August 26, 2025
If you were some connections with Paardenraces Amy Moore and Alex Mitchum, you might think it’s a simple game.
Moore’s first runner, Queen Caroline, was a deployed earner of more than $ 400,000. The first foal she bred from Queen Caroline is the multimillionary forte.
Mitchum and his family bought their first horses less than a year ago, and on August 16 one of those horses called in his first start with more than 17 lengths in Saratoga.
Simple game, right?
“Happiness can play a pretty important role in it,” said Moore, who owns South Gate Farm in Millwood, VA. “But you can’t lie down and wait for happiness to run over you. I tried to position myself to be successful.”
She spent 30 years practicing employment law in Washington, DC, worked with multinational companies and according to the website of her former company Covington & Burling, she was considered one of the top 20 lawyers in the country.
After his retirement, she moved 75 Mile West, from Alexandria to Millwood, VA, where she bought South Gate Farm.
“I wanted to move to the country, so I decided that I would buy a farm and possess some land,” she said. “And if you have a farm, you have to farm something, and horses were all I knew, so it was horses.”
Her plan was to buy well -bred mares as yearlings, racing them and then breeding. Queen Caroline was her first purchase, for $ 170,000 as a yearling. The winner of the Virginia-Foked multiple stakes earned $ 400,000, produced Forte in 2020 and sold for $ 3 million on the 2023 phasig-tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed Sale.
“She certainly succeeded,” said Moore in a grand understatement.
Moore’s business plan had shifted by 2022, because the costs of purchase annuals for racing when Ras had become priceless. That year she bought a 4-year-old Merrieveeulen bred in Foal in Foal until this time, and just less than two years later the resulting Virginia-flocked Colt sold for $ 425,000.
Enter the Mitchum family.
Almost four hours southeast of South Gate Farm, Elza Mitchum had decided that, after enjoying horse races for a lifetime, it was time to become a participant and not just a spectator. In the name of Double Down Horse Racing, Mitchum, together with his son Alex and Vrouw Catherine, bought five yearlings at Keeneland September Yearling Sale of last fall, together with trainer Tom Amoss and his merchant team.
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The first of them debuted on August 13 in Saratoga and finished fifth. Three days later it is our time on the track for the 7th race and went to the post with a spotted 5-1. Seventy -five seconds later Double Down Horse Racing had his first winner and a stunning dripping.
It has been won our time with 17 3/4 lengths, which zips 6 1/2 Furlongs in 1: 15.63. The 94 Beyer speed figure that he earned is the second highest by a two-year-old so far this year and the highest by each juvenile during the Saratoga meeting.
The Mitchums live in Virginia Beach, making it our Time Team a Trifecta of Virginia Connections (Horse, Fokker, Owner).
“My father has always been busy racing horses,” said Alex Mitchum. “When we grew up, he took us to colonial downs and Laurel, and we went to the derby a few times.”
They also watched the Saratoga Live programs of the New York Racing Association on Fox, where Alex ‘father Elza became familiar with trainer Tom Amoss.
“So one night he contacted Tom to see if he would be interested in buying horses for us,” said Alex. “And after they spoke for a while, we went to Tom to Keeneland last year to buy yearlings.”
“I am always ecstatic when I have a horse that goes to Amoss,” said Moore. “He does an excellent job with them, and I know they are in good hands. He is also not afraid to buy a smaller foal, which is fun. For me a smaller horse comes the hand faster and is less likely to be injured. I don’t really buy in the ‘larger is better’ philosophy.”
Moore characterizes that it is our time of our time as ‘compact’, and on just over 15 hands it is not our time one of the big, flashy horses that often do well at an auction.
“He was small, but he was a very athletic, very balanced, stunny yearling,” she said. “I was very happy with what he brought with the sale.”
“He was the first horse that Tom showed us,” said Mitchum. “We were really enthusiastic about him. Not this time is a phenomenal father, and we have received such a training on the sale in such a short period.”
The Mitchums have received phone calls about buying their foal, calls that they aim to Amoss, and offers those they have refused. According to Alex Mitchum it is not for sale our time. They also go back to Keeneland in September to add to their budding stable, where half a sister of our time of Bolt d’Oro goes through the ring as hip 1722.
Shea d Summer is in Veulen to Muth and will be bred to Forte in 2026. Her foal from 2025 died by Forte when she was two months old.
Moore was of course watching when it is our time from the Saratoga screen.
“I thought,” Wow, this will help the yearling, “she said.” It reminded me of the 1991 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile won by Araazi. The announcer made a similar call and said that Arazi was coming to challenge and then he ran immediately. I hope that is a good omen for this Colt. That was the photo that came in my head when I saw him open. “
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