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Don Alberto Corporation spent millions to get their hands on GI winners Salty and Dacita. We visited them at Don Alberto Farm and met their new foals. Dacita is a daughter of Scat Daddy, and is the leading earner for her dam Daja (Chi) (Seeker's Reward). She was a dual champion in Chile before moving to the United States and into the barn of top turf trainer Chad Brown as a 4-year-old. She raced for three years in the States, claiming four graded stakes including two Grade I races in...

Unique Bella was the first GI winner for Don Alberto Stables, but she would go on to become a two-time Eclipse champion. This year, she had her first foal-- a filly by Medaglia d'Oro named Una Bella d'Oro. The daughter of champion sire Tapit retired in the summer of 2018 as a millionaire with eight graded stakes wins and two Eclipse awards to her credit. The towering gray filly was a fan favorite throughout her career and a top earner for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer. She was sent to Don Alberto's...

When Kameko (Kitten's Joy) won the G1 2000 Guineas on June 6, he made a fairly strong case for perseverance. His dam, the well-bred graded stakes winner Sweeter Still (Ire) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}), had been the co-second highest priced lot at Keeneland's January Sale in 2014 at $750,000 in foal to Galileo (Ire), carrying her second foal and bought by Phyllis Wyeth to breed to her GI Belmont S. winner Union Rags. Four years later, Sweeter Still was plucked out of the ring at Keeneland November by the little-known...

Her mother, Unrivaled Belle, is a Breeders' Cup Champion, and her full sister Unique Bella is a dual Eclipse Champion. This Tapit filly has some big shoes to fill. We spoke to Wayne and Cathy Sweezey about their new addition. While she enjoys the care-free life of a newborn now, the young filly has much to live up to someday when she steps onto the track. Her mother, Unrivaled Belle (Unbridled's Song), is a three-time graded stakes winner and Breeders' Cup Champion. Her full sister, TDN Rising Star Unique Bella...

The horse racing industry learned the tragic passing of Eclipse Champion La Verdad's passing on May 10th. We pay tribute to her memory and look forward to cheering on her foals someday soon. La Verdad (Yes It's True), the 2015 Champion Female Sprinter, has been euthanized due to complications from colic, according to a statement issued by her owner, Sheila Rosenblum. The 10-year-old mare had recently foaled a colt by Into Mischief at Vivien Malloy's Edition Farm in Hyde Park, New York. Rosenblum posted a statement on Facebook, which read,...

After foaling a filly by Arrogate in 2019, Songbird now has another beautiful filly by Tapit. Katie Ritz checks in with the superstar mare at Timber Town Farm, just in time for Mother's Day. Of all the jaw-dropping feats that a Thoroughbred is able to accomplish, perhaps nothing is quite as miraculous as watching a fierce, powerful racehorse transform to fill the role of motherhood. Wayne Sweezey, who owns and operates Timber Town Stables alongside his wife Cathy, has watched this dramatic role change hundreds of times. But one mare...

Denali Stud a week ago hosted its first virtual tour, taking fans on a walk through its foaling barn, and on Wednesday Craig and Conrad Bandoroff hosted a birthday party for farm matriarch Serena's Song, who turns 28 on Saturday, April 4th. As Serena's Song was led out by Assistant Broodmare Manager Radhika Clark-complete with a white birthday sash around her neck-Craig shared with fans her adoration of peppermints. "Serena absolutely loves peppermints," he said. "We can thank Wayne Lukas for that; from the day she arrived she's been a...

Autry Graham, the Assistant Marketing Director at Spendthrift Farm, takes fans on a virtual tour of their farm. Video footage by Bryan Starr Cinematography.

Veracity has had two foals that have been put up for auction, both fillies by Medaglia d'Oro. This year, her yearling sold for $900,000 at the Saratoga Sale and was purchased by Claiborne Farm. In 2018, Lael Stable spent $1 million on her first yearling, also purchased at Saratoga. Now, the mare herself is up for auction at Fasig-Tipton's Night of the Stars Nov. 5.

Photo Call's credentials on the racetrack alone make her a very valuable commodity. She's a two-time Grade I winner with victories in the GI Rodeo Drive S. and the GI First Lady S., where she defeated Tepin (Bernstein). Add in that she is not only one of three Galileos in the sale, but his fastest-winning daughter in the U.S. by virtue of her 109 Beyer figure in the First Lady. In fact, the only Galileo filly or mare to run faster in the U.S. was Photo Call's three-quarter sister Magical,...

There are dozens of fillies and mares in the catalogue for Fasig-Tipton's November Sale that jump right off the page. Quality is everywhere, easy to find as you browse through the pages. But of all the horses that will sell Nov. 5 during the "Night of the Stars" there is only one who can be called an Eclipse champion: Shamrock Rose.