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Millionaire Wicked Strong is moving to Dr. William Solomon’s Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pa., for the 2021 season. The 9-year-old syndicated stallion, who previously stood at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., will stand for $3,500, payable when the foal stands and nurses.
Vinnie Perrone’s tribute to the late race-caller Dick Woolley was one of seven awards for the magazine for material published in 2019 and presented at the American Horse Publications Equine Media Awards May 30. The awards presentation was held virtually after the association’s equine media conference and awards program, originally scheduled for May 28-30 in Lexington, Ky., was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Press Release - May 11, 2020.
Management of Northview Stallion Station, one of the largest stallion operations on the East Coast, has made the decision to consolidate and focus on the Maryland division. The Pennsylvania property in Peach Bottom, which houses four stallions, is being put up for sale. Northview PA will continue to operate normally until the property is sold or, should it not sell by fall, until November 30, at which time the resident stallions will be moved to the Maryland division.
Appeared in the May 2020 issue of Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred.
Star timber horse Senior Senator, who missed a chance to win a fourth Maryland Hunt Cup when the 2020 race was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, died of colic at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center veterinary hospital April 15. The Pennsylvania-bred was 10 years old.
The 2020 running of the Maryland Hunt Cup...written and narrated by Senior Senator's trainer, Joseph G. Davies.
January 15, 2020.
Taylor Mountain Farm announced today that Windsor Castle died last evening at the age of 22. The son of Lord Carson–Frigidette (It's Freezing) was a multiple graded stakes winner of $591,715. At stud at Taylor Mountain since 2004, he sired 36 stakes horses, led by millionaire DOWN TOWN ALLEN.
Writer Vinnie Perrone received an Eclipse Award honorable mention in the News/Enterprise category for “Starting Over,” a feature piece published in the October 2019 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred about the barn fire Anchor and Hope Farm endured last summer.
Grade 1-winning millionaire Force the Pass has been retired from racing and will enter stud in
Maryland in 2020 as the property of T.K. Kuegler’s Wasabi Ventures Stallions, LLC, who
recently acquired the son of Speightstown from his owner/breeder Richard Santulli.
Louis Merryman was in Havre de Grace, just leaving an early afternoon doctor's appointment on August 12 when he got a phone call. He heard the words that every horseman dreads: there was a barn fire at his Anchor & Hope Farm in Port Deposit.
