Welcome to the Past The Wire bloodstock section. This is where we feature columns on horse breeding, stallion farms, nicking, and pedigree content. Expert pieces on popular stallions, broodmares and their progeny as well as statistical data on stallions, broodmares and foals. We also feature breeding sale news from Fasig-Tipton, Keeneland, Ocala Breeders’, Midlantic and Tattersalls.
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It’s Foal Patrol Time!
POSTED: January 9, 2022
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s Foal Patrol Season 5 now live! SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Season 5 of the National Museum of Racing...
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Ontario’s Mare Purchase Program Receives Added Funding
POSTED: January 7, 2022
Ontario Racing's Thoroughbred Improvement Program Committee has approved an additional $200,000 for its innovative Mare Purchase Program, bringing the total to $700,000. An enthusiastic response...
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Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale Starts Monday
POSTED: January 6, 2022
Eight-time stakes winner Hello Beautiful, impressive maiden winner Belgrade, stakes-placed Risky Mischief among new supplements LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland will kick off the year Monday, Jan. 10...
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Champion Sprinter Gamine Starts Her New Career
POSTED: January 4, 2022
Owner Michael Lund Petersen announced that champion sprinter Gamine, the leading distaff earner of champion sire Into Mischief, has been retired. One of the fastest horses...
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G1 Winner Math Wizard Supplemented to Keeneland Sale
POSTED: December 29, 2021
Auction of no-guarantee season to Gun Runner added to first session LEXINGTON, Ky.– Keeneland has cataloged seven horses – including millionaire and Grade 1 winner Math...
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Best of 2021: Joe McMahon
POSTED: December 29, 2021
Anne and Joe McMahon (photo courtesy of McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds) OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Just two live race days remain in 2021 to complete...
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Year in Review: The Year We Lost Galileo
POSTED: December 23, 2021
Urban Sea gave birth to a Sadler’s Wells foal on 30 March 1998. The 1993 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe-winning mare and the 14-time Champion...
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The Jockey Club to Increase Registration Fees
POSTED: December 17, 2021
LEXINGTON, Ky—The Jockey Club announced today that it will be increasing each category of registration application fees by $20 starting in 2022. The last fee...
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Central Banker can cap off a big year at stud with NYSSS Fifth Avenue participants
POSTED: December 17, 2021
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Leading New York sire Central Banker can round out a successful season when represented by a trio of fillies in Saturday’s $500,000 Fifth...