General News
Repriced, one of the last remaining sons of Roberto, died on Friday, January 27 at Darby Dan Farm of an apparent heart attack. He was 24...
Record-setting Group 1 winner All American sired his first reported foal from his North American crop on Jan. 30 when a filly was born at Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, KY...
Veteran horseman Tommy Eastham has joined Darby Dan’s Division of Sales, effective immediately...
American Lion, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Tiznow, has been retired and will stand stud at John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, KY...
This week, Robert Hammond took over duties as General Manager at Darby Dan Farm. The TDN caught up with the London native for a brief chat...
Darby Dan Farm announced 2012 fees for its current roster of stallions, headlined by multiple Grade 1 winner Tale of Ekati who will stand for $15,000 stands and nurses...
Robert Hammond has been hired as the General Manager of John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm and will assume duties immediately, the Lexington-based farm announced on Monday...
Perfect Soul will stand the 2012 breeding season at the Hunderup family's Norse Ridge Farm near King City, Ontario...
Top-20 first-crop sire Sun King got his seventh winner of the year on Oct. 22 with the filly Sunny Sights' maiden special weight victory...
Lenny Shulman and Steve Haskin talk to John Phillips of Darby Dan Farm about Winter Memories, who runs in The Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (gr. I) at Keeneland October 15.
With seemingly no chance a sixteenth of a mile from the finish, Winter Memories made an electrifying move around a wall of horses to snatch victory in the final strides of the $250,000 Garden City S (G1)...
Hip No. 152, a colt by Medaglia d'Oro – Lemon Kiss, by Lemon Drop Kid. Consigned by Darby Dan Farm, agent...
Darby Dan Farm began life in Kentucky in 1949. Following the death of E.R. Bradley in 1946, his Idle Hour Farm was sold, and John Galbreath, bought a portion of the property...
Winter Memories rolled to a 4 1/2-length victory in the $150,000 Lake George S. (G2) July 27 at Saratoga...
Magna Graduate's offering at the July 12 Fasig-Tipton yearling sale brought $40,000, eight times the stud fee of the Darby Dan stallion...
Awesome Bet, bred, raised and sold by Darby Dan Farm, roared home in the stretch to take the $100,000 Barbaro S. July 9...
Darby Dan's Perfect Soul accounted for three winners in two days over July 5-6, including two maiden special weight winners...
Click here to preview the Darby Dan Fasig-Tipton July Yearling Consignment
Charles Fipke's homebred Check Your Soul stamped himself a likely favorite for the upcoming Queen's Plate...
Charles E. Fipke’s homebred Impossible Time, raised at Darby Dan, was named Champion Older Female in Canada at the recently held Sovereign Award ceremonies...
Darby Dan's stars of the Memorial Day card at Belmont were homebred Winter Memories and sales graduate Tizway...
Sun King, a multimillionaire and four-time graded stakes winner, sired his first winner on May 22, when a 2-year-old colt named Legalis won at Premio Meltrasio racetrack in Milan, Italy...
Charles Fipke’s Fastest Magician showed his sleight of hand, slipping through a narrow opening near the quarter pole, en route to victory in the 7-furlong A Gift Stakes at Belmont on May 22...
Darby Dan managers and staff smiled a bit more broadly after the 136th Preakness S. (G1), as the dam of victorious Shackleford resides at the famed nursery off Old Frankfort Pike...
Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Animal Kingdom shares a unique link with Darby Dan’s young Group-winning stallion Ambassador (Ger)...
Much Rejoicing became the newest Darby Dan-produced stakes winner on May 13 with a daylight victory in the $60,000 Glia S. at Belmont Park...
Check Your Soul could be on his way to becoming the second Canadian classic winner in the first three crops by Perfect Soul, after a dominating win...
Perfect Soul's daughter Blessed Soul made short work of the field in the 1 1/16 mile feature at Pimlico April 22...
Darby Dan homebred Winter Memories looked sharp in her first race of 2011, putting in a solid stretch run to take the $100,000 Appalachian...
A Perfect Soul filly turned heads at the OBS 2-year-old sale on April 20, going for $125,000, the sixth highest price during the third session...
