Darby Dan Farm
Multiple G1 winner Tale of Ekati sires first three foals on same day
Multiple Grade 1 winner Tale of Ekati sired his first three reported foals in a matter of hours on the same morning, as two fillies and a colt were all born on Feb. 1...
Veteran stallion Repriced dies of heart attack
Repriced, one of the last remaining sons of Roberto, died on Friday, January 27 at Darby Dan Farm of an apparent heart attack. He was 24...
All American sires first foal in the States
Record-setting Group 1 winner All American sired his first reported foal from his North American crop on Jan. 30 when a filly was born at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, KY...
Sun King filly strikes paydirt in 2012 debut
Shoshana broke her maiden in fine fashion recently as the 3-year-old daughter of Sun King rolled home a 3 1/4-length winner at Gulfstream Park...
Tommy Eastham joins Darby Dan Sales
Veteran horseman Tommy Eastham has joined Darby Dan’s Division of Sales, effective immediately...
Darby Dan adopts “Share The Upside” concept for American Lion
Darby Dan Farm will utilize the Share The Upside concept for breeders in 2012 with new stallion American Lion, the farm announced Wednesday...
American Lion retires to Darby Dan
American Lion, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Tiznow, has been retired and will stand stud at John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, KY...
TDN Last Word – Robert Hammond
This week, Robert Hammond took over duties as General Manager at Darby Dan Farm. The TDN caught up with the London native for a brief chat...
Darby Dan announces 2012 stud fees
Darby Dan Farm announced 2012 fees for its current roster of stallions, headlined by multiple Grade 1 winner Tale of Ekati who will stand for $15,000 stands and nurses...
Robert Hammond named General Manager at Darby Dan
Robert Hammond has been hired as the General Manager of John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm and will assume duties immediately, the Lexington-based farm announced on Monday...
Perfect Soul (IRE) Moves to Norse Ridge for 2012
Perfect Soul will stand the 2012 breeding season at the Hunderup family's Norse Ridge Farm near King City, Ontario...
Perfect Soul (IRE) Moves to Norse Ridge for 2012
Perfect Soul will stand the 2012 breeding season at the Hunderup family's Norse Ridge Farm near King City, Ontario...
Darby Dan sells $600,000 mare at FTK
Darby Dan Farm capped an exceptional weekend for the program, selling the young mare Our Khrysty at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November Sale on Sunday evening for $600,000…
Perfect Shirl dazzles in $2 million BC Filly and Mare Turf
Perfect Shirl came up with her best race of the year to deliver a stirring come-from-behind victory for her owner/breeder Charles Fipke in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf...
Perfect Shirl ready for big Breeders’ Cup effort
Charles Fipke homebred Perfect Shirl comes into the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1) off a top effort in the Grade 2 Canadian S...
Freshman sire Sun King moves into top 20
Top-20 first-crop sire Sun King got his seventh winner of the year on Oct. 22 with the filly Sunny Sights' maiden special weight victory...
John Phillips Interview
Lenny Shulman and Steve Haskin talk to John Phillips of Darby Dan Farm about Winter Memories, who runs in The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (gr. I) at Keeneland October 15.
Freshman sire Sun King gets Belmont MSW winner
Sun King's sixth winner of 2011 came at Belmont Park on Oct. 10 when Saint Honore grabbed a nose victory going 1 1/16 miles on the main track...
“Phenomenal” Grade 1 Garden City S. win for Winter Memories
With seemingly no chance a sixteenth of a mile from the finish, Winter Memories made an electrifying move around a wall of horses to snatch victory in the final strides of the $250,000 Garden City S (G1)...
Sun King’s Guava Girl wins thriller at Arlington Park
Guava Girl won a four-horse blanket blanket finish to break her maiden Sept. 11 at Arlington Park...
Sun King filly breaks maiden by 6 1/4
First-crop sire Sun King's 2-year-old filly Sunset Queen rolled to a 6 1/4-length maiden score at Presque Isle Downs on Sept. 6...
Magna Graduate’s strong Midwest yearling sales results
Darby Dan's Magna Graduate had a pair of yearlings bring solid prices at auctions in Texas and Iowa during the final days of August...
Darby Dan sells Saratoga session topper
A yearling colt from Darby Dan’s consignment topped the second session of the Saratoga New York-bred Preferred Sale on August 14...
Darby Dan Sales: Medaglia d’Oro Yearling Featured on BloodHorse.com as Saratoga Star
Hip No. 152, a colt by Medaglia d'Oro – Lemon Kiss, by Lemon Drop Kid. Consigned by Darby Dan Farm, agent...
