Horse Racing Partnerships

When the under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's March 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale begins Wednesday, harkening the opening of the juvenile sales season, it will find the Hidden Brook Farm team hard at work to locate the newest prospects for its racing partnership. Among the gems the team has uncovered in Ocala in recent years are Hidden Connection (Connect) and Nay Lady Nay (Ire) (No Nay Never). Both enjoyed graded success on the racetrack before attracting seven-figure price tags when reoffered at auction at the conclusion of their...

GI Kentucky Derby favorite and Quadruple Crown hopeful Tiz the Law (Constitution) would no doubt be almost any owner's horse of a lifetime--unless you're Jack Knowlton or Lew Titterton. Of Sackatoga Stable's 35 co-owners in on Tiz the Law, they're the only two who were around for the group's first horse of a lifetime, 2003 Derby and GI Preakness S. winner Funny Cide (Distorted Humor). For some of the others, Tiz the Law is the payoff after many years of horse ownership. For several, the six-for-seven, $2-million earning sophomore was,...