Author Archives: Loren Schumacher

Taylor Made Farm is bursting at the seams with over 500 horses, mares, foals and yearlings, on its 1100 acre breeding farm near Nicholasville, Kentucky. The colts and fillies born...

It is difficult to tell the claimers from the Derby champions as they press against their paddock fences hoping to seduce the passing tour into parting with just a few...

More than thirty years ago, Ireland's Coolmore Stud added to its holdings a 500 acre slice of Kentucky bluegrass called Ashford Stud. Included with the farm was a stallion, Storm Bird, the sire...

Of American Pharoah’s Travers Stakes loss in late August, turf writer Steve Haskin wrote, “He and Frosted gutted each other and crawled home.” NBC’s Jerry Bailey, himself a Hall of...

I have to admit I’ve fallen under the spell of American Pharoah. The computer advises me that it doesn’t recognize that spelling of “Pharaoh”, and for my information and edification...

Baseball, boxing and horse racing. At the turn of the 20th century they were the big three of American sports. And clearly the most favored of all was horse racing,...

The newspaper articles appealed to emotion. Two-year-old horses, 40 in all, had been collected and trucked 19 hours to a local rescue. They were the disposable offspring of Canadian PMU...