Horse Racing Forum - USA Thoroughbred Races

The inaugural New Zealand Small Breeder Of The Year award has been won by 83 years young Don Goodwin. The breeder of Melbourne Cup winner Verry Elleegant.
https://www.racingnews.co.nz/new-zealan ... announced/

Would be interested to hear about other small breeders around the world that have big success

What a great idea for an award.

Angie and Sabrina Moore, the breeders of Knicks Go, are a great example

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... -knicks-go

Gail Rice, breeder of Medina Spirit, is another great example.

How big is the broodmare band at Glennwood?

Katewerk wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:50 pm How big is the broodmare band at Glennwood?

https://canadianthoroughbred.com/magazi ... ood-farms/

Owned by Vancouver’s John Gunther and his daughter, Tanya Gunther, Glennwood Farm, a breeding machine based just outside of Versailles, KY — self-described as a ‘boutique’ thoroughbred breeding operation — rarely has more than 20 broodmares.

Perry Martin & Steve Coburn who bred California Chrome.

Fascinating article on the breederof Legarto who bred 2x G1 winners from 6 mare that season.
https://www.racingnews.co.nz/jeffries-f ... s-triumph/

One breeder I keep an eye on is Peter E Blum (Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds, LLC). I'm not sure how many broodmares he owns, but what caught my eye was that one of the mares he owned, Mine Only, is a tail-female descendant of Masda, Man o' War's full sister.

There's an article about him and one of his horses, Academy Award, at https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/arti ... emy-award/

Carmel Road, National Treasure and Occult are current 3-year-olds bred by Blum and descended from Mine Only.

Secret Oath's breeders have a cool story!
https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/t ... cret-oath/

RachelAlexandra24 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 3:26 pm Secret Oath's breeders have a cool story!
https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/t ... cret-oath/

Enjoyable read. Thanks for sharing.