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Howard retiring to become McGaughey’s Kentucky assistant

DRF | 3 years ago
Neil Howard, whose feats with Summer Squall and Mineshaft helped make him among the most highly respected trainers in America in recent decades, is disbanding his stable at Churchill Downs to work as an assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey. Read More...

Howard retiring to become McGaughey’s Kentucky assistant

DRF | 3 years ago
Neil Howard, whose feats with Summer Squall and Mineshaft helped make him among the most highly respected trainers in America in recent decades, is disbanding his stable at Churchill Downs to work as an assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey. Read More...

Not This Time, Speightster Join Exclusive Club With Seven-Figure Juveniles

The reconfigured racing and auction calendar has allowed freshman sires to emerge simultaneously as leaders on the racetrack and in the auction ring, and the two stallions who have best grasped the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websit... Read More...

Quality Road takes another price jump in 2020; will stand for $200,000

DRF | 4 years ago
Quality Road, a rising star in the stallion ranks for Lane’s End Farm over the last several years, will again see his stud fee spike in 2020, with his advertised fee of $200,000 placing him among the most expensive sires in North America. Read More...

Catalina Cruiser will head home to stand at Lane’s End Farm upon retirement

DRF | 4 years ago
Catalina Cruiser, who is bound for a start at next week's Breeders' Cup, will stand alongside his sire at Lane's End Farm upon his eventual retirement. Read More...

Albarado has surgery after fracturing wrist in spill

DRF | 5 years ago
Veteran jockey Robby Albarado will be sidelined indefinitely after undergoing surgery Sunday evening for a fractured left wrist suffered in a spill earlier in the day at Churchill Downs. Read More...

Albarado has surgery after fracturing wrist in spill

DRF | 5 years ago
Veteran jockey Robby Albarado will be sidelined indefinitely after undergoing surgery Sunday evening for a fractured left wrist suffered in a spill earlier in the day at Churchill Downs. Read More...

Sparkman: Another good one by Mineshaft

DRF | 5 years ago
As Horse of the Year and champion older male of 2003, Mineshaft is arguably A.P. Indy’s best son, but his stud career cannot quite match those of A.P. Indy’s best sire sons. He is far from a failure, however, and Grade 3 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes winner Sir Anthony was his 47th career stakes winner and 20th graded stakes winner in an honorable, if not spectacular, career. Read More...

Sires of the 2016 Kentucky Derby: Mineshaft

DRF | 8 years ago
Mineshaft could be forgiven if he’s starting to develop a complex. The stallion is the only Horse of the Year by the great stallion A.P. Indy and now stands directly across the aisle from his pensioned sire in the Lane’s End stallion barn. Yet one rarely hears the 2003 Horse of the Year discussed when the topic turns to A.P. Indy’s sons at stud. Most of the headline attention goes to veteran classic sire Malibu Moon or to the commercially popular champion Bernardini. Read More...

AP wire: Suddenbreakingnews

Two of the last three Derby winners, California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit, by Pulpit, by A.P. Indy) and Orb (Malibu Moon, by A.P. Indy), are by A.P. Indy-line stallions, and this year’s crop of contenders includes several others, including Mohaymen (Tapit, by Pulpit), Greenpointcrusader (Bernardini, by A.P. Indy),  Shagaf (Bernardini), Economic Model (Flatter, by A.P. Indy), … Read More...

Ghostzapper colt from ‘Rags’ and Jazil family wins Derby

For the fifth consecutive year, a US-based sire was represented by the winner of the Russian Derby. Ghostzapper’s well-bred son Ghost Honour won the 2400-meter Russian classic on dirt at the Central Moscow Hippodrome Sunday, August 19, following ... Read More...

It’s Tricky victorious in seasonal debut

Michael Compton | 12 years ago
It’s Tricky made her seasonal bow a winning one at Aqueduct on Saturday, taking down top prize in the Top Flight Handicap (G2) at Aqueduct. The Top Flight was her first start since finishing second to Royal Delta in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic (G1) at Churchill Downs. Read More...