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Hinkle Farms celebrated their first Breeders’ Cup winner when More Than Looks won the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Mile. This year, they are hoping their commercial program will make it back in the spotlight with turf star Deterministic. We visit the family farm in this episode of Breeders’ Cup Connections.

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00:00The back-to-back winner of the four-star, Dave Deterministic, wins it easily.
00:07All the grade one races are so exciting. It's really hard to pick a favorite, but
00:11I think I scared my kids at home screaming at the TV so loud. I didn't understand why I was
00:17so excited.
00:20This is Hinkle Farms. We're outside of Paris in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
00:26The land has been in our family since the mid-1920s. My father and Henry's father
00:33bought two broodmares in the mid-1960s, and that's how we got started in the horse business.
00:41I think within the last 15 years, I'm really proud of how we've built our broodmare band
00:50and getting grade one horses.
00:52The Deterministic's dam is a Spicetown mare named Julio's Jewel. Her foals, with the
00:58exception of Deterministic, were not what I would call great sales yearlings, but Deterministic
01:06was just so much different than the others.
01:09Deterministic was the most gorgeous yearling, and he was easily everyone's favorite cult that
01:17year. Kristoff and Miguel have always described him as, he walks like a cat, and he really
01:24always walked like a cat here on the farm as well.
01:28There's a reason he bought the highest price of any Liam's map of his crop. Monique Delk
01:36recognized what a special horse he was, and bought him for Mr. Viola and his friends, and
01:41you know, the rest is history.
01:43He was a TDN Rising Star in his first start at Saratoga, and he came from out of the clouds.
01:51In September of his three-year-old year, during the September sale, Kristoff Clamont stopped
01:57by to see us at our barn at Keeneland, and he said, Deterministic is a very good horse.
02:05And he said, I will win a grade one with him.
02:12I get nervous about any race from a horse we've bred. I feel like my heart starts racing.
02:17Sort of like a proud father, you know, when you see one of the horses who was bred and
02:22raised here do well. We usually have a text chain going, and big races we'll call each other.
02:30This year, we'll all be together at the Breeders' Cup, so hopefully we'll have a reason to celebrate together.
02:40We bred More Than Looks, who won the Breeders' Cup mile in 2024, and that was our first Breeders' Cup
02:48winner.
02:49I think winning a Breeders' Cup race is the ultimate achievement for a breeder, and hope it's just the first
02:57of more to come.
02:59He's a really good horse. If he gets there, it'll be tremendous competition, and there'll be great horses coming from
03:07Europe,
03:08but I certainly believe he'll give a good account of himself.
03:11We've bred some nice horses, but I think we're all in agreement that he's the best horse that we've ever
03:17bred.
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