Lantern Hill Farm

09/10/2023

09/04/2023

07/28/2023

Keeneland Yearling Sales are coming, would you like to help us prepare our yearlings? August mornings from 6:00 am to noon are available, we can train but prefer you have some farm experience. Pay starts at $15 per hour, but if you are a superstar it might be as high as $25. Possibility of full time employment with housing in Midway for the right person. Reply with PM if interested please.

Se acercan las ventas de añales de Keeneland, ¿te gustaría ayudarnos a preparar a nuestros añales? Las mañanas de agosto están disponibles de 6:00 a. m. al mediodía, podemos entrenar, pero preferimos que tenga algo de experiencia en la granja. El pago comienza en $ 15 por hora, pero si eres una superestrella, puede llegar a $ 25. Posibilidad de empleo a tiempo completo con vivienda en Midway para la persona adecuada. Responda con PM si está interesado, por favor.

07/14/2023

The Magic of a Winning Team! Ferrin Peterson

07/03/2023

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08/17/2022

Is anyone looking for a big handsome lead pony? If so please pm.

07/30/2022

JUMPS / TRAIL RIDES / LOVES CROSS COUNTRY / FUTURE STAR OF THE HUNT FIELD Kentucky bred, never raced, sired by Kentucky Derby Winner Orb, Theo grew up here at Lantern Hill Farm and has 90 days of skilled training under his girth.

06/30/2022

As a thoroughbred breeder, I hope some of my colleagues will find this research interesting. Now that the Kentucky Derby winner is in**ed so closely to Smart Strike, I fear more of us will be tempted to double up to close relatives.

"The sobering aspect of the study's conclusions is a strong correlation observed between inbreeding and Thoroughbreds that
never start in a race."
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.0487

Small effective population sizes and active inbreeding can lead to inbreeding depression due to deleterious recessive mutations exposed in the homozygous state. The Thoroughbred racehorse has low levels of population genetic diversity, but the effects of ...

06/06/2022

04/16/2022

Dreaming of Liz has a runner in the spotlight this morning :-)

The $100,000 Long Branch Stakes for fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, headlines opening day of the 2022 Woodbine Thoroughbred season, slated as the seventh race on the Apr. 16 eight-race card.

03/13/2022

Miss Holiday Inn's 3yo KNEESNHIPS is our latest homebred stakes winner, purchased by Joe Politi for only $30,000 from our 2020 Keeneland September Yearling Sale consignment. From the first crop of Lane's End stallion CONNECT, she was spotted by Julie Cauthen and Tom Amoss.

03/09/2022

YES.

Sometimes it’s important for us to step back and just appreciate how lucky we are that horses allow us into their world. They teach us, move beyond our mistakes and misinformed ideas, bring us joy and a feeling of being part of something better than ourselves. They get us outside, teach us responsibility and empathy, and to put something before ourselves.

03/07/2022

Such sad news, this great stallion enriched so many lives 😢
https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/multiple-grade-i-winner-grade-i-producing-sire-get-stormy-dies/

Get Stormy (Stormy Atlantic–Foolish Gal, by Kiri's Clown), a three-time Grade I winner and leading sire at Crestwood Farm, died unexpectedly Sunday at the age of 16 from what is believed to be a cardiac event, Crestwood reported Monday. Bred and owned by Mary A. Sullivan, who races under the name ...

11/26/2021

"At one point, when I had horses for Frank (Calabrese), I had about 50 horses just for him. That made a big difference.

On the flipside, I once went from 50 horses in my barn to only a pony. There was another time when I had no horses.

So, I've reinvented myself a few times." --Wayne Catalano, TDN

11/10/2021

“Gainesway and Whisper Hill's third and final purchase together Tuesday was MISS STORMY D, a stakes winner this year in California. The 5-year-old Tapizar mare hammered at $500,000.

MISS STORMY D was bred in Kentucky by Lantern Hill Farm, Phil Needham, and Judy Needham out of the Mr. Greeley mare Miss Relentless, also the dam of stakes winner EVIL LYN.

The mare's third dam, Candy Girl, produced top sire and grade 1 winner Candy Ride and is also the third dam of grade 1 winner Tom's d'Etat.

Keith Brackpool previously purchased Miss Stormy D for $37,000 from Lantern Hill Farm at the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. The mare went on to earn $273,040 from a 4-4-2 record in 18 starts with trainer Carla Gaines. “---The Blood Horse Daily

08/03/2021

BARNEGAT LIGHT!

Last night at Presque Isle, Barnegat Light (Summer Front-Wickapecko 18) led gate to wire and drew off to win by 6 1/2 in his first start since his maiden win there on July 6.

His Equibase Speed Figure for the mile test was 96.

Homebred Barney was overlooked by everyone in our 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale consignment, so he races in partnership with Blazing Meadows Farm.

Thanks to trainer Tim Hamm, jockey Scott Speith and everyone else on their team who gave this gelding a chance to shine for us.

