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Unusual White-Headed Foal Arrives in Kentucky

By Lenny Shulman
June 6, 2016
Thoroughbred Breeding, Midwest Region, Kentucky

An unusually marked white-headed foal was born June 5 at Mike Moreno's Southern Equine Farm near Midway. The colt is a son of Bodemeister out of Out for Revenge, by Bernardini.

Savoy Stomp to Make Stakes Debut in Lecomte

By Blood-Horse Staff
January 11, 2015
Thoroughbred Racing, Triple Crown, Southwest Region

Team Valor International and Southern Equine Stable's well-bred Savoy Stomp will look for his first stakes win Jan. 17 in the $200,000 Lecomte Stakes (gr. III) for 3-year-olds.

Salutos Amigos Rallies to Win Fall Highweight

November 27, 2014
Thoroughbred Racing, Northeast Region

Carrying top weight of 133 pounds, favored Salutos Amigos rallied from off the pace to take the Fall Highweight Handicap by 1 3/4 lengths over longshot Mewannarose on the Thanksgiving Day card at Aqueduct Race Track.

Ide Be Cool Named LA Horse of the Year

Henry Ray Dunn's Ide Be Cool, unbeaten in four starts at 2 in 2013, was named accredited Louisiana-bred horse of the year May 24 at the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeder Association's annual meeting in Opelousas.

Louisiana Breeders Announce 2013 Champions

The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders' Association has announced its 2013 champions. An award presentation and Horse of the Year announcement will take place at the Equine Sales Company of Louisiana May 24.

And They're Off: Road Trip Edition

Lenny and Steve discuss Flat Out, Game On Dude, field sizes, Kayla Stra, and talk to trainer Eric Guillot about his horse Moreno, impressive winner of the Dwyer. Sponsored by Darby Dan Farm. Watch Video

Zayat Looks To Cure Case Of Second-itis

Ahmed Zayat has been second in the Kentucky Derby twice in the past three years, and his Eskendereya, the would-be favorite in 2010, was scratched the day of the race.

Guillot Buys Careless Jewel for $1.95 Million

Broodmare prospect Careless Jewel, who captured the 2009 Alabama Stakes (gr. I), brought $1.95 million Nov. 7 during the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November select mixed sale.

Graded Winner Elusive Bluff to Red River

February 21, 2010
Thoroughbred Breeding, Southeast Region, Southwest Region

Unbeaten Elusive Bluff, a New York graded stakes winner at 2, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Jay Adcock's Red River Farms near Coushatta, La.

Guillot: Southern Equine Not on the Skids

"The best is yet to come," according to the trainer, who says the operation is downsizing to focus on quality.

Better Than Honour Carrying Street Cry Filly

World's most expensive broodmare will be bred back to Street Cry

Mi Sueno Retired

October 4, 2009
Thoroughbred Breeding, West Region, Kentucky

Mi Sueno, a grade I stakes-winning 2-year-old filly, has been retired from racing because of a condylar fracture of her right front cannon bone

Mi Sueno Sidelined After Injury

September 29, 2009
Thoroughbred Racing, International, West Region, Kentucky

Mi Sueno, California's leading 2-year-old filly, suffered a condylar fracture of a cannon bone during a workout Sept. 29.

Better Than Honour in Foal to Street Cry

By David Schmitz
August 25, 2009
Thoroughbred Breeding, International, Kentucky

Better Than Honour, who established a world-record price for a broodmare or broodmare prospect sold at public auction, is in foal to major sire Street Cry.

Same Story at Keeneland Day Four

It was more of the same for the fourth session of the 2008 Keeneland November breeding stock sale Nov. 6 at the Central Kentucky auction house as the number of horses sold, gross, average, and median all fell from last year's marks.

Better Than Honour: A Rare Jewel

Amongst all the equine sapphires and emeralds selling at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November select mixed sale, breeders are also going to be offered the chance to buy the equine equivalent of the Hope Diamond.

Elusive Bluff, Maram Win Graded Stakes

October 1, 2008
Thoroughbred Racing

Elusive Bluff came running late to catch pacesetter Show Me the Cash at the wire in the Pilgrim Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Belmont Park Oct. 1. One race earlier, Maram got up just in time to defeat Freedom Rings by a neck in the $164,200 Miss Grillo Stakes (gr. IIIT).

Salute the Sarge to Stand at Walmac

September 28, 2008
Thoroughbred Breeding, International

Grade II winner Salute the Sarge will stand in 2009 at John T. L. Jones III's Walmac Farm near Lexington.

Better Than Honour to Be Sold

Better Than Honour, the dam of Belmont Stakes (gr. I) winners Jazil and Rags to Riches, is scheduled to be offered at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November mixed sale as part of a dispersal of the joint holdings of Southern Equine and Hill 'n' Dale Farms.