Join hosts Louie Rabaut and Sean Collins for the 11th episode of BloodHorse Monday presented by Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company, your weekly dose of Thoroughbred racing analysis and insights! In this action-packed installment: We review replays and discuss the exciting results of recent Kentucky Derby preps: the Blue Grass Stakes (G1) won by Burnham Square ,…
It all started in 2013 with a $50,000 investment in a nine-person partnership. From that pool of money, none of the group’s horses won above the allowance level. That was Sol Kumin’s rather humble introduction to Thoroughbred racing. Inauspicious? For sure. Yet it was also the spark that fueled the kind of success that seems…
Buying racehorses is a puzzle. And when it comes to finding future talent, the yearling sales is a bit like attempting a 1,000-piece jigsaw blindfolded. There are so many unknowns that even if you somehow manage to identify all the necessary pieces, getting them in order is a whole other matter. However, at the…
An expanded live racing schedule, featuring higher overnight purses and more stakes races, is on tap when Colonial Downs kicks off its 41-day meet, running from July 9 through Sept. 13. The summer 2025 stakes program, highlighted by a quartet of graded races, includes 31 races worth a total of $5.85 million. Overnight races will…
Cristina Holmes worked at Godstone Farm from 2016 until 2020 when it was purchased by her family and renamed Bonner Hill Farms. Little did she realize that the name had much deeper meaning. The farm in Southeastern Pennsylvania is very much a work in progress as Holmes charts a course for increasing its offerings, which…
Lane’s End Farm’s homebred 2003 Horse of the Year and champion older male Mineshaft has been retired from stud duty, the farm announced April 14. The son of A.P. Indy is 26. The stallion is in excellent health and will be pensioned at the farm, according to Lane’s End. “Mineshaft is a tremendous horse in…
Tom Pedulla offers takeaways from reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna ‘s latest stellar performance in the $1.25 million Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) at Oaklawn Park, the last Kentucky Derby (G1) qualifying race in the $400,000 Lexington Stakes (G3) at Keeneland, and other major stakes races contested at both sites. The Lexington awarded Derby qualifying points…
Godolphin Flying Start is delighted to announce the latest intake of trainees for its prestigious two-year Thoroughbred Industry Management and Leadership Program. The class of 2025-2027 comprises trainees from six countries: Ireland, Morocco, Spain, India, New Zealand and the UK. They will commence in Kildangan Stud, County Kildare, Ireland, on Monday, August 18th 2025. Godolphin…
The British EBF has increased its contribution to the funding of high value development races in 2025, with the organization committing £400,000 ($527,000, £1=$1.32) to the total fund of £3.3 million ($4.35 million) for the series this year. Leading stallion studs Juddmonte and Darley, along with the British Horseracing Authority and Tattersalls support the program of 88 races…
A consignor heading into an auction can have no greater endorsement than a former sale graduate excelling in grade 1 races on the most prominent stages. Multiple grade 1 winner Tenma is such a horse for Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree Stables. Consigned to last year’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale by Wavertree, Tenma…
