Breeding Watch: Ghostzapper’s double
Adena Springs Farm‘s Ghostzapper was the lone North American stallion to sire multiple stakes winners last weekend with two of his sons taking graded stakes races within an hour span Saturday.
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Point-to-point honors the late Kingsley
The memory of Archibald Johnston “Arch” Kingsley will flow through the grounds of Glenwood Park Sunday during the annual Middleburg Hunt Point-to-Point in Middleburg, Va.
Flying Changes: My favorite sound is Sweetwhiskeybrown
There are some circumstances in life that are far too poetic to be mere coincidence – like the idea of a song that foretells a racehorse’s life.
Sweetwhiskeybrown is a 5-year-old bay gelding by Capitalimprovement out of La Vita’s Infinity, by Timeless Native. “Whiskey,” as he’s nicknamed, was born and raised on Peach Lane Farm in Opelousas, La. Peach Lane owner Lora Pitre has been raising the foals belonging to owner and breeder Marcia LaMarche for 20 years, and witnessed nearly all stages of Sweetwhiskeybrown’s life.
One vs. two
Today marks the end of a good run, an era if you will, in our household.
Monday Special – Patriot’s Day edition
It’s Marathon Monday in Boston – Patriot’s Day for those less interested in the 26-mile and 385-yard journey from Hopkinton to downtown Beantown – and we’re a little less than two weeks out from Kentucky Derby Day.
King of the Hall
The wait is over for King Leatherbury and his legion of supporters. Leatherbury, a trainer whose career spans six decades and the winner of more than 6,400 races, is among the group of four elected to the National Musuem of Racing’s Hall of Fame for 2015.
Breeding Watch: Solid Exchange
Danzig’s sons Exchange Rate and War Front enjoyed big weekends, but once again this year it was Tapit who was the star sire in North America as April inched towards its midpoint.
Joe Clancy earns David F. Woods Memorial Award
The Eclipse Award for writing and his coverage of last year’s Preakness Stakes was first. Then it was the Touch of Class Award from the Maryland Department of Agriculture’s Maryland Horse Industry Board. The David F. Wood Memorial Award for excellence in journalism gives ST Publishing’s Joe Clancy a trifecta of sorts and just think; the year isn’t even four months old.
Spring at the Spa
Upstate New York awoke from its winter slumber this week and even though the calendar still shows 100 days until the opening of the Saratoga Race Course meeting, the area welcomed back some old friends early Wednesday morning. The offseason season got started early Wednesday at Saratoga’s Oklahoma Training Track, the first horse hitting the track not long after daybreak a little after 6 a.m.
Who’s in, who’s out
The final two significant prep races are in the books and all that’s left between now and the May 2 Kentucky Derby, besides the nearly three weeks of waiting and obligatory hype, is the game of who’s in and who’s out.
