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PRESS RELEASE - January 4, 2021
Sheppard, a Hall of Fame trainer whose horses excelled on the dirt, on turf, and over steeplechase fences, announced today (Jan. 4) that he is retiring from American racing. For now, he will continue to train a small stable in Ireland.
When Like A Saltshaker crossed the wire in this year's Fitz Dixon, Jr. Memorial Juvenile Stakes at Presque Isle Downs, he made his breeders a quarter of a million dollars richer.
Edited Press Release - December 2, 2020
PREMIER STALLIONS
Tight Ten, a multiple graded stakes placed son of Tapit, will enter stud in 2021 at the new Mountain Springs Farm in Palmyra, Pa.
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.
