Looking back over 2023, it was most definitely a year of blessings, opportunities and new beginnings. The year started off with Defining Purpose winning the Year’s End Stakes at Oaklawn on the December 31st, 2022. This race landed her in…
Looking back over 2023, it was most definitely a year of blessings, opportunities and new beginnings. The year started off with Defining Purpose winning the Year’s End Stakes at Oaklawn on the December 31st, 2022. This race landed her in…
Photo: Kentucky Horse Park
Seems like just yesterday when a certain big red colt caught my fascination while visiting Three Chimney’s Farm. Besides wowing me with his ability on the track, I always felt a certain connection to him. Several years later, when I…
Photo: Coady Photography
Photo: Coady Photography
Photo: Coady Photography
Photo: Coady Photography
Photo: Champions of the Track
Photo: Champions of the Track
As a breeder, words just can’t express the gratitude and joy I had at seeing Defining Purpose win the G3 Indiana Oaks and to win at her dam’s home track, Horseshoe Indianapolis. I remember watching almost breathless when the horses…
Photo - Coady Photography
Photo - Coady Photography
Photo - Keeneland Racing
Photo - Coady Photography
Photo - Coady Photography
Photo - Keeneland Racing
The date Friday, April 7th, 2023, will forever be a date that I remember as a Happy Day. It was not only my Dad’s 85th birthday, but it marked a huge milestone in my thoroughbred breeding journey, a journey that…
Not only is Lentenor back in Indiana to stand for the 2023 season, but his best son, Uphold, who really favors his sire, is back as well! From the looks of things, Uphold is back at Horseshoe Indianapolis and working…
Since the mating of Defining Hope and Cross Traffic was successful in producing Defining Purpose, she will return to Cross Traffic in 2023. So grateful for Cecil, Sally and Martha’s help in recommending the original breeding back in 2019. I…
Defining Hope foaled her Csaba filly at 4:45am at R Star Stallions in Anderson, Indiana on Wednesday, February 8th. This is Hope’s first Indiana Sired foal and we’re definitely looking forward to seeing what this filly can do on the…
Defining Purpose’s maiden race was at Keeneland on 10/20/2022. She had atroubled first time out and was pushed 6 wide and subsequently used up herenergy stores to finish 5th that day to Pure Pauline and John Velasquez. Then, on 11/17/2022,…
Everything’s Rosy won 2 of her (7) starts at Horseshoe Indianapolis during the 2022 season as a 3 yr old. A large, imposing, leggy filly out of Blueskiesnrainbows and On the Point, she was stakes placed at the end of…
After finishing 4th in a race in early August, I decided that Hope should have some time off. She went back to Margaux Farm in Midway, Kentucky. During her R & R, a few nagging physical issues were discovered and…