Moira crowned 2022 Canadian Horse of the Year at Sovereigns

Apr 14, 2023 – Moira, winner of the Queen’s Plate and Woodbine Oaks in 2022, was voted Canada’s Horse of the Year at the 48th Sovereign Awards. David Anderson of Anderson Farms owns a share in co-owner X-Men Racing and was among the group which accepted the Sovereigns for Moira. “As we all know, great horses make mediocre horsepeople look smart,” he said. “But when you do it year in and year out like Donato Lanni, something’s right. This is the smartest guy in the business.”

EnjoytheSilent

EnjoytheSilent

(RETIRED, Gelding, Silent Name – Spun Lace) The Canuck Racing Club acquired an ownership stake in this dark bay gelding at the start of his 3-year old campaign after he flew around 10 other maidens and poured on the speed to easily win his 7-furlong race.

Donato Lanni: ‘Every sale, I fall in love with horses again’

Feb 28, 2023 – Lanni has found a litany of champions-many for his great friend and collaborator, Bob Baffert, from Arrogate to Authentic. Competitors don’t talk of Lanni with envy. They talk with immense respect; almost as though he were some kind of savant, deploying intuitions that can’t be learned or articulated. But that won’t stop us asking him how they evolved…