07/31/2021

House In Midway Available for Full Time Horse Farm Worker
$12-14/hour, health insurance, paid vacation, generous annual bonus

OR:

Part Time Position Available, $15 per hour (no house)

If you want to learn, we will train!

Casa en Midway disponible para trabajador de granja de caballos a tiempo completo
$ 12-14 / hora, seguro médico, vacaciones pagadas, generoso bono anual

O:

Posición disponible a tiempo parcial, $ 15 por hora (sin casa)

El trabajo incluye trabajar con yeguas y potrillos,, podar y mantener la granja.
Si quieres aprender, ¡te formaremos!

07/22/2021

One Opening Only: Sept 13-19
5:00 AM to 5:00 PM

We have small consignments and happy, well trained yearlings.

Pay: $350-400/day

Note: You must have a minimum of
2 years' experience working as a Show Person for a Kentucky yearling sales consignor to qualify for this pay scale.

Please reply to [email protected]

07/04/2021

Kneesnhips (Connect-Miss Holiday Inn, by Tactical Cat) made a charge up the rail to win her debut at Ellis Park for trainer Tom Amoss, jockey James Graham and owner Joel Politi.

She was an astute purchase from our 2020 Book 3 Keeneland September Yearling Sales consignment, congratulations to the team!

https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/race/usa/elp/2021/7/4/6/race-6-msw-at-elp-on-7-4-21

05/22/2021

Get Smokin (Get Stormy) earns his second stakes win of 2021 taking the field gate to wire in the Seek Again S. at Belmont Park!

Get Smokin is a MGSW of $376,040

Congratulations to trainer Tom Bush, owner Mary Sullivan and breeder Hurstland Farm & James Green Jr. Get Smokin was purchased from FTK Oct sale by Phil Hager from the Hurstand Farm consignment.

03/24/2021

With the Kentucky Derby (G1) prep races in their final few weeks, usracing.com is publishing profiles of the contenders for the $750,000 Florida Derby (G1) on Saturday [March 27], a Derby points-qualifier offering 100-40-20-10 points to the first four finishers. Post-position and odds will be update...

02/24/2021

Former jockey and horse aftercare advocate Rosie Napravnik will join Fair Grounds host Joe Kristufek on the live feed for “New Vocations Day at the Races” at the New Orleans venue, the track announced on Tuesday. Napravnik, who won four titles at the Fair Grounds, will help build awareness, prom...

02/15/2021

"I've taken care of her and never ran her when she was compromised. We've really taken care of this horse. It was an eight-month layoff (since her last start). I've always given my horse time when they need the time and run them when they're perfect."---trainer Joe Herrick.

Joe Herrick Racing Stables, LLC and Red Silk Stables LLC.'s Lovely Finish scored an emotional maiden victory for her connections in the first race on Saturday at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, Calif. The win came three years after the now 6-year-old mare and her trainer and co-owner survived t...

02/03/2021

True fact: the thoroughbred industry in Kentucky is disappearing right before our eyes.

According to Jockey Club numbers, foals born in Kentucky numbered 8,478 in 2010.

In just ten years, that number is down 23%, to just 6,495.

Farms everywhere are in decline with labor shortages and high land prices. Kentucky's horse farms attract people from all over the world, and we are THE global standard for excellence in the thoroughbred world.

If we want to see foals running in fields along Kentucky roads ten years from now, all of us need to contact our state representatives in support of Historical Horse Racing, Senate Bill 120, which was introduced yesterday in the Kentucky State Legislature.

You can find contact information for your representatives at this link: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/findyourlegislator/findyourlegislator.html

11/19/2020

Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale 2020: Median selling price was unchanged from 2019, at $25,000 for 2,286 horses through the ring.

For the average seller or buyer, the median is the single best indicator of the health of a market, especially when that number is achieved over ten days, and by offering over two thousand thoroughbreds of ALL types.

In a pandemic year, with vastly fewer buyers on site, this is a testament to the outstanding job Keeneland did with internet and telephone bidding, video promotion, and attention to detail from the auction stand. THANK YOU EVERYONE!

10/31/2020

Classier is bound for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Keeneland on November 6, just a little over a year after he sold there for $775,000 in the September Yearling Sale. Raised and sold by Lantern Hill Farm for his breeder Mary A. Sullivan, he was awarded Ragozin's 2YO Fig Of The Week:

10/25/2020

CLASSIER (c, 2, Empire Maker-Class Will Tell, by Bernardini) became the latest ‘TDN Rising Star’ for the ownership group known as “The Avengers” and Hall of Famer Bob Baffert with an impressive debut score at Santa Anita Saturday. Sent off at 7-2, the $775,000 KEESEP purchase was away in goo...

10/19/2020

Trainer Tom Bush knows he's been handing Get Smokin some tough assignments against the top 3-year-old turfers.