Virginia Stallion Owners! If your stallion covered mares in Virginia during the 2025 breeding season, the Stallion Application Form MUST be filed with the VTA by December 31st. This applies to ALL STALLIONS from the current breeding year. This is an annual renewal for each breeding season. Annual registration makes… …Read More »

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger is appointing Katie K. Frazier to serve as Virginia\'s Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry.“Agriculture is the number-one private industry in Virginia. Our Commonwealth deserves dedicated leadership that brings Virginia crop and livestock producers, foresters, business leaders, and community members together to protect and grow this critical sector… …Read More »

Our thoughts and prayers are with family and friends of Sam English II, DDS who passed away last weekend at the age of 80. Mr. English operated a flourishing thoroughbred racing and breeding business, English Racing Stables, based out of Dinwiddie. His obituary follows. It is with deep sadness that… …Read More »

Trainer Madison Meyers, a Lexington native now based in Virginia, achieved a long-held career goal by winning her first graded stakes race at Keeneland with the gelding Desvio in the Sycamore Stakes (G2T). The victory was particularly meaningful as it was Meyers\' first-ever start at the track. Desvio\'s win was… …Read More »

Thoroughbred stallion Cross Traffic will relocate to Mt. Airy Farm in Millwood, Virginia, for the 2026 breeding season, marking a significant win for the state\'s breeding program. The move gives Mid-Atlantic breeders valuable access to a proven, elite-level sire—a combination of quality and Virginia Breeders Fund incentives not seen in… …Read More »

Broodmares, broodmare prospects, weanlings, horses of racing age, stallions, stallion prospects The Breeding Stock Sale will take place in Lexington, Kentucky at Keeneland on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. Please see… …Read More »

"The world's premier breeding stock event” The November Sale will take place in Lexington, Kentucky on Monday, November 3, 2025. Starting at 4:00pm, 220 horses will make their way to… …Read More »

The grand finale of the yearlings' sales will take place in Lexington, Kentucky. The schedule for this four-day sale is as follows: October 20: Hips 1-400 at 10:00am October 21:… …Read More »

The fall destination for broodmares and weanlings takes place in Saratoga Springs, NY on October 14th. See the file below for all Virginia-Bred horses listed in the sale. Please note… …Read More »

Up next is the OBS yearlings sale in Ocala, Florida . This two day sale that will begin at 12:00pm on Tuesday, October 7th with hips 1-230 and the supplement… …Read More »