Medina Spirit, the controversial winner of the 2021 Kentucky Derby, died on Monday, December 6, 2021 at Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia, California, from an apparent heart attack. The three-year-old Thoroughbred had just completed a five-furlong workout.

It can be said that breeding horses is not for the faint of heart. It takes a lot of time, energy, and perseverance to develop a foal into a competent athlete, let alone one that can shine in world class competition. Yet six Canadian breeding operations proved again this past summer that Canada is quite capable of breeding such horses.

July 15, 2021 – Thirty-six horses flew into Japan last night – the first full cargo load of horses ever to land in Haneda, the waterfront airport that serves the greater Tokyo area and which is now welcoming a very different group of Olympic athletes.