New Mexico fillies and mares are featured this weekend in the $50,000 Vista Distaff Stakes for three-year-olds and up on ...

There will be as much intriguing surrounding the $2 million Longines Distaff as any race on the Breeders' Cup card, as the top older females take on an incredibly talented group of 3-year-old fillies.

Once the clear queen of the filly-mare sprint division, the now 5-year-old Vahva appears to have lost a step. From August of 2023 to June of last year, Vahva ra ...

Having been beat in her three starts since winning this race a year ago, Vahva aims to right the ship June 21 in the $300,000 ...

It was an early wake-up call for Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) winner Thorpedo Anna on Sunday. The 3-year-old filly was wide awake in her stall on the Del Mar backstretch and ready to roll ...

Reporting from Del Mar — It couldn’t touch last year’s running of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff in either excitement or sentimentality, but that didn’t matter to the connections of Forever ...

Owner Aaron Jones wasn’t focusing on the $1.4 million winner’s purse when he shelled out $400,000 to supplement Riboletta to Saturday’s $2.3 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Instead ...

Exploring historic textiles, sustainable fashion, and the fiber arts through spinning, weaving, sewing, and yarn crafting. Here you'll find whimsical projects galore with some history bounding and ...

You can breathe now. Malathaat’s nose got there first. The $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland on Saturday boiled down to what was looking like a done deal between Blue Stripe and ...

The 4-year-old filly Randaroo continued her remarkable roll yesterday in the Grade 2, $150,000 Distaff Breeders’ Cup Handicap at the Big A, leading all the way to score by 3½ lengths under Rich ...

Throughout history, most spinners have also used a simple device called a distaff. A distaff is a wooden board, sometimes plain but often intricately carved, to which the raw material is tied, and ...

The Distaff Gospels, first published in France around 1480, is a collection of “gospels” around pregnancy, childbirth, and health. It was created during secretive meetings of French women who ...