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Sir Brendan and Lady Jo Lindsay decided to support the milestone 100th edition of New Zealand’s National Yearling Sale with 100 percent of Cambridge Stud’s yearlings that were for sale this season, and that commitment was richly rewarded with a Book 1 triumph that they and their team will never forget. Across two outstanding days of selling at Karaka on Sunday and Monday, Cambridge Stud sold 50 of the 54 yearlings they offered. They earned an aggregate of $10.64 million and an average price of $212,800. Cambridge Stud finished $4.74 million ahead of second-placed Waikato Stud to be crowned leading vendor – their second such title since the Lindsays purchased the esteemed nursery from 31-time leading vendors Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan a decade ago. The Lindsay-owned Cambridge Stud was also the leading vendor in 2021, when they sold 45 yearlings for a total of $5.7 million at an average of $126,667. The obvious highlight came towards the end of the Book 1 session on Monday with the eagerly anticipated sale of Lot 513, a colt from the second crop of exciting Cambridge Stud stallion Sword Of State. The half-brother to four-time Group One winner Ceolwulf was purchased by Mr Sanxiong Gao and Ciaron Maher Bloodstock for a sale-topping $1.1 million. “It means a lot, because there’s a whole lot of things going on here,” Sir Brendan Lindsay said. “John Foote bought the dam for us (Las Brisas), and he was helping us even before we had Cambridge Stud. And since then he’s bought horses for us in England and France. “And then David Ellis was the underbidder. We bought Sword Of State off David. “It’s an awful lot of money and it tells the industry that, from a $15,000 service fee, you can actually turn it into $1 million. “And it’s encouraging for New Zealand. You know, we’re a great country and we breed the best horses. It’s great for New Zealand, because it gives everybody a leg up. This is great for our country and our breeding industry. “More important from our point of view is what it means to Henry Plumptre, Scott Calder, Cameron Ring, Ben Tappenden and the whole crew – all the people that do the long hours and the hard hours. They were over there crying their eyes out. They are so emotional and relieved. It’s a moment that they’re going to remember for the rest of their lives. “Everybody’s heard it before, but the point is that this is a fantastic game. Jo and I believe in our country, and everything we do is about New Zealand. “It’s the 100-year anniversary of an iconic New Zealand brand, the National Yearling Sale, and we’re happy to be part of it. “Sir Patrick always celebrated other people’s success as well as his own, and I’d like to think he would have been proud. And Lady Justine and their family have been so supportive of Jo and I.” Along with the $1.1 million sale-topper, five other Cambridge Stud yearlings sold for $400,000 or more. A colt by Snitzel out of Amarelinha was bought by Chris Waller Racing and Mulcaster Bloodstock for $850,000, while Mulberry Racing paid $650,000 for an Anamoe colt out of Save The Date. Shijiazhuang Hongtao Horse Breeding secured a Savabeel colt out of Allemande for $550,000, Scott Cameron and Cameron Cooke went to $475,000 for a Sword Of State filly out of Fuld’s Bet, and Stephen Marsh Racing and Dylan Johnson Bloodstock paid $420,000 for a filly by Sword Of State out of Botanic. Four of those six top-priced lots in the Cambridge draft were purchased by Australian buyers, and Sir Brendan Lindsay recognised the massive role that they played during Book 1 of Karaka 2026. Visitors from across the Tasman combined for a total of 184 purchases on Sunday and Monday (35 percent of the total number of yearlings sold) for an aggregate of over $39 million. “A lot of New Zealand breeders have supported us, and a lot of them have made money out of Sword Of State in particular, which is great and means they can reinvest it,” Sir Brendan Lindsay said. “But a result like this would not have happened without our Australian friends coming across the Tasman and wanting to buy New Zealand bloodstock. They’re the ones that have been buying the horses this week.” View the full article

