Stallions

Frank Conversation was represented by his first foal on Jan. 17 when Looksgoodfromhere (by Freud) foaled a chestnut filly at Saratoga Glen Farm, which is also the breeder of the foal. Looksgoodfromhere is a winning Freud mare, her first foal by Mission Impazible is a winner, and she is a half-sister to the dam of […]

Spendthrift Farm stallion Cloud Computing, the millionaire who captured the 2017 Preakness Stakes, sired his first reported foal on Jan. 9 when a colt was born at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in New York. Bred by Howard Nolan Jr., the dark bay colt is out of the young Girolamo mare Best Manners, whose dam is […]

Champion I’ll Have Another’s first two North American foals have arrived. The first was dropped Jan. 14, 2020 at Rancho San Miguel in California. The 2020 filly is out of the winning mare Year of Light by Event of the Year. The filly was bred by Jacqueline Bousquet and Dr. Jeaneen Metzler. She was followed […]

In a deal brokered by trainer Cody Autrey’s Autrey Bloodstock, Mark Valeski will relocate from central Kentucky’s Airdrie Stud to Lake Hamilton Equine in Royal, Ark. A multiple graded-stakes winner on the racetrack, Mark Valeski retired with earnings of over $658,000 for trainer Larry Jones and owner/breeder Brereton C. Jones. His signature wins came in […]

Grade 1 winner Mo Town’s first foal has arrived, with four-time winner Dark Dolores foaling a colt at Stonegate Stables in New York on Jan. 14. Bred by Michael Cogan of Irie Thoroughbreds, the colt comes from a strong family. Successful on the track herself, Dark Dolores is the half-sister to Grade 3 winner and […]

Grade 1 winner and record-setter Mendelssohn welcomed his first foal on Tuesday night when Lilacs and Lilies foaled a filly at Brookstown Farm. Bred by Judy Hicks and Kathryn Nikkel, the filly is the first foal for the half-sister to Grade 1 winner Lilacs and Lace, who is also the dam of Japan’s 2017 champion 2-year-old […]

A good presentation needs to grab the audience from the start, and when Dr. Michael Lewis speaks on behalf of the Edward P. Evans Foundation, the organization’s president has a proven way to get his hooks into them early. “I always use it as my introduction for our scientific meetings,” he said. “’I want to […]

WinStar Farm’s Good Samaritan, a versatile millionaire son of Harlan’s Holiday and a graded stakes winner on dirt and turf, sired his first reported foal on Jan. 15 when a filly was born at Windmill Farm in Versailles, Ky. Bred by Ellen Kill Kelley, the filly is produced from the graded stakes-placed and stakes-producing Vicar […]

Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Penn., will host a stallion show on Sunday, Jan. 26, from noon to 3 p.m. Eastern. The show will be an opportunity to inspect Boisterous, California’s leading freshman sire of 2018 and leading second-crop sire of 2019, who moves to Diamond B Farm for the upcoming breeding season. The Grade […]

Bucchero – standing at Pleasant Acres Stallions – sired his first reported foal on Jan. 14, 2020 when a filly was born at Golden Legacy Stables in Ocala, Fla. The filly is out of Goldenlegacy’shope – an unraced Kentucky mare out of Laurel Lassie and a daughter of Medaglia d’Oro’s Grade 1-winning and graded stakes-placed […]