breeding and racing

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 262 entries--including GI Hopeful Stakes winner Nutella Fella (Runhappy)--for its August Digital Sale which is now open and will close Tuesday, Sept. 1, beginning at Noon ET. The winner at 2 of the Hopeful upstate, Nutella Fella (hip 2) placed at 3 in the GI Woody Stephens Stakes over the same dirt surface where he posted a 96 Beyer. The current 5-year-old is being offered during the online sale as a stallion prospect by Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. "Nutella Fella's strengths are his speed and precociousness...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY - The Fasig-Tipton New York-Bred Yearlings Sale buoyed by a bevy of incentives in the state's racing program, opened with a solid opening session Sunday night. "It was an excellent opening session of the 2026 New York-Bred Sale," Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning, Jr. said at the close of business Sunday. "Statistically, it was right on par with the overall sale last year, which was a record-breaking sale." During the session, 63 yearlings sold for a gross of $7,622,000. The session average was $120,984 and the median was...

The Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA) has named the recipients of the 2025 State and Canadian Breeders of the Year Awards, recognizing outstanding breeders whose achievements distinguished them during the 2025 racing season, the organization said in a press release on Tuesday. The breeders will be honored during the State and Canadian Breeders Luncheon on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, at Coolmore- Ashford Stud, one day after the 41st Annual TOBA National Awards Dinner, which will be held on Thursday, Sept. 10, at The Kentucky Castle in Versailles, Kentucky. National...

A debut consignment of eight in the big catalogue at Saratoga? Saplings just don't spread that kind of shade. Only Heartwood is no sapling; nor even a graft of another tree. But while many of the fundamentals remain unaltered, from the land to the stock itself, a new name was imperative to show that one of the most resonant brands in Bourbon County has had a reset. After a combined 24 years working there for Shack Parrish and his family, Juan Aguilar and Sarah Sutherland in April signed a lease...

"There's no such thing as a mistake." He doesn't mean it literally, of course. Evan Sandhu knows perfectly well how horses can make us repent of words and deeds. But he also understands that the greater your ambition, the more essential humility becomes. At Keeneland last November, Sandhu bought a mare named Sing Me Home (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}), carrying what proved to be a filly by Yaupon, for just $25,000. But both had already been sold on by the time the mare's 2-year-old by Justify, Nola Soul, won the Chesham...

In a cyclical business like this, credibility is vital. Because it's the repeated, controllable processes, in between, that determine how far the random interventions—luck, resources—might take you. That's why the McLean family of Crestwood prizes constitution, in horses; and continuity of horsemanship, from one generation to the next, on a farm that has bred and/or raised over 300 stakes winners. As it happens, much the same applies to those responsible for conferring the status of 'TDN 'Rising Star, presented by Hagyard,' They must be confident that a young horse will...

As the calendar flips to a scorching July and with several meets ready to start their summer engines, potential Thoroughbred owners are on the hunt for racing prospects. The Fasig-Tipton Digital Sale for June wrapped on Tuesday and there was no shortage of runners ready for their next draw. The $190,000 topper from the sale was Long Pour (Tom's d'Etat) (hip 2), a 4-year-old colt who was consigned by Taylor Made Sales on behalf of Calumet Farm. A New York-bred, the dark bay was taken home by Sullivan Lane Stable....

In a new TDN series, we are asking the industry what is racing's biggest problem, and what is the solution to that problem. Today, Keeneland's Vice President of Sales Tony Lacy joins us to offer his perspective. What do you think is racing's biggest problem? I think the biggest problem is that our industry is not speaking as one. Consolidation, where we have everybody singing off the same hymn sheet, is critical. It's difficult to get all the racetracks on the same page and to operate with the same principles,...

In a new TDN series, we are asking industry participants what racing's biggest problem is, and what the solution to that problem is. Today, we ask bloodstock agent David Ingordo, "What do you think is racing's biggest problem?" Racing has a lot of things going right, and I think we focus on the negatives a lot, but there are real problems in the sustainability of the industry. One of the biggest issues I see is this: where are the next trainers, veterinarians, farriers and racing executives going to come from?...

OCALA, FL - With a colt by Early Voting topping the day's results, the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale concluded its first of three sessions Tuesday with an average and median ahead of last year's record-setting figures. During Tuesday's session, 163 horses sold through the ring for a gross of $9,066,000. The average was $55,620--up 26.5% from last year's opening session--and the median of $30,000 was up 15.4% from the corresponding 2025 figure. The cumulative average from last year's two-day June sale was $51,107 and the...

By the early 2000s, the commercial Thoroughbred breeding industry still resembled a relatively broad ecosystem. Elite stallions mattered enormously, but a wide range of sires maintained meaningful market share, regional programs remained viable, and biological limits naturally constrained how dominant any one stallion could become. That landscape has changed dramatically. A review of sire progeny earnings distributions from 2001 through 2025 reveals one of the clearest long-term structural shifts in modern Thoroughbred breeding: an increasingly small number of stallions now account for a growing share of the sport's economic output....

Fasig-Tipton's catalogue for The July Sale of selected yearlings, to be held starting at 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, July 14, at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky, is available online, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. "We look forward to kicking off yearling sales season with a strong catalogue of selected yearlings in July," said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. "The quality of individuals on offer in this year's sale is perhaps the strongest we have had in recent years, and the sire power has improved as well."...