Winton Farm

02/04/2022

Murphy and his human mom, Claire, looking pretty at a show in South Carolina!! So proud of these two! 🦄🥰🐴🏆🏇🏅

Tallapoosa (aka "Murphy"), 2012 chestnut Thoroughbred gelding
(Dance the Ballado x Define Honor, by D'Wildcat)
Bred by David Murphy and me

His mama is due to foal in a couple of weeks - her first foal since Murphy was born ten years ago, which is the last year we had foals born on our farm. I am SO excited!! Gidget's only breeding date was March 21, 2021, so according to the foaling calculator I use, she is due between Feb 15th and March 2nd! Hoping and praying for a healthy FILLY this time!

12/19/2021

Tallapoosa (aka "Murphy")
2012 Chestnut Thoroughbred Gelding
(Dance the Ballado x Define Honor, by D'Wildcat)
Bred by James D. Murphy & Suzanne P. Murphy (Winton Farm)
pictured with his owner, Claire, who lives in South Carolina

12/19/2021

UPDATE: December 19, 2021
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I haven't updated this page lately due to the fact I haven't been breeding or racing my horses recently. In August 2018, cancer took my dear husband, David, while we were living in Missouri. In August 2020, I bought a small farm in Alabama. In 2021, I decided to take baby steps getting back into racing, so only bred one mare (Define Honor) to my stallion (Oceanus), and the foal is due in February 2022. This will be my first foal in ten years! I plan to breed one mare (Carry in Excess) to Oceanus in 2022. My plans are to resume racing when this first foal is ready to run, hopefully in 2025, when it is a 3 year old. I will probably breed one mare each year going forward so I don't get overwhelmed with too many to put in training.
Thanks,
Suzanne Perdue Murphy

07/30/2020

01/26/2020

UPDATE: January 2020
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I haven't updated this page lately due to the fact we haven't been breeding or racing our horses recently. I am in the process of returning to Alabama, and plan to resume breeding & racing in the near future.
Thanks,
Suzanne Perdue Murphy

02/26/2018

Carry's third start (6 furlong allowance), September 15, 1991 at Belmont Park, went off as the favorite, won easily by 5 lengths! Mike Smith was her jockey!
http://www.equibase.com/premium/chartEmb.cfm?track=BEL...
photo credit: Bob Coglianese Photos, Inc.

02/26/2018

Carry's second start (6 furlong allowance), August 16, 1991 at Saratoga Race Track, went off as the favorite, won easily by 2 lengths! Mike Smith was her jockey!
http://www.equibase.com/premium/chartEmb.cfm?track=SAR...
photo credit: Bob Coglianese Photos, Inc.

02/26/2018

Carry's maiden win (6 furlong MSW) (her first start), July 29, 1991 at Saratoga Race Track, won easily by 7-1/4 lengths! Mike Smith was her jockey!
http://www.equibase.com/premium/chartEmb.cfm?track=SAR...
photo credit: Bob Coglianese Photos, Inc.

02/26/2018

We have a lot of his blood in our herd, thanks to his granddaughter, our 30 year old grand matriarch, CARRY A NATION!

12/15/2015

Silver in Excess
2009 gray mare
(Winninginexcess x So Long, by Exchange Rate)

Second race, Dec 11, 2015 (VERY green and unfit) - original trainer has been fired (she had been in his barn for 11 months, Jan 2 - Dec 1, 2015). She was moved from the Delta Downs trainer to a new trainer at Fair Grounds on Dec 1st. Looking forward to seeing what she can do once she is gate trained, used to working in company, and fit enough to go more than a half-mile.

12/15/2015

Silver in Excess
2009 gray mare
(Winninginexcess x So Long, by Exchange Rate)

First race, Nov 19, 2015 (VERY green and unfit) - trainer fired! She had been in his barn for 11 months (Jan 2 - Dec 1, 2015)

10/11/2015

Our Cavalier Lawn Jockey - will be painted with Winton Farm colors.

