All Equine All The Time

I'll admit that the whole horse breeding business intrigues me. There's nothing that moves me more than a foal standing for the first time and since it's Triple Crown season, I decided to take a look at some stats for stallions going to the shed after their racing career. These stats date back to 1985 and only include stallions that are in the shed right now or spent time in the shed (so no Barbaro, Funny Cide, etc). It also only lists where stallions started and ended their careers, some went to different countries or states in between. Kentucky Derby winners Year Horse Started Ended 1985 Spend A Buck Kentucky Brazil 1986 Ferdinand Kentucky Japan 1987 Alysheba Kentucky Saudi Arabia 1989 Sunday Silence Japan Japan 1990 Unbridled Kentucky Kentucky 1991 Strike The Gold Kentucky Turkey 1992 Lil E. Tee Kentucky Kentucky 1993 Sea Hero Kentucky Turkey 1994 Go For Gin Kentucky Maryland 1995 Thunder Gulch Kentucky Kentucky 1996 Grindstone K...

Welcome to All Equine All The Time. I'm one of those horse crazy girls that has literally been in horses for longer than I've been away from them. One of my biggest goals in life is to grow equestrian sports to a mainstream audience and that's probably why I'm here now. I am a senior mass communications major (graduating in may) that covers sports for my school's paper The Prairie. I also write for The Bleacher Report and am one of their main horse racing writers. My biggest accomplishment was probably covering the Breeders' Cup on site for the Bleacher Report last year.  The real reason for this blog is that sometimes my equine musing just don't fit anywhere. In those cases, I'll probably post them here. You'll probably find a ton of opinion pieces here but I'll also post some non-opinion 'where should they go' pieces here as well.  So enjoy and hopefully I'll educate or at least amuse you a little bit along the way.