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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Sons of Constitution, Normandy Invasion, Wicked Rich fastest at Racing Age Under Tack Show
POSTED: January 29, 2020
Allied Armada by Normandy Invasion Judit Seipert photo Three horses worked three eighths in :32 3/5 to share honors for the fastest works at the...
Racing Age Under Tack Show set for Monday, January 27
POSTED: January 27, 2020
With final preparations underway for the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2020 Winter Mixed Sale, the sale got a headline out of Oaklawn Park when Mike...
Omaha Beach Retires To Spendthrift Farm
POSTED: January 27, 2020
Omaha Beach, War Front’s three-time Grade One-winning three-year-old of 2019, has been retired to stud at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, KY. “Omaha Beach is doing...
First foal is a COLT for Long On Value!
POSTED: January 24, 2020
Ocala, Florida (January 24, 2020) – Long On Value – standing at Pleasant Acres Stallions – sired his first reported foal January 22, 2020 when...
Legendary Stallion Empire Maker Passes Away At Age 20
POSTED: January 20, 2020
January 20, 2020 - Multiple Grade I winner Empire Maker, a top stallion who sired 12 Grade I winners and had a profound impact on...
Preakness (G1) winner Cloud Computing sires first foal
POSTED: January 17, 2020
Spendthrift Farm stallion Cloud Computing, the 3-year-old millionaire who captured the 2017Preakness S. (G1), sired his first reported foal on Jan. 9 th when a...
Bucchero’s First Foal a Filly Born at Golden Legacy Stables
POSTED: January 15, 2020
Morriston, Florida (January 15, 2020) – Bucchero – standing at Pleasant Acres Stallions – sired his first reported foal January 14, 2020 when a filly...
Mor Spirit Sires First Foal
POSTED: January 11, 2020
Spendthrift Farm stallion Mor Spirit, winner of the Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) at two and Met Mile (G1) at four, sired his first reported foal...
First Foal a Filly for Multiple Grade 1 Winner at Spendthrift Farm
POSTED: January 11, 2020
Bolt d’Oro, the multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire by Medaglia d’Oro, sired his first reported foal early Friday, Jan. 10th when a filly was born at Forever...