Lane's End

6th-Gulfstream, $40,000, Msw, 8-15, 2yo, f, 5f, :59.51, ft, 9 3/4 lengths. EPIGRAM (f, 2, Code of Honor--Rockin, by Hard Spun) ran her rivals off their feet to become her late freshman sire's third winner at 7-2 odds. Breaking in at the start but recovering well to lead the pack, they were never given a second opinion as she put up an opening quarter in :22.95 and was on a clear advantage entering the stretch. From there it was how much she wanted to win by and the answer was...

Grade I-winner Gift Box (Twirling Candy) has been sold to Saudi Arabian interests and will join their breeding ranks beginning in 2026, Lane's End announced Friday afternoon. The GI Santa Anita Handicap hero, and GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita Stakes runner-up, was purchased by HRH Prince Abdlaziz Bin Mousd Bin Saud ALSaud after he had stood at Lane's End in 2025 for a fee of $5,000. Hailing from the Machmer Hall breeding program, the grey had been purchased by W.S. Farish for $135,000 as a weanling from the 2013...

Hip 109, a Constitution colt out of a half-sister to Horse of the Year Flightline (Tapit), brought down the curtain during Monday's opening session at Saratoga when selling to Mike Repole's Repole Stable for $1,000,000. Second dam Feathered, a graded stakes winner and twice placed at the top level, produced the undefeated Flightline as one of her five winners which include first dam Good on Paper, a daughter of War Front. The colt was consigned by Lane's End and was the second to the million-dollar mark for Constitution in the...

West Point Thoroughbreds came into existence in 1991. It was founded by Terry Finley, a graduate of West Point. He wasn't at the top of his class, but he was able to complete the required obstacle course, something he can still do today. He talked to the TDN about his experiences with a horse named Flightline, who the most important person is in his phone and why he likes the nickname, Captain America. Here is the Saratoga Q&A. TDN: Do you remember your first winner? Terry Finley: Sun Belt, August...

The white-hot Flavien Prat conjured up one final lunge from distant second favorite Fionn (Twirling Candy) and nabbed long-odds on choice Nitrogen (Medaglia d'Oro) right on the wire to take out Saturday's $500,000 GI Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. It was the fifth victory on the program for the reigning Eclipse Award-winning jockey. Opulent Restraint (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) won the break and stepped away to open a clear lead turning down the back from Totally Justified (Justify) and a three-wide Nitrogen, as Prat settled Fionn in the...

7th-ELP, $100K, Msw, 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 3:42 p.m. ET. INTEGER (Candy Ride {Arg}) makes his first start for St. Elias, West Point, Don Alberto, Woodford and CJ Stables. An $800,000 buy at the 2023 Keeneland September Sale, the Steve Asmussen trainee is the lone foal out of GSW Magic Star (Scat Daddy), who sadly passed away in 2022. The gelding's second dam is GI Matron Stakes heroine Meadow Breeze (Meadowlake), whose half-brother is GI Arkansas Derby champ Overanalyze (Dixie Union). Set for his unveiling is Snowdrift (Medaglia d'Oro) and the...

Horse of the Year Mineshaft (A.P. Indy) has been retired from stud duty at the age of 26, and will be pensioned at Lane's End, the farm announced Monday morning. In excellent health as he transitions to the newest stage of his life, Mineshaft wraps a breeding career which saw him garner acclaim as one of the leading sons of the great A.P. Indy, including being named a top five general sire in 2024 and a top 20 lifetime active sire. Bred and campaigned by Bill Farish, James Elkins Jr.,...

You would want to go easy with that lot in the trailer. "Weekend had the box stall in the back by herself," Callan Strouss recalls. "She was the queen back there, and the boys were riding on the ground level." This was back in 1984 and, for Lane's End, a radical departure. Because when its longest-serving employee was first hired by William S. Farish III--longest, at any rate, since his old buddy Mike Cline retired as manager in 2020--there had been no sense that the farm might become what this...

Lane's End's Senor Buscador (Mineshaft--Rose's Desert, by Desert God) has had his first mare checked in foal, the Kentucky nursery said Wednesday morning. The first confirmed mare is Scandalous Song (Unbridled's Song--My White Corvette, by Tarr Road), owned by Greenfield Farms and Travis and Jacqui Gould. The 15-year-old is an unraced daughter of the stakes-winning and dual graded-placed My White Corvette, whose five winners include five-time Grade I winner Stardom Bound (Tapit), the Eclipse Award-winning juvenile filly of 2008. Scandalous Song is herself the dam of three winners, including Zanesville...

I have come to really enjoy sharing this aspect of our farm. Last year after I finished describing some of the matings and crazy ways we had found certain mares, I had myself in stitches laughing so much remembering all of the fun stories. So, once again, I will try to keep you all entertained while also sharing why and how we came up with the pairings for some of our 117 (OMG) mares. We breed solely for the physical athlete; we do not use nicks, Goldmine, x-factor, measurements, linebreeding,...

The first mare has scanned in foal to GI Breeders' Cup Mile winner More Than Looks (More Than Ready--Ladies' Privilege, by Harlan's Holiday), Lane's End announced Monday. The mare, Spirited Storm (Stormy Atlantic), is owned by Tag Stable, and is the dam of graded-placed Uncaptured Spirit (Uncaptured). In addition to last year's Breeders' Cup Mile, More Than Looks also won the 2023 GIII Manila Stakes and was second in both the GI Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes and GI Fourstardave Stakes in 2024. More Than Looks is standing his first season...

In an era when it feels ever harder to trust what you're seeing, how edifying to find something "fake" that actually authenticates a genuine, old-school, artisanal flair. That's not to deny the technological short-cuts nowadays available to John Cox, compared to when he started trading out of his garage back in 1982. But anyone touring the Lexington premises of Thorough-Graphics--this Aladdin's cave, teeming with color and invention, where Cox and his family supply around 70 percent of signage to the local Thoroughbred industry--will unfailingly be drawn to the "antique" signs...