“Doing matings with my clients is very much a team thing,” says Headley Bell, whose Nicoma Bloodstock has been helping clients mate their mares since 1979. “My role is to try to assist in fulfilling dreams.” Nicoma got off to a quick start with mating success, and the hits just keep on coming: in late [...]

In a development that could significantly bolster the long-term success of the graduates of the Thoroughbred industry's groundbreaking addiction recovery program, Stable Recovery, Jarret Prussin, co-founder of the successful social justice firm Ben Crump Law and a Thoroughbred owner and investor, is lending his expertise and a powerful new financial tool to Stable Recovery. Prussin, [...]

Tallulah Becza-Levitt was just four years old when her preschool teachers first noticed that she was limping. Her parents took her to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the country's leading pediatric specialists where they received a diagnosis no parent should ever have to hear: neurofibromatosis, an incurable condition in which tumors grow [...]

Justify was off to a fast start at stud, leading in several black-type categories as well as in winners and wins with his first crop of runners. But it was in year two when the cream really started to rise to the top. That year, in 2023, he sired two Breeders' Cup winners, Hard to [...]

One day after the Jockeys' Guild issued a statement that excoriated the Horse Racing Safety and Integrity Authority for suspending Paco Lopez for six months, HISA CEO Lisa Lazarus issued a statement defending the Authority's actions. In a January 17 order signed by both HISA and Lopez's representatives, the parties agreed that “this two-year suspension [...]

Paco Lopez and his attorney Drew Mollica have been informed by the Horse Racing Safety and Integrity Authority that they will not grant Paco Lopez a stay of his six-month suspension for what HISA called a violation of the terms of his agreement stemming from a Dec. 4 incident involving the whip. “We are in [...]

When Sallyellen Hurst, Sally Eck and Robin Coblyn realized that years of memorabilia kept in Pimlico storage rooms would be discarded in the destruction of racetrack, they formed what they called the Pimlico Preservation Project to put those items to good use. “We managed to get into Pimlico after Preakness and cleared out items from [...]

There was a famous t.v. commercial in the 1970s where Victor Kiam tells the audience that he was a dedicated `wet shaver' until his wife bought him a Remington electric shaver. He was so impressed, he says, he bought the company. John Stewart knows how Kiam felt. “When I first got into the industry back [...]

 On Saturday at Leopardstown, they will run the Matron Stakes as part of Irish Champion Day, one of the roughly one dozen Group races that Coolmore sponsors all over the world annually. We sat down at the Keeneland September Sale and spoke with Coolmore's Director of Sales David O'Loughlin about why giving back through race [...]

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE–Earlier this year, the TDN wrote a story about the launch of Medallion Racing's partner experiences to international locations, an important part of their racing partnerships program. They have just concluded their trip to the Arqana August Yearling sale in Deauville, where we were lucky enough to be invited along on parts of the [...]

DEAUVILLE, FRANCE–Americans' plans for the Arqana sale were understandably shaken up when U.S. President Donald Trump made good on his threat to impose tariffs on the European Union and others in early August, meaning that French-bred horses purchased here-like all French products imported to America–would be subject to a 15% surcharge when they are brought [...]

Marcelo Cardoso, who suffered two extensive brain bleeds when the horse he was breezing June 12 at the OBS June breeze-up show broke down, has been transferred to the Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, where he will undergo intensive physical and speech therapy. His friends are starting a Gofundme account to help defray the [...]