Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm's Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) was crowned 2017 Horse of the Year Thursday night at Gulfstream Park and, on Saturday, the celebrated chestnut's farewell party shifts to the racetrack where he has the opportunity to end his career in style in the $16-million GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational. Entering [...]

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.–The 47th Eclipse Awards were held Thursday evening at Gulfstream Park's Sport of Kings Theatre, and Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm's Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) took home the highest honor as 2017 Horse of the Year. With the speedy chestnut's final career race looming in Saturday's GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational at [...]

Increasingly gusty winds swept across the Gulfstream Park oval during Thursday morning training hours–the first session of the week where all 12 GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational contenders were present on-site. Most notably, the Bob Baffert-trained pair of Collected (City Zip) and West Coast (Flatter) got their first looks at the track after arriving from [...]

It has been over six years since Toast of New York (Thewayyouare) left his birthplace at Ashleigh Stud in Paris, Kentucky, and the 7-year-old's well-documented career has seen him log many frequent flyer miles during trips from continent to continent over the ensuing seasons. From a promising juvenile year in England to a memorable sophomore [...]

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – As was the case in 2017 prior to the inaugural GI Pegasus World Cup, Wednesday morning represented a calm before the storm of sorts, with a number of contenders slated to arrive in the ensuing 24 hours. Of the horses already present in Hallandale, race favorite Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) was early [...]

In recent weeks, Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm's five-time Grade I winner Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) has by all accounts been training forwardly ahead of his final career start in the GI Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park Jan. 27–a $16-million race that provides a fitting finale for the speedy chestnut, who [...]

It is natural for a seller to feel some level of remorse when a recently auctioned horse achieves a high level of success for new connections, but that certainly was not the case Saturday when Abbondanza Racing and Medallion Racing's Midnight Crossing (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) led wire-to-wire to capture the GIII Bobby Frankel S. [...]

While there is little doubt that the expansive new tax bill, which cleared Congress early Wednesday morning, has the potential to bring about positive changes for owners and breeders in the Thoroughbred industry, the extent of the impact remains to be determined. With a number of angles to consider, National Thoroughbred Racing Association CEO Alex [...]

When Greyvitos (Malibu Moon) crossed the wire in front in Sunday night's $400,000 Springboard Mile S. at Remington Park, he not only stamped himself as a colt to watch on the 2018 GI Kentucky Derby trail, but also demonstrated a level of maturity that is hard to find in young horses. A week-and-a-half earlier, the [...]

Ask any veteran horseman or horsewoman in Maryland and they will tell you all about the ebb and flow of the local Thoroughbred industry in recent years. Following years of decline at the hands of a seemingly ambivalent state government, Maryland hit rock bottom in 2012 with an all-time low foal crop of 369. But [...]

Always Dreaming (Bodemeister) blossomed from an immensely talented 3-year-old colt into a GI Kentucky Derby winner at Todd Pletcher's winter base at Palm Beach Downs earlier this year, and after an autumn-long freshening at WinStar Farm, the dual-Grade I winner is scheduled to return to South Florida in the coming week to resume his career [...]

When Mr Speaker (Pulpit) set foot on the grounds at Lane's End Farm Friday to begin preparations for the 2018 breeding season, his return represented the culmination of a year-long ordeal that left the third-year stallion quarantined in Chile being treated for piroplasmosis, a tick-borne disease found in horses. After covering 117 mares while fully [...]