Lotta Kim produced a full sister to Rachel Alexandra on Feb. 27, 2011, at Dr. Dede McGehee's Heaven Trees Farm near Lexington, Ky. Photographed on March 12, 2011, the Medaglia d'Oro filly is owned by Dolph Morrison. A decision has not been made on whom Lotta Kim will be bred to this season. "The mare...

Mathea Kelley is our next guest blogger/photographer here at Through the Lens. BIO: Mathea is originally from New York and a graduate of Cornell University. She loves horses and the Bluegrass state which she now calls home. Part of the Lane’s End Farm photography and video team, Mathea regularly takes...

Champion Dreaming of Anna gave birth to a Medaglia d’Oro colt on Feb. 21, 2011, at Dr. and Mrs. Gary Priest’s Woodspring Farm near Versailles, Ky., in Woodford County. “She is so kind, and a good mother,” said Woodspring Farm manager Guy Mogge. Easy to care for, Dreaming of Anna is just one of the girls...

I arrived at Old Friends equine retirement home near Georgetown, Ky., on a cold and windy morning in early February. Michael Blowen, the enthusiastic president of Old Friends , said his favorite time of day is early morning when he makes the rounds feeding the horses. “It’s a quiet time of day before...

Zenyatta’s California connections came to visit on Dec. 20 at Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky. Zenyatta responded to all of her visitors and especially groom Mario Espinoza and trainer John Shirreffs who spent so much time with the champion during her racing career. Zenyatta buddied right up to Espinoza...

Zenyatta. A big, beautiful mare. Dappled out, the champion is relaxed in her new surroundings at Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky. She has been handwalked daily since her arrival. On December 9, for the first time, Zenyatta was walked around in her paddock. With her was Charles Campbell, Broodmare...

Dappled out and lighter in color from her racing days, millionaire Octave resides at Darley’s Gainsborough Farm near Versailles, Ky. "Octave is low maintenance,” said Broodmare Manager Gary Harlow. “Easy to care for and mild tempered.” Below, Octave at Keeneland in 2007. Order this Photo. Photos below...

Balance won five stakes including three grade I races—the Santa Anita Oaks, Las Virgenes Stakes, and Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap. Raced by John and Jerry Amerman, she was trained by David Hofmanns. Order this Photo. A millionaire, Balance was retired in November of 2007 as a 4-year-old to Dr...

Busy week for consignors, buyers, and officials at the Keeneland September yearling sale, where 4,857 yearlings are catalogued. Two of those yearlings are by Storm Cat, who was represented by his last two yearling offspring at public auction. North America’s leading sire of sales yearlings for seven...

Blame , winner of the Whitney Handicap (gr. I) in his most recent stakes race, returned home to his barn at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., after traveling and spending the summer in Saratoga. Order this Photo. Blame has been under the care of Glenn Brookfield at Keeneland since he was two. “He thinks he...