JRita Young Thoroughbreds, LLC

JRita Young Thoroughbreds, LLC Thoroughbred Horses owned by JR & Rita Young

06/09/2025

Here we Grow Again! Thoroughbred Breeding Farm in Van Buren, AR is actively seeking an experienced farm hand with experience handling young horses.
Thirty two hour week with on-call duty every other weekend.
Job description includes all expected farm activities and experience with hauling horses a plus. Experience/knowledge of horse medications and administration a big bonus.
Call Rita Young to schedule phone interview followed by farm visit and drug testing for successful candidate. 479/629-8808

Five fine fillies in a field! Yearlings by Yaupon, McKinzie, War of Will, The Big Beast and High North
05/06/2025

Five fine fillies in a field! Yearlings by Yaupon, McKinzie, War of Will, The Big Beast and High North

Happy Birthday to Man In The Can!He’s eight years old and still going strong thanks to the excellent care he gets at Ron...
03/11/2025

Happy Birthday to Man In The Can!
He’s eight years old and still going strong thanks to the excellent care he gets at Ron Moquett’s barn. We were thinking about retiring him this year-he said a strong NO to that idea with his win on Sunday.

Chance -Chance Given is a non-registered two year old gelding by Mor Spirit o/o Rita’s Fifty Seven. He was born with co...
02/15/2025

Chance -
Chance Given is a non-registered two year old gelding by Mor Spirit o/o Rita’s Fifty Seven. He was born with compression on his spine at C 1 & 3 and displayed some neurological symptoms that apparently resolved as he grew and pressure released. He is chipped and DNA certified but I did not register him believing that racing would be too demanding on him.
He stands for the farrier (trims-not in shoes) and has a good disposition. His current job is companion to whatever horse we are resting/re-habilitating at the moment. Our breeding operation has grown to the point that we can’t invest the time to bring him to his full potential (trial horse, lesson horse, etc).
DOB 3/25/23. 15 hands - 950 lbs +/-
Available for inspection in Crawford County, AR. after providing vet/farrier references.
Will add videos when weather permits.

Run Free beautiful boy❤️. We lost our farm favorite today at the training center in a freak accident. Just starting his...
01/03/2025

Run Free beautiful boy❤️. We lost our farm favorite today at the training center in a freak accident. Just starting his racing prep as a two year old in the round pen. If I’ve talked to you about our hopes and dreams in racing, I’ve talked about Homeboy—‘23 Take Me Home Too. He had Arkansas Derby 2026 stamped all over him. Hard loss for all of us!!

From the outside to the rail—post position is luck of the drawer and we haven’t been lucky so far. Hopefully Landlord br...
12/21/2024

From the outside to the rail—post position is luck of the drawer and we haven’t been lucky so far. Hopefully Landlord breaks on top and makes them chase him.

Twentytwo made his debut today in the 2nd race at Oaklawn. Proud of his 3rd place finish after getting hit squarely in t...
12/20/2024

Twentytwo made his debut today in the 2nd race at Oaklawn. Proud of his 3rd place finish after getting hit squarely in the face with a huge dirt clod that shut him down momentarily. Lots of heart in this one.

Can’t win them all if you don’t win the first one! He likes a mile but is ready to go!
12/14/2024

Can’t win them all if you don’t win the first one! He likes a mile but is ready to go!

12/14/2024

24-25 Oaklawn Roster @ Moquett Racing.

MAN IN THE CAN — 2020 Arkansas Breeder’s Champion returning for his 6-7th season and still loving the track. Earnings $567,302

LANDLORD — 2nd in the ‘24 Rainbow Stakes and earned $96,468 last year

STRATO — off to slow start as a 3 year old due to injury but finished ‘24 with earnings of $83,436

New to the crew for 2024-25
TO TWO TWENTYTWO — Goldencents gelding gets his first start 12/20/24 in Race 2

MAYOR — Cutting Humor gelding was the first foal born on our farm. High hopes for this one!

PENNY SAVED — massive two year old filly by Astern. We’ll be patient with her while her brain catches up with her long legs and body. Looks like a route champion!

This will be our first year to race all Arkansas bred horses. We have raced the last few years as breeders of all our entries but some were from the NY or PA programs. We retired Pratt (PA) as a sound 7 year old in August—claiming him from his last win with earnings of $147k. He’s being broke to a western saddle and I plan to ride him in 2025😁

I’ll try to do better with posting entries in 2025 but we’re racing during foaling season so no promises.
We have several horses racing this year that we bred racing under new ownership that I’ll try to keep up with on this page.
EXCITED FOR OAKLAWN RACING!

2018 Gun Control (Medaglia D’Oro)In foal to Thousand Words standing for $12,500 in 2025. 2022 by Goldencents is in Hot S...
10/21/2024

2018 Gun Control (Medaglia D’Oro)

In foal to Thousand Words standing for $12,500 in 2025.
2022 by Goldencents is in Hot Springs prepping for the 24-25 Oaklawn meet.
2023 by Cutting Humor in training
2024-open due to cervical repair in ‘23
Last bred on 3/5/24 and confirmed pregnant with due date early February 2025.
Selling to reduce duplicate breeding lines in current stock.
$15,000

Filly pile. 95 degrees in October making us all lazy! Weanling fillies by Yaupon, War of Will, The Big Beast and High ...
10/13/2024

Filly pile. 95 degrees in October making us all lazy! Weanling fillies by Yaupon, War of Will, The Big Beast and High North. “Willa” is anti-social or smarter?? She found the hay pile from the manger clean out.

Derby Day Lassie came home today. She was scheduled to race last Friday but her trainer knew she was off after her gallo...
09/04/2024

Derby Day Lassie came home today. She was scheduled to race last Friday but her trainer knew she was off after her gallop Wednesday morning and we took her to the vet for a full work-up. She had some issues developing that she would have probably run through (she has no quit in her) but could have caused further damage or a potential crippling/catastrophic injury. Thankful for a trainer that put HER first!

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