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With breeding season in full gear, and new baby horses being born everywhere, Gina Dailey looks forward to the next generation! Her main job as the Kentucky branch manager of Diamond Creek Farm is to raise and care for these babies up until the yearling sales and hope they become the next racing superstar

Every winter, the newest freshmen class of horses increase their training to try and develop into the next harness racing superstar! Rene Allard and Ryan Macedonio go over every 2 year old in Team Allard, how they are learning, and what differences Rene and the Team do from others

Team Allard recently announced a special 2019 special promotion for their Dan Patch Award Winning Horse Keystone Velocity: Free Breedings for everyone!! No gimmicks, smoke and mirrors, or strings attached. So let's dig a little deeper into the idea with the man himself who created the idea Rene Allard!

As breeding season gets into high gear and the future racehorse superstars are being born, Dr. Courtney Pink leads the way for Diamond Creek Farm, heading their PA farm and overseeing anything and everything involving bringing the babies healthy and happy into the world!

Kim Vincent was aborad Rock N Roll Jet, the lone Maryland rep in the $100,000 Potomac Pace! Home track pressure was no issue for Kim, especially when you drive a great horse!

The self proclaimed "greatest RUS rider in the history of Maryland and the universe", Sofia Zingale has just begun her racing and training career and has already achieved much success!!

It wouldn't be a visit to Rosecroft Raceway if I didn't check in on the life of The Jet Jason Thompson. He tried to beat Foiled Again....and well.... like the other 107 times in his career, Foiled Again ripped the heart out of Jason's chest midstretch!!

Rock N Roll Jet is one of the top horses racing in Maryland, winning 5 out of his last 6 in the Open Paces at Rosecroft Raceway. The Buddy Bright trainee took on the best of the best in the 2018 Potomac Pace

George, Steven, and Nola Leager have a pretty awesome 3 year old colt with Slick Tony! After sweeping the Delaware Stakes program, Slick Tony won the co main event, the Maryland Inviational Pace, on Potomac Pace night!

Fresh off the racetrack winning the $100,000 Potomac Pace with Western Fame! With the help of Corey, Rene purchased and added Western Fame to Team Allard, and in their first start, took home the last major stakes race in 2018!

Clyde Francis and Team Teague have had an outstanding year with Lather Up! Almost banking $1M, they started the grand circuit season strong with a North America Cup win, some Sire Stakes finals in between, and most recently, a 2nd in the Breeders Crown Championship Final!!

The last 12 months had its highs and lows and back to highs! for Matt Kakaley, starting out with the birth of his first daughter, then a brutal shoulder injury and ending with his first 2 Breeders Crown Championships! We dive into all of that and everything in between!

Rene Allard is the leading trainer at the Breeders Crown host track , The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono, so its only fitting that he brings some competition for the finals on his home track! When DovesCry won her elimination and is one of the favorites heading into the $600,000 Championship Final

Woodside Charm is the only UNDEFEATED horse headed into the 12 Breeders Crown Championship Finals! That's 107 of the best in North America competing for $6M in purses, but she's the only one who truly who stands out!

Jim King is sending out 3 finalists on Saturday! DontTellMeAgain in the $430,000 Breeders Crown Open Pace while Newborn Sassy and the heavy favorite Shartin N in the $270,000 Breeders Crown Open Mares Pace!

The great Lazarus will make his Breeders Crown debut on Saturday night in the $430,000 Open Pace Championship Final! Ernie Martinez and Taylor Made Farm are hoping to cap off 2018 with a toast in the winners circle!

Bob McClure snatched up his first 2 Breeders Crown Elim winners on Friday night! The 2019 event is at his home track, Woodbine - Mohawk Park, but he's at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono to take home some championship finals!

Over a decade ago, Adam Bowden created Diamond Creek Farm from scratch with a new vision and business that set the entire breeding industry on fire! Now he has a roster of premiere stallions, broodmares, and yearlings, 2 farms, and is still growing!

The unofficial mayor of every harness racing sale!! Bob is a giant among men, the social butterfly perusing the sales floor in his Hawaiian shirt! He also is the reason why so many horses have gotten home safe and sound from these sales and racing events!

Halloween is approaching, and the most frightening and scariest moment in TrotCast history happened while talking with Rachel! She's the glue running the breeding side for Diamond Creek Farm

Marcus Melander, Mattias Melander, and yes THE Stefan Melander (stalltz) were all at the Lexington Select Yearling Sale at Fasig-Tipton looking at literally EVERY trotter! All the Melander Stable does is churn out champion trotters!!

Any branding, advertising, and marketing you see for Diamond Creek Farm, Caroline is behind it! From the look and feel of their sales area, open house, and commercials and logos for their stallions.

I found Tony wandering the Fasig-Tipton grounds with his crayons and sale book looking at yearlings, taking notes. What does the trainer of one of the biggest stables in North America look at when examining his prospects? Just ask!

Beth started Anvil and Lace Farm in 2015 with the goal of becoming the biggest farm EVER!!! Actually, she just wanted to work on the breeding side while using her skills to teach and mold yearlings into great horses!