Grade 3 multiple stakes winner Name Changer, son of emerging sire of sires Uncle Mo, has been retired to stud at Peter Kazamias’ Kaz Hill Farm in Middletown, NY. Name Changer, out of the four-time stakes-winning Northern Afleet mare Cash’s Girl, won eight races and placed an additional 10 times in 24 lifetime starts,…
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Category: Industry News
Laobanonaprayer Takes Center Stage in $250K NYSSS Fifth Avenue
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Laobanonaprayer, owned and trained by Daniel Velazquez, headlines Sunday’s $250,000 NYSSS Fifth Avenue, a seven-furlong sprint for eligible New York-sired juvenile fillies at Aqueduct Racetrack. The Fifth Avenue is one of three stakes on Closing Day of the Big A fall meet, which also features the $250,000 NYSSS Great White Way…
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Multiple G1-Placed, $1.3 Million Earner Lookin At Lee Joins the Roster at Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions
LOOKIN AT LEE (2014 Lookin At Lucky o/o Langara Lass), a multiple Grade One placed Black Type winner and popular runner-up in the 2017 Kentucky Derby has been retired from racing and will stand his first season at stud in 2021 under the management of Irish Hill & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC in Saratoga, New…
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Ny Traffic’s Near-Miss Haskell Was Special for Breeder Brian Culnan
By Bill Heller Watching the $1 million Grade 1 Haskell at Monmouth Park on TV by himself in his Saratoga apartment on July 18th, Brian Culnan could scream as loud as he wanted for Ny Traffic (pronounced as “New York” Traffic), the three-year-old New York-bred colt he bred. As the mile-and-an eighth Haskell developed, Ny…
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NY-Bred Ratajkowski Was Well Worth the Wait
By Bill Heller By definition, breeders are patient optimists. They get their mare in foal, wait 11 months for her to produce a foal, wait months more to see the foal turn into a yearling and then, if it is not sold as a yearling, wait at least another year hoping the foal, if not…
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Twin Creeks’ Gullatt and Davision are a Breed Apart
By Bill Heller Twin Creeks Farm’s Randy Gullatt and Steve Davison, lifelong friends since kindergarten in Rustin, Louisiana, traveled a lot of miles and endured a difficult loss before becoming the breeders of the Belmont Stakes winner on June 20th. That’s when Sackatoga Stable’s Tiz the Law became the first New York-bred in 138 years…
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Bill Heller’s Top Ten Moments in New York-Bred History
Bill Heller, who has been covering New York racing since the Ice Age – actually since 1974 – is ranking the top ten moments in New York-bred history from the last 46 years. The ranking is completely subjective – just one person’s Top Ten. They’ll be presented here in David Letterman’s Top Ten style, beginning…
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New York-Breds at the Races
Belmont Park – Monday, January 18, 2021 Race 4 Letmetakethiscall (Take Charge Indy – Spring Elusion, by Elusive Quality) Jockey: Dylan Davis Trainer: James W. Ferraro Owners: Matthew Levy & Kenneth Greenvald Breeders: Danzel Brendemuehl & Sandra Lombardo Purse earned: $46,200 Race 8 Hey It’s Tati (Big Brown – Media Starlett, by Mass Media)…
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Statement from The Jockey Club on the Investigation by the FBI and Department of Justice
Today the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York announced the indictment of 27 individuals in connection with doping in the horse racing industry. The Jockey Club has long been an advocate for drug reform in racing and we commend the actions of the FBI, the Department of Justice, and their collaborating…
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New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund Bolsters Lucrative Stallion Stakes Series Finale
by Joe Nevills Courtesy PaulickReport.com Dream Bigger wins the Notebook Stakes under Jose Ortiz The two divisions of the New York Stallion Stakes Series set for Dec. 14 and 15 at Aqueduct are the richest sire stakes races in the country, each featuring $500,000 purses. However, that’s just the start of the money set to be…
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