Karen Doyle

KatieRich Stables LLC's May Day Ready (Tapit), who proved narrowly best in a three-way photo in Friday's 'Win and You're In' GII Jessamine Stakes at Keeneland, will return to the Belmont Park base of trainer Joe Lee to prepare for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. "I guess we will go back to New York; she trains well over that track," Lee said. "Probably ship in the next few days. She lost the right front shoe, so we are going to take a good look at it here. She...

It was 2007: compared with a year or two later, not the best timing in terms of what was on the market and how much it would cost you. "And it was a little bigger than we wanted," admits Larry Doyle. "But once we had the farm, well, we had to fill it." That might sound a bit cart-before-horse, as a strategy for repurposing 330 acres of cattle pasture for the rather more expensive models that nowadays graze KatieRich Farms outside Midway, Ky. But Doyle accepts that the Thoroughbred game...

Larry and Karen Doyle's KatieRich Farms gave $420,000 for the 6-year-old Amazonian (Malibu Moon--Fly the Flag, by Giant's Causeway) to top the Final Phase of the Glen Todd Dispersal on the Fasig-Tipton Digital platform. Consigned by Carl McEntee's Ballysax Bloodstock on behalf of the Estate of Glen Todd, who passed away last March, the chestnut was acquired by Todd's North American Thoroughbred Horse Co. for $50,000 at the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale and won three of her 10 career starts, including the 2019 British Columbia Oaks at Hastings Park...