Check Your Soul finished full of run to break his maiden on the grass at Keeneland on April 15...
Deadlines will soon be upon us for the fall yearling sales. We are building our Darby Dan Farm consignment now.
Lalo's Baby Bear made an impressive late move to score a one-length victory in Hawthorne's March 21 feature...
Darby Dan stallion Ambassador, a Group 2 winner in Germany, has had his first foal...
Demarcation put in a determined stretch run to win a thrilling running of the $125,000 Mineshaft...
Magna Graduate had the highest average sale price of all first-crop yearling sires at the OBS January sale...
The winners keep rolling in for Suave, with two more juveniles breaking their maidens on Dec. 15...
As 2010 winds to a close, Suave continues to climb in the first-crop sire rankings...
On Dec. 9 at Turfway Park, Golden Phoenix became the first three-time winner of the year for freshman sire Suave...
Zig-zagging through traffic inside, outside, and past a wall of horses, Darby Dan homebred Winter Memories was a game and creditable runner-up in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G2)...
Owner-breeder Charles Fipke is the luckiest man in the world. As a professional geologist and entrepreneur, he literally finds mountains of gold and gems. And as a hobby, he breeds Grade 1 racehorses...
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend was good to Darby Dan horses at both Aqueduct and Churchill Downs...
After a long wait, the official photo showed Jersey Town a winner by a nose of the prestigious Cigar Mile (G1)...
Darby Dan Farm announced its 2011 roster and fees, featuring first-year, G1-winning stallions All American and Tale of Ekati...
Slick Vic handed freshman sire Suave his 12th winner with a comfortable 4 1/2-length maiden win...
Suave added to his growing list of winners on Nov. 4 with Shoefly Shoefly...
A pair of Darby Dan raised and sold colts turned in solid performances on Oct. 30...
TCI recently ranked Winter Memories' win in the Miss Grillo S. (G3) as the top
performance among all 65 "Win and You're in" races from this year's Breeders'
Cup Challenge...
Darby Dan's freshman sire Suave notched a pair of new winners on Oct. 17-18, including a winner in Japan...
Darby Dan Farm and Sales graduate Eye of Taurus charged to a daylight victory in the 33rd running of the Athenia H. (G3) at Belmont...
The Darby Dan program is making Grade 1 headlines this month, as undefeated 2-year-old Winter Memories preps for the Breeders’ Cup...
Darby Dan's freshman sire Suave got his ninth first-crop winner on Oct. 9...
Darby Dan's freshman sire Suave got his latest winner Oct. 6 at Belmont Park...
If Winter Memories' powerful win in the Miss Grillo (G3) is any indication, the Darby Dan bred, raised and owned 2-year-old filly is going to be a huge factor in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf...
Suave Voir Faire became the sixth winner for first-crop sire Suave with a 3 3/4-length score in a straight maiden race at Turfway Park...
Ya Gotta Have Soul pulled away in the stretch to dominate a seven-furlong allowance race at Belmont Park on Oct. 2...
Anarchy, a 2-year-old by Suave, made all the running to break his maiden Sept. 17...
With the recent addition of G1-winning milers All American and Tale of Ekati to its 2011 stallion roster, Darby Dan Farm has appointed industry veteran Suzie Picou-Oldham to the position of Bloodstock Associate & Nomination Sales...
B G Suavecito ran his record to two-for-two with an allowance victory Sept. 11 at Retama Park...
Eye of Taurus became the latest stakes-winning Darby Dan sales grad with a handy score in the $76,650 Revidere Stakes...
Darby Dan freshman sire All American added a new Group winner Sept. 4 when his talented half-sister More Strawberries broke her maiden in the $175,000 Tatt's Furious S. (G2)...
All American, a Group 1-winning millionaire by Red Ransom, will ship to North America in 2011 and beyond to stand at John Phillips' Darby Dan Farm in Lexington...
Charles Fipke’s Seeking the Title continued a very good 2010 season with a sharp second in the $200,000 Monmouth Oaks (G3) on Aug. 14...
Darby Dan sale grads Demarcation and Cryptolight formed the exacta in the $125,000 West Virginia Governor’s S. Aug. 7 at Mountaineer Park...
