It's an idea that's as exciting as it is outlandish. What if, for just a day or two, you could turn a few city blocks into racetrack? What if you could literally bring racing to the masses and send a cascade of sprinting Thoroughbreds down the Champs-Élysées in Paris, or Fifth Avenue in Manhattan? If [...]

It's been 11 years since the first yearlings from Tapit, Candy Ride (Arg), Medaglia d'Oro and Speightstown hit the market. That epic sire class now has 68 Grade I winners between them, according to the TDN Sire Lists, and no fewer than 88 active sire sons. We haven't seen a comparable group since–and really, not [...]

Three Chimneys Farm's Palace Malice (Curlin) made a successful entrance into the yearling sales market at the recently concluded Fasig-Tipton July Sale, with four yearlings selling for an average of $187,500, placing him second behind only American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) among first-crop sires. Leading the way for the GI Belmont S. and GI Met [...]

WinStar Farm is home to a quartet of stallions whose first crop of yearlings will pass through the sales rings this season, and with the arrival of Fasig-Tipton July, the level of anticipation around the farm is understandably high. In the final installment of a video series about first-crop yearling sires leading up to the [...]

Hill 'n' Dale Farm's 2014 GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner Bayern (Offlee Wild) entered stud in 2016 and saw a warm reception at the weanling sales in 2017, cracking the top five among first-crop sires by average price. With a pedigree featuring a female line that traces back to the great Courtly Dee and a [...]

Storied Lane's End Farm has four first-crop yearling sires among the 2018 class, and a remarkable three–Honor Code, Liam's Map and Tonalist–ended up in the top 10 of first-year weanling sires of 2017. In the latest installment of an ongoing feature about first-crop yearling sires, Lane's End's Bill Farish sat down to talk about the [...]

It was no surprise to see the name of the 2015 Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup Classic winner American Pharoah on top of the TDN list of the 2017 sires of leading weanlings. The only sire to sell a million-dollar weanling last year, he sent two such offerings through the ring. How has his progeny [...]

   Editor's note: On July 10, the Fasig-Tipton July Sale of Selected Yearlings kicks off this year's yearling marketplace in Lexington. There is cause for enthusiasm about this year's first-crop sire ranks; the 2017 first-crop weanling sires are led by no other than American Pharoah, who looks to keep the current Triple Crown buzz going [...]

Qatar Racing's American-bred Legends of War (Scat Daddy), raised and sold in Kentucky, is slated to compete in Royal Ascot's G2 Coventry S. on opening day of the famous meeting June 19 on the heels of an impressive debut maiden win traveling six furlongs at Yarmouth May 23. Bred by Deron Pearson's DP Racing and [...]

On Saturday, Roaring Lion will attempt to become the first American-bred Epsom Derby winner in 15 years. Lucas Marquardt sat down with Taylor Made's Vice President of Sales and Operations, Mark Taylor, who raised and sold Roaring Lion, about what he was like as a young horse and if the American-breds-abroad trend figures to continue [...]

It's nearing noon, just about an hour before first post at Keeneland. The crowd is already substantial, with rows of cars and trucks interrupted by the odd camper van or re-purposed school bus. Footballs are launched into the air. Games of corn hole are in full swing. Cans of beer are in full swig. A [...]

At 41, Ben McElroy has already purchased a bevy of top-class runners. The Irish champion Pathfork (Distorted Humor), Kentucky Derby runner-up Firing Line (Line of David), and Breeders' Cup winner Hootenanny (Quality Road) are good examples. Now, McElroy is joining forces with an organization that has sold a bevy of them–Reiley McDonald's Eaton Sales-with an [...]