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TDN's Kentucky Oaks Top 10 returns with the first '25 installment, brought to you by Fasig-Tipton 🌸 In this round, Brad Cox trainees have claimed the top two spots.

@billfinley3.bsky.social shares his thoughts: www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/the-kentucky-oaks-tdn-top-10-for-jan-30-cox-reloads/
January 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🔎 Saturday Insights: The uniquely-colored NUK SOO KOW (McKinzie), a $350,000 #OBSApril purchase that has already developed quite the fanbase, debuts today in the 11th race at Gulfstream Park.

www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/jan-18-insights-debuters-carry-colors-for-noteworthy-female-families/
January 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
We're inside the 16-week mark for the May 3 GI Kentucky Derby. That's roughly 168,000 minutes until post time, but who's counting? 🌹

A new year marks a new season of the TDN Derby Top 12! T. D. Thornton kicks things off with the season's first rankings thoroughbreddailynews.com/tdn-derby-to...
January 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
TDN's 2024 in Photos 📸

August 24: John Velazquez throws flowers in the winner’s circle after winning the GI Travers Stakes aboard 'TDN Rising Star' Fierceness (City of Light).

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January 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
TDN's 2024 in Photos 📸

July 12: Ridden by Korina McLean, Moira takes a spin around Saratoga’s main track.

She closed out the 2024 season with a brilliant victory in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Del Mar 🏆

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January 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
TDN's 2024 in Photos 📸

July 24: Amanda Villafranco shares a snack with Sunny the pony after training hours at Saratoga.

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December 31, 2024 at 10:03 PM
TDN's 2024 in Photos 📸

July 20: In a dramatic stretch drive, Idiomatic (rail) holds off Soul of an Angel and wins the GIII Molly Pitcher Stakes at Monmouth Park.
December 26, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Stockings are hung, carrots are in steady supply and everyone is in the Christmas spirit at the Hill ‘n’ Dale stallion barn 🎄 🎁 🎅

🎥: Curlin, Kantharos, Loggins, Violence, Arabian Knight, Charlatan, Army Mule, Good Magic
December 24, 2024 at 11:56 PM
TDN's 2024 in Photos 📸

July 14: Sierra Leone (Gun Runner) kicks up his heels after a workout over Saratoga’s Oklahoma training track.

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December 23, 2024 at 5:43 PM
TDN's 2024 in Photos 📸

July 20. Jockeys Florent Geroux, Paco Lopez, Vincent Cheminaud, and Frankie Dettori walk down the horse path at Monmouth Park on Haskell day.

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December 21, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Today we remember Cody Dorman on what would have been his 19th birthday 💙 An incredible young man introduced to us through his special bond with Cody's Wish, his legacy lives on as a true inspiration to those within and outside of the sport.

Happy heavenly birthday, Cody.
December 18, 2024 at 8:16 PM
TDN's 2024 in Photos 📸

May 31: Fourth graders from Division Street Elementary visit with Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott during a field trip to Saratoga Race Course.

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December 17, 2024 at 11:12 PM
TDN's 2024 in Photos 📸

August 25: In this annual TDN tradition, winning trainer Todd Pletcher launches the freshly-painted Travers canoe into the infield pond at Saratoga before the first race. The canoe is painted in the colors of owner/breeder Repole Stable’s Fierceness (City of Light).
December 14, 2024 at 5:29 PM
TDN's 2024 in Photos 📸

March 2: Madison Olver gives Super Chow (Lord Nelson) a pat as they head into the winner’s circle after winning a rainy GIII Tom Fool Handicap.

A month prior, the pair teamed up to collect their first graded stakes victory in the GIII Toboggan S. @sarahkandrew.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Weekend Recap 🔁 'TDN Rising Star' Locked (Gun Runner), a GI winner at 2, made up for lost time with a powerful performance against older horses in a loaded renewal of Saturday's GII Cigar Mile H. at the Big A.

Full recap: www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/gun-runners-locked-is-loaded-in-cigar-mile/
December 10, 2024 at 3:03 PM
As the year winds down, we take the time to look back in TDN's 2024 in Photos, shared on Page 2 and social media 📸

January 20: Max Player, the first GI winner to stand in New Jersey since 2004, struts his stuff on a snowy morning at George Hall's Annestes Farm. @sarahkandrew.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 7:12 PM
The Grizzly back under the Twin Spires 👑 Thorpedo Anna (Fast Anna), winner of the 2024 GI Kentucky Oaks, returned to @churchilldowns.bsky.social Friday evening to parade in the paddock in the company of connections and fans alike.
November 29, 2024 at 11:31 PM
#HappyThanksgiving 🦃

In honor of the holiday, we’re proud to present a Mic’d Up Edition of Treat Time at Coolmore America’s Ashford Stud 🥕 Feat. American Pharoah, Gunite, Uncle Mo, Jack Christopher, Epicenter, Justify and Corniche.

Watch, listen, enjoy! 😋
November 28, 2024 at 5:07 PM
The new mural of CURLIN, the King of Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm, on full display in downtown Paris, Kentucky 🤩

The mural is right across the street from Secretariat Park, which also features a mural of ‘Big Red’ - both painted by Kentucky equine artist Jaime Corum.

📍 Paris, KY
November 23, 2024 at 3:38 PM
What a week, what a sale! 🤩 During the November Foal Sale at Goffs, which was topped by a millionaire lot, turnover climbed by 26% to €32,640,000, the average by 34% to €48,717 and the median by 21% to €29,000.

For a full recap, head over to thetdn.com/europe 🗞️
November 22, 2024 at 4:13 PM
✨ Nobals, winner of the 2023 GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, is set to become the first US runner in the Longines Hong Kong International Races since 2017.

Read more via Alan Carasso: www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/goliath-heads-international-challenge-for-hkir-romantic-warrior-in-search-of-history/
November 21, 2024 at 6:56 PM
A trio of Grade I winners joining the stallion roster at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Kentucky for 2025...

🌟 Blazing Sevens (Good Magic)
🌟 Gufo (Declaration of War)
🌟 Shirl's Speight (Speightstown)
November 20, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Thoroughbred Daily News (TDN), the Thoroughbred industry's leading daily information source across North America, Europe and beyond, is excited to join the @bsky.app community! 🎉

Be sure to follow our new account and then head over to thetdn.com to subscribe for FREE to the Daily PDF/News Alerts.
November 20, 2024 at 5:06 PM