Tampa Bay Down's 100th anniversary season was an overall success with gains in handle and on-track attendance, as well as purses paid to the horsemen and horsewomen who supported the stakes and overnight programs throughout the 90-day meet.
Fresh off a Kentucky Derby (G1) at Churchill Downs that featured three horses with international credentials, top-level stakes action shifts May 9 to Percy Warner, where the $250,000 Iroquois Stakes (NSA-1) also lured foreign runners.
Having been set to enter his 13th season at Eureka, Spirit Of Boom was found dead in his paddock the morning of May 6 from a suspected ruptured bowel. As a stallion, the son of Sequalo was crowned the champion Queensland sire four times.
In the third episode of Homegrown Heroes, Kevin Lay, stallion manager at Claiborne Farm shares with us some stories about growing up and working at Claiborne Farm.
In Beyond the Bidding, BloodHorse sales editor Olivia Newman takes a look at notable trends, accomplishments, and personalities around the North American sales scene.
This week's Porter on Pedigrees looks at how Kentucky Oaks victress Always a Runner's bloodlines go back to the earliest United States-born mare, known as Janus Mare No. 1.