Ken Tyson

GI Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike (Keen Ice--Gold Strike, by Smart Strike) is being relocated to Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC in Stillwater, New York, to start the 2025 breeding season. The 6-year-old stallion, who had been expected to begin his stud career this year at Mountain Spring Farm in Pennsylvania, was recently purchased by a group that includes his former trainer, Eric Reed, longtime owner Ken Tyson, and Jamie LaMonica, head of the Kentucky-based The Stallion Company bloodstock agency. Rich Strike will stand his initial season at...

Horse Racing Nation and writer Ron Flatter is reporting that GI Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike (Keen Ice) has been sold to a group that includes, among others, former trainer Eric Reed. Reed and former owner Rick Dawson had a falling out over the rights to a movie about Rich Strike, Reed and his father. Dawson fired Reed and gave the horse to Bill Mott, who was unable to get him back to the races. "I'm happy," Reed told Horse Racing Nation. "I had to write off ever even putting...