Category: Industry News

Barbara D. Livingston By David Grening Courtesy Daily Racing Form There are 47 scheduled days of racing at Aqueduct’s upcoming winter meet — two more than the previous winter — as the New York Racing Association released part of its 2024 racing calendar on Friday. The winter meet will run from Jan. 1-March 30, with…
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Reddam Racing’s Today’s Flavor improved his record over the Big A main track to seven wins from 10 starts with an impressive 3 1/2-length score in Sunday’s $125,000 Thunder Rumble division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series. Trained by George Weaver, the 5-year-old Laoban gelding bred in the Empire State by Joseph Calvo, was…
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McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds has enjoyed tremendous success with their stallion Solomini, who is the leading first-crop sire standing outside of Kentucky. The now 8-year-old chestnut son of Curlin will be well represented next weekend in both the Great White Way and Fifth Avenue divisions of the New York Stallion Stakes Series, slated for Saturday,…
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Barbara D. Livingston By Matt Hegarty Courtesy Daily Racing Form Finger Lakes total handle this season was more than $120 million, up over 18 percent from 2022. The 2022 season was up markedly from the prior year. Total handle and average handle per race during the recently concluded Finger Lakes meet in upstate New York…
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IHDV Stallions LLC has announced that all stud fees for the stallions they manage will remain unchanged in 2024. MIND CONTROL, who set NY records for mares bred (190) and number of mares in-foal (171) has relocated to the Stillwater, NY farm for the 2024 breeding season. Rockridge Stud did an outstanding job in 2023….
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(New York, NY) – The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (NYTHA) has announced the candidates for the 2023 Board election. The NYTHA Board consists of the President, five (5) Owner Directors, and five (5) Trainer or Trainer/Owner Directors. All seats on the Board come up for election every three years. This year, there are two (2)…
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The son of Kantharos stood his first five seasons in Florida Bucchero Serita Hult Edited Press Release Second-crop sire and multiple graded stakes winner Bucchero, the sire of juvenile stakes winners Book’em Danno  and Mattingly, will stand at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds for the 2024 breeding season for $7,500. After breeding 471 mares while standing for five seasons…
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There were so many roads RRR Racing’s dual graded stakes-winner Clapton could have travelled following his private purchase this summer with an eye towards the Group 1 Dubai World Cup in March at Meydan Racecourse. The goal was never to reach Saturday’s Grade 1, $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park, but a…
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By Bill Heller Cheryl Prudhomme, a retired chemist with two patents, and Michael Gallivan, a retired dentist and legendary AAU basketball coach, connected at a dinner for New York-bred breeders 15 years ago and are still reaping the benefits. The two New York-bred weanling colts they sold at the October 17th Saratoga Mixed Sale for…
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By Sarah Mace Over the four sessions of the 2023 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearling Sale held at Newtown Paddocks in Lexington, Kentucky from Monday through Thursday, October 23-26, the New York-bred cohort posted solid stats, including a better clearance rate than the general population of the sale. Leading the pack was a Hip 1348, a…
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