Domestic Product

Last year ended on a high note for Top o' the Lane Farm and has continued into 2025. Vixen (Vekoma) was second by a neck in the GI Natalma Stakes last September, then followed it up by a solid run in the Breeders' Cup after having to break from the parking lot and has continued on in 2025 after a short break to capture the Sweetest Chant Stakes and GIII Herecomesthebride Stakes. Keeneland November was a major success with three foals going through the ring to great connections through Highgate...

Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky will open its doors to prospective breeders Jan. 13 through Wednesday, Jan. 15 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00pm. Light refreshments and hot beverages will be available to guests. The operation's stallion roster will be available for inspection, including new addition Domestic Product (Practical Joke-Goods and Services, by Paynter). Winner of the GI H. Allen Jerkens Memorial, the dark bay also won the GIII Dwyer and GIII Tampa Bay Derby. For more information, click here.  

The Saturday graded stakes action across North America offers several options, but the Big A earns the spotlight as the venerable NYRA track plays host to some strong races. Even though the Cigar Mile Handicap was downgraded a tick from its top level status by the American Graded Stakes Committee in 2023, connections still consider the race to possess a certain cache and the rigor in this year's edition is evident. "It [Cigar Mile] came up pretty salty," said Book'em Danno's trainer Derek Ryan. "It is a Grade II now...

Ashford Stud's Practical Joke has enjoyed perhaps his strongest season yet with seven graded stakes winners so far this year. Only four stallions in North America can claim more, while both Quality Road and Not This Time also have seven graded stakes winners to their credit in 2024. Practical Joke, a three-time Grade I winner in his own right, retired to Ashford in 2018 and has produced four Grade I winners from his first four crops. In 2025, the son of Into Mischief's stud fee will increase from $45,000 to...

The sire of 19 stakes winners on four different continents in 2024, Justify (Scat Daddy--Stage Magic, by Ghostzapper) will command a service fee of $250,000 in 2025, the Versailles, Kentucky-based nursery announced Monday. Alongside Into Mischief and Gun Runner, Justify will stand for the joint-highest covering fee in the United States. The rising 10-year-old stallion is the sire of a trio of Group 1 winners this season, including City of Troy, winner in succession of the G1 Betfred Derby at Epsom, the G1 Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown and an all-the-way...

DEL MAR, CA - With the sun setting on another Breeders' Cup weekend, it was a familiar sight with the dark green silks of Hronis Racing being carried home to victory in the finale. Full Serrano (Arg) (Full Mast), drawn on the inside in post three, stalked and pounced his way to a 1 1/2-length victory over Post Time (Frosted) in the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. It was another 2 1/4 lengths back to favored Domestic Product (Practical Joke) in third. Hronis and Sadler, of course, closed out the...

Who do you like? TDN's Senior Racing Editor Steve Sherack makes his picks for Breeders' Cup Saturday at Del Mar. Race 4: GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint--#10 Scylla (10-1) Scylla ran a very good second going two turns in Del Mar's GI Clement L. Hirsch, then returned to Bill Mott's Saratoga base and cut back to this distance with another solid second-place finish in the GI Ballerina just three weeks later. She's been freshened since, is drawn nicely on the outside and is more than capable of running...

DEL MAR, CA -- It's showtime. Featuring 14 Grade I races worth more than $34 million in purses, the Breeders' Cup World Championships, with an emphasis on World, return to the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club for a third time, beginning with the 'Future Stars Friday' program. Ideal conditions with sunny skies and temperatures in the upper 60s are expected. A total of 179 horses were entered for the two-day Championships, including a record 67 international participants from nine different countries as well as three previous winners. A stacked renewal of...

Trainer Chad Brown joins this week's TDN Writers' Room to discuss a stacked lineup of Breeders' Cup-bound trainees, from juvenile Chancer McPatrick to highly regarded older horses Carl Spackler and Domestic Product.

With the Del Mar Breeders' Cup officially less than two weeks away, trainer Chad Brown is continuing to oversee his string's preparations at Belmont Park, while the accomplished MGISW Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna) puts in her final works for conditioner Ken McPeek upstate at Saratoga. Over the training surface in Elmont, Brown sent out two juveniles for half-mile works in 'TDN Rising Star' Chancer McPatrick (McKinzie) [:48.01] and Zulu Kingdom (Ire) (Ten Sovereigns {Ire}) [:48.63], who are targeting the GI FanDuel Breeders' Cup Juvenile and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf,...

Domestic Product (Practical Joke-Goods and Services, by Paynter) who emulated his own sire when winning the GI H. Allen Jerkens Stakes at Saratoga, will retire to Coolmore America's Ashford Stud to stand alongside his sire following his final start in the GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Saturday, Nov. 2, the farm announced Monday morning. In addition to the Jerkens this summer, the three-year-old won the GIII Tampa Bay Derby and the GIII Dwyer Stakes. Like Practical Joke, he was trained by Chad Brown for Klaravich Stables. "Domestic Product has always...

Trainer Chad Brown sent out a quartet of Breeders' Cup aspirants to work over Belmont Park's dirt training track, led by GI Toyota Bluegrass Stakes winner Sierra Leone (Gun Runner), who covered a half-mile in :48.67. Runner up in the GI Kentucky Derby and third in the GI Belmont earlier this spring, the $2.3 million yearling purchase races for Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg, Rocket Ship Racing and Brant. "He looks super, and the horse is really training well," Brown said of the GI Breeders' Cup Classic...