Nancy Sexton

5 days ago | theownerbreeder.com | Nancy Sexton

Any owner would be forgiven for thinking that deep pockets are needed to play at Royal Ascot given the number of runners who changed hands privately in the weeks leading up to the meeting, culminating in the very public £2 million acquisition of Ghostwriter by Kia Joorabchian’s Amo Racing at the Goffs London Sale.

2 weeks ago | theownerbreeder.com | Nancy Sexton

I can’t have been the only one who did a double take at Australia’s 2025 fee of €10,000. The cut from €17,500 came despite a respectable run on the track highlighted in 2024 by the win of Port Fairy in the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot not to mention a Listed win at Craon for a promising two-year-old colt named Lambourn.

3 weeks ago | theownerbreeder.com | Nancy Sexton

Some 4,000 miles away from Newmarket on the first Saturday in May, the 2,000 Guineas was being played out in a quiet corner of a Kentucky barn. There was a moment of pride and satisfaction for the Mayer family who brought Ruling Court into the world, then it was back to work with the mares, the day continuing in its usual rhythm at Nursery Place. If nothing else was ever said about the Lexington farm, 2,000 Guineas day would be enough to encapsulate the farm and its ethos.

3 weeks ago | theownerbreeder.com | Nancy Sexton

Godolphin’s remarkable early May weekend, during which Sheikh Mohammed’s operation won the 2,000 and 1,000 Guineas alongside the Kentucky Oaks and Derby, has set a bar for excellence that will be hard to rival for years to come. The Coolmore team has pulled off the Guineas double on three occasions over the past decade, but you have to go back 1952 to find the last owner, Calumet Farm who landed both the Kentucky Oaks – Derby (courtesy of Hill Gail and Real Delight) in the same year.

1 month ago | theownerbreeder.com | Nancy Sexton

It’s that time of year where stallion masters are holding their breath. For some, it’s awaiting a stallion’s first runners. For others, and equally just as important, are the arrivals of a first crop of foals. There is nothing quite like the whispers of the bloodstock industry to fuel a notion, and for studs all over the world there will always be the pressure to receive positive chat. That starts early on as breeders look to see whether a stallion is stamping his stock.