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.
The white-hot young sire Constitution has already proven himself an elite member of his class, among the leaders of an intensely talented and competitive group of first-crop sires.
The Turkish Jockey Club was bullish in the market last year, purchasing several established or promising stallions from various jurisdictions to move to its country. One of its investments is already skyrocketing in value, as Daredevil now has two daughters from his first crop established on the Kentucky Oaks trail.
It has been half a century since the birth of Virginia's most famous equine son – record-shattering Triple Crown winner Secretariat. The 50-year anniversary of his birth provides a chance to look back on the history of Thoroughbred breeding in the state, even as the state looks forward.
Both The Jockey Club and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture issued additional guidelines to help the season continue unabated and with as little chance of spreading the coronavirus as possible.
