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.
Hard Spun and The Factor, both versatile stallions from the sire line of the great Danzig, are in lockstep early on the year in Daily Racing Form's exclusive Beyer Sire Performance Standings. Each has three individuals who have triple-digit Beyers this year.
Through the first quarter of a racing season unlike any other, the sire standings reflect the outsized influence of one race. The global COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the $12 million Dubai World Cup, but the $20 million Saudi Cup got in its inaugural running before the pandemic began to upend the racing calendar. As a result of that, the traditional rankings of stallions by earnings tells a very different story than lists compiled using other metrics.
The newest half-sister to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah arrived over the weekend at Summer Wind Farm in Georgetown, Ky. The filly, by perennial leading sire Tapit, is out of the Yankee Gentleman mare Littleprincessemma.
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Tom's d'Etat scored the fifth stakes victory of his career in Saturday's Oaklawn Mile, the first start of his 7-year-old campaign. The late-blooming Tom's d'Etat gives the late leading sire Smart Strike the opportunity for one more prominent son at stud when he eventually retires.
A half-sister to Triple Crown winner Justify was foaled early Tuesday at the father-daughter team of John and Tanya Gunther's Glenwood Farm in Versailles, Ky.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Honor A. P.
