Ohio breeding

With the 2025 breeding season upon us, the TDN staff is once again sitting down with leading breeders to find out what stallions they have chosen for their mares, and why. Susan Anderson is involved in every aspect of the industry as an owner, breeder, and trainer. She runs Point Of View Farm in Ohio, where she bred 'TDN Rising Star' GSW Jonathan's Way (Vekoma), who currently sits in eighth on the 'Road to the Kentucky Derby' leaderboard with 15 points. Anderson shares her 2025 mating plans, including for her...

Multiple graded stakes winner Mr Freeze (To Honor and Serve--Heavenly Cat, by Tabasco Cat) has been retired to stud at Raimonde Farms Ltd. in Wooster, Ohio. Owned by Jim Bakke and Gerald Isbister and trained by Dale Romans, the 7-year-old chestnut retired with a 6-4-2 record in 19 starts, earning $1,595,600 over his career. "He was a gifted horse with a great mind," said Romans. "He ran with the best and we couldn't be happier about this opportunity." Mr. Freeze was a graded stakes winner at ages three, four and...

Ohio-based stallions recruited from other states in 2020, including GI Breeders' Cup Classic winner Fort Larned (E Dubai) and Grade I winners Itsmyluckyday (Lawyer Ron) and Danza (Street Boss) (formerly standing in Kentucky) and Drill (formerly standing in Florida) were recently represented by their first Ohio-Accredited foals in 2021. Fort Larned's first accredited-Ohio foal was a colt out of No Truer (Alcindor), who is a full-sister to True Cinder, a multiple stakes-winner in Ohio. The colt was bred by Michael & Penny Rone and was born at Duncan Farms, where...