Record-Breaking Sale Follows Son’s Breeders’ Cup Victory
The broodmare Streak of Luck topped the Fasig-Tipton November Sale on Monday, selling for $6.2 million to AMO Racing in Lexington, Kentucky. The sale came just days after her undefeated 2-year-old son Ted Noffey captured the Grade I Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar on November 1.
When Sovereignty powered home under Junior Alvarado at Churchill Downs, the breeding shed theorists had their “I told you so” moment. The Into Mischief-over-Bernardini mare cross had produced a legitimate classic horse, and the dam side of this pedigree deserves far more attention than it’s received.
In racing, where bloodlines are traced with the precision of royal genealogies and names often reflect noble heritage, there’s something delightfully irreverent about a champion racehorse named after a social media typo. Yet Ted Noffey—whose name came from an innocent transposition of Spendthrift Farm general manager Ned Toffey’s name—has proven that what’s in a name matters far less than what’s in the blood.
It was 37 years ago that the great Affirmed met the great Seattle Slew at Belmont Park, New York in September 1978. On that fall day in New York the two Triple Crown champions met, an event that obviously has not occurred since. The great Forego led them out on to the racetrack for this epic event. It was a shame that either had to lose – but one did. Watch as these two greats…
Edited Press Release, NYRA: Although race dates for 2026-27 are still to be determined, NYRA anticipates this change will amount to approximately three months of racing exclusively on an all-weather surface. This reflects NYRA’s commitment to improving all aspects of winter racing at the new Belmont Park.
When the Group One Champion Stakes was about to be run on October 15, there was hardly a punter who would bet against Baaeed. It was considered Baaeed’s race to lose, and lose he did. In fact, he came in fourth. The surprising winner was the long shot Bay Bridge, who became an instant millionaire.
In accordance with the national movement that was initiated by the Thoroughbred horse industries in California, Florida, Kentucky and New York, the Maryland Jockey Club has taken the important and necessary action to inform the Maryland Racing Commission of its plans to restrict races for 2-year-old horses to those whose connections elect not to administer the drug Lasix on race day.
Is there a more exciting horse in training in North America than Maxfield? I think not. The son of Street Sense, (pictured), is unbeaten, was brilliant at two before ankle chips sidelined him just before the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile S.-G1, and is one of the handsomest horses you’ll ever see, big and both masculine and elegant.
It was Bob Baffert day in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on the first Saturday in May, and he won everything but the key to the city. His brilliant colts, Charlatan and Nadal, both unbeaten, took both divisions of the Grade One Arkansas Derby, and his precocious filly Gamine remained unbeaten as well in allowance company.
Officials from Keeneland Association and Fasig-Tipton Company Inc. today announced restrictions on the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), corticosteroids and bronchodilators, including Clenbuterol, for all horses sold at sales conducted by these two major Thoroughbred auction houses effective immediately.