Perfect Shirl, a 3-year-old filly by Perfect Soul, made a perfect stakes debut in the $150,000 Lake George (G2)...
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select auction ended its two-day run in Lexington on July 14, with the Darby Dan consignment featuring the top sale prices of the event by sires El Corredor and Mr. Sekiguchi...
Led by two new stakes horses and three impressive winners on dirt, turf, and all-weather surfaces, Perfect Soul (Ire) had an excellent weekend across North America July 10 & 11...
Darby Dan Sales consignments produced two stakes winners on July 10, giving the sales program five stakes horses in the past eight days...
Charles Fipke’s Seeking the Title ran as though she were seeking a championship title, with her sharp victory in the $200,000 Iowa Oaks (G3) on June 26...
With three maiden special weight winners from his first four starters, Suave has smoothly moved up the ranks among the nation’s freshman sires...
Freshman sire Suave got his third winner when the 2-year-old filly Golden Phoenix ran away for a 6 1/2-length victory in a maiden special weight race at Churchill Downs on June 24...
Tlaquepaque became the second winner for his sire Suave with a victory in his debut on June 18...
Darby Dan Farm foaled and raised Lady Shakespeare continued her winning ways with a powerful victory in the $150,000 New York S. (G2) at Belmont Park...
Perfect Shower won the feature on the grass at Woodbine on June 19, the same course where he captured the $500,000 Breeders' S. last year...
Perfect Shirl made short work of a full field of 14 maiden fillies to score an easy 2 1/2-length victory in a 1 1/8-mile turf race at Woodbine...
Three yearlings from the first crop of Darby Dan sire Sun King are slated for the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale...
One of the nation’s leading consignors of Graded stakes winners from yearling sales, Darby Dan has released its 2010 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Selected consignment...
Ima Soul Miss exploded in the lane to win by a Woodbine allowance race by eight lengths over the main track on June 5...
B G Suavecito became the first winner for freshman sire Suave with his impressive debut victory in a $20,500 maiden special weight on May 28 at Lone Star Park...
Another big weekend for Darby Dan, as the farm had their hand in winners at Delaware Park, Monmouth, and Woodbine, as well as another stakes horse at Churchill Downs...
Through May 20th, Darby Dan Sales ranks among the leading consignors in North America to sell racing’s highest level of performers in 2010...
Charles Fipke’s homebred Seeking the Title rallies strongly to run third, less than ¾ of a length behind the winner, in the $300,000 Fair Grounds Oaks (G2)...
The reward for hard work on the farm is success at the racetrack, and May 15 - Preakness Day - turned out to be a day full of rewards for Darby Dan Farm...
Taqarub was all class as he tallied his first graded stakes win in the $100,000 Maryland Sprint H. (G3)...
Lalo's Baby Bear, a 4-year-old by Perfect Soul (IRE), won his 2010 bow with a four length victory in the feature at Arlington Park on May 13...
Feeling Fancy, consigned by Darby Dan Farm at the 2008 Keeneland September yearling sale, became the latest stakes winner sold at auction by the historic farm...
It's been an unforgettable couple of weeks for C. Peter "Buzz" Beler and his Darby Dan based mare Ne Plus Ultra...
Ya Gotta Have Soul's win in a maiden special weight race at Keeneland on Apr. 23 was a victory for Darby Dan in many respects...
Lady Shakespeare's victory in the $150,000 Grey Goose Bewitch S. (G3T) on Apr. 22 was especially sweet for Darby Dan Farm, where the 4-year-old filly was foaled and raised...
Funny Moon made her 4-year-old debut with a solid runner-up finish in the $100,000 Doubledogdare S. at Keeneland on Apr. 16...
With 2010 a little more than a quarter over, Darby Dan Farm is currently ranked as the fifth-leading consignor of Graded Stakes winners in the U.S...
Six-year-old Cryptolight continues to shine in a racing career that is now into its fifth year...
The Darby Dan-bred Aliyah got her first victory in her second career start, taking a six furlong maiden special weight race at Oaklawn Park on Apr. 10...
