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Spendthrift stallion Race Day, whose first foals are 2-year-olds of 2019, will be represented by three juveniles at the March 12-13 OBS March sale... Read More

Multiple G1 winner Mor Spirit at Spendthrift Spendthrift Farm’s new stallion Mor Spirit, winner of the Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) at two and Met Mile (G1) at four, had his first mare check in foal earlier this week. Set’n on Ready, a two-year-old stakes winner on the racetrack… Read More

A colt from the first crop of Medal Count worked an eighth-mile in a lively 10 seconds flat... Read More

A filly from the first crop of Grade 1 winner Wicked Strong worked an eighth-mile in a swift :9 4/5 seconds during Thursday's session of the Under Tack Show... Read More

B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm has introduced a new breeding program for 2019 called the “Safe Bet” program, designed to incentivize breeders to support the farm’s fourth-year stallions. The Safe Bet program assures breeders that a stallion’s first crop of two-year-olds will have at least one Graded/Group stakes winner… Read More

Free Drop Billy, the only G1-winning son of Union Rags Spendthrift Farm’s new stallion Free Drop Billy, the Grade 1-winning 2-year-old by Union Rags, had his first mare confirmed in foal. Autumn Gold, a Smart Strike mare that was bred through Spendthrift’s “Share The Upside” program, checked in… Read More

Into Mischief | Barbara Livingston Photo Into Mischief was a $180,000 OBS 2-year-old in 2007, bought by Spendthrift Farm owner B. Wayne Hughes and trained by Richard Mandella in California during the synthetic-track era; indeed, all of Into Mischief’s six career starts were on synthetic tracks at Hollywood… Read More

Spendthrift Farm’s Cloud Computing, the 3-year-old millionaire who captured the 2017 Preakness S. (G1), had the first ever mate he covered check in foal, it was confirmed this week. Flat Out Gittin It, a stakes-placed 4-year-old filly by Flat Out, is in foal with her first pregnancy. Boarded at Chesapeake… Read More

Spendthrift Farm’s Bolt d’Oro, the multiple Grade 1-winning millionaire by Medaglia d’Oro, had the first mare he covered confirmed as being in foal on Monday. Silent Triumph, a young City Zip mare owned by Baccari Bloodstock, was his first ever mate when the breeding shed opened on Feb. 10th. She’s… Read More

Itsmyluckycharm ran her winning streak to four straight with a gallant score in the Feb. 18 Mrs. Presidentress S. at Gulfstream Park... Read More

A 3-year-old colt by Goldencents, last year's leading Freshman Sire of winners, topped Tuesday's opening session of the OBS Winter Mixed Sale... Read More

Lord Nelson’s first foal – a colt – was born Jan. 28 Lord Nelson, the three-time Grade 1-winning son of Pulpit, became a sire on Monday, Jan. 28 when his first reported foal – a chestnut colt – was born at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, KY. Bred by… Read More