In the sixth instalment of The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Road to the Derby series, Manfred Man’s Patch Of Cosmo (NZ) (Super Seth) is in the spotlight after returning from injury with a striking victory at Sha Tin recently. With just days until the first leg of the prestigious 2025/26 Four-Year-Old Classic Series – the HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m) this Sunday (1 February) – and with the 149th HK$26 million BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) on 22 March on the horizon, Patch Of Cosmo has stamped himself as one of the city’s leading four-year-olds after brushing off a tendon injury. Victorious in four of 11 starts before the left fore tendon injury he suffered in March last year, Patch Of Cosmo’s fifth career success – a barnstorming effort down the middle of the track in the Class 3 Tennis 1600m Handicap on 18 January – pushed his career prize money past HK$5 million. The son of Waikato Stud stallion Super Seth lifted himself to a rating of 84 with his recent Sha Tin success, making him the joint-sixth highest-rated galloper among the entries for this weekend’s Hong Kong Classic Mile. Man earned praise from Zac Purton for his training effort after the jockey booted the galloper to victory under top weight of 135lb on 18 January. However, the star Australian has committed to riding Pierre Ng-trained Sagacious Life on Sunday. That means Matthew Chadwick gets his chance to reunite with Patch Of Cosmo after winning twice from three rides aboard the gelding last season. “I like this horse. He’s a lovely character and he’s got a lovely big stride on him. He’s always given me a good feel, and I was never certain where his ceiling was,” Chadwick said. “It was unfortunate he had that setback last season. I liked the way he was going about his work and his races. “You’d like to think he’s got improvement for the run and having a win under his belt. The way it looked, it was a nice race to come back into – the way it was run, and he got a nice run through carrying top weight. “They’re all positives coming back and I’m sure Manfred has him well. It seems he pulled up nicely and he’s ticking all of the boxes. “It’s shaping up to be a very open, competitive field, so it’s going to be very interesting. But I don’t think he’ll be out of place. Last season, I was very happy with him.” Patch Of Cosmo will take on the likes of Sagacious Life, Little Paradise, Invincible Ibis and Beauty Bolt in a vintage edition of the Hong Kong Classic Mile. “It’s shaping up to be a good mile. Hopefully they go a nice even tempo that gives everyone a chance and then the best horse will win,” Chadwick said. “It’s a very good year and the Club will be very happy. It looks like a lot of them haven’t hit their peak and it looks like there will be five or six who will be rated over 100 eventually. “It’s an exciting race and hopefully it will be a good finish. This is exciting for Hong Kong racing. I’m excited and I rarely say that. It’s a race that you want to watch.” The Contenders Name Rating Trainer Owner Record Country of Origin Import Type Sagacious Life 97 Pierre Ng Leslie Lui Chi Yuen 2-0-0-3 Brazil PP Little Paradise 95 Jimmy Ting Ko Kam Piu 5-1-1-8 Australia PPG Invincible Ibis 91 Mark Newnham Ibis Syndicate 4-2-1-7 Australia PPG Numbers 90 Frankie Lor 23/24 Frankie Lor Fu Chuen Trainer Syndicate 1-0-1-2 New Zealand PP Patch Of Cosmo 84 Manfred Man Simon Yeung Chun Kin 5-0-0-12 New Zealand PPG Regal Gem 83 Frankie Lor Everest Syndicate 3-1-0-9 Great Britain PP Top Dragon 81 Chris So Vincent To Wai Keung, Kenneth To Kin Ting & Ronald To Yiu Ting 3-3-2-11 Australia PPG View the full article

In September 2024, Cambridge Stud gave the Guerin Report a foal to follow. Fast forward to January 2026, and Lil Mickey G sold for 1.1 million at the NZB Yearling Sales; and we were there for it. Guerin Report – S2 Ep. 21 – Lil Mickey G gets sold! – YouTube View the full article

Speaking on the Jan. 26 episode of the BloodHorse Monday podcast, French trainer Francis-Henri Graffard expressed an interest in growing his presence on the American racing calendar.View the full article

Grade 1 winners Burnham Square and East Avenue returned to the worktab Jan. 25 at Palm Meadows Training Center for the first time since racing in August.View the full article

While Florida's Road to the Kentucky Derby starts Jan. 31 with the Holy Bull Stakes (G3), to the north of Gulfstream Park, the newly minted champion 2-year-old male of 2025 is busy preparing for his 3-year-old debut at the end of next month View the full article

The New York Racing Association (NYRA) announced Jan. 26 the cancellation of live racing Jan. 27-30 at Aqueduct Racetrack due to arctic temperatures and extremely low wind chill values forecast to impact the New York metropolitan area.View the full article

I'd be more than happy to have videos on here although some are clearly unhinged. Harnesslink are another good source of content .

