The 2023 Texas Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale features the most horses cataloged for a two-year-old sale in Texas Thoroughbred Association Sales history. One-hundred-eighty-six horses are featured in the catalog ahead of the April 5th sale at Lone Star Park, making it the largest two-year-old sale since TTA Sales took over management of the spring sale. The book features national stallions including Bernardini, Bolt d’Oro, City of Light, Classic Empire, Good Magic, Justify, Kantharos, Malibu Moon, Midshipman, Munnings, and Practical Joke. First crop stallions are well represented through ..read more

Horse racing, perhaps more than any other sport, can produce unexpected and heart-warming stories that almost defy believability. In the 1930s, a former claiming horse named Seabiscuit rose to stardom and captured the attention of a nation reeling from the Great Depression. And just last year, Cody’s Wish scored an upset in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and gave teenager Cody Dorman, who was born with a rare genetic disorder and inspired the horse’s name, a truly special moment in the winner’s circle at Keeneland Race Course. The latest improbable feel-good story from the horse racing world is ..read more

Fifty years ago this March, Secretariat began his 3-year-old campaign in the Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct. Over the ensuing months, the chestnut colt became the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, setting new track records in each of the three races. His 31-length Belmont Stakes victory was the stuff with which legends are made. Secretariat’s story has been told again and again, and he is still considered by many to be the greatest horse to ever set foot on a racetrack. As a stallion, however, he rarely received the recognition he deserved. After all, he was expected to reproduce himself, a ..read more

One Go All Go, a two-time Grade 2 winner with earnings of more than $700,000, has been relocated for the 2023 breeding season to stand at Bill and Sabrina Kirton’s Kirton Farms in Turpin, Oklahoma. He is an accredited Oklahoma stallion and will stand for a fee of $1,500. A son of the multiple graded stakes winner Fairbanks (by Giant’s Causeway), One Go All Go won at first asking as a 2-year-old and then finished a close third in the Arlington-Washington Futurity (G3). He then developed into an elite turf runner after winning the $400,000 Commonwealth Derby (G2) at Laurel, defeating Grade 1 win ..read more

Everyone in the equine industry knows that horses and dust go together. There’s just no way around it…any stable, arena, track or horse walker surface is going to kick up a lot of dust and be a hassle to maintain, right? Well, it doesn’t have to be that way anymore, thanks to ThorTurf. Proudly produced in the USA in Sandusky, Ohio, ThorTurf is a truly 100% dust-fee equine surface that is better for both horses and humans. There’s plenty of science behind ThorTurf, as it uses proprietary Dust Lock Additive (DLA) technology with polymeric synthetic fibers to create a durable, high-performance su ..read more

(News release from Indiana Horse Racing Commission) It’s not just auto racing and paved tracks that are making investments in our state; another type of Hoosier Horsepower is making a big impact as well. The horse racing industry is a big business for the state of Indiana, touching all 92 counties. The newly released results of a recent economic impact analysis, conducted by Purdue University, show the Indiana agri-business industry of horse racing has more than doubled in the past decade. The racing and breeding business linked to horse racing has now reached just under the $2 billion mark of ..read more

Kirton Farms in Turpin, Oklahoma, has announced that multiple stakes winner Someday Jones will stand his first season at stud for the 2013 breeding season. The son of Smarty Jones will stand for a fee of $1,500. Someday Jones earned $790,320 on the track with a total of 12 wins from 44 career starts. He recorded three stakes wins and six more stakes placings. Perhaps his most impressive win was the $100,000 Native Dancer Stakes at Laurel Park when he earned a 120 Equibase Speed Figure for the 1 1/8-mile race. Someday Jones is by near Triple Crown winner Smarty Jones, an earner of more than $7 ..read more

Racing dates for the 21st season of Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing were approved by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission (IHRC) at their regular meeting Thursday, Dec. 1 held at Harrah’s Hoosier Park. A total of 123 racing days are on the calendar with six all-Quarter Horse racing days included in the overall total. One of the biggest changes for the 2023 racing season is the addition of several Saturday dates from June 3 through Sept. 2. Five of those dates are allotted for Quarter Horse racing with a first post time of 10:45 a.m. Five dates in that time frame will be Thoroughbred and Q ..read more

In the United States, horse racing is a popular sport that’s practiced all throughout the nation and offers a variety of betting options. It includes everything from small races to some of the greatest occasions in the horse racing industry. Together with the horse betting guys of Horse.Bet, we take a quick look at a few of the major horse racing occasions on the United States racing calendar. Kentucky Derby The largest and most well-known US race is the first race in the Triple Crown. The Kentucky Derby has expanded beyond horse racing and become a significant event of the sporting year, much ..read more

Janice Jordan, owner of Breakway Farm, with Calculator. (Photo courtesy Breakway Farm) Prepare for the impending 2023 foaling and breeding season by learning how you can help prepare your mare for a healthy and successful foaling and breeding season with a free breeders seminar on December 10. Breakway Farm, LLC, in conjunction with the Indiana Thoroughbred Alliance, invites breeders and owners to attend a foaling and breeding seminar aimed for the mare owner. The seminar, open to owners of all breeds, will be held at Breakway Farm in Dillsboro, Indiana, starting at 11 am EST. T ..read more