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“You can’t breed for the exception.” Machmer Hall, luck, and yearlings

“We’ve been very lucky,” reflected Sandy Fubini. Given Fubini’s successes, “lucky” might perhaps be a modest assessment of what she has accomplished. A veterinarian, a businesswoman, and the principal owner of Machmer Hall, the breeding operation based in Paris, Kentucky, Fubini could as easily attribute her achievements, and those of her partners in the farm,…

August 5, 2016 in Breeding.

“Brandywine Baby” Danza Brings Farm Back To The Kentucky Derby

When Danza crossed the finish line first in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby on April 12, he had plenty of people cheering him on at Oaklawn Park. He also had a serious, albeit smaller, cheering section at Henry Clay’s in Lexington, Kentucky, where Pam Robinson was having dinner with Ressa Harris, one of the clients…

May 2, 2014 in Breeding, Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Derby 2014.

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