About Us

Resolute is a thoroughbred breeding and racing operation in Midway, KY, dedicated to acquiring, breeding, and racing, the highest caliber of thoroughbreds. Established in 2023, Resolute purchased the former Shadayid Stud property in December with over 850 acres of historically significant Kentucky bluegrass
to house our operations. We have since added another 150 acres after purchasing a neighboring farm.

The team at Resolute has also acquired an incredible group of thoroughbreds since starting to include broodmares, yearlings, and horses of racing age that will provide opportunities to compete at the highest levels in the sport while building families based on the best historical bloodlines for producing Graded Stakes winning horses.

In an interview with The Thoroughbred Report, owner John Stewart stated: “I've lived in the Lexington area for over 30 years. And so I have always followed the sport and acquired my first horse in 2022 at the Keeneland September Sale. As I started accumulating more horses, I started looking at farms in the Kentucky area because I really wanted to do something significant for the sport in Kentucky, I wanted to do something that would have a positive impact on the sport that I loved”. 

When asked about our fast growing breeding program, John explains: "I'm trying to breed for a different quality of horse. We're not just after winners. We're after Graded stakes winners”. 

With our focus on breeding to race rather than selling, John explains: “We've been very active buying right now, but that's because we're trying to fill in all parts of our program with yearlings and 2-year-olds. So we have something fun to do while we're waiting for our own stock to grow out. But we're going to breed to race, especially the fillies, we'll breed them with the intention of creating good broodmares. I don't see the need to stand stallions. If I create a stallion, that's a big revenue generator for us. And then, as a part of the negotiation, you can always go back. If you’ve got quality mares, you have access to all of the quality stallions. I'm buying some stallion shares, because I'm trying to support the rest of the industry.”