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New York-bred Showcase Day: “It’s a family.”

After the first stakes race at Belmont Park on Monday, owner Michael Dubb reflected on winning the Mount Vernon with a New York-bred mare out of a New York-based stallion. “I go to the New York-bred dinner every April, and there’s a real camaraderie,” he said. “It’s a family.” As it does each spring, Belmont…

May 30, 2018 in Belmont spring 2018, New York Showcase Day.

From sullen teenager to the Kentucky Oaks: Stepwise Farm’s New York-bred Midnight Disguise

On a cold March afternoon, Joan Taylor and Bill Wilmot stood in the paddock at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, New York. They’d traveled nearly four hours from their farm in Saratoga Springs to watch Holiday Disguise, the 4-year-old filly they’d bred and sold as a weanling, run in the Heavenly Prize Stakes and try to…

March 26, 2018 in Kentucky Oaks 2018, New York-breds.

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