All Trackside staff have been instructed not to discuss the greyhound ban

On the Jan. 26 episode of BloodHorse Monday: Francis-Henri Graffard on Calandagan's Longines World's Best Race Horse title, Japan Racing Association's Tom Hashimoto on Forever Young and Japan Cup (G1) being named Longines World's Co-Best Horse Race.View the full article

You never hear any of the greyhounds commentators talk about the impending ban, I think they must be muzzled, just like they no longer talk about place prices pre race, they are human robots, playing the tune Entain want them to play.

Solid enough. You have to remember though that there were ~12% less horses catalogued and sold, so, effectively the top 90% cf. last year. That should help book 2 as well. Not quite an apples to apples comparison however, despite the spin.

serious question: How many made a profit? ps, I had a interest in a yearling that we sold at Trentham! we made a modest profit! it went on to win 7 races!

There's a special feel about this place: very different from some of the bigger farms around Lexington, with their miles of fencing leading to wide horizons. Here trees fill the undulations like green mist, and then there's this gem of a house, faithfully reproduced from a much older one in New Hampshire that Dede McGehee came across in a book one day. Hummingbirds flit into the flower baskets on the veranda. Overall, Heaven Trees Farm feels very apt to its name. “Except when I looked into it, it turned out that the Tree of Heaven is an invasive tree, thorny and very noxious!” McGehee says with a chuckle. But she doesn't let that detail trouble her. As far as she's concerned, Heaven Trees was always a family name: a book by Stark Young, who followed up with the neglected Civil War classic So Red the Rose. “Which is a Gone with the Wind kind of book,” she explains. “And it's about a family of McGehees. So, the house my father grew up in, they called Heaven Trees. And later on my aunt had a hunter jumper venue in Jacksonville, Florida, and that was called Heaven Trees, too.” The latest version entered her life 30 years ago, alongside a farm that she leased just behind Keeneland. Having left her job with a Versailles veterinary practice, she put her own band of mares together and boarded others for clients. Plenty of seasonal mares, plus a few permanent ones for people who were friends as much as they were clients. People like the late Dolphus Morrison, a very special man-who left her a very special legacy. Which is why we're troubling McGehee with a visit. Because this is a story people need to hear. “I mean, who does that?” she asks, recounting the gesture Morrison made when his deteriorating health required him to have a dispersal sale. She is palpably moved, recalling it; not really sure, in fact, whether it is too precious, too personal to be shared. It's just that people need to know how big a heart Morrison had. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Let's rewind a little, to when McGehee's bad luck proved the prelude to something better. Her bad luck was to develop a pulmonary condition. The doctors couldn't figure it out, but somehow she didn't have the oxygen to deliver a foal, never mind spend all her time in barns with musty straw and hay, or people smoking. Eventually they traced the problem to her pet birds: she had a cockatoo and a cockatiel, and it turned out she had an allergy to… cockatoos and cockatiels. “So, I stepped back,” she explains. “Got rid of the birds, went on steroids, and gave up my practice. I said I'd just board mares and do all my own [vet] work. Because I could control my environment. And that's what I did. Leased two farms, kept it all in-house. And I loved it: I had great clients, and a great crew.” Love it as she did, though, she couldn't keep going forever at 20 hours a day. “I did it for a long time, but at some point there has to be more to life,” she reasons. “I had raised horses all this time, and watched other people race them, and have fun watching them run, so I thought maybe I could do that too. So, I shut down the boarding operation. I let the leased farms go, and brought it all home: just my own mares, and Mr. Morrison's.” And, well, Morrison was always going to be the exception. For a start, their own relationship had become something to treasure. Dr. Dede McGehee (DVM) on her farm Heaven Trees | Courtesy Dr. Dede McGehee “He was like a father to me,” McGehee says. “My favorite client of all time. Never micromanaged. Never took bad news badly. And really smart. He grew up in rural Alabama, and built up a steel business from nothing. He was a horseman, too. He and his daughter did those competitive 100-mile rides when she was a teenager. He had Quarter Horses at first, I'm pretty sure that Hal Wiggins was his first [Thoroughbred] trainer. Anyway, he ended up having quite a few mares. And I had an old horse-trading friend who had sold Dolph some mares, and Dolph asked where he should put them. That's how he came here. And he just trusted me. He would say, 'If you have a problem, take care of it and call me later.'” One of these mares was a homebred daughter of Roar, trained by Wiggins to win on debut and then a stakes at the Fair Grounds on her fourth start. “But then a day or two later, she fell coming up through the gap on the concrete,” McGehee recalls. “She split her whole butt down to her hock, it was like 160 stitches. So, she was done, and came to us. And she was tough. She'd been very tough at the racetrack, tough to saddle, tough to blacksmith. She's not mean. She just doesn't like to be messed with, would rather you leave her alone and admire her from afar.” But it was hardly the mare's fault if her first foal, by Medaglia d'Oro, did not