17 Mar 2011 8:20 AM
Thanks to everyone who has been a part of the BloodHorse.com community through the life of the "Tracking Barbaro's Brothers" blog....
26 Feb 2011 4:26 PM
Nicanor will make his five year old debut on Sunday in the $150,000 Canadian Turf Stakes (Grade III) at Gulfstream Park....
20 Dec 2010 1:53 PM
The date was October 14, 2000. A three year colt was making his debut at Santa Anita in a maiden special weight race. As for any first time starter, the sky was the limit and the possibilities endless. ...
24 Nov 2010 10:44 PM
Nicanor will be back on the track Friday in race #8 at Aqueduct in the Three Coins Up Stakes. Post time is 3:10....
30 Oct 2010 11:24 AM
Nicanor's next race is the $100,000 Labeeb Stakes, one mile on the turf at Woodbine (in Canada), Sunday October 31, Race #5, Post time 2:57....
14 Oct 2010 2:56 PM
Lentenor is entered in race #8 at Keeneland on Saturday. While I would have preferred a different gate, it shouldn’t make that much difference due to the length of the race, I hope!...
23 Sep 2010 12:29 PM
Once again, Barbaro's brothers are racing on back-to back days, but this time their roles are reversed. ...
13 Sep 2010 2:06 PM
Lentenor and Nicanor both had their first works since those races this past week....
23 Aug 2010 11:36 PM
Nicanor is entered in the $50,000 Eight Thirty Overnight Stakes at Delaware Park on Wednesday, August 25, Race #8....
22 Aug 2010 10:26 AM
Lentenor, Barbaro's full brother, makes his return to the track for the first time since his fourth place finish in the Grade I Florida Derby on March 20th....
28 Jul 2010 3:19 PM
An account of Nicanor's start in the Sussex Stakes on July 10 at Delaware Park....
16 Jul 2010 12:45 PM
Greg Jones, new moderator of the Tracking Barbaro's Brothers blog, visits with Lentenor on July 10....
15 Jul 2010 2:24 PM
In a press release announcing that Dynaformer continues to perform well at stud at age 25, Robert B. Clay's Three Chimneys Farm noted that one of the 54 mares in foal from this year's breeding season is La Ville Rouge, the dam of Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro and his full siblings Nicanor and Lentenor....
07 Jul 2010 2:20 PM
Nicanor, the full brother to ill-fated Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, has been entered in the $100,000 Sussex Stakes at Delaware Park on Saturday. The stake, the 10th race on the card, will be run at about 5:18 p.m. (EDT)....
25 Jun 2010 12:49 PM
There will be another opportunity for Fans of Barbaro, and all other race fans who are at Belmont Park Saturday, to step up to the plate and help support laminitis research....
17 Jun 2010 7:46 AM
Nicanor, Barbaro's full brother, returned to the winner's circle for the first time in 2010 when he won a 1 1/16-mile allowance/optional claimer at Delaware Park on Wendesday, June 16....
17 May 2010 1:50 PM
A new documentary entitled "Sculpting the Wind," produced by Allison Pareis, a student at Ball State University, follows artist Alexa King from beginning to end as she created and sculpted the bronze Barbaro statue at Churchill Downs....
13 May 2010 12:06 PM
For those of you wanting more of a diversion this Preakness week, take a look at the exclusive photo taken by Anne Eberhardt of the yearling full brother to Barbaro, Nicanor, and Lentenor. The colt, sired by Dynaformer and produced from La Ville Rouge, as have been all the brothers, was foaled at Mille Ridge Farm on March 10, 2009....
13 May 2010 9:11 AM
Nicanor, full brother to 2006 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner Barbaro, drew the far outside post in a field of 13 for his stakes debut in the $200,000 Dixie (gr. IIT) on the Pimlico turf May 15....
08 Apr 2010 4:30 PM
Nicanor, making his first start since last June, ran a solid fifth in an allowance race Thursday afternoon at Keeneland. Owners Roy and Gretchen Jackson and trainer Michael Matz were on hand to watch Barbaro's full brother make his 4-year-old debut in the day's seventh race. Nicanor stalked the early pace of Unbridle's Dream in the 1 1/16-mile turf race, sitting second more much of the race as those...
02 Apr 2010 11:00 AM
With champion jockey Julien Leparoux aboard, the workout time was second fastest of the day among 29 working that distance on a beautiful spring morning at the Lexington track....
29 Mar 2010 2:00 PM
Thanks to the efforts of many people, including Friends of Barbaro, a 9-year-old gelding named Dashboard Drummer who at one time raced successfully in grade III stakes has been claimed from the lowest ranks of racing and retired....
25 Mar 2010 12:39 PM
Roy and Gretchen Jackson, who bred and raced the late Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro and his brothers Nicanor and Lentenor, have again stepped up to the plate on behalf of equine research, working with the NTRA to establish the Barbaro Fund for Equine Health and Safety Research. ...
24 Mar 2010 12:50 PM
Though Lentenor's trip on the Road to the Kentucky Derby was short, trainer Michael Matz said Barbaro's full brother gained a lot of experience that should help when he returns to competition later in the year....
20 Mar 2010 6:45 PM
Lentenor experienced the first unplaced finish of his career when he rallied mildly at the rail and hit the wire in fourth in the March 20 Florida Derby (gr. I) at Gulfstream Park. Hopes were high for the son of Dynaformer, who is best known as the full brother to 2006 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Barbaro. Facing 10 rivals and going off at odds of 10-1 in the Florida Derby...