About Three Chimneys Farm
2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner
For more than 40 years, Three Chimneys Farm has left an indelible mark on the American Thoroughbred industry, and the next 40 years promise to be just as influential. A cornerstone of the global breeding and racing community, the farm has been home to some of the most important stallions in modern history, including Seattle Slew, Dynaformer, and Rahy. Today, that tradition of excellence continues through the farm’s flagship stallion, Gun Runner.
A bold new chapter began in 2013, when the Borges Torrealba family acquired Three Chimneys Farm with a clear vision to breed, raise, and race world class Thoroughbreds capable of competing and winning on the sport’s biggest stages. In the years since, that vision has come to life. The farm has bred or raced twelve Grade 1 winners under their stewardship, led by 2017 Horse of the Year and Champion Older Male Gun Runner. A six time Grade 1 winner of the Breeders Cup Classic, Pegasus World Cup, Whitney Stakes, Woodward Stakes, Stephen Foster Stakes, and Clark Handicap, Gun Runner retired as North America’s second richest racehorse with earnings of $15,988,500. In August 2024, he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, securing his legacy as one of the greatest racehorses of the modern era.
That legacy continues to grow. In 2026, homebred ALWAYS A RUNNER, co-owned with Douglas Scharbauer, captured the 152nd Kentucky Oaks (GI), delivering a landmark victory for the farm. Always A Runner’s Grade I victory in the Kentucky Oaks marked the 14th Grade I winner for her sire, Gun Runner.
Three Chimneys has also campaigned and bred a host of other standouts. Among them is the brilliant Guarana, a three time Grade 1 winning filly whose victories include the Acorn Stakes, Coaching Club American Oaks, and Madison Stakes. In 2019, the farm bred its first Breeders Cup winner when Structor captured the Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf, later earning an Eclipse Award finalist nod for Champion Two Year Old Male.
The speedy Volatile, an $850,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase, won the Aristides Stakes in a final time of 1:07.57 before capturing the Grade I Alfred G Vanderbilt Stakes at Saratoga against an all Grade 1 field. He retired to join the Three Chimneys stallion roster in 2021, adding speed and brilliance to the lineup. His son, T O Elvis, set a new Stakes record in the 2026 Grade I Churchill Downs Stakes with a final time of 1:20.49.
In 2022, the farm celebrated its first American Classic victory when homebred Early Voting, a son of Gun Runner, captured the Preakness Stakes. That same year, Three Chimneys, in partnership with Clearsky Farms, bred Eclipse Champion Two Year Old Filly Wonder Wheel, winner of the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies and Alcibiades Stakes.
Three Chimneys homebred Gun Pilot, an exceptional son of Gun Runner, captured the Grade 1 Churchill Downs Stakes in 2024 before retiring to stand at Three Chimneys in 2025, marking a proud milestone as the first homebred to join the farm’s stallion roster.
With the continued rise of Gun Runner as a preeminent sire and the addition of Grade 1 winners Newgate and Gun Pilot, the future of the farm has never been brighter. Three Chimneys remains dedicated to shaping the future of the Thoroughbred industry for decades to come.
