Puca , the dam of 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mage and final 12 months’s Belmont and Haskell stakes (each G1) winner Dornoch , was named the 2024 Broodmare of the Yr on the April 11 Kentucky Thoroughbred Affiliation’s Kentucky-breds Awards Dinner.
Graded stakes-placed on the racetrack for coach Invoice Mott, Puca offered to Grandview Equine, the breeders of each Mage and Dornoch, for $475,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s The November Sale in 2018. After Mage’s Derby victory, Puca headed to the public sale ring once more, this time on the 2023 Keeneland November Breeding Inventory Sale, the place John Stewart went to $2.9 million to safe the daughter of Huge Brown for his budding breeding operation, Resolute Farm.
Puca’s final foal bred below Grandview banner, Baeza , has not too long ago induced a stir within the racing world together with his recreation second-place end to Kentucky Derby favourite Journalism within the April 5 Santa Anita Derby (G1).
Thorpedo Anna was honored as KTA’s Horse of the Yr and champion 3-year-old feminine following a stellar marketing campaign in 2024 that noticed the Quick Anna filly seize 5 grade 1 races. Judy Hicks bred Thorpedo Anna, a daughter of the Uncle Mo mare Sataves, and stays a accomplice within the filly’s racing profession with Brookdale Racing, Mark Edwards, and Magdalena Racing. Educated by Kenny McPeek, Thorpedo Anna was voted the 2024 Horse of the Yr at this 12 months’s Eclipse Awards, changing into simply the seventh feminine in racing historical past to seize racing’s most coveted prize.Join BloodHorse Day by day
2024 KTA Kentucky-bred Champions:
Horse of the Yr, champion 3-year-old feminine: Thorpedo Anna
Champion 3-year-old male: Sierra Leone
Champion older filth male: Nationwide Treasure
Champion older filth feminine: Idiomatic
Champion male sprinter and champion male turf horse: Cogburn
Champion turf feminine: She Feels Fairly
Champion feminine sprinter: Soul of an Angel
Champion horse racing overseas: Metropolis of Troy
Champion 2-year-old male: Citizen Bull
Champion 2-year-old feminine: Immersive
Champion steeplechase horse: Snap Choice
Broodmare of the Yr: Puca
Kentucky Thoroughbred Improvement Fund proprietor of the 12 months: Godolphin
KTDF coach of the 12 months: Steve Asmussen
KTDF earner of the 12 months: Goliad
KTDF sire of the 12 months: Twirling Sweet
P.A.B. Widener Trophy: Godolphin
William T. Younger Humanitarian Award: Steady Restoration
Hardboot Breeders’ Award: Alex and Sarah Rankin
Charles W. Englehard Award: Caton Bredar
