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The title is considered the highest honor an American thoroughbred broodmare can receive, as the majority of American breeding stock resides in Kentucky. It is a subjective vote, as opposed to the title for leading sire in North America that looks strictly at the earnings of the stallion's progeny in the given year.
Mage was retired at Airdrie Stud for his first breeding season in 2024, having bred 171 mares. In 2025 seasonal breeding, he will continue to serve thereat for a fee of $25,000. The first foal by Mage, a bay colt out of multiple stakes-placed winner, a City of Light mare Lil Miss Moonlight, was born on January 9 at Machmer Hall in Paris ...
The September yearling sale represents the sale of horses from the breeding farms to race horse owners. In 2016, 2,792 yearlings were sold for a total cost of $272,890,500. The November breeding stock sale handles mares retiring from the racetrack, stock dispersals that occur when an owner leaves the business, and sales of older mares, often ...
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The Thoroughbred, as it is known today, was developed in 17th- and 18th-century England, when native mares were crossbred with imported stallions of Arabian, Barb, and Turkoman breeding. All modern Thoroughbreds can trace their pedigrees to three stallions originally imported into England in the 17th and 18th centuries, and to a larger number ...
Curlin, the 2007 Preakness and Breeders' Cup Classic winner, U.S. Horse of the Year in 2007 and 2008, and became the leading money-winner in North American Thoroughbred racing history, holding that record until surpassed by California Chrome in 2016, and later Arrogate in 2017, began his stallion career at Lane's End before being moved to stand ...
Panty Raid was retired from racing because of a torn suspensory ligament on May 27, 2008, during her 4-year-old season. She arrived May 29 of that year at Glencrest near Midway, Ky. to begin her broodmare career. Her named foals are as follows: Hunting Ground, bay gelding by Street Cry (IRE), foaled March 1, 2010. Has won five of 27 starts as ...
Bred and raced by Prince Ahmed bin Salman's The Thoroughbred Corp., Spain was out of the winning mare Drina. Her sire was Thunder Gulch, a winner of five Grade I races including the 1995 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. [1] Spain was conditioned for racing by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas.