Judy Hicks

Last year's Eclipse-winning 3-year-old male Sovereignty (Into Mischief) led the Kentucky-bred merits for 2025 along with his owner/breeder, Godolphin who were honored as KTOB Breeder of the Year. The full list of awards is: Broodmare of the Year: Crowned (Bernardini) (Owner: Godolphin) Horse of the Year, 3-Year-Old Male: Sovereignty (Godolphin) 2-Year-Old Male: Ted Noffey (Into Mischief) (Aaron & Marie Jones LLC) 2-Year-Old Filly: Super Corredora (Gun Runner) (Woodford Thoroughbreds, LLC) 3-Year-Old Female: Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro) (D. J. Stable) Older Dirt Male: Sierra Leone (Gun Runner) (Debby Oxley) Older Dirt Female:...

A Kentucky-bred filly by Yaupon (hip 59) brought a sale-record $350,000 when topping the Texas Thoroughbred Association's 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale Wednesday at Lone Star Park. From a catalogue of 74 juveniles, 66 went through the ring and 43 were reported sold for a gross of $1,604,500. The average was $37,314 and the median was $21,000. At last year's auction, 60 head sold for $1,689,100, for an average of $28,152, and a median of $18,000. "It's great to see a big price like that at our sale, and she appears...

The latest edition of the Boundless Podcast, hosted by jockey and veterinarian Dr. Ferrin Peterson, features an interview with Judy Hicks. Hicks is the breeder of 2024 Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna). "Before Thorpedo Anna won 10 graded stakes races and became one of the most talked-about horses in Thoroughbred racing, Judy Hicks bred her and believed in her potential from the very beginning," Peterson writes in an introduction to her podcast. "In this episode of The Boundless Podcast, Dr. Ferrin Peterson sits down with Judy at...

We continue to spotlight a few of the extraordinary mares--and some of the people behind them--who produced the Grade I winners of 2025. The two mares we highlight today are responsible for the last two GI Kentucky Oaks winners, with the 2024 Oaks victress adding to her laurels in 2025 and the 2025 Oaks winner returning to the track for 2026 in hopes of doing the same. Both are also finalists for this week's Eclipse Awards.  Sataves, dam of Thorpedo Anna By any measure, Judy Hicks is a smart woman....

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - At 6:30 Sunday morning, Sovereignty (Into Mischief), the hero of the 156h GI, $1.25 million Travers Stakes, was out and about around the Hall of Fame barn of trainer Bill Mott at the Oklahoma Training Track The 3-year-old colt, fresh off his resounding 10-length win in the Travers, grazed in the courtyard at the barn, looking like he could run another 1 ¼ miles later in the day. The margin of victory is tied for the fourth largest in Travers history. Sovereignty's blowout win was the...

Hill 'n' Dale at Xalapa has acquired a half-interest in 2024 Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) in a deal which includes former NFL star Marshawn Lynch, according to a press release from the farm. Trained by Kenny McPeek, who selected her as a yearling, she is one of only seven distaffers in the history of the American turf and only the second 3-year-old filly, along with the fabulous Rachel Alexandra (Medaglia d'Oro), to claim the coveted title. A six-time Grade I winner with victories in the GI...

Godolphin, Juddmonte, and Klaravich Stables have been named finalists for the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association's National Owner of the Year award, the organization announced Tuesday. Godolphin is also a finalist for the TOBA's National Breeder of the Year Award. Sheikh Mohammed's operation is joined by fellow breeder finalists Judy Hicks and Town and Country Horse Farms. The finalists for the Small Breeder of the Year are William Butler; Cuyathy; and Lance Gasaway, Daniel Hamby, and 4G Racing. Finalists for the Cot Campbell Partnership of the Year are Lance Gasaway,...

It was business as usual for reigning U.S. Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) in Saturday's $1.25-million GI Apple Blossom Handicap, as she pulled clear of five overmatched rivals to score by 4 1/4 lengths to take her career record to 10 wins from 12 starts while barely drawing a deep breath. Let the record show that all-time Louisiana-bred earner Free Like a Girl (El Deal) was closest to the champ at the wire and big-figure allowance winner Where's My Ring (Twirling Candy) was third as the 27-10...

A perfect six-for-six against her own sex in 2024, 'TDN Rising Star' Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) was a slam-dunk choice for top 3-year-old filly honors. Both 3-year-old divisional winners sold at Fasig-Tipton. Sierra Leone topped the 2022 Saratoga Sale on a bid of $2.3 million while it required just $40,000 to purchase Thorpedo Anna out of the Fasig-Tipton October Sale a few months later. Thorpedo Anna, a leading candidate for Horse of the Year honors, is the first American champion for her sadly departed stallion, also a son of Darley...

Dornoch (Good Magic), Sierra Leone (Gun Runner) and Fierceness (City of Light) in the Three-Year-Old Male category were among the finalists for the 2024 Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards, recognizing excellence through the past year in Thoroughbred racing, the National Thoroughbred Racing Associaiton (NTRA) said in a Sunday release. Winners in 17 horse and human categories will be announced on FanDuel TV, and other outlets, during the ceremony, presented by John Deere, Keeneland, and The Jockey Club, on Thursday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. ET. The evening will culminate with the...

It was perhaps the decision of a lifetime for Judy Hicks when she famously went up to Kenny McPeek after he purchased Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) and asked if she could stay in for a small piece of the filly she bred. Just a year later, while still awaiting Thorpedo Anna's debut, Hicks went and made another similar arrangement. Hicks sold Thorpedo Anna's half-brother for $40,000--coincidentally the same price that 'Anna' had sold for--at the 2023 Keeneland September Sale. Afterwards, she approached Jake Ballis of Black Type Thoroughbreds and asked...

Is Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) the 2024 Horse of the Year? That will undoubtedly be the most-asked question in racing from now until the Eclipse Awards in late January. In a year where Thorpedo Anna's name has seemingly never been far from any racing conversation, the brilliant 3-year-old filly showed why she absolutely should be under heavy consideration for Horse of the Year honors with a sublime victory in Saturday's $2-million GI Breeders' Cup Distaff at Del Mar. The race was hers to lose and the task made considerably less...