The New York Thoroughbred Breeders’ announced Thursday it has canceled the organization’s awards dinner scheduled for April 6 in Saratoga due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner War Emblem, famous on the track and off for his strong will, has died at age 21.
In an outstanding class of first-crop sires whose runners debuted last year, led by a Triple Crown winner, arguably none is better bred than Mr Speaker. A Grade 1 winner who blossomed as a 3-year-old, Mr Speaker is represented by a classics hopeful in Three Technique.
SportBLX Thoroughbreds has aspects similar to other new horse ownership groups, such as a low buy-in into the ownership experience, but has put its own twist on the enterprise by envisioning its members as buying into the entire life of a horse, including potential breeding and bloodstock revenue.
Successful sire Belong to Me has died due to the infirmities of old age, his longtime home, Lane's End Farm, announced Thursday evening. The New Jersey-bred son of Danzig was 31.
Into Mischief, who claimed his first general sire title in 2019, is the sire of two classic-placed runners in the last two years. In Authentic, winner of the Grade 3 Sham Stakes by 7 3/4 lengths going a mile, he has another exciting prospect on this year's Kentucky Derby trail.
Breeder and consignor Gerry Dilger, known for his involvement with Kentucky Derby winners Nyquist and Always Dreaming, has died at age 61 following recent cardiac troubles.
Florida-bred Chance It, who has never been worse than second in six starts, won the Florida Sire In Reality Stakes at 1 1/16 miles in his 2-year-old finale and stepped into open company to win the Mucho Macho Man Stakes at a mile in his 3-year-old debut. Those two stakes wins routing show that he has already outrun his pedigree, which is heavily slanted toward speed.
Grade 1 winner and influential broodmare Preach, whose stakes horses included prominent sire Pulpit, has died, owner and breeder Claiborne Farm reported on Wednesday night. The pensioned daughter of Mr. Prospector was 31.
Pam and Marty Wygod's homebred Modernist has now won consecutive races at 1 1/8 miles following his front-running score in a division of the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds. The colt is continuing to display the stamina bred into him from both sides of his family, including a female family that has been kind to the Wygods.
