You probably know that Terry Bradshaw won four Super Bowls, has been inducted into the College and Pro Halls of Fame and was the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1978. You probably know that Bradshaw has been a mainstay on Fox's coverage of the NFL since 1994. But you probably didn't know that Bradshaw owns a piece of a possible starter in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.
Along with Magdalena Racing and Graham Leveston, Bradshaw is the co-owner of the GIII Pocahontas Stakes winner Taken by the Wind (Rock Your World). He says it's been a great ride and he came on this week's edition of the TDN Writers' Room Podcast presented by Keeneland to tell us all about it. He was this week's Gainesway Guest of the Week.
Bradshaw was also a part owner of GI Donn Handicap winnner Graydar (Unbridled's Song) and Mission Impazible (Unbridled's Song), the winner of the 2010 GII Louisiana Derby.
Where did this love of horses come from?
“When I grew up I spent most of my time on my grandfather's farm and he had Clydesdales and I used to sit on top of them while he plowed and the smell of the horse sweat was something,” Bradshaw said. “It was like perfume to me. I thought it was the coolest thing and I was always down there loving on them and crawling on them. My uncles were all cutting horse riders. They all rode cutting horses. So that's how it happened. It's kind of like with a kid, introduce them to a bunch of stuff and they'll pick what they like and I picked horses. It's just a natural thing for me.”
Bradshaw first went into the Quarter Horse business. His Terry Bradshaw Quarter Horses, specializes in breeding and raising halter and pleasure horses and not race horses. He has reduced his Quarter Horse Stock by 90%, so he now has more time and more money to devote to his other passion, Thoroughbreds.
“I watch FanDuel TV all the time,” he said. “I never really got out of it mentally. I got out of it physically. then I always wanted to get back in, I actually called (Thoroughbred owner) Steve Davison and said, Steve, 'we've done this Quarter Horse thing , and I got my stallion business going.' I said, 'you know what, I'm a little bored.' I needed to get some of that action back. I said, 'what do you have that I can buy into?' To his credit, he said that he really didn't have anything that I would want you and I to be in. I appreciated that.”
Then he went to Kenny McPeek, the trainer of Taken by the Wind. Curt Menifee, who works with Bradshaw on the Fox football shows also worked the 2024 and 2025 GI Belmont S. broadcasts and told Bradshaw how impressed he was by a trainer named Kenny McPeek. So with McPeek leading the way, he brought two yearling fillies last year and is a partner on eight yearlings from this year's sales.
None of the horses cost a lot at the sales. Taken by The Wind was purchased by bargain hunter McPeek for just $20,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale. Bradshaw's expectations were modest.
“I wasn't expecting anything,” Bradshaw said. “And then she was right in the pack. It was all clustered up and she was just sitting there about fifth and running easy. I thought, 'look how easy she looked coming out of the turn. She's still right where she was, not straining, not doing anything. And then she came out of the turn and she made here move. I said to (his wife) 'Tammy you got to be kidding me.'”
Should Taken by the Wind win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, don't be surprised if Bradshaw doesn't show up to work for Fox two days later.
“I told Curt, that if I get in the Breeders' Cup with my mare and we win the race on a Friday I won't be there on Sunday. I will call in sick because I'll still be celebrating,” he said. “Yeah, I won't be there. Where's Terry? He's in San Diego. He rented out a hotel.”
The “Fastest Horse of the Week” was Rebel's Romance (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), who got a 106 Beyer for his win in the GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic. The Fastest Horse of the Week segment is sponsored by WinStar.
Elsewhere on the podcast, which is also sponsored by 1/st TV, the KTOB, the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders' Association and West Point Thoroughbreds, the team of Bill Finley, Zoe Cadman and Randy Moss talked about the Paco Lopez suspension. Their opinions were split, with former jockey Cadman being the most sympathetic to the oft-suspended rider. The team also did a review of last week's big race and previewed what should be an exciting weekend of racing coming up.
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