All Equine All The Time

Girolamo With the new year upon us, racing is slowly heating up for the 2017 Triple Crown while breeding sheds prepare for breeding season. While no doubt stallions across North America will be busy this year, a few look like they’re poised to grab even more interest from breeders in 2017.  Here are seven U.S.-based stallions with anywhere from one to four crops of three-year-olds on the track who look like they’ll be ones to watch in 2017. When both Shackleford (Forestry) and Dialed In (Mineshaft) retired to stud at Darby Dan Farm in 2013, it was probably believed that the Preakness winner would have an advantage at stud. But three years later, Dialed In isn’t just the King of the Freshmen at Darby Dan, he’s taken home the title over all the freshmen in this year’s exceptional crop. Dialed In looks to have a nice colt in two-time graded stakes winner Gunnevera with Ms Locust Point and Ruffenuff both representing his fillies at the stakes level with 19 sires winning for ...

Drefong's half-sister In a Breeders’ Cup for the ages, owners, horses and trainers went down in the history books at Santa Anita. From championship caliber wins to new sires hitting it big, the 13 races of the Breeders’ Cup saw horses bred in three countries and two states in the winner’s circle. From Juddmonte’s big weekend to a top stallion making it big in another way, read on to find out some of the interesting things that happened at the Breeders’ Cup this year. Juddmonte Farms – Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Arrogate wasn’t the only one making this year’s Breeders’ Cup a good one for Juddmonte. While that was the only win for the stable as an owner, they also had a second place finish with Flintshire in the Turf, his final start before retiring to Hill ‘n’ Dale for 2017. Flintshire was one of the top performers of the weekend for Juddmonte’s stallion Dansili, who also sired Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Queen’s Trust for Cheveley Park Stud. In an interestin...