Arkansas has been one of the centers of the racing world over the past two months as Oaklawn Park hosted some of the biggest names in racing during its meeting. The meet, which closed Saturday, has helped put Starfish Stallions resident Hamazing Destiny atop the current Arkansas sire standings.
Blame was foaled on May 2, 2006. Exactly 14 years later – and a decade after Blame's championship season – his son Nadal became his fifth career Grade/Group 1 winner when capturing a division of the Arkansas Derby.
Stonestreet Farm purchased the multiple graded stakes winner Authenticity for $1.2 million out of the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall selected mixed sale. The mare is already working to pay that back. A rising star in the star-studded Stonestreet broodmare band, Authenticity is the dam of two stakes winners from her first two foals, including Kentucky Derby hopeful Charlatan.
Square Eddie, one of the leading stallions by progeny earnings in California in recent years, has been retired from stud service because of infertility, according to Dennis O’Neill, racing manager for stallion owners Paul and Zillah Reddam.
Both the white-hot young sire Constitution and the stakes-placed young broodmare Addison Run have gotten their respective breeding careers off to strong starts. Together they have produced Grade 1-placed Gouverneur Morris, who is bred on a cross that has proven productive.
Live racing on the New York Racing Association circuit was last conducted on March 15 at Aqueduct before being suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the spring meeting at Belmont Park has been postponed to a date yet to be announced. However, a lack of racing in their state of residence has not slowed young New York sire Central Banker and the state's perennial leading sire Freud.
While race meets around the country have been curtailed, postponed or canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, Gulfstream Park is among those that have continued on steadily. And young Florida sire Khozan has continued on to national attention, as well.
European champion and internationally successful sire Shamardal has been euthanized at age 18 as a result of unspecified health issues, Darley's Kildangan Stud said on Thursday.
For all of his accomplishments, European Horse of the Year and internationally successful stallion Giant's Causeway has never sired the winner of an American classic race. But the stallion, who died in 2018, may get another chance this season with Mr. Big News.
Prominent owner and breeder Charles Fipke will waive stud fees for the 2020 season on all his stallions as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.