endear her to motherhood. “Well, it was a big foal, a difficult foaling,” McGehee points out. “And then she had no milk. It's just something that happens sometimes. It wasn't that the foal was early. She just had absolutely no milk; her bag looked like a mare that had never been bred. Anyway, she had no interest in that filly. When we'd got the nurse mare, she walked straight out of the barn, never nickered, never even looked back. So, we didn't know if that was always going to be her. But no, she was fine. The next year she wasn't the most doting, but she liked him and tolerated being mother. And the next one, she loved. So, she got better and better. I think the maternal was always in there. It was just circumstances that caused her to reject that first foal.” As a result, anyhow, it wasn't even Thoroughbred milk that launched that foal on her journey to becoming Horse of the Year in 2009. For by this stage, you have probably recognized her as Rachel Alexandra, and the mare as Lotta Kim. And that means we can now return to that conversation, in the summer of 2012, when Morrison told McGehee that it was time to break up his program. Actually, it wasn't the first time he had talked that way, but on this occasion it felt different. Both Morrison and his wife had their health problems–something that had contributed to the sale of Rachel Alexandra, after her 20-length win in the GI Kentucky Oaks–and he knew the end of the road was nearing. (He died in 2016.) “But he didn't say, 'How much will my horses bring?'” recalls McGehee. “He didn't say, 'What are they worth?' He said, 'What are you going to do?' I said, 'Well, I'll probably do what I should have done a long time ago. And that's have five good mares, and race everything.' And actually, that has never happened – and probably never will! But that was the goal. And then he said, 'We want Lotta Kim to be one of those five.'” McGehee pauses to gather her emotions. “Who does that?” she repeats. “Really. I mean, people don't even do that for their families. But I loved him, he loved me, and he loved my help. When he sold Rachel, he gave them a bunch of money. He was just a good guy. And so that's what we did. I gave him a dollar.” Lotta Kim and her 2025 Forte filly born Feb. 18 at Dede McGehee's Heaven Trees Farm | Courtesy Dr. Dede McGehee The scale of the legacy became staggeringly clear when a Bolt d'Oro colt out of Lotta Kim made $1.4 million at Saratoga in 2021; and then when a brother to Rachel Alexandra brought $1.35 million from Epic Horses at the 2024 Keeneland September Sale. (Named Epic d'Oro, he is currently breezing at Gulfstream.) “Oh, he was beautiful,” McGehee recalls. “Pretty from day one. But I did not think he would do that. That was a complete surprise. And what was nice, the one at Saratoga my crew couldn't be there, but they could be there for this one.” There will be no more days like that, however: not only because Lotta Kim has now been retired, at 24, but because her last foal, safely delivered this spring, was a Forte filly who will be going nowhere. McGehee was ecstatic when the embryo was sexed. “I knew it would probably be her last one,” she explains. “So, my veterinarian–I don't do my own work anymore–and my farm manager raced to text me first, to tell me it was a filly. And everything went perfect. She's a pro. Except for the first time, of course, with Rachel. She does all the work. We never have to help her very much. But I just think it's time. She gave me a filly, and did it easily. I'm not going to tempt fate. “She doesn't actually look like an old mare. Some of them, you can see it in their face. I've always had older mares here: that was what I started out doing, because I could buy them inexpensively. I could work on them myself, and it was a challenge that I loved. And so, when I'd look at mares at the sale, if they looked old out of their eye, I wouldn't try.” Lotta Kim will be in good company, then, with eight or nine pensioned friends sharing the paddock. “She has mellowed with age,” McGehee says. “But she still likes her routine. If you get off routine, you might have a little trouble catching her! You know, things have got to be her idea.” There are still 20 mares in service, more than McGehee feels sensible. “I do want to cut back,” she says. “I always go back to what I told Mr. Morrison, that I should have five good mares and race everything. But how do you pick? Obviously, I can't keep them all. But at my time of life, I just want to have fun. I want to go watch my horses run. What I'd really like to do is watch one of them win an Oaks!” She actually got within a neck of doing so in 2011, with the homebred St. John's River (Include). And while there was no way McGehee could adequately return the gift she had received from Morrison, she was then at least able to try. “When Rachel ran, they hadn't been able to do all that pre-Oaks stuff: the mornings, the walkover,” she recalls. “So, this time, he came for the week and did all those things he hadn't got to do before. I think he appreciated what he had missed, that time. I haven't really been ready to tell this story. But now Kim is done, now that she's going out in that pasture with the trees and the creek, where she'll be very happy…. I just want people to know how wonderful and gracious he was.” The post The Heavenly Bequest of Rachel’s Breeder appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. 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I saw the clearance rate was an improvement and I'm sure NZB would have reported it in any press release (have not seen any as have been busy). All it does is accentuate that the first day release was spin, because they only included positive markers. Surely you can see that

