breeding season

Caravel (Mizzen Mast--Zeezee Zoomzoom, by Congrats), who is owned by John Stewart's Resolute Bloodstock, lost her Frankel colt due to complications with her pregnancy, according to a tweet on X by the owner early on Thursday morning. In the post Stewart said, "It It is with great sadness that we report that Breeders' Cup champion Caravel lost her 2026 FRANKEL colt due to complications with her pregnancy. It was a freak issue that could not have been avoided. The Resolute farm team monitors all the mares very closely." On X...

Third-crop stallion Sweetontheladies (Twirling Candy) will return to Florida where he will stand the upcoming 2026 breeding season stand at Solera Farm in Williston. A son of leading sire Twirling Candy, Sweetontheladies will stand as the property of The Four Horsemen Racing Stable and Lady Lindsay Racing Stable for $2,500 live foal. Sweetontheladies won or placed in 11 stakes from the ages of two to five before retiring sound with earnings over $400,000. As a juvenile, he won three of his first four starts, including the Juvenile Sprint Stakes and captured the Crystal River...

The ninth installment in the 2025 OwnerView webinar series was held Nov. 12 and featured a veterinarian from Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital discussing foal conformation and possible corrections, the conference series said via a Thursday press release. Guest Dr. Ali Broyles, a surgeon at Rood & Riddle, covered how soon after birth a veterinarian or farm manager can assess a foal's conformation to helping a horse stay sound into the future. The event, hosted by The Jockey Club of America and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, was presented...

WinStar Farm's annual open house is set to begin Tuesday, Nov. 4 and will run through Wed., Nov. 12, the farm announced Monday. Starting at 11:00am and running until 2:00pm every day at the stallion complex on Paynes Mill Road in Versailles, breeders are welcome without an appointment during the designated hours to view the roster for the 2026 breeding season. Open House events will include lite fare and refreshments. For more information about the open house or about WinStar's roster, breeders should contact the farm at 859-873-1717.

Eclipse champion and Grade I winner Game Winner (Candy Ride {Arg})--Indyan Giving, by A.P. Indy) has been relocated permanently to Haras Fazenda Mondesir in Brazil after standing there for the 2025 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, according to a press release from Lane's End Farm. Game Winner is the sire of four crops with 202 foals of racing age. Led by 3-year-old colt Gaming, the Lane's End sire claims a pair of graded winners and has netted four black-type scores. Owned and raced by Gary and Mary West, Game Winner was...

The Pennsylvania Horse Racing Association (PHRA) has partnered with Delaware Valley University to live stream the program's 2025 foaling season Mar. 1 through Apr. 7 via 'foal cams' centered on the University's three expectant broodmares, the association announced Friday. Offering a 24/7 live video, free of charge, via their website, the streams will feature an uninterrupted look at the three Thoroughbred and Standardbred mares as they prepare for the arrival of their foals. The university's Equine Science and Management students will work with full-time faculty and a stable manager to...

With breeding sheds opening last week across North America, farms have been quietly preparing stallions for the demanding months ahead of them. All jokes about them having the best jobs aside, stallions have to be ready for a marathon during breeding season. It's not simply a matter of bringing stallions up from fields and expecting them to be ready to cover a full book of mares over the ensuing months. Perhaps that may work for small operations where a stallion covers a handful of mares all season, but for the...

Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance will offer a Lexitonian 2025 breeding season for auction from 8 a.m. ET Thursday to 8 p.m. ET Friday. Donated by Lexitonian's trainer Jack Sisterson, this no-guarantee season with breed back to Lexitonian is to benefit Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. Lexitonian stands at Calumet Farm. "He's a horse who fights," Sisterson said. "He has the talent, the will, and the heart. He's a class act winning and placing second in multiple Grade I races. I've had a tremendous amount of confidence in him throughout his career because you...

The G1 Saudi Cup hero from a year ago, Senor Buscador, will aim to continue the legacy of his sire Horse of the Year Mineshaft at Lane's End as he stands for $7,500 LFSN, the farm said via a press release on Friday. Bred in Kentucky by Joe R. Peacock, Sr. and Joey Peacock, Jr., Senor Buscador retires from racing with $12,944,427 in earnings and was trained by Todd Fincher. The 7-year-old had shipped last week to Gulfstream Park where he was set to make another start in the GI...

The TDN's popular annual series 'Mating Plans, presented by Spendthrift,' continues today in a conversation with Robert Tillyer, farm manager of William and Donna Shively's Dixiana Farm. AMERICA'S TALE (9, Gio Ponti - America's Friend, by Unusual Heat) to be bred to Taiba She's in foal to Jackie's Warrior and she's a Grade II winner. We thought Taiba was good value. He's a very attractive son of Gun Runner that won three Grade I races. DIAMOND WOW (5, Lookin At Lucky - Patriotic Diamond, by Hat Trick {Jpn}) to be...

The TDN's popular annual series 'Mating Plans, presented by Spendthrift,' continues today in a conversation with Hinkle Farms co-owner Tom Hinkle. "In determining the matings for our mares, it is a total team effort by my brother Henry, my daughter Anne Archer and me," said Hinkle. "We work hard to arrive at the best possible mating, at least in our opinions." SEEKING GABRIELLE (17,  Forestry - Seeking Regina, by Seeking the Gold) to be bred to Gun Runner        Seeking Gabrielle is the dam of Nyquist. She is...

WinStar Farm will host an Open House for breeders each day from Nov. 8-15 between 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the farm's stallion complex on Paynes Mill Road in Versailles. Visitors are welcome without an appointment to view the WinStar roster for the 2024 breeding season, led by Constitution (Tapit) and Life Is Good (Into Mischief). Breeders will also be able to see WinStar's newest additions for 2024: Country Grammar (Tonalist) and Two Phil's (Hard Spun). The events will also include lite fare and refreshments for breeders in attendance....