Nancy Sexton

1 week ago | theownerbreeder.com | Nancy Sexton

A glance at the first-crop sires market suggests that the race for the 2025 title is done and dusted. At odds of 1/3, Starman is the overwhelming choice to fire in the most winners and become the latest leading freshman sire off the Tally-Ho Stud production line. Therein lies one of the pivotal factors in Paddy Power’s pricing.

1 month ago | thoroughbredracing.com | Amanda Duckworth |Nancy Sexton

Revealing interview with Arthur B. Hancock III, who has recently published a warts-and-all autobiography of a notoriously colourful life featuring horses, music and family rows – and a public fight with alcoholismMost families have their share of drama, but usually it is sorted out behind closed doors. For Arthur B. Hancock III, however, his family business became the talk of the Thoroughbred industry and beyond. As it happened, so did the horses he raised.

1 month ago | theownerbreeder.com | Nancy Sexton

Plans by the European Union (EU) to review its regulations for the transport of animals was borne out of well-meaning intentions. Around 1.8 billion animals are destined for slaughter each year in the EU, some of them transported in abominable conditions. The European Commission’s (EC) announcement of a new Farm To Fork strategy in 2020 was designed to tackle those issues head on and hopefully improve the wellbeing of such animals in the process.

1 month ago | theownerbreeder.com | Nancy Sexton

The Aga Khan IV, one of the most influential owner-breeders in the world and the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community, died on February 4 aged 88. His passing, which prompted a wave of tributes from leading racing figures across the globe, brought an end to an era that started in 1960 when, aged 23, the Aga Khan took control of his family’s bloodstock operation following the death of his father Prince Aly Khan.

1 month ago | theownerbreeder.com | Nancy Sexton

Rare are the stallions able to influence across the spectrum. Uncle Mo won’t go down in history as a champion sire but that statement fails to do justice to a horse whose stud career for Coolmore was defined by a clockwork ability to throw top-level performers while exerting an important presence as sire of sires and damsire. As such, his sudden death in December at Ashford Stud at the age of 16 leaves a major void in international breeding. One of the strengths to Uncle Mo lay in his background.