European venture for Three Chimneys
July 14, 2010

The fragile market is still causing belts to be tightened throughout the bloodstock industry, but it hasn't prevented the Kentucky-based Three Chimneys from strengthening its European presence.

The Rail Bookshelf: 'Losing Charlotte'
May 10, 2010

Heather Clay grew up on Three Chimneys Farm, a family horse farm in Midway, Ky. She is a graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia University's School of the Arts. She has published short fiction in The New Yorker. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two daughters. "Losing Charlotte" is her first novel.
 

The Resource - FALL 2009
November 19, 2009

Advancing the conservation of land for horse-related activities.
 

Featured horse farm: Three Chimneys
March 19, 2009

Every horse racing enthusiast is enamored of the mystique of Three Chimneys Farm. Visitors to Central Kentucky consistently name this place as the one farm on their must-see list. With its all-star stallion roster and its people-friendly reputation, it's no wonder Three Chimneys keeps a tour director on staff.

3-Year-Old Male Eclipse: Big Brown
January 26, 2009

Big Brown's championship campaign in 2008 was predominantly about his long list of accomplishments, several which were history-making and unlikely to be duplicated for a long time.

Breeders give Big Brown a thumbs up
November 5, 2008

Like other shoppers this year, breeders are feeling the economic pinch, as evidenced by the heavy losses at the ongoing Keeneland November breeding stock sale. But that didn't stop 300 to 400 people from stopping by Wednesday to look at one of the pricier, and accomplished, new sires for 2009: Big Brown, who enters stud this year with a $65,000 fee.

Got $10M? It'll buy a racing stable for Christmas
October 8, 2008

Talk about your diamond and platinum studs: Neiman Marcus is offering a $10 million racing stable from Midway's Three Chimneys Farm as the ultimate Christmas gift.

Boys's Wish Granted to Meet Smarty Jones
June 27, 2008

The Kentucky region of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Three Chimneys Farm recently teamed up to grant a young boy's wish of meeting Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes (both gr. I) winner Smarty Jones.

Three Chimneys gears up for Big Brown's arrival
by Will Graves - June 5, 2008

If Big Brown thinks he's got it made now, standing so regally in his stall at Belmont Park while he waits for Saturday's run at a Triple Crown, wait until he gets to Three Chimneys.

Breeders aiming to strike a balance
by Glenye Cain Oakford - June 4, 2008

The 2008 Triple Crown has been a roller-coaster ride for Robert Clay, who has been unusually close to both the glory and the tragedy of the campaign this year.

Three Chimneys enters new era
by Glenye Cain Oakford - May 31, 2008

A little more than 23 years ago, Robert Clay stood outside the stallion barn at his Three Chimneys Farm, awaiting the arrival of the undefeated Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. Clay hopes he will be waiting for another undefeated Triple Crown winner in the fairly near future...

Son takes reins of family business
by Alicia Wincze, from The Lexington Herald-Leader, January 7, 2008

Case Clay's career journey brought him back home.

Dream Come True: Dan Rosenberg and Three Chimneys Farm
by Lenny Shulman, from The Blood-Horse, September 8, 2007

The president of Three Chimneys Farm reflects back on 30 years of dreams coming true as he readies to step away from the day-to-day and start a consulting business.

Coping with the Heat: Slew o'Gold at 27
by Alicia Wincze, from The Lexington Herald-Leader, August 23, 2007

Alicia Wincze details the challenges of helping a 27-year-old stallion who has Cushing's Disease deal with an August heat wave.

Night Life
By Lenny Shulman, from The Blood Horse, April 7, 2007

Night watchmen take charge of farms when darkness hits. A look inside the work of a Three Chimneys night watchman during foaling season.

Talkin' Horses with Sandy Hatfield
From www.bloodhorse.com, February 8, 2007

Transcript of the live chat during which Three Chimneys Stallion Manager Sandy Hatfield answers a broad range of questions about stallions, the stallion business, characteristics of Three Chimneys stallions and a typical day at the Three Chimneys Stallion division -- among other things!

In the Blood
by Julia Hanna, from the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin, March 2005.

Robert Clay goes the distance as owner of Three Chimneys Farm, a Thoroughbred horse farm in the heart of Bluegrass Country. ...

Stay small, but land the big horse
By Glenye Cain, from the Daily Racing Form, February 20, 2004

Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., now famously the home of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones, certainly has an "old school" appearance. ...

Smarty's Choice
by Marcus Green, from the Louisville Courier-Journal, July 11, 2004

The morning ritual at Three Chimneys Farm evokes an era when stallions were treated like durable, spirited racehorses - not delicate china. ...

Fantastic Fan
by Kristin J. Ingwell

In Seattle Slew's 15 years at Three Chimneys Farm, the Triple Crown winner has received flowers, mints, a wedding invitation, birthday cards, get-well greetings, and many visitors. This year, for his 27th birthday, he got something new...

It’s exciting anytime a new stallion arrives. A new career for him, a new patriarch for us. But this time was different. I wasn’t a part of Three Chimneys when Seattle Slew arrived, so nothing had prepared me for this day...

Robert Clay, an industry leader - If you live outside of Kentucky, you might not know about Henry Clay, whose former home, Ashland, is a tourist attraction in Lexington. But if you're involved in the Thoroughbred industry, you probably have heard of one of his descendants, Robert N. Clay, the master of Three Chimneys Farm...

Capote has a clear Track Record
by Edwin Anthony

Often, when a breeder wants to use a stallion, he or she may have a hard time figuring out which types of mares will be the best fit for that stallion. There are no such problems when considering Capote...

The hallmark of a great sire is that he matches well with mares from a variety of sire lines. Wild Again is the sire of 61 stakes winners from 59 different mares—that’s 59 different broodmare sires! Stallions just don’t come any more versatile than that...

Bang for Your Buck
by Rick Simon,From THE THOROUGHBRED RECORD OF CALIFORNIA, November 1996

Dan Rosenberg Discusses Selection of Breeding Stock - The manager of one of America's top Thoroughbred farms discussed selection of breeding stock at a CTBA seminar...

Three Chimneys hosts an informative seminar for the media - A group of journalists spent three days living life on a Thoroughbred breeding farm...

Feature article about Robert Clay - It was 1978, and 28-year-old Dan Rosenberg was looking to move up in the Thoroughbred business. On his calendar was an interview for a job managing Robert Clay's small but up-and-coming broodmare farm, Three Chimneys...

Genuine Risk's long-awaited first foal - The birth announcement read, "It's a boy!" and journalists around the world took note...

A veterinary recap of Genuine Risk giving birth to her first live foal at age 16 - It took countless covers, assorted stallions and 11 years, but Genuine Risk has her foal...

One of the industry's leading magazines comments - In the pages that follow, THOROUGHBRED TIMES presents its list of the leading stud farms in North America and the world...

A look at one of Three Chimneys' best, and best-liked, stallions - Chief's Crown won the first Breeders' Cup race ever run, the 1984 Juvenile, and was a successful sire before his passing this spring...

Growth at Three Chimneys
by Amy Gregory, from the THOROUGHBRED RECORD, January 1985

Three Chimneys growth in the early 1980s - Robert Clay has expanded his Three Chimneys Farm to 850 acres and has a champion as the first resident of his stallion complex...

The theories which have helped make Three Chimneys a leading Select Yearling Consignor - Julian Muscat spoke to Three Chimneys Farm manager Dan Rosenberg about the stud's policies and its method of yearling preparation...

A stallion powerhouse emerges - Three Chimneys ventured into the stallion market with caution, but that doesn't begin to explain how they now stand three champions and two leading sires...