Congratulations to the grand prize winner of the Darby Dan Crossword Puzzle Series. This years winner was: Jim Percival (White Cat Farm)- Breeder in Kansas
Bearpath, consigned and sold by Darby Dan, won the 1 1/2-mile, $150,000 Pan American S. (G3) over the Gulfstream Park lawn on Mar. 27 for his first stakes victory...
Keeneland is known for having some of the toughest races in the country, and the second race on Apr. 2 was no exception...
Island Soul will try to stamp his ticket to Louisville on Mar. 27, when the son of Perfect Soul takes on a full field in the $750,000 Louisiana Derby (G2) at Fair Grounds...
Darby Dan stallion Suave, whose first crop are 2-year-olds of 2010, was represented by his first juvenile at auction in 2010 when a colt brought $70,000 at the Barretts March selected sale...
Magna Graduate, a seven-time graded stakes winner and multi-millionaire, sired his first reported foal in Kentucky when a bay filly was born Feb. 5 at Rockwell Farm in Lexington...
Undefeated Grade 2-winning juvenile Run Away and Hide sired his first foal on Jan. 24 when a filly was born at Chesapeake Farm in Lexington...
Champion Perfect Soul (Ire) has enjoyed immense success from his first two crops to race, including some stunning accomplishments at Canada’s finest racetrack – Woodbine...
Reports are beginning to come in on Suave's first crop of 2-year-olds and they are fantastic! Here is your chance to get in on the ground floor with a gorgeous individual being offered by Parting Glass Racing...
Multiple Grade 1 winner Tale of Ekati, who enters stud at Darby Dan in 2010, showed that he was one of the world’s top milers in 2008 with wins in the Jerome H. (G2) and Cigar Mile H. (G1)...
In 2009, many breeders took advantage of our incentives. Thanks in large part to their support, 2009 was an overwhelming success...
It’s funny how things can work out in the horse business. For several years, diamond mine magnate Charles Fipke kept busy at the bloodstock sales, buying blue-blooded mares for his Grade 1-winning stallion prospect Perfect Soul (Ire)...
Furthest Land scored the biggest victory of his career on Nov. 7th when the son of Smart Strike prevailed in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) on racing’s biggest day at Santa Anita Park...
Darby Dan Farm has launched a free Breeders’ Cup Challenge that is a fun and rewarding contest for all racing enthusiasts. All you have to do is sign up and then select your horses. It only takes minutes...
Eye of Taurus, a Darby Dan Farm sales graduate, became a graded stakes winner in her stakes debut on Oct. 23rd, digging in to determinedly win the $125,000 Valley View S. (G3) at Keeneland Race Course...
Champion Perfect Soul sired another flashy 2-year-old winner from his second crop on Oct. 29th when his daughter Fire Into Ice surged up the rail to take command in the stretch and win a $75,900 maiden special weight race at Woodbine...
Sales consignments for the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Selected November Mixed and the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale available here.
Perfect Wedding, a 3-year-old filly by Perfect Soul, claimed her second straight win on Oct. 26th when she stretched out around two turns for the first time and won a $41,000 allowance race at the Meadowlands...
Perfect Loch, a 2-year-old colt by Perfect Soul, made a promising debut to the races on Oct. 24th at Woodbine, rallying from last in the 12-horse field to win a $75,900 maiden special weight race...
Grade 1-winning millionaire Perfect Soul had two promising winners on Oct. 18th when his 2-year-old filly Groovintothebeat won at first asking at Fort Erie and his 3-year-old Woodman’s Soul streaked to a four-length win in a $78,000 maiden special weight heat at Woodbine...
Soul of Nataka became the latest stakes winner for her sire Perfect Soul when she prevailed after a determined stretch run in the $151,000 Catotene S. on Oct. 4th at Woodbine...
Perfect Soul had two more winners on Saturday, Sept. 19th when Perfect Wedding, a 3-year-old filly, won a maiden special weight race at Monmouth and Soul Kiss, a 2-year-old filly, broke her maiden at Golden Gate...
Multiple Grade I winner and millionaire Tale of Ekati will stand the 2010 breeding season at Darby Dan Farm for his owner and breeder Charles Fipke...
Perfect Soul added a pair of impressive maiden winners on Sept. 12th when 2-year-old first-time starter Perfect Crevasse and 3-year-old Soul of Nataka captured maiden special weight events...