Southwestern trainer Jose Roberto Gonzalez Sr., already serving an 18-month suspension, received an additional 36 months for two banned substances found in the gelding Ol' McClintock. His suspension now runs through July 2, 2030.View the full article

the failure of hrnz to prioritise and maximise harness racing exposure by utlilisling unhinged content is one of lifes mysteries. for some time i have thought,wouldn't it be great if bit of a yarn had a forum,linked to the harness forum,where the unhinged post race interviews could be clicked on and viewed. you could guarantee it would lead to a very significant increase in people using the chiefs website and would expose harness racing content to all users of this website,including more galloping followers viewing harness racing content.. thats what i would like to see,forget hrnz,they aren't up to the job ,get it on bit of a yarn. i have no idea whether that is practicle or how it could work but i can certainly see the benefits for the chief,unhinged and harness racing if that happened.

Significant improvement on clearance rate @hesi - no spin required.

So much for the doom and gloom merchants: Sale statistics – Book 1 Catalogued 567 (661) Offered 521 (588) Sold 420 (457) Aggregate $78,602,500 ($75,322,500) Average $187,595 ($164,819) Median $140,000 ($110,000) Clearance 81% (78%) Top Lot $1.1 million ($2.4 million)

thats very sad to hear. he seems a really nice bloke and a good commentator. He obviously did his homework on the likes of first starters breeding,often rattling off who they were related to,thereby giving recognition to the breeders,a very important industry sector,who nurture those families and never get the recognition they deserve.. he also always gave recognition to who the owners of the horses were that placed. Again,something which i'm sure people appreciated . i heard him say 2 or 3 weeks ago he was going to miss the trackside crew and wondered whether someihing was in the works. its surprising hrnz haven't had a story on it.i haven't read anything.They must know commentators are very well known people within the industry and there is a public interest in this story. The lack of hrnz or media coverage is poor.Harness followers shouldn't have to guess about something like that by reading the name of a race. i suppose the upcoming closure of the greyhounds was going to always impact commentator numbers. The likes of dan fogarty i think a very good up and coming commentator so you would think they will retain people like that. Just the way life works. but as i say,its very sad when you hear anyone lose a job,especially if they are good a it. i felt particularly sad when kevin payne and jason teaz lost their jobs. I really did believe j teaz,in particular had an empathy with how punters view a race and added colour. Thats 3 southern commentators who they have discarded now who all must feel how unfair it all played out. anyway,life aiin't always fair,but lets hope craig rails expertise is not lost to the industry

Southwest trainer Jose Roberto Gonzalez Sr., already serving an 18-month suspension, received an additional 36 months for two banned substances found in the gelding Ol' McClintock. His suspension now runs through July 2, 2030.View the full article

A season after Hall of Famer Bill Mott won the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) with Sovereignty, son Riley will send Incredibolt into the starting gate for the Holy Bull Stakes (G3), a Jan. 31 Derby prep at Gulfstream Park.View the full article

