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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OBS March Sale – Unsettling Indications for the Market
POSTED: March 20, 2020
Photo Credit: Judit Seipert This week’s sale of two-year-olds in training at Ocala Breeders Sales Co. was never going to set any records. As Nicole...
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First foal arrives for Winding Creek Farm's No Never No More
POSTED: March 20, 2020
The first foal for No Never No More, the only son of Scat Daddy standing in the Mid-Atlantic region, was born the morning of March...
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American Pharoah Filly Fastest at Second March Under Tack Session
POSTED: March 13, 2020
Hip No. 237, a daughter of American Pharoah consigned by Wavertree Stables, Inc., (Ciaran Dunne), Agent, breezed a quarter in :20 2/5 to post the...
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Coal Front Gets First Mare In Foal
POSTED: March 12, 2020
Photo Credit: NYRA Press Release LEXINGTON, Ky. – Spendthrift Farm’s Coal Front, the five-time graded stakes-winning millionaire-miler, had his first mare confirmed in foal. The...
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First mare bred to Maximus Mischief checks in foal
POSTED: March 7, 2020
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Spendthrift Farm’s Maximus Mischief, the undefeated Grade 2-winning juvenile by Into Mischief, had his first mare confirmed in foal. Spin to Gold...
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Breeders’ Cup & Eclipse Champions Vino Rosso and Mitole get first mares in foal
POSTED: March 6, 2020
Press Release LEXINGTON, Ky. – Spendthrift Farm’s 2019 Eclipse champions Vino Rosso & Mitole, winners of the Breeders’ Cup Classic-G1 and Sprint-G1 in their final...
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Omaha Beach Gets First Mare in Foal
POSTED: March 4, 2020
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Spendthrift Farm’s newly-retired Omaha Beach, the three-time Grade 1-winning 3-year-old by War Front, had his first mare confirmed in foal Tuesday. Theyskens’...
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UNBRIDLED SPIRITS’ NATIVE RULER “THREE-PEATS” AS TOP IOWA STALLION
POSTED: February 5, 2020
LISBON, Iowa (Feb. 4, 2020) – For the third consecutive year, Native Ruler was named winner of the Stallion Division by the Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders...
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Maximum Security – Three year-old Champion’s Speed Revealed
POSTED: January 31, 2020
As the year 2019 fades into the rearview of history, the American racing industry breathes a sigh of relief and welcomes a new decade full...