Attending the Keeneland Sale? Be sure to stop by the farm Tuesday, Sept. 22nd between 3-7 p.m. to inspect the stallions and visit with a Darby dan representative to learn about our Regional Incentive Programs...
Corey’s Coming, a 3-year-old filly from the first crop of Grade 1-winning millionaire Perfect Soul, overcame traffic trouble to rally and prove best in a $48,000 allowance race sprinting on the turf Sept. 7 at Saratoga...
No Inflation, a 3-year-old son of Repriced, made his first stakes win a big one, streaking well clear of his rivals in the stretch to score an eye-catching 6 ¼-length victory in the $250,000 Kent S. (G3) on Sept. 5th at Delaware Park...
Perfect Soul picked up his fourth winner in five days when his 3-year-old daughter Chile Chico made good as the heavy favorite to win a Woodbine maiden race by a decisive five lengths on August 23rd...
Perfect Soul got his second winner in consecutive days when his debutante Soul Custody captured a maiden race by four decisive lengths at Emerald Downs on August 20th...
Millionaire Suave will be represented by two colts and two fillies from his first crop at the annual OBS August Selected Yearlings Sale on August 24th in Ocala, Florida...
Perfect Shower, a 3-year-old colt from the first crop of Perfect Soul, made his first stakes win a big one, capturing the $500,000 Breeders’ S. – the final leg of the Canadian Triple Crown – on August 2nd at Woodbine...
Darby Dan stallion Perfect Soul has enjoyed a strong July full of maiden winners in Canada and the United States, and his well-bred 3-year-old son King of Soul closed out the month as the latest impressive maiden winner...
Three-year-old filly Funny Moon became the latest Grade 1 winner to come out of the sales program at Darby Dan when she captured the $300,000 CCA Oaks (G1) July 25th at Belmont...
Perfect Soul enjoyed another impressive maiden victor on July 24th when his 3-year-old colt Carcillo stretched out to win a $75,029 maiden special weight race at 1 1/8 miles over the local Polytrack at Woodbine Racecourse...
Suave was well represented by his first yearling from his debut crop to hit the market when Hip No. 8, a filly, was purchased for $85,000 by Team Valor on Day 1 of the Fasig-Tipton July Sale July 20 in Lexington...
The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearling consignment is now available online with photos, including a knockout colt by the perennial leading Australian sire Encosta de Lago...
Perfect Soul had multiple winners the weekend of July 17-19 to go along with the emergence of stakes-placed juvenile Perfect Lou, who was third in Saturday’s $50,000 Minstrel S. – the first of three Breeders’ Cup prep stakes for 2-year-olds on the turf this summer at Louisiana Downs...
The only stallion standing in North America that is a millionaire, by a millionaire and out of a millionaire, Suave has his first yearlings debuting in 2009. Included are six selling July 20th at Fasig's Select Yearling Sale...
Darby Dan and Tracy Farmer would like to thank everyone for their overwhelming support of Sun King in 2009. He has booked full for the second year with 150 mares scheduled to visit him this year.
All eyes were on a colt by Perfect Soul out of Copper Belle as it sold for $230,000 at the OBS 2 yr old sale. Consigned by Kip Elser's Kirkwood Stables for Bob Baker and partners, the colt breezed 1/8 mile in :10. The colt was purchased by Jess Jackson's Stonestreet Stables.
Sun King's first foals are arriving and they are living up to their royal heritage. Across the board, breeders are reporting foals with good size, excellent substance, and strong bodies.
I'm a Fighter became the first mare confirmed in foal to Run Away and Hide. I'm a Fighter has 8 foals of racing age, 8 winner, 4 of which have earned over $100,000. In total, her foals have earned nearly $725,000 in purses.
Magna Graduate had his first mare confirmed in foal today at Darby Dan Farm. Restless Angel, owned by Mrs. Elisabeth Alexander, is a winning daughter of Fusaichi Pegasus out of the GII winning French deputy mare Latour.
Darby Dan prides itself on having a finger on the pulse of the market. We understand the current economic conditions facing all breeders. Therefore, we have decided to bring back the Profit Protection Program...
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