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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Stakes-Placed Winy, by Looking at Lucky, is the newest mare added to the growing and impressive broodmare band at Circle 8 Ranch!
POSTED: December 15, 2020
Winy is a stakes-placed filly recently purchased by Circle 8 Ranch for the upcoming 2021 breeding season. She is by two-time Eclipse Award Winner Lookin...
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Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2021 Winter Mixed Sale is now available via the OBS website
POSTED: December 14, 2020
The catalog for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2021 Winter Mixed Sale is now available via the OBS website at obssales.com. The two-day sale is...
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OBS Sales Grads Weekend Wrap Up
POSTED: December 14, 2020
Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC and Willis Horton Racing LLC’s Bankit circled horses on the turn to reach contention in Aqueduct’s $100,000 Alex M. Robb Stakes on...
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Lexington: The Granddaddy of Them All
POSTED: December 7, 2020
Lexington Photo: Courtesy of Keeneland Library Collection By Peter Lee When you think of great sires, stallions such as Mr. Prospector, Northern Dancer, Bold Ruler...
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Market Holds Steady On First Day of Arqana Breeding Stock Sale
POSTED: December 7, 2020
The Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale, the final auction of the season, started on Saturday with a session that posted solid results and showed good...
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Honor Way wins Aqueduct’s Garland of Roses Stakes
POSTED: December 7, 2020
Saul J. Kupferberg’s Honor Way picked up her second straight stakes victory on Sunday at Aqueduct in the $100,000 Garland of Roses Stakes, circling wide...
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Dreaming as Always – the newest broodmare added to the growing and impressive broodmare band at Circle 8 Ranch and Tropical Racing
POSTED: December 4, 2020
After purchasing Dreaming as Always (NY) in the November 2020 Keeneland Breeding Stock Sale, Circle 8 Ranch has celebrated her arrival at their 200-acre farm...
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Australia Sires Two Juvenile Winners, One Is Half Sister To Wigmore Hall
POSTED: December 3, 2020
Ocean Road (2c Australia - Love And Laughter, by Theatrical) became a second juvenile winner in two days for Australia when taking the Fillies Novice...
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Country Grammer among horses in Paul Pompa Jr. Dispersal at Keeneland’s January Sale
POSTED: December 1, 2020
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland will offer 39 horses in the Complete Dispersal of the late Paul P. Pompa Jr. – including Turned Aside, winner of Saturday’s...