10/05/2015

OCEANUS
2007 dark bay horse * 16.2 hands
(A.P. Indy x Swazi's Moment, by Moment of Hope)
Unraced * Possibly Enters Stud in 2016 at Winton Farm

Sold for $450,000 as a Keeneland Yearling (Book 1)
Sired by Horse Of The Year & Twice Leading Sire, A.P. INDY
Out of G2-pl multiple stakes winner, SWAZI'S MOMENT
Half-Brother to mult G2 SW, mult G1-pl & leading sire, KAFWAIN

10/05/2015

NORTHERN DANCER & me
December 1987, Windfields Farm, Chesapeake City, MD

He is the horse that started it all for me when it comes to my passion for horse racing. I was 6 years old when I sat cross-legged in front of our black & white TV on the first Saturday in May 1964 and watched him win the Kentucky Derby. That was it! I was hooked for life! 23 years later I flew from Alabama to Maryland just to meet the great little horse, and what a treat I got in meeting him! He knew he was king. He had so much charisma, and loved all of the attention! What an honor!

10/04/2015

DANCE THE BALLADO
April 1, 1996 - September 22, 2015
(Saint Ballado x Her Honorship, by King of the North)

It is with a very heavy heart that I report our beautiful stallion, DANCE THE BALLADO, was euthanized September 22, 2015 at the vet school due to neurological problems.

He was the sweetest stallion, with so much heart. He was a tough racehorse, a multiple stakes winner, and retired sound after 41 starts. He was equally impressive as the sire of 74% winners from starters, and many of his runners had long careers, so they must have inherited his soundness and toughness.

He was a member of our family for 6 years, and we have three promising youngsters by him that we hope will be superstar racehorses.

Two weeks ago today, I lost my Dad, and now to lose Ballado today is just overwhelming. I am numb.

My only comfort is knowing his breeder, Robert Bakerman, was waiting for Ballado when he arrived in Heaven. Mr. Bakerman loved him so much. We bought him after Mr. Bakerman's death. His widow, who was in her 80s when I spoke with her 6 years ago, sobbed on the phone when I told her we bought him and love him. She was so happy knowing he had a loving home, and said her husband would have never sold him, but after her husband died she had to disburse the horses.

06/10/2012

Heather Spence & Belle Pandancer (1995 bay mare by Expensive Hobby), another lovely Winton Farm homebred!

Poplar Place June 9 2012

05/04/2012

BRINLY'S HOBBY, 2000 gray mare, Winton Farm homebred, sired by Expensive Hobby - shown here competing at the 2007 Georgia Games. She was a winner in hand at dressage shows as a yearing, then later as a show hunter and eventer.

05/04/2012

EXPENSIVE HOBBY as a 4 year old in 1992

05/04/2012

EXPENSIVE HOBBY as a 3 year old - pictured with trainer, Kathy Williams in January 1991 at Green Acres Training Center in Valdosta, GA

05/04/2012

EXPENSIVE HOBBY as a 2 year old in 1990 while in race training in Valdosta, GA. He shinbucked, so I brought him home and turned him out. He never raced. His sire was a stakes winner, his dam was a winner & 100% winning producer. Racing has been my lifelong dream, it took years to finally get one of my homebreds to the track, but I never gave up on my dreams!

05/04/2012

PANDAN - our foundation sire - he changed my life!
stakes winning son of Far North (by Northern Dancer)
out of a stakes winner / track record holding Hail to Reason granddaughter.

05/04/2012

EXPENSIVE HOBBY as a 5 year old - Winton Farm homebred, national champion sire, son of our foundation sire, Pandan.

(he is the sire of most of the show horses pictured on this page)

05/04/2012

EXPENSIVE SECRET as a suckling - Winton Farm bred winning hunter - sired by our Winton Farm bred stallion, Expensive Hobby (son of our stakes winner, Pandan), and out the gray mare behind him, My Secret Love (homebred 1997 mare by our stallion, Hot Secret - son of Secretariat).

05/04/2012

EXPENSIVE RACKET, 2001 gray c**t (pictured as a weanling), sired by EXPENSIVE HOBBY. Bred by our friend, Becky McAvoy of Prospect, Maine.

05/04/2012

EXPENSIVE VENTURE, 1994 gray TB gelding sired by our stallion, EXPENSIVE HOBBY