You certainly know the given name Ogden and the surname Phipps, but you may not know much about this particular Odgen Phipps.  He is Ogden Phipps II, the 40-year-old son of Odgen Mills “Dinny” Phipps, who passed away in April, 2016. Going back to the late 1800s, the Phipps family has been a visible and [...]

The Goffs UK Breeze Up Sale is now streaming live on www.thoroughbreddailynews.com. The sale offers two-year-olds by leading sires from around the world including Bated Breath, Dandy Man, Dark Angel, Distorted Humor, Dutch Art, Elusive Quality, Excelebration, Exceed And Excel, Exchange Rate, Hard Spun, Havana Gold, Holy Roman Emperor, Kodiac, Kyllachy, Lope de Vega, Pivotal, [...]

The Goffs UK Breeze Up is streaming live on the TDN website, www.thoroughbreddailynews.com. Two-hundreds 2YOs catalogued for the Goffs UK Breeze Up Sale are breezing at Doncaster Racecourse. The sale will offer 2YOs by leading sires from around the world including Bated Breath, Dandy Man, Dark Angel, Distorted Humor, Dutch Art, Elusive Quality, Excelebration, Exceed [...]

The China Horse Club is a relatively new name in American horse racing, but it has wasted little time letting the world know that it intends on being nothing less than a major player on the U.S. racing scene. The Horse Club had a breakthrough when Abel Tasman, a horse it co-owned with Clearsky Farms, [...]

Last week, advance ticketing opened for the France Galop managed-racecourses, including the new ParisLongchamp. In the works for two years now, the flagship racecourse now opens in just 48 days. The new racecourse will host 34 race meetings in 2018, but it's clear that the designers are hoping ParisLongchamp will appeal to more than just [...]

This year, an automatic payment of $35 will accompany every Report of Mares bred paper filed with The Jockey Club, with the monies collected–estimated at $700,000–going to Thoroughbred retirement. Twenty-five dollars from each report will go to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, racing's umbrella organization which accredits and distributes money to retirement groups. The TDN's Sue [...]

Frank Stronach was honored with the Eclipse Award of Merit Thursday evening in recognition of his outstanding success in racing, breeding, racetrack ownership and support of retired racehorse programs. Accepting the Award… “There's an old saying: the whole world is a stage, and we all play a part in it. Tonight, the stage belongs to [...]

On February 1, Criquette Head-Maarek will retire, concluding one of the greatest careers any trainer has ever had. A member of what one may call France's first family of racing, she has won the Arc de Triomphe three times, established herself at a time when few thought a female could rise to the top ranks of [...]

A lot has changed in racing since 1904, but one thing has remained the same. When it comes to Oaklawn Park, for the last 114 years the person in charge has been named Cella. Following the death of Oaklawn owner Charles J. Cella in December, his son Louis was named the new president of Oaklawn. [...]

Taylor Made Sales' Mark Taylor saw a huge reaction to his tweet on Wednesday that read, “Do you remember when the whole world decided all American horses must be saturated with steroids? Just got a 100% clean report from @keenelandsales for the 3rd year. Haven't seen a positive yet!” The tweet was accompanied by a [...]

Striking the right balance between breeding for a private family and commercial breeding is often a dicey affair, requiring an acceptance from would-be purchasers that just because mares are for sale doesn't mean they're not valuable. But a glance through the 42 horses on offer (click here) from the Head family's Haras du Quesnay at [...]

Just before the 2015 Arqana December sale, Pierre-Yves Bureau, the manager of Wertheimer et Frere, predicted that one member of their draft that year, Polygreen (Fr), was going to prove popular to breeders, and a good buy. “She sells in foal to Invincible Spirit (Ire),” he told the TDN at the time, “and we think [...]