Tapp joins Gainesway staff
Gainesway has announced that Ian Tapp has accepted a position with the Lexington, Ky., farm, focusing on sales and bloodstock.
DRF Breeding StaffDec 11, 2015
Gainesway has announced that Ian Tapp has accepted a position with the Lexington, Ky., farm, focusing on sales and bloodstock.
The late Street Cry forever will be remembered as the sire of 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta, but he is also slowly developing a promising portfolio as a sire of sires. His best son, champion 2-year-old male and Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense, started slowly but has developed into a solid sire with 40 stakes winners, including six Grade 1 or Group 1 winners. Street Cry’s sprinting son Street Boss did not go to stud with the championship patina of Street Sense, but he is gradually making his own way as a sire of versatile runners in both hemispheres. Street Boss’s most recent stakes winner, juvenile Cathryn Sophia, who captured the Gin Talking Stakes on Dec. 5 at Laurel by 16 1/4 lengths, may well turn out to be one of his best.
Every broodmare owner has heard the mantra about increasing calories to keep the mare in optimum body condition score for conception, support her and her fetus during gestation, and enable her to provide ample milk for her foal. But broodmare nutrition is more complex than simply increasing rations. How you reach that optimum body condition score of six on the nine-point Henneke scale is important.
Edgard Zayas and Tyler Gaffalione, who finished first and third in the jockey standings at the recently concluded Gulfstream Park West meet, returned to action Friday, less than 48 hours after being injured in separate incidents Wednesday.
Speechify and Singanothersong, the last two winners of the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector, were among 18 horses nominated to the six-furlong dash to be decided here Saturday on a card that also includes the $75,000 Tropical Park Oaks.
Weather permitting – and that has been the big issue here during opening week of the meet – Ready Dancer finally will get the opportunity to run on the turf when he goes postward the likely favorite in Sunday's $41,000 allowance feature.
Tommy Macho, the Grade 3 Discovery winner, will likely have five rivals next Saturday at Aqueduct when he runs in the $100,000 Queens County Stakes at 1 1/8 miles.
Michael Pino is one of the few new faces on the backstretch this winter, hoping to make enough of an impact during the Aqueduct inner track meet to warrant keeping a string in New York on a year-round basis.
Winter time is the right time for an apprentice rider with talent to succeed in New York. So far, it looks like Harry Hernandez fits that bill.
The undefeated My Master Plan will make her two-turn debut Sunday at Remington Park in the $100,000 Trapeze. She is part of a strong crop of 2-year-olds from the barn of trainer Donnie Von Hemel, who later on the card will send out Suddenbreakingnews in the $250,000 Springboard Mile.