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Your task is simple: select one of these champion female racehorses as a broodmare prospect, and explain your reasoning in the comments below. Who would you rather have in your broodmare band?survey software Goldikova has become a poster girl for keeping good racehorses in training. After a multi-championship season and ...

OK, the naysayers have been heard, so we’re all aware that this year’s Triple Crown had little star appeal and slow times, and that this crop of 3-year-olds is mediocre at best.Maybe it will turn out to be a weak crop; maybe it won’t. It’s only June.Following the 1987 Kentucky Derby (gr. I), the consensus was that it was a weak race and a weak ...

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So let me make sure I have this right: The connections for Rachel Alexandra, the reigning Horse of the Year, have decided to bypass the Stephen Foster for the Fleur de Lis. Both races are the same day at 1 1/8 miles. The grade I Foster includes a solid field of older males, including Blame, Battle Plan, General Quarters, Arson Squad, and last ...

TrueNicks is proud to announce our first new stallion addition for the 2011 breeding season – Champion 3-Year-Old Summer Bird (TrueNicks) who retires to Pauls Mill in Versailles, Kentucky. Summer Bird’s historic 3-year-old campaign included Grade I victories in the Belmont (Video), Travers (Video), and Jockey Club Gold Cup (Video). It had been 20 ...

  Bill Casner and Kenny Troutt's WinStar Farm enjoyed a classic double this year when homebred Super Saver scored in the Kentucky Derby Presented By Yum! Brands (gr. I) and Drosselmeyer captured the Belmont Stakes (gr. I). Also enjoying a classic double was Taylor Made Sales Agency. Drosselmeyer was a graduate of Taylor Made's sales program ...

Five-plus months of Triple Crown mania ended Saturday when Drosselmeyer scored the Belmont Stakes in upset fashion. It completed a hard-to-figure 3-year-old series in which we not only had three different winners, but also three different runner-ups. So, what did we learn from the 2010 Triple Crown? Not a whole lot, as far as I can tell. There is ...

 (Originally published in the June 12, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) The victory by WinStar Farm’s Drosselmeyer in the June 5 Belmont Stakes (gr. I) was a poignant moment for Thoroughbred racing in New York State, as many of the ...

.commentForm, .postComments, #comments{display:none;} Submit your questions below for Steve Haskin. Steve Haskin is an award-winning Turf writer renowned for his Kentucky Derby commentary, with weekly articles, Classic Spotlights, and the ''Derby Dozen'' all found on the BloodHorse.com website's special Triple Crown Mania section. ...

By William Shanklin Sheikh Mohammed’s vision for a premier globally-oriented management training program pertaining to Thoroughbred breeding and racing came to fruition in 2003 with the launch of Darley Flying Start.The DFS curriculum takes two years to complete, with a first-year class and second-year class run concurrently. Each echelon is ...