Battaglia has made John Oxley's Ride a Comet and Hazit, who races for Eclipse Thoroughbreds and Coolmore partners, 5-1 co-favorites on the morning line for the $200,000 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) March 17 at Turfway Park.
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Kentucky Makes a Breeders' Cup Tax Incentive Permanent
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has signed legislation that makes permanent a Breeders' Cup World Championships tax incentive.
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Wilson, Roethemeier Join Keeneland
Kyle Wilson and Dean Roethemeier have been hired as sales associates effective March 19.
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From a Single Broodmare to Promises Fulfilled
From his initial band of one modest broodmare, Jacobs has now bred four black-type winners and just celebrated an important milestone as the breeder of a graded stakes winner.
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Thoroughbred Center Barn Quarantined After EHV-1 Case
The Kentucky Office of State Veterinarian has confirmed a diagnosis of Equine Herpesvirus Type 1 to be affecting horses housed in barn 3 at The Thoroughbred Center in Lexington.
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Prominent Owner/Breeder Franklin Groves Dies at 87
Groves, who was honored with an Eclipse Award as outstanding breeder in 1989, owned North Ridge Farm and Man o' War Farm.
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Owner Raymond H. Cottrell Sr. Dies at 84
Decorated Army officer Raymond H. Cottrell Sr., a successful auto dealer in Kentucky who owned Thoroughbreds for more than 25 years, including grade 1 winner Prince Arch, died Feb. 5 at age 84.
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As a Gelding, Overdriven Starts New Career
Former stallion has begun retraining at New Vocations.
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Breeders' Cup Championships Adds Juvenile Turf Sprint
The Breeders' Cup announced Feb. 5 the promotion of the undercard Juvenile Turf Sprint to the Breeders' Cup World Championships program.
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Glen Hill Farm's Filly is Flintshire's First Foal
Hill 'n' Dale Farms' Eclipse champion and five-time grade/group 1 winner Flintshire was represented by his first reported foal when Glen Hill Farm had a filly out of Last Resort born Jan. 18 in Kentucky.
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Gun Runner Settles in for Shift to Stud Career
Horse of the Year expected to visit test mares Jan. 31 or Feb. 1
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Sponsorship Changes Spiral Stakes to 'Jeff Ruby Steaks'
Jeff Ruby signed a three-year sponsorship agreement with Turfway Park, which has run its Kentucky Derby prep since 1972.
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Nyquist's First Foal is a New York-bred Filly
The first reported foal by Darley's grade 1-winning champion Nyquist was born Jan. 23 at Joe and Anne McMahon's McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds near Saratoga Springs. N.Y. The filly was bred by the McMahons.
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Texas Red's First Foals Born Jan. 23 in New York, Iowa
A New York-bred colt, and an Iowa-bred filly arrived Jan. 23.
