The number of mares bred in the Mid-Atlantic increased to nearly 2,000 in 2020, with Hoppertunity and Golden Lad both topping 100.
We check in with the Mid-Atlantic first-crop sires. Who has winners on the ground? Which horses have won stakes?
Natural Attraction scored at first asking to be the first winner for new sire Golden Years as Charles Town hosted its first two baby races of 2020.
The two Grade 1 winners continue to dominate the polls of three-year-olds and older horses in the Top Midlantic-bred Poll.
Grade 1 winners and Top Midlantic-bred Poll leaders Dame Dorothy and Stellar Wind are both in action this weekend.
A pair of Grade 1 winners — Dame Dorothy and Stellar Wind — top the most recent Top Midlantic-bred Poll, released today.
Stellar Wind, the favorite for the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks, is also the leader of the second Top Midlantic-bred Poll of 2015.
G1 Santa Anita Oaks winner tops all 3-year-olds in the first Top Midlantic-bred Poll of 2015
Twenty-three horses bred in the mid-Atlantic region, including four stake winners, have been nominated to the Triple Crown.
What’s on tap this weekend… a pair of stakes, an interesting maiden, a couple of of intriguing allowances… our horses to watch!