Executive Director's Notes

Dear Stakeholders, Good news – checks for the 10% “holdback” amounts that were withheld from your award payments in 2017 were sent January 23rd. The holdback amount is being paid in full. We hope that this will be a help to you and wish you all the best in 2018. Sincerely, Tracy Egan Executive Director

Dear Stakeholders, You can now access a report on the status of all applications you have submitted for registration of a foal or stallion since 2017. To do so, first log into your account on the Online Registration page, then click ‘Reports.’ The displayed data can be copied, downloaded in the form of an Excel or PDF…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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