When the horses go to the gate on Saturday afternoon for this weekend’s lone Kentucky Derby prep, the Gotham Stakes in South Ozone Park, Queens, the temperature will be hovering around 40 degrees. The hardy patrons at Aqueduct Racetrack will be in parkas and scarves to fend off the chilly breeze coming off of nearby…
With three Eclipse Awards for Outstanding Owner and one for Outstanding Breeder; nine meet-leading titles in 2013 (including breaking records for wins at Gulfstream Park, Keeneland, Churchill Downs, Kentucky Downs, and Saratoga); the #1 sire by earnings in 2013 and the current leading turf sire in Kitten’s Joy, it might not be much of a…
While racing success at home and abroad is in itself a goal for Ken Ramsey, it’s also a necessary stage-setter for the development of Kitten’s Joy as an international sire. Kitten’s Joy’s first season at stud was in 2006, and the following year, Ramsey bred him on Southern Hemisphere time at his Lexington farm to…
May 2008 brought news that caused much consternation in the Backstretch household. “Storm Cat Pensioned,” read the headline in the Blood-Horse. Storm Cat pensioned? Good-bye to generations of Cat horses? Good-bye to nearly unlimited hunch betting? Feline brows furrowed. Fast forward just about a year…and all of a sudden, signs of feline fecundity were everywhere.…
Brooklyn Backstretch 