Breeding

OCALA, FL - With a colt by Early Voting topping the day's results, the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale concluded its first of three sessions Tuesday with an average and median ahead of last year's record-setting figures. During Tuesday's session, 163 horses sold through the ring for a gross of $9,066,000. The average was $55,620--up 26.5% from last year's opening session--and the median of $30,000 was up 15.4% from the corresponding 2025 figure. The cumulative average from last year's two-day June sale was $51,107 and the...

Fasig-Tipton's catalogue for The July Sale of selected yearlings, to be held starting at 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, July 14, at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky, is available online, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. "We look forward to kicking off yearling sales season with a strong catalogue of selected yearlings in July," said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. "The quality of individuals on offer in this year's sale is perhaps the strongest we have had in recent years, and the sire power has improved as well."...

It was the most literal of dream scenarios. The thing is, it had happened before. From time to time, Valerie Mastromonaco will have a dream--always about a horse--and then something will happen to bring it to life. Nothing dramatic, most of the time. True, once she dreamed that a particular horse in the barn had a problem, and unfortunately turned out to be right. But she doesn't take the phenomenon too seriously, as a rule; nor expect anyone else to do so. "I've no theories," she says. "I just think...

Pop quiz: what do 2018 Triple Crown winner Justify and Atomic Blonde, dam of last week's GI Preakness Stakes winner Napoleon Solo (Liam's Map), have in common? Both are by Scat Daddy, both were bred by the Gunther family, and both were raised at Glennwood Farm near Versailles, Kentucky. Justify and Atomic Blonde also have something else in common with a number of other Glennwood-bred and -raised Grade I winners such as Vino Rosso, Tamarkuz, First Samurai, and Stevie Wonderboy. "We do tend to raise some good chestnuts on this...

That must have been a good sandwich. It was certainly a memorable one. Walker Hancock of Claiborne Farm distinctly remembers eating subs from Jersey Mike's one fall afternoon in 2021 with Daisy Phipps Pulito and Claiborne's farm manager Bradley Purcell in Claiborne's conference room. The three of them sat down over those sandwiches to hash out mating plans for the Phipps mares for 2022. "It all goes back to some Jersey Mike's subs," said Hancock with a laugh. "We did the matings for her mares for that following year that...

White Abarrio (Race Day) has won four Grade I races, earned $8,445,170 and has been going strong for six years. But that hasn't been enough for his owners to reach a deal with a stud farm, or at least one they found acceptable. But that may be about to change. Mark Cornett, who is a co-owner of the 7-year-old veteran, told the TDN that negotiations are underway with three farms in Kentucky and it is expected that an announcement will be made shortly regarding where he will begin his career...

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 143 offerings for its April Digital Sale, which includes a pair of broodmares closely related to Derby and Oaks contenders. Bidding is now open through Tuesday, Apr. 21, when the online event begins to close at 2 p.m. ET., the auction company said in a press release on Thursday. "With more than 140 catalogued, up more than a third from last year's catalogue, the April Digital Sale catalogue shows the continued strength and popularity of our digital platform," Fasig-Tipton Director of Digital Sales Leif Aaron said. "Offerings...

The PDF of The American Racing Manual, containing historical data on racing through the end of 2025, is now available through The Jockey Club Fact Book. The 2113-page document, featuring reigning Horse of the Year Sovereignty (Into Mischief) on its cover page, covers horse racing from A to Z. It begins with a recap of the 2025 Eclipse Award winners and their past performances and concludes with a comprehensive listing of broodmare sires that were represented by at least one winning Thoroughbred in the United States or Canada in 2025....

Paul Reddam is Canadian, of course, so it was too easy a shot to miss. A horse they owned together ran second; ran great, Erik Johnson thought--and said so. "Erik, this isn't the Olympics," his partner replied. "No-one cares about second place in horseracing." This was a few years back, early in Johnson's Turf career, with the 2010 Winter Olympics still fresh in the memory. The U.S. team had lost the hockey final only in overtime, to the hosts in Vancouver. So Reddam did not miss his cue: no silver...

The 530-acre Shadwell Stallion Complex has hit the market in Kentucky with a $20-million price tag. Located at 3661 Military Pike in Lexington, the full estate includes the impressive maintenance complex along with 7 dedicated barns suitable for broodmares or yearlings, offering a total of 90 world-class stalls. The sales listing states: "This exceptional Central Kentucky property provides a turn-key foundation for a complete thoroughbred operation on some of the finest land in the Bluegrass. Its scale, location, and quality make it one of the most significant offerings to come...

Fee, a half-sister to undefeated 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', Englishman (Maxfield), has been supplemented to Fasig-Tipton's March Digital Sale, the online platform said in a press release early on Saturday morning. Bidding for the sale opened Thursday and will close Tuesday, Mar. 24. Fee (Hip 191), a six-year-old daughter of six-time leading sire Into Mischief, is consigned by Wasabi Ventures Sales LLC, agent. An earner of $153,764 on the racetrack, she is offered in foal to Mindframe, Constitution's multiple Grade I winning son, on a Feb. 26 cover....

Elite winners are always cause for celebration. With racing at the highest levels quickly ramping up for 2026, we continue to spotlight some of the special Grade I producers of the last several months. Up today, we get a glimpse into a quartet of mares who produced homebred stars. Stormy Welcome, dam of Raging Sea "Great families might sleep, but they don't die, and she's a great example of that," said Mill Ridge's Price Bell last summer when musing over the unraced Stormy Welcome (Storm Cat), a now-20-year-old mare whose ninth...