Brotha Keny's Stakes Win Special for Terrazas

Eduardo Terrazas' broodmare band is small in numbers, but mighty in results, most recently proven when Brotha Keny, a product of his compact breeding program, won the $300,000 Bourbon Flight Stakes Sept. 20 at Churchill Downs. Terrazas and his daughter, Jenny, run Terrazas Thoroughbreds in Lexington, where they have around 55-60 mares total for such clients as Corser Thoroughbreds, who bred grade 1 winner Arabian Knight, White Fox Farms, and St. George Stables, the latter of whom bred and campaigned champion Letruska. The father-daughter team owns around 10 mares themselves. Brotha Keny's win was extra special to Terrazas because the gelding's dam, Raramuri Princess, is the first horse he ever bred on his own. "She has nine horses of racing age, they're all winners. What else can I say?," Terrazas said. "His (win) was pretty special, because that mare (Raramuri Princess) has been very, very special to me. "She's been nothing but good to me," he continued. "It is more of a tribute to her, to see all that she has done in spite of me not being able to give her the best stallions I can give her. I'm really, really attached to the mare, it's just unbelievable to me." Terrazas sold the son of Mo Town under his own banner at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale for $25,000 to Backwards K Racing. He only sells horses he has raised himself. "When we go to the sales, these horses, we have raised since they were babies, and we know them all," he said. "We know their mother and all their idiosyncrasies of their whole family." Terrazas said Brotha Keny was a very well-balanced yearling with a nice body. "He was a little bit bigger and stouter than mama herself, but he was very correct." Terrazas started his horsemanship journey in his home country of Mexico on the racetrack where he worked as an exercise rider and an assistant trainer before transitioning to New Mexico, Texas, and finally Kentucky. He worked at Overbrook Farm as the stallion manager for more than 14 years, where he oversaw the care of industry-shaping stallions such as Storm Cat and Carson City. He then moved onto Taylor Made Stallions where he stepped into the same role of stallion manager before going out on his own in 2005. While Terrazas mainly breeds to sell, he has decided to keep Raramuri Princess's yearling colt by Instagrand to race. He hopes in the coming years that the 17-year-old mare will produce a filly that he can keep to breed. Eduardo Terrazas at the Keeneland September Sale "I think (the Maximus Mischief filly) True Princess was the last (filly) she had," Terrazas said. "Believe it or not, True Princess ran yesterday at Churchill also. (The mare) has always given me very durable horses, horses like Old Fashioned Club, he ran until he was 6. The (son of) Competitive Edge (stakes winner Concealed Carry), he's still running. He actually ran yesterday at Parx in the (Parx Dirt Mile) Stakes. He's 6 years old. That's why I'm so attached to her. She has always given me allowance-type, honest horses." Brotha Keny is the highest earner that Terrazas has bred, as he currently has a bankroll of $318,190. "I've always told people that I'm very lucky for my clients, but I've never been too lucky for myself. The good thing is, we never give up. There is nothing that makes me more proud than showing my winning pictures of a horse that I bred out of my own mare; that's a special part of my business."