Backyard Racehorse

23/09/2022

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In 3️⃣ Days... The champions will celebrate 🏇🏼🏆 🥂 🏆

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18/09/2022

Gorgeous filly available is anyone is looking!!🤩🐎😊

16/09/2022

It’s never too soon to start thinking about or prepping for the Kentucky Derby!!! 🤩🐎🔥

15/09/2022

The September Keeneland Sale in Kentucky 👀🐎👀🐎 you can watch it LIVE online from now through the 24th!! A fun fact is one of our broodmares also sold at this sale as a yearling!!🥰😍🤩

15/09/2022

It’s time to wean and start training the little guy 🥺🥰🐎

31/08/2022

27/08/2022

Thoughts and condolences to all of his connections!! He was a very influential horse to the racehorse community and family!!🥺☹️

16/08/2022

Yes!! I love this!!🐎💕

"Why do you use Thoroughbreds for ranch work?"

We get this question a lot--from neighbors, reporters, fellow riders. In most people's minds, a Thoroughbred just doesn't "belong" on a ranch, working cattle. A Thoroughbred is "supposed" to be at the track, or maybe in the hunter ring, or galloping across the eventing cross country course. Many people seem to treat a Thoroughbred wearing a western saddle like a circus sideshow.

But to be a great ranch horse, a horse needs to like to work. He has to be game for long days, difficult country and the worst of weather conditions. He needs to be that horse that waits by the gate to get saddled up even when he knows he might not be back until 14 hours and 20 miles have passed.

A great ranch horse will never say no. He doesn't balk at a rushing creek or a steep ravine. He doesn't back down from an angry momma cow. When you've spent 10 hours searching the brush for a stray steer, he still says "heck yes" when you ask him to run it down.

A great ranch horse needs to be part independent problem solver, part patient trail buddy and part trigger-happy gunslinger. He might go from walking on a loose rein to full gallop and then back to a standstill in all of 150 feet. He needs to pay attention and understand the job at hand and be able to do his part without full time direction from his rider. His brain and his body must be in constant synch with the situation at hand. Ranch work is no place for daydreamers.

Great ranch horses are not just beloved friends, but working partners. They are one of the few horses left that truly have a "real job" to do. There are no blue ribbons for riding eight miles in the cold, pouring rain and wind to go doctor that sick calf. There is no trophy waiting at home when you bring the herd home in a blizzard. There is just the appreciation of a job well done by both horse and man.

If you have ever ridden a Thoroughbred for any reason, you know they possess all of the above attributes. They are all heart, all try and all grit. When you add that to the fact they have been bred for hundreds of years to be the greatest athletes the world has ever seen, you cannot find a better animal to set your saddle on.

So maybe the real question should be "Why would you use anything BUT a Thoroughbred for ranch work?"

14/08/2022

Yes!!! Now this is some weather we like to see!! Should have some happy animals, and plants soon!!❤️🙌🏻🤩🥳

While the next 7 days will be very summer-like with upper 90s and low 100s as we will stay sunny and dry, the following week on our bonus forecast is hinting at a shift in the weather pattern nearing the end of August. While things can change over a week out, cross your fingers!

06/06/2022

We took Magic to have her bred this year, unfortunately she had a internal uterine infection that we did know about 😢 But the barn and veterinarian up there did a phenomenal job and took really good care of her, getting her on antibiotics and clearing that up for us! However, due to her age and other factors they did cover her but sadly said there was a high chance that she wouldn’t take!🥺😢

In a couple weeks we will set up an appointment for a one month ultrasound and see what we have!! But either way, we our happy to have our healthy and happy girl back on our farm!!❤️🐎😊

04/06/2022

Wow!! What a long shot!!❤️🐎

Jockey Tyler Conner and Wow Whata Summer unleashed a bold move past the half-mile pole and scampered clear to spring an 83-1 upset in the $400,000 Penn Mile Stakes (G2T) June 3.

21/05/2022

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21/05/2022

It’s Preakness Day!!🐎🤩❤️

18/05/2022

What a cute story!!! We love ALL horses of ALL shapes and sizes!!🥰🐎🤩

What would you do if you sat next to a horse on an airplane?! ✈️

Read about when one service miniature horse took a flight👉 https://bit.ly/3llif36

11/05/2022

Great news!!!❤️🥰🐎

The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission has received laboratory results from post-race samples taken May 6-7 at Churchill Downs. All samples for both days were cleared, including samples from the Kentucky Oaks (G1) and the Kentucky Derby (G1).

11/05/2022

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11/05/2022

Live racing returns to historic Pimlico Race Course Thursday for the opening of its 12-day Preakness Meet, highlighted by the 147th running of the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes (G1) Saturday, May 21.

08/05/2022

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RED TR-Racing's Rich Strike (Keen Ice) left Churchill Downs around 9:30 a.m. ET Sunday to head back to his main base at trainer Eric Reed's Mercury Equine Center in Lexington as a GI Kentucky Derby winner. “I couldn't sleep last night,” Reed said after achieving his first Grade I victory and sec...

08/05/2022

Happy Mothers Day!!!

07/05/2022

Congratulations to the connections of the 80-1 long shot in the Kentucky Derby!! Rich Strike and connections!!🐎🥳🍾

Rich Strike wins the 148th Kentucky Derby!

07/05/2022

Every Kentucky Derby is filled with special and emotional stories and once in a lifetime opportunities! This years Derby is no exception, as a country could make history by winning their first ever Kentucky Derby this year, and a cancer survivor’s horse could also beat the odds and come in first for a winning title! Plus, so much time and work and passion and love and dreams spent on ALL the contenders!! It’s the heart of our sport!❤️ it’s the Kentucky Derby!!!
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07/05/2022

Happy Derby Day!!!🐎🥳🥰🤩

Happy Derby Day!

06/05/2022

Happy Oaks Day!

06/05/2022

Yesterday we took our Seattle Slew granddaughter to a super nice farm to meet her blind date!!🤩😍🐎👍🏻😊

04/05/2022

No, I’m not ready!!!😰😭😩

02/05/2022

Post Positions for the Longines Kentucky Oaks🌸

02/05/2022

Post Positions for the 2022 Kentucky Derby

02/05/2022

When ALL of the mares at the barn are in season at the same time!!😈😳🥴

28/04/2022

Someone is already 2 weeks old!!🐎🥺❤️

27/04/2022

Ten Days Until the Kentucky Derby!

23/04/2022

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The Kentucky Derby television broadcast will be produced by a woman for the first time in the 148-year-old history of the race.

22/04/2022

Live streaming of morning workouts begin Monday!! How cool!!🐎❤️😊

22/04/2022

22/04/2022

Fifteen Days Until the Kentucky Derby!