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Mission Impazible, a multiple grade II winner by Unbridled's Song that has earned more than $1.2 million in his career, will be retired to Becky Thomas and Dennis Narlinger's Sequel Stallions in New York for 2013.

He is expected to make his final start in the Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (gr. I) Nov. 23 at Churchill Downs.

"Mission Impazible was a 'TDN...Read More

Darley announced yesterday that Desert Party, a $2.1 million two-year-old and a multiple Graded winner, will join fellow Darley stallion Girolamo at Becky Thomas and Dennis Narlinger's Sequel Stallions New York in 2013.

Desert Party's appearance at the Fasig-Tipton February 2-year-old sale was a prelude of things to come. His sales price of $2.1 million was...Read More

Here is the NY Thoroughbred Breeders Development Fund video of the Rood And Riddle Forum on July 18, 2012.

Mid-May of 2012 marked a new milestone for FREUD, whose New York-conceived offspring in the Northern Hemisphere went over $20-million in cumulative purse earnings, putting him among rare company in the history of New York stallions. Counting Freud's progeny performances world-wide, including Australia and South America, available data indicates earnings of more than $20.1-million, with totals of 195 winners and...Read More

Giant Ryan, by New York Sire Freud, stole the show at NYTB's annual Awards Banquet on Monday evening, winning the honors for 2011 New York-Bred Horse of the Year, Champion Older Male and Champion Male Sprinter, while the connections of Lovely Lil walked off with dual honors for Champion Older Female and Champion Female...Read More

Becky Thomas, co-owner of Sequel Stallions New York is pleased to announce Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital will open a satellite ambulatory division in upstate New York. Dr. Scott Ahlschwede, DVM, a partner in Rood & Riddle, will initiate the practice as attending veterinarian at Sequel Stallions New York on April 1, 2012, working in a close professional association with...Read More

Dubai, UAE, 28 March 2012 - A winner of six straight races in the United States including the Grade 1 Vosburgh Invitational at Belmont Park before having that skein stopped with an eighth-place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs last November, Shivananda Parbhoo's Giant Ryan will be making his first start...Read More

Shivananda Parbhoo's Grade 1-winning GIANT RYAN - one of two Grade 1 dirt victors sired by FREUD - recently shipped to Dubai to prepare for the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen, a $2-million 1,200-meter (about six furlongs) straightway event that is part of the March 31 Dubai World Cup card. Giant Ryan is among 12 starters and five Grade 1...Read More

Creative Cause established himself as the favorite for the Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) when he came from off the pace to defeat slightly favored Bodemeister in the $300,000 San Felipe Stakes (gr. I) March 10 at Santa Anita (VIDEO).

Creative Cause was back at the top of his game for the 1 1/16-mile San Felipe, his second start of the...Read More

Led by 2011 Grade 1 and Grade 2 winners GIANT RYAN and FUTURE PROSPECT, more offspring of FREUD made the ballots for the New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2011 championship voting than did offspring of any other stallion - regardless of where other sires of nominees stand. Seven runners from Freud's crops of 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 earned a total of nine nomination...Read More

Excerpt from the February 1st, 2012 issue of Thoroughbred Daily News...

Giant's Causeway had four stakes-placed full brothers, and at least two, including Sequel Stallions' FREUD, have become leading sires in their regions.  Tumblebrutus (2.53 Southern Hemisphere A Runner Index) is one of the leading sires in Chile, and Freud has ripped them up in New York.

He's only once been listed as Leading Sire...Read More

Jonathan Sheppard is one of the best trainers horse racing has ever known, but his name is certainly not synonymous with the Kentucky Derby. Though the Hall of Famer has had a couple of his prot© saddle Derby winners--Barclay Tagg with Funny Cide in 2003 and Graham Motion with Animal Kingdom last year--he himself has never even had a runner...Read More

Sequel graduate, Ever So Lucky, who made everybody's Kentucky Derby watch list immediately after his sensational maiden win last fall at Churchill Downs, will launch his 3-year-old campaign in the seven-furlong Hutcheson on Feb. 11, trainer Jonathan Sheppard confirmed Monday.

Read the full article on DRF.com...

http://www.drf.com/news/gulfstream-park-ever-so-lucky-will-make-3-year-old-debut-hutcheson

Mike Harrington has been around racehorses for over half a century, longer than most of his peers have been alive.

The self-effacing, blue-collar cowboy from Southern California by way of Bend, Oregon was born in 1941. Like his father and grandfather before him, Harrington quickly found himself more at home around horses than people. Racing and training Quarter Horses at fair...Read More

Excerpt from a blog post on Summerhill Stud's website...

John Motaung, who in his more than ten years at Summerhill has been the beneficiary of two international scholarships, one to Gainsborough Farm in Kentucky, the other as an intern at Becky Thomas' renowned Sequel Bloodstock programme in Florida. This lady, Becky, is something of a saint. She's taken our young men in, year after year, and treated...Read More