The Kentucky Broodmare of the Year is selected each year by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. The title is considered the highest honor an American thoroughbred broodmare can receive, as the majority of American breeding stock resides in Kentucky. It is a subjective vote, as opposed to the title for leading sire in North America that looks strictly at the earnings of the stallion's progeny in the given year.
Currently, a mare is eligible for consideration if one particular offspring, conceived and foaled in Kentucky, won a Grade I stakes race in the award year. Consideration may then also be given to previous foals, specifically the number of stakes winners produced and their earnings.[1] The rules were more relaxed in the past, essentially requiring, as one bloodstock expert observed, only that "the mare be boarded in Kentucky."[2]
Mares who have produced multiple graded stakes winners may also be given the informal title of "blue hen". Toussaud, the 2002 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year, is often referred to as a blue hen for producing four grade 1 winners (Chester House, Honest Lady, Chiselling and Belmont Stakes winner Empire Maker) from her first six foals.[3]
^"Criteria.pdf" (PDF). www.kentuckybred.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
^Cite error: The named reference tbheritage was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Christine, Bill (12 April 2003). "Toussaud Proves to Be in League of Her Own". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
and 20 Related for: Kentucky Broodmare of the Year information
TheKentuckyBroodmareoftheYear is selected each year by theKentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. The title is considered the highest...
become a broodmare alongside her dam and full sister. Littleprincessemma foaled a third filly by Tapit (and her fourth Tapit foal) on the evening of Easter...
American thoroughbred racehorse named 1977 KentuckyBroodmareoftheYear Sweet Tooth, a strain of Cannabis that won the 2001 Cannabis Cup This disambiguation...
history when, as a broodmare at Claiborne Farm, she was bred to Nasrullah and produced the very influential National Champion and Hall of Fame sire Bold Ruler...
winners ofthe Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show Best in Show winners ofthe Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Best In Show – 1982 KentuckyBroodmareofthe Year...
October 17, 1963 "KentuckyBroodmareoftheYear". Never Bend's pedigree and racing stats TIME magazine article on the 1963 Kentucky Derby[permanent dead...
foals, four of them winners: Lemons Forever was named 2017 KentuckyBroodmareoftheYear for her foals Forever Unbridled and Unbridled Forever. Forever...
matched her success on the track as a broodmare, being named the 1996 KentuckyBroodmareoftheYear. Her daughter My Flag emulated her by winning a Breeders'...
Grade 1 winner and the 2003 KentuckyBroodmareoftheYear. Prospectors Delite was a leading three-year-old female and won many ofthe U.S.'s most notable...
mare Oil Fable. She was a Grade 1 stakes winner and the 2006 KentuckyBroodmareoftheYear. Cara Rafaela’s first start was a Maiden Special Weight, where...
Vertigineux was honored by the association ofKentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders (KTOB) as "BroodmareoftheYear" in April 2009. The mare died sometime...
winners for The Meadow, but her most important offspring was Somethingroyal, an unplaced mare who became the 1973 KentuckyBroodmareoftheYear. Prior to...
problems and still become a BroodmareoftheYear, it’s quite amazing. To be around her, she always reminded me of one of those people that we all know...
February 27, 1996 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred mare racehorse, best known for her career as a broodmare. She is out oftheKentucky Oaks winner, Blush...
daughter of Hero's Honor. She was a granddaughter of 1981 Kentucky BroodmareoftheYear Natashka. Elusive Quality raced twenty times and won nine times...
Vertigineux, a winning daughter of Kris S., was named the 2008 KentuckyBroodmareoftheYear. Zenyatta was sold as a yearling at the 2005 Keeneland September...
Global Information