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Father and son Pioneerof the Nile and American Pharoah topped the leading covering sire ranks by gross and average at the five-day Keeneland January horses of all ages sale that ended Jan. 13. Mares bred to American Pharoah, the 2015 Triple Crown winner who stands at Ashford Stud, attracted the highest gross of $955,000 and the highest average of ...

Last fall the family team of bloodstock agent Bob Feld, his son Sean Feld, and trainer Mark Feld, put a name to a concept they had been testing since Bullet Train—half brother to European champion Frankel—retired to stud in 2013. Climax Stallions is the Felds' new stallion syndication venture that is modeled more similarly to racehorse ...

Central to everything we do here at Blood-Horse is the horse. Of our multifaceted mission to chronicle the life of this amazing creature that is the Thoroughbred racehorse, racing coverage typically attracts the most attention. We follow their racetrack successes, mourn the tough beats, and curse the bad racing luck, but life at the track is ...

Ogden Mills ''Dinny'' Phipps' role as chairman of The Jockey Club often had been dismissed as a position atop an ivory tower, far removed from the realities of Thoroughbred racing. It is true Phipps was born into wealth and privilege, inheriting an extraordinary racing stable and breeding operation with a deep genetic pool of talent. But to wave ...

California Chrome certainly proved his superiority by winning the $10 million Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I) and avenging last year's second-place finish, but jockey Victor Espinoza deserves much credit for this victory. Soon after the break in the world's richest race at Meydan Racecourse, Espinoza found himself in a ...

In our previous column we discussed how the Racing Medication & Testing Consortium determines the regulatory thresholds for therapeutic drugs. We looked at this process because the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association at its recent annual conference called for independent research to provide alternatives to RMTC-identified ...

Several weeks ago we questioned the effectiveness of a National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association call for medication research to be conducted, and possibly adopted, independently of the Racing Medication & Testing Consortium. The HBPA wants the resulting thresholds to be vetted and considered for adoption into the Association of ...

The growth of Central Kentucky into the country's hub for Thoroughbred breeding is owed in no small part to the arrival 140 years ago of veterinarian Dr. Edward Thomas Hagyard. Hagyard opened a veterinary hospital Feb. 19, 1876, along Short Street in downtown Lexington soon after he'd been called upon to treat a prized shorthorn bull on a farm ...

Make no mistake about it—the movement to decouple pari-mutuel licenses from electronic gaming is a bad deal for racing. Efforts to weaken or even break this connection are now being debated by Florida and West Virginia legislatures (see page 14 of the Feb. 20 Blood-Horse). While both these situations are very fluid, the concern is that any ...

How many ways can the racing industry find to undermine its own efforts? Sadly, too many. The most recent surfaced last week when the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association announced it wanted to pay for new research that would set thresholds and withdrawal times for 28 therapeutic medications allowed under the National Uniform ...