SPRING / BREEDING ISSUE 2026 - #79

Outline content for this issue include:

Cover Profile Trainer - Jonathan Thomas
Muscle Matters - protein quality drives performance and recovery in racehorses
A Biotensegrity approach to racehorses development
Noel & Wendy Hickey - breeders who are making state incentives pay
Raul Reyes - on his amazing journey from Mexico and how he has become one of the most respected 2yo consignors / pre trainers in North America
Self made stallions - how the current 'three kings' of the stallion market - Into Mischief, the 7-time leading sire and himself a budding sire of sires, Candy Ride as the top sire of sires (Gun Runner, Twirling Candy) and Distorted Humor as a broodmare sire (broodmare sire of both Constitution and Practical Joke) made their way up the ranks the hard way, without early commercial support or books of top-level mares and develop into the most influential forces in the current North American marketplace
State Incentives - our annual look at the different incentives to breed / race on a state by state basis
Gr. Stakes Winning Owners:
- Hans and Ana Maron (Saints or Sinners) - So Happy and Margarita’s Girl
- Michele Arthur (Dutch Girl Holdings LLC) and Ruben Islas (Irving Ventures LLC) – Queen Maxima
- Sonny Pais and Dr. Vahee Melikyan (Innergy Racing Corp.) – Unrivaled Time

2026 will be 20 years since The Green Monkey sold at a Breeze Up sale for $16m - since then, the breeze-up sales market has evolved. With a growing emphasis on a more holistic evaluation of the horse during the breeze, rather than focusing solely on times - we talk to sales companies and consignors about the changing marketplace
Has the relentless chase for simulcast $'s impacted the racetrack experience?
How preventative surgery can reduce Recurring Entrapment Colic
Supporting structures of the fetlock - how it alters limb stiffness and fetlock angle
#Soundbites - what can we (the racing industry) do better in 2026?
Alan Balch Column

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