Team Valor International concluded 2013 in its usual position atop the standings for stakes wins among North American public partnerships. Team Valor collected 10 added-money wins in 2013 and sister stable Valor Ladies scored another to push the total to 11. ... More

Team Valor International today honored a Paulick Report story on a drug violation at Tampa Bay Downs with the second annual Stan Bergstein Writing Award at the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program s Global Symposium on Racing and Gaming in Tucson. ... More

Orange Grove, a tall chestnut that reminds Team Valor of its Grade 1 Santa Anita hero Gitano Hernando, was sold out in less than 2 hours yesterday afternoon when offered by the stable. The robust son of French Derby winner Hernando broke his maiden on November 15 at Wolverhampton on the all weather surface like a colt with a future. ... More

Frank Stronach has come out in support of a ban on race day medication as proposed in legislation before congress that was spearheaded by efforts from the Kentucky-based WHOA (Hay Oats and Water Alliance). ... More

Brujo de Olleros and Mexikoma both fired big races for trainer Rick Mettee in the Breeders Cup last weekend, despite not reaching the winner s circle. Brujo de Olleros' third-place finish added to Team Valor's strong record in the championship event. ... More

From This Is Horse Racing, based a few furlongs from Fair Hill Training Center, comes the following in a story on Team Valor's contingent for the the Breeders' Cup: Trainer Rick Mettee calls Brujo de Olleros aggressive, which figures given the horse s reputation ... More

Get to know Team Valor 2-year-olds Mexikoma and Street Sailing before they race in the Breeders' Cup World Championships on November 1 and 2 at Santa Anita Park. More

Get to know Brujo de Olleros ahead of his start in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile on November 1 at Santa Anita Park. More

Team Valor International will equal its biggest brigade for the Breeders Cup World Championships when Brujo de Olleros, Mexikoma and Street Sailing represent the stable on November 1 and 2 at Santa Anita Park. More

Ray Paulick, publisher of the Paulick Report, will be a featured speaker in the second annual Stan Bergstein Writing Award presentation on December 11 in Tucson, Arizona. Paulick was a finalist for the inaugural award last year and has 3 story nominations in 2013. More

From Jennie Rees of the Louisville Courier-Journal comes the following story on Andre G. Stock, the first recipient of the John Velazquez Scholarship, which was instituted by Barry and Kathleen Irwin and Team Valor International. More

Team Valor International is prominently featured throughout a Thoroughbred Daily News e-magazine feature focusing on racing schedules in the U.S. compared to Europe, where Barry Irwin has been successful acquiring horses for more than 30 years. More

A year after Animal Kingdom finished second to Horse of the Year Wise Dan in the Breeders' Cup Mile, Team Valor International will return to Santa Anita Park and look to do one better with Brujo de Olleros in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile on November 1. More

Ray Paulick s persistent coverage of a drug violation at Tampa Bay Downs culminated in a story on September 18 that has been nominated for the Stan Bergstein Writing Award. More

Team Valor International, for the first time since 2009, has bought a North American-based 2-year-old colt with Kentucky Derby aspirations. He was fully syndicated within 2 business days into interests of 10 and 5 percent. Mexikoma is a son of Birdstone, who won the 2004 Belmont Stakes. His grandsire Grindstone won the 1996 Kentucky Derby. More

Team Valor International has nominated a Paulick Report story on the fallout from a rash of sudden horse deaths within one stable in Southern California for the second annual Stan Bergstein Writing Award. More

The real Brujo de Olleros made his presence felt in the United States on August 19 when the Uruguayan champion miler rolled to a 6 1/4-length win in the Carl Hanford Memorial Stakes at Delaware Park. More

Team Valor International returned to a familiar position of prominence in the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale earlier this week as the only buyer with two horses in the top 10 prices for the 2-day boutique auction. More

Team Valor International has nominated a Blood-Horse story on a faulty investigation into the death of a horse at Mountaineer Racetrack for the second annual Stan Bergstein Writing Award. More

Barry Irwin and Gary Barber s homebred 3-year-old Triple Threat showed he had learned his starting gate lessons well from California horse whisperer Monty Roberts by storming to an impressive 2-length win in the Group 2 Prix Eugene Adam today at Maisons-Laffitte. The manner in which he routinely handled the 10 furlongs and was eased down through the final sixteenth of a mile by Pierre Charles Boudot stamped the dark-coated French-bred as a legitimate candidate for the October 6 renewal of the Group 1 Prix de l Arc de Triomphe. More