A Family Affair: Winter Memories, Darby Dan, and Phillips Racing
Darby Dan Farm began life in Kentucky in 1949. Following the death of E.R. Bradley in 1946, his Idle Hour Farm was sold, and John Galbreath, bought a portion of the property...
Winter Memories goes from last to first in G2 Lake George
Winter Memories rolled to a 4 1/2-length victory in the $150,000 Lake George S. (G2) July 27 at Saratoga...
Sun Country gallops by 9 in MSW
Sun King's latest impressive winner from his first crop came on July 26, when Sun Country rolled to a nine-length win...
Magna Graduate yearling goes for 8x his stud fee
Magna Graduate's offering at the July 12 Fasig-Tipton yearling sale brought $40,000, eight times the stud fee of the Darby Dan stallion...
Darby Dan bred and sold Awesome Bet wins $100K Barbaro
Awesome Bet, bred, raised and sold by Darby Dan Farm, roared home in the stretch to take the $100,000 Barbaro S. July 9...
Three winners in two days for Perfect Soul
Darby Dan's Perfect Soul accounted for three winners in two days over July 5-6, including two maiden special weight winners...
Darby Dan Presents 2011 FT July Consignment
Click here to preview the Darby Dan Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Consignment
Fernando touts Sadler’s Wells & Perfect Soul
Renowned pedigree analyst Sid Fernando strongly recommended the Sadler’s Wells line and Perfect Soul in particular, as bloodlines that are needed more in North America...
Check Your Soul cruises in Plate Trial
Charles Fipke's homebred Check Your Soul stamped himself a likely favorite for the upcoming Queen's Plate...
Belmont Memorial Day stakes double for Darby Dan
Darby Dan's stars of the Memorial Day card at Belmont were homebred Winter Memories and sales graduate Tizway...
Impossible Dream realized: Fipke homebred earns Championship
Charles E. Fipke’s homebred Impossible Time, raised at Darby Dan, was named Champion Older Female in Canada at the recently held Sovereign Award ceremonies...
Shack Attack: Darby Dan is home to dam of Preakness winner
Darby Dan managers and staff smiled a bit more broadly after the 136th Preakness S. (G1), as the dam of victorious Shackleford resides at the famed nursery off Old Frankfort Pike...
No trickery involved, Fastest Magician lives up to name
Charles Fipke’s Fastest Magician showed his sleight of hand, slipping through a narrow opening near the quarter pole, en route to victory in the 7-furlong A Gift Stakes at Belmont on May 22...
KY Derby winner shares unique link with Ambassador
Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Animal Kingdom shares a unique link with Darby Dan’s young Group-winning stallion Ambassador (Ger)...
Much Rejoicing after Glia stakes victory
Much Rejoicing became the newest Darby Dan-produced stakes winner on May 13 with a daylight victory in the $60,000 Glia S. at Belmont Park...
Seeking the Title goes in Churchill’s G2 La Troienne
Charles Fipke’s Seeking the Title, foaled and raised at Darby Dan, goes for her second graded stakes win of her career in the $300,000 La Troienne...
Check Your Soul cruises in $115K Wando, Queen’s Plate next
Check Your Soul could be on his way to becoming the second Canadian classic winner in the first three crops by Perfect Soul, after a dominating win...
First winner for millionaire Sun King
Sun King, a multimillionaire and four-time graded stakes winner, sired his first winner on May 22, when a 2-year-old colt named Legalis won at Premio Meltrasio racetrack in Milan, Italy...
Blessed Soul steps up in Pimlico feature
Perfect Soul's daughter Blessed Soul made short work of the field in the 1 1/16 mile feature at Pimlico April 22...
Winter Memories wins G3 Appalachian in 2011 bow
Darby Dan homebred Winter Memories looked sharp in her first race of 2011, putting in a solid stretch run to take the $100,000 Appalachian...
Perfect Soul juvenile a top 10 seller at OBS
A Perfect Soul filly turned heads at the OBS 2-year-old sale on April 20, going for $125,000, the sixth highest price during the third session...
Perfect Soul colt shows his stuff on Keeneland lawn
Check Your Soul finished full of run to break his maiden on the grass at Keeneland on April 15...
Now Accepting for the Fall Sales
Deadlines will soon be upon us for the fall yearling sales. We are building our Darby Dan Farm consignment now.
Darby Dan grads continue their worldwide stakes success
Led by six Grade/Group 1 winners including the Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up over the past 24 months, Darby Dan farm and sales graduates continue to excel at the highest levels in racing worldwide...
Son of Perfect Soul sharp in Hawthorne feature
Lalo's Baby Bear made an impressive late move to score a one-length victory in Hawthorne's March 21 feature...
First foal for Group 2 winner Ambassador
Darby Dan stallion Ambassador, a Group 2 winner in Germany, has had his first foal...