Animal Kingdom worked an easy half mile on turf in :53.44 at Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida Jan. 17, the day after he was honored with an Eclipse Award as 2011’s champion 3-year-old male. Even though the time was leisurely, it was the fastest among the 13 workers on turf that morning. The move […]
Team Valor International’s Animal Kingdom, who had originally been scheduled to make his 2012 debut in the Feb. 25 Tampa Bay Stakes (gr. IIIT), will now run instead in a turf allowance race at Gulfstream Park Feb. 18. Last year’s Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner and 3-year-old male champion has not […]
Edition Farm, twice voted New York Breeder of the Year, has hired Fred Winters to assume the role as farm manager. Fred is a graduate of Arizona State University with B.S. in Agriculture. Fred has had a long career as a farm manager in Central Kentucky. He has run his own farm as well as […]
Team Valor International’s Animal Kingdom, winner of last year’s Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), breezed five furlongs in 1:01.05 at Palm Meadows Feb. 8 in preparation for his 4-year-old debut in the Tampa Bay Stakes (gr. IIIT) on grass Feb. 25. The Tampa Bay will be Animal Kingdom’s lone prep for the […]
After ruling out an appearance at Gulfstream Park Feb. 11 in either the GI Donn H. or GI Gulfstream Park Turf H., officials at Team Valor have announced that their reigning GI Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) will return to the races in the GIII Tampa Bay S. on Florida’s Suncoast Feb. 25. […]
Never before had the top two Eclipse Award vote getters in the 3-year-old male division been so much like the proverbial apples and oranges comparison, which made voting in 2011 so unique and difficult. That is how different the two protagonists, Animal Kingdom and Caleb’s Posse, were from each other. Voters had to decide between […]
Last week, Craig and Holly Bandoroff, who operate Denali Stud in Kentucky, entered into a strategic alliance with Vivien Malloy’s Edition Farm, a two-time New York breeder of the year, in an attempt to give their client base an opportunity to take advantage of the new purse structure and breeding incentives in the state of […]
Harvey Weinstein’s Turtle Bird Stable announced Dec. 2 that grade I winner Haynesfield has been retired. A stakes winner each year he raced, Haynesfield won 10 of his 19 lifetime starts for earnings of $1,319,481. A 5-year-old son of Speightstown, out of the stakes-winning Tejabo mare Nothing Special, Haynesfield was bred in New York by […]
Craig Bandoroff’s Denali Stud in Kentucky and Vivien Malloy’s Edition Farm in New York have formed a strategic alliance, it was announced Nov. 30. “Vivien Malloy has built a first class facility second-to-none in New York and her record as a leading breeder speaks for itself,” said Bandoroff, who keeps several mares at the facility […]
Trainer Graham Motion, fresh off a grade I win in the Hollywood Turf Cup, guns for another at Hollywood Park when he sends out three entrants in the $250,000 Matriarch Stakes on the turf Nov. 25, including defending champion Gypsy’s Warning. Motion, who sent heavily favored Sanagas from his Maryland training base to grab the […]
