Last year, I visited Godolphin’s Gainsborough Farm for a second time. Click here to see photos from my first visit. Gainsborough is one of Goldophin’s nursery farms, so in this post, you’ll see a lot of mares and foals, as well as yearlings.
Gainsborough at one time had stallions, so they have stallion covering barns.
Take a peek inside one of the stallion barns!
The mare sticking her head out of her stall is Jane Grey. At the time I took this photo, prior to the 2025 Kentucky Derby, I didn’t think much of it. Then I read an article by Joe Clancy in The Saratoga Special last summer about Sovereignty’s family and realized that Jane Grey is his full sister (Into Mischief – Crowned, by Bernardini)! She, also trained by Bill Mott, broke her maiden first time out and never won again. Flash forward to today, she has now had two fillies by Medaglia d’Oro, Sovereignty’s nieces.
Here is one of those nieces, Jane Grey 25.
A Hard Spun colt out of the Street Boss mare Orloff takes a snooze in his stall.
Another snoozer, a Triple Time filly out of the Irish-bred Invincible Spirit mare Richmond Avenue.
A Frosted colt out of the Uncle Mo mare Split Screen.
A Hard Spun colt out of the Street Sense mare Nonsensical.
Up close and personal with a Street Sense colt out of the Bernardini mare Sugarcraft.
Several retired broodmares call Gainsborough Farm home. Here, one gets a drink.
Retired broodmare My Assets heads toward the fence.
My Assets poses for a portrait.
The farm is simply stunning in spring!
A group of yearlings graze in the grass.
A pair of yearlings.
The same pair of yearlings, with one of the barns in the background.
They may not have names yet, but we will most likely see these faces out on the track later this year!
At age 37, multiple graded stakes winner and Eclipse champion Hatoof is one of the oldest living Thoroughbreds. The former Christiane Head trainee won over $1.8 million and took grade/group events on multiple continents.
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