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Spa Diary: Andrew Motion “Thrilled” To Bring First Yearling to Saratoga

On Saturday morning, Andrew Motion didn’t look like a man who hadn’t had much sleep over the last couple days. Two days earlier, he’d loaded a yearling filly onto a van and driven overnight to Saratoga from his Upperville, VA farm; three days before he’ll send his first horse through the auction ring here, he…

August 7, 2016 in Saratoga 2016, Thoroughbred sales, Uncategorized.

“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.

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