
Bull Shoals (KY)
Gray/roan colt, 2023
Mo Forza - Rapid Water, by Liam's Map
Home/Racing
✦On the track
Somewhere in a horse is the wish to be in front. Racing is how we let them find out. Our thoroughbred racing program exists to give that instinct a fair stage, asking each horse for their best and never for more than they hold.
A race is a short, vigorous exam on months of quiet work. The running takes two minutes. The answer it gives has been years in the making.
We run a small string, and we are particular about it. Every piece of racing activity we commit to is chosen the way a mating is chosen in consultation with trainer Jena Antonucci, for this horse and this moment, and for no other reason.
Ours is a small thoroughbred racing operation, and we keep a plain measure of a good day: the horse ran their race and walked off it sound. Wins come, when they come, out of that discipline and a good team around every runner, never out of pushing a horse past itself.
✦In training

Gray/roan colt, 2023
Mo Forza - Rapid Water, by Liam's Map

Chestnut gelding, 2023
Mo Forza - Bacchanalia, by Union Rags
✦On the board
| Track | Date | Type | Horse | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DMR | Aug 16, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Bull Shoals | 1 |
| DMR | Jul 31, 2026 | Real Good Deal Stakes | Party Animal | 2 |
| SAR | Jul 9, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Bull Shoals | 2 |
| SAR | Jul 5, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Party Animal | 4 |
| SAR | Jun 5, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Party Animal | 3 |
| SAR | Jun 5, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Bull Shoals | 2 |
| BAQ | May 7, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Party Animal | 4 |
| KEE | Apr 22, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Bull Shoals | 10 |
| AQU | Apr 17, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Party Animal | 5 |
| GP | Mar 22, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Party Animal | 3 |
| GP | Feb 22, 2026 | Maiden Special Weight | Bull Shoals | 2 |
2026 starts · source: Equibase
✦Our approach
Half the skill of training is picking the race. We read the conditions and the company, and send a horse to post only when the shape of the day suits the shape of the horse.
A horse has only so many hard runs in them, and we spend them like money we can't earn back. When a start would take more than it gives, we wait.
No result is worth a horse. That sentence sounds obvious until the money and the pride are on the line, and it is exactly then that we hold to it hardest.
Nobody remembers a great day alone. The point of a winner's circle is who is standing in it with you, and we make sure the people we love are never watching from far away.

✦From foaling to the winner's circle
Trace any race back far enough and you reach a cold morning in an empty barn. That is where it is really won, long before the gate ever opens.
Our colors



A set of silks is a small flag the Bushman family plants on a horse's back. Ours carries a crown and a laurel, symbols for the will to win and the honor of earning it.
We carry two sets - a black-body primary and a white-body set, the latter worn only when racing in New York.
✦Symbols of our legacy
A timeless symbol of power and victory - strength, leadership, and the will to win.
An enduring emblem of victory, honor, and achievement - the dedication and excellence that define our journey.
You raise a horse for two years, and they pay you back in a couple of minutes on the track. There is no feeling in the world like it.
- Wade Bushman