Infinite Magic, under a heady ride from Channing Hill, scored a well deserved head victory Saturday in the historic American Derby going a mile and three-sixteenths on grass at Arlington Park racetrack. The Rick Mettee-trained 3-year-old broke extra sharp, was allowed to assume a contending position in second right behind the pacesetter and saved ground around the entire oval in the $200,000 Grade 3 fixture that is the second leg of the Mid American Triple. More

Black Elegance, whose 4 -length San Siro maiden win was impressive enough to spur Team Valor International to buy her, won today s Listed Premio Gino Mantovani with true panache over the same course and in the process establishing herself as a leading member of her generation in Italy. More

Team Valor International has nominated all 6 stories from a Thoroughbred Daily News series on drugs in horse racing for the Stan Bergstein Writing Award. More

There is no denying that Animal Kingdom is a citizen of the world. His father was Brazilian and his mother German. He has won the most famous race in the United States, the Kentucky Derby, and the globe s richest, the Dubai World Cup. His talent has united an international cast of horsemen: an English-born trainer, an Australian breeder, an Arab sheik and 20 American partners. More

Agra dominated a Listed race in South Africa today to land Team Valor's third stakes win in a week. More

From the America's Best Racing website comes the following feature on Animal Kingdom leading up to his Royal Ascot swan song: The story of Animal Kingdom reads like a Hollywood script, but even then it would be hard to believe. More

Cerro nailed down a popular and determined victory in the Listed Canonero II Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday, prevailing by a head as the 3 to 5 favorite for Rick Mettee's first win as Team Valor's private trainer. More

Valor Red, in her career finale, thrilled her connections with a convincing 1 1/4-length victory at Fairview race course today to become a stakes winner of the East Cape Oaks. More

Megan Jones struck gold with her first Valor Ladies LLC runner Tuttipaesi, yet the Team Valor customer relations director waited 10 months before dipping a toe in the water for the second purchase. The wait ended over the weekend. More

John Velazquez will ride his Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom when the recent Dubai World Cup hero makes his career finale at the mid-June Royal Ascot meeting in England. More

A royal stage and a starring role await Animal Kingdom for his potential racing farewell, as the Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup hero has been nominated for the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes on June 18 and Group 1 Prince of Wales s Stakes on June 19 at Royal Ascot. More

Team Valor International is pleased to announce Bill Plaschke, Billy Reed, Jeff Siegel and Ray Kerrison as the judges for the second annual Stan Bergstein Writing Award. More

Triple Threat put himself squarely in the picture for the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club-French Derby, this afternoon with an impressive triumph in the Group 3 Prix La Force at Longchamp. One of a pair of Group winners on the card today sired by deceased Monsun, he races in Team Valor International CEO Barry Irwin s personal silks. He was bred by Irwin in partnership with MGM CEO Gary Barber of Los Angeles, California. More

Team Valor International has hired Rick Mettee to train all of its North American-based racehorses, effective May 1. Graham Motion will continue to train Animal Kingdom. More

Frank Mitchell reports for the Paulick Report that he who is tired of watching Animal Kingdom race is tired of sport. More

In dominating the world s richest race, Animal Kingdom cleared up any doubt of his sensational talent and punctuated one of the most unique profiles in American racing history. More

Crop Report was the latest Team Valor colt to rise to the occasion on the Turfway Polytrack, rallying from 10 lengths back early for an impressive win in Saturday s $75,000 Rushaway Stakes, which happened to be sponsored by the stable for the first time. More

Team Valor International will present the second annual Stan Bergstein Writing Award at the 2013 Global Symposium on Racing & Gaming this December in Tucson under an agreement with the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program. More

Beyond the horses, Team Valor International is blessed with strong human pedigrees that have linked a love for racing through multiple generations. Two of Animal Kingdom s partners, Dave Dillon and Tom Furey, are prime examples. More

After re-writing the Olympic record books for swimming, Michael Phelps and his long-time coach may have the Kentucky Derby in their sights with a 3-year-old colt named Cerro who won a race at Gulfstream Park on Saturday for Team Valor International. More

Team Valor International, riding back-to-back wins in the Spiral Stakes on the road to the Kentucky Derby, has joined forces with Turfway Park to restore the Rushaway Stakes to the Spiral undercard on March 23. More

James Leonard, a loyal supporter of Team Valor s racing interests in South Africa, scored a valuable victory in the stable s annual contest for active partners. More

Tuttipaesi carried the Valor Ladies colors straight into the Gulfstream Park winner s circle in a big splash for the filly and for the new female-focused partnership, appropriately enough on New Year s Day. More