Horses bred by Brittany Farms have earned more than $2.5-million to date in 2024, and adding to that total was Secret Agent Man, who just won the Tompkins-Geers at the Meadowlands en route to a possible try in the $1,000,000 Hambletonian.
Exceptional yearlings from the first crop of 2 and 3-year-old champion Perfect Sting; colts by leading trotting sires Chapter Seven and his son Walner; and more from the best… you’ll find them in Brittany’s consignment to the Lexington Selected Sale.
The current race meet at Oak Grove in Kentucky has become a destination here in the early summer for the top horses and top stables in North America, as the rich Kentucky Sire Stakes are now underway there in full force.
Three-year-old trotters bred by Brittany Farms dominated the stakes-laden card at the Meadowlands last Saturday night, winning three divisions of the highly competitive New Jersey Sire Stakes.
The winner of this year’s $1,500,000 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs, Thorpedo Anna, was foaled and raised at the Hicks family’s Brookstown Farm, located just two miles down the road from Brittany in south central Woodford County, Ky.
Benny J 3,1:53, bred, raised and sold as a yearling by Brittany Farms, took his first lifetime win and new career mark in the fastest division of the New Jersey Sire Stakes 3-Year-Old Colt Trot at the Meadowlands last Saturday night.
Here in Kentucky spring is in the air, and that can mean only one thing: it’s foaling season! Anyone driving around the outskirts of Lexington, in “Bluegrass Horse Country” as it’s called, is sure to see it.
Brittany Farms’ impact on the breed is perhaps best measured by the Hall of Fame horses it has bred or owned — 17 in all! Click “Read More” below to watch the spot and see the horses.
World Champion racehorse and sire American Ideal, a dual hemisphere stallion managed by Brittany Stallion Management, died on Jan. 29 at the age of 22. He stood at Blue Chip Farms in the U.S. and Llowalong Farms in Australia.
The recent update to the Brittany Farms Hall Of Fame page here on the website includes the addition of Brittany bred, raised and sold Pebble Beach, a $1.7-million earner and 3-Year-Old Champion who now stands his second season at stud.