Brandywine Farm (Jim & Pam Robinson) started in 1974 in North Carolina where Pam Directed the Graduate Program in Sports Medicine and the Research Lab in Human Performance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jim is a professional electrical engineer and was promoted to Director of Transmission and Protection for General Telephone and Electronics. After 25 years in North Carolina, the broodmare band had grown to 100 mares in addition to standing five stallions. While selling at the Keeneland November Sale in 1998, we looked at several farms and in the matter of three days bought 100 acres on Jackstown Road in Paris, Kentucky, which has now expanded to 400 acres. Realizing that our breeding operation needed to be in Kentucky, we put the North Carolina farm up for sale and sold it the same day it went on the market. We currently breed 90 of our own mares to Kentucky stallions and about the same number for clients. We are known as a “Mom and Pop” operation which means we both work hands on seven days a week, 51 weeks out of the year! The fact that we breed to sell only complements the fact that we breed to produce an athletic race horse. Our record includes over 60 graded stakes winners and hundreds of black-type runners, including Danza (third GI Kentucky Derby), Itsmyluckyday (second GI Preakness S.), Ruler on Ice (winner GI Belmont S.), Gunnevera (runner-up GI Breeders Cup Classic third G1 Dubai World Cup), etc. The breakdown of mares going to first-year stallions is approximately 30%, to proven stallions 30%, and the remaining 40% are to the second-, third- and fourth-year stallions which can be risky but can also be very rewarding. Currently we have multiples of Yaupon, Vekoma, and Omaha Beach. We also support all of the stallions participating in the breeding rights program initiated by Mr. Hughes at Spendthrift. I distinctly remember looking at Into Mischief his first year at stud and made the comment that if we were going to do one breeding right, we might as well do two. Needless to say, the day came when it made sense for us to capitalize on those two breeding rights. This year we will participate in the programs for Mullikin, Johannes, and Il Miracolo. A sample of some of our mares–many of whom we bred–are as follows: ABUSE OF POWER, 9, Karakontie (Jpn)–Oblivious, by Cozzene. Will be bred to Yaupon. This mare has a depth of female family and we owned both her dam and her granddam (Tiny Decision, by Ogygian–Fruhlingshochzeit). Her 2025 colt by Jack Christopher is outstanding! The Yaupons are obviously being very well received. ANITA PARTNER (IRE), 14, Majestic Warrior–Offbeat Fashion (Ire), by Rock of Gibraltar. Will be bred to Omaha Beach. She is Grade II-placed with a solid family. Omaha Beach is producing runners and his foals are outstanding physically. CHAMPAGNE HUMOR, 9, Distorted Humor–Champagne Ice, by Roman Ruler. Will be bred to Mindframe. We bred this filly's dam to Distorted Humor with the hope that she would produce a filly that would some day enter our broodmare band. She was stakes placed at Saratoga at two. She is out of Champagne Ice and we are excited to send her to a son of Constitution. CHAMPAGNE ICE, 13, Roman Ruler–Champagne Glow, by Saratoga Six. Will be bred to Forte. She is out of Champagne Glow (second GI Frizette S.) and a full-sister to Ruler on Ice, who won the Belmont; and half-sister to Champagne d'Oro (Medaglia d'Oro), who won the GI Acorn S. and GI Test S. She is the dam of Champagne Humor and we love the Forte foals. Champagne Ice is a full-sister to GI Belmont S. winner Ruler On Ice | Sarah Andrew CHAMPAGNE SPARKLE, 16, Street Boss–Champagne Royale, by French Deputy. Will be bred to Jack Christopher. By Street Boss, she is full to Danza, who won the GI Arkansas Derby and was third in the GI Kentucky Derby. She is also half to Majestic Harbor (Rockport Harbor), a multiple graded stakes- winning millionaire. She produced a “perfect” Forte colt on Jan. 11! Jack Christopher has sired several beautiful foals for us. C. S. ROYCE, 19, Unbridled's Song–Sweeping Story, by End Sweep. Will be bred to Goal Oriented. We bought this mare as the dam of three black-type horses, including Cherry Wine (Paddy O'Prado) (second GI Preakness S. and third in the GI Toyota Blue Grass S.). She has more than paid for herself this year selling her 2025 Elite Power colt for $190,000 and her 2024 Mandaloun colt for $110,000. We are looking forward to breeding her to a son of Not This Time. EVERY SINGLE DAY, 10, Strong Mandate–Repeat, by Bernardini. Will be bred to Taiba. This is the family of Echo Zulu, a champion 2-year old filly by Gun Runner, so the good-looking Taiba fits the bill. GENUINE ARTICLE, 4, Authentic–C. S. Royce, by Unbridled's Song. Will be bred to Gunite. This is a daughter of C. S. Royce by Authentic who I predict will be a good broodmare sire. The Gunite foals looked very athletic in November. Genuine Article as a yearling in 2023 | Fasig-Tipton GOOSE LEMON DROP, 15, Elusive Quality–Lemon Kiss, by Lemon Drop Kid. Will be bred to Locked. She is the dam of the stakes-winning Subrogate, by Arrogate, so it made sense to go to Seize the Grey in 2025 and excited about Locked for 2026. HOLIDAY DECISION, 6, Good Samaritan–Twisted Decision, by Old Fashioned. Will be bred to National Treasure. She is a winner of nearly $170,000 out of Twisted Decision that we bred out of Tiny Decision that we used to own. She is a beautiful mare. National Treasure is ranked #1 on leading 2025 freshmen covering sires. PROMENADE REVIEW, 9, Warrior's Reward–Promenade Colony, by Pleasant Colony. Will be bred to Patch Adams. Out of one of our foundation mares Promenade Colony and the family of Cavorting (Bernardini) and Clairiere (Curlin). We are racing her 2024 filly by Golden Pal to eventually enter our broodmare band. We chose Patch Adams by Into Mischief for 2026. We will eagerly wait to breed to Journalism for 2027. PROMENADE STAR, 11, Haynesfield–Promenade Colony, by Pleasant Colony. Will be bred to Citizen Bull. Another daughter of Promenade Colony. We have also bought, at the conclusion of their racing careers two other of her daughters that we bred. Her 2023 filly will eventually enter our broodmare band. We chose Citizen Bull by Into Mischief for 2026. TWISTED DECISION, 14, Old Fashioned–Rapid Decision, by Stravinsky. Will be bred to Fierceness. We bred this filly, owned her dam and her granddam. She is from the family of Jack Christopher. We sold her 2024 colt by Jack Christopher in September for $235,000. This mating should produce a precocious runner. All of our broodmares have a retirement pasture waiting for them at the end of their breeding careers! In summary, the first-year stallions we will be supporting, in addition to those listed above, include: Arthur's Ride, Chancer McPatrick, First Mission, Highland Falls, Il Miracolo, Johannes, Mullikin, Raging Torrent and Straight No Chaser. The post Mating Plans: Brandywine Farm appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article

