His breeding career started as a lark, but Head Chopper is proving to be the real deal with two stakes winners from four racing-aged foals in 2014 to earn more action in 2015.
Maple Grove Stock Farm, a true family operation born 67 years ago with the purchase of a single mare, celebrates one of its best years in the sport.
Emma-Jayne Wilson, Josie Carroll, Jennifer Reid and Allyson Walker are just four examples of the multitudes of successful women working in racing at all levels.
BC jockey Corrine Andros appears to be on the fast track to success.
Each time, male jockeys boycotted, refusing to participate in a race that included a woman, the races had to be cancelled.
Having just one eye hasn't slowed Real Trouble's second career.
Collection & refinement
On the whole, people have little control over their horses when they are not on the end of a lead rope - and even then there are no guarantees.
True horsemen are admired for their ability to ride by the seat of their pants. Pat Parelli explains how this can be achieved through freestyle riding.
In traditional horsemanship it’s normal to look at horses very subjectively: he’s a good one, or, he’s got vices; he’s a bucker, a puller, a rearer, etc.
The inaugural Thoroughbred Owners Conference were pretty much what one would expect from a gathering aimed at educating potential horse owners.
Breeding science for the 21st century.
More and more couples are working together in the backstretch.
John Carey is a hands-on, eighth generation Irish horseman that has made an impact in Ontario’s breeding industry thanks to his T.C. Westmeath Stud Farm and Old Forester, Canada’s leading freshman sire in three of the last five years.
Hillstar won a bizarre edition of Pattison Canadian International after favoured Brown Panther tore off down the E.P. Taylor turf course before the start, dropping rider Richard Kingscote.
