Dear Stakeholders, Please be sure to submit applications for registration of your foals by December 31st to avoid the price increases that will occur when they turn a year older on January 1st. Pay before the new year and it will only cost $50 to register your foal of 2017. If you wait until the…
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Category: Executive Director’s Notes
Period V Award Checks Sent November 6th
Dear Stakeholders, The NY Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund is mailing out Period V award checks this afternoon. If your registered New York-bred placed first through third at a New York track in September or October, be sure to check your mailbox over the next few days. Be sure to also check the NYBREDS FaceBook…
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Period IV Award Checks Sent September 6
Dear Stakeholders, The awards your horses earned racing at New York tracks in July and August were sent September 6. Registered NY-breds generated 1,251 breeder awards, NY-sired horses generated 638 stallion awards, and registered NY-breds competing in open company generated 183 owner awards over the two-month period. Please check out the links on NYBreds.com to…
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The Fund Introduces a New Online Foal and Stallion Registration System
Dear Stakeholders, We have just launched a new online registration system on our website at NYBreds.com here. The first time you submit an application online in our new system, you will have to create an account, which will take just a couple of minutes and will only be necessary once. When you return in the…
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Missed the NY Stallion Shows?
Dear Stakeholders, Catch up with the seven stallion shows hosted by NY farms in the month of January! The NY Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund has posted videos of the shows on YouTube. And be sure to check out the stallion videos on our website here. You are welcome to share any and all of…
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“Pre-Sale” Belmont Stakes Tickets Available to New York Breeders
Dear Stakeholders, NYRA is giving loyal fans, owners and breeders the opportunity to “speed pop” the gate to purchase tickets for the 2017 Belmont Stakes Festival! You know it’s difficult to get tickets when a Triple Crown is on the line. So the tip of the day is to use the code below and go…
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Sixth-Period Awards in the Mail and Holdback Checks Coming Next Week
Dear Stakeholders, The Fund staff is happy to inform you that more than 2,200 awards totaling over $2 million were generated by your horses during award period six (November and December of 2016) in races conducted at Aqueduct and Finger Lakes. Those award checks were mailed this afternoon. Further, we expect to mail out checks…
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Videos of Registered New York Stallions Now Available on NYBreds.com
Dear Stakeholders, We now have videos of many of the stallions standing in New York for 2017 on our website here. We hope this will be useful to many of you in choosing which stallion to send your mare to for the coming breeding season. Keep in mind that breeder and owner awards are paid…
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Register Your Weanling by December 31 to Avoid Fee Increase
Dear Stakeholders, As you are likely aware, this year we decreased the fee for registration of weanlings from $75 to $50 in an effort to encourage our breeders to register their foals early. As part of this effort, we will be increasing the fee for yearling registration in 2017 from $150 to $300. To avoid…
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Award Checks, NY-Breds in the BC, NY Mares at Keeneland
Dear Stakeholders, This is a busy and exciting week for the New York Thoroughbred industry. We have five representatives in the World Championship Breeders’ Cup races in California, many NY resident mares are heading to the auction block at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, and the NY Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund is issuing…
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