Southwest trainer Jose Roberto Gonzalez Sr., already serving an 18-month suspension, received an additional 36 months for two banned substances found in the gelding Ol' McClintock. His now runs through July 2, 2030.View the full article

Minzaal has been chalked up at odds as short as 10-11 for first-season sires' championship honours by Paddy Power, whose trader James Ryan said it is the Derrinstown Stud-based stallion's 'title to lose'. Ryan, who priced up the market, also revealed that the firm is happy to lay second-favourite Blackbeard at odds of 6-4. Meanwhile, Baaeed has not gone unsupported at odds of 66-1. According to Global Stallions, Minzaal has 115 two-year-olds to run for him this year while Blackbeard has the same number of juveniles. Tally-Ho Stud's representative Persian Force has 99 soldiers on the ground and can be backed at odds of 4-1 to emulate stud mates Starman and Mehmas by landing the championship. Explaining how the firm prices up the market, Ryan said, “The first-season sires market is always an exciting one to price up and really seems to get the bloodstock enthusiasts' opinions out. The main factors that go into pricing up the market would be the number of two-year-olds that each stallion has to run for them, how the stock got on at the sales, the average ratings of the mares as two-year-olds and the percentage of the mares' progeny that raced at two.” He added, “By far the most popular first-season sires in the market so far are Baaeed at 66-1 and Blackbeard, who is the second favourite behind Minzaal at 6-4. However, we think it's a two-horse race between Minzaal and Blackbeard and would be happy laying Blackbeard between the two of them. We firmly think it's Minzaal's title to lose.” Minzaal was a supremely fast two-year-old himself, winning the Gimcrack before signing off on his career with victory in the Group 1 Betfair Sprint Cup at Haydock as a four-year-old. He stands at Derrinstown Stud for €12,500 and his debut crop was conceived at a fee of €15,000. Meanwhile, Space Traveller has been introduced at odds of 20-1 while Perfect Power, Caturra and Naval Crown are 50-1 shots. It's 100-1 and bigger the remainder. The post Minzaal Odds-On For FSS Honours With Paddy Power Saying ‘It’s His Title To Lose’ appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article