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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

An informative exploration of Distaff Day’s origins, traditions, and cultural significance, shedding light on this lesser-known historical celebration.

Twice during the running of the Breeders' Cup Distaff - Presented by Nextel (gr. I), sophomore filly Ashado pushed around older rivals like she was the toughest kid on the playground. But Ashado ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Wayne Lukas became the first trainer to win two Cup races on the same day, taking the Juvenile Fillies with Twilight Ridge and the Distaff with Life’s Magic.