While American Pharoah was dominant on the racetrack, he faces a strong group of rival freshman sires as he begins to construct his legacy. This year's freshman class could have nine entrants in the body of the field for Breeders' Cup races.
Street Sense won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in 2006 and then went on to become the first winner of that race to take the following year's Kentucky Derby. This week in the Breeders' Cup, his son Maxfield will try to put himself on the road to the Juvenile-Derby double, and his McKinzie will try to do something Street Sense couldn't.
There are plenty of million-dollar questions on the Breeders' Cup program – and some of them involve just who the attendees for Spendthrift Farm might be cheering for the loudest.
Union Rags produced two Grade 1 winners from his first crop to the races in 2016 and has continued to blossom for Lane's End – prompting the farm to invest further in the promising young sire's line. His son Catalina Cruiser, part of a strong hand for Union Rags at the upcoming Breeders' Cup, will enter stud alongside his sire next year.
The breeding rights to Grade 1 winner Eight Rings, who is among the favorites for next week's Breeders' Cup Juvenile, have been acquired by the international Coolmore group. The outfit plans to stand the colt at its Ashford Stud in Kentucky upon his eventual retirement.
Jim and Susan Hill of Margaux Farm make sure that their stable star Totally Boss gets to act like the horse he is between races by coming back to the farm, a training mehtod that has taken him to the threshold of a tilt at the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 2 at Santa Anita.
Triple Crown winner Justify and the globe-trotting Mendelssohn were the busiest stallions in North America in 2019 as they stood their first season at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky, The Jockey Club's Report of Mares Bred revealed on Thursday.
Mongolian Groom punched his ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Classic with his victory in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes in September at Santa Anita, prompting his connections to supplement him to the race. He also punched a ticket home to Kentucky for his sire, Hightail.
Catalina Cruiser, who is bound for a start at next week's Breeders' Cup, will stand alongside his sire at Lane's End Farm upon his eventual retirement.
Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky has unveiled its stallion roster and majority of its fees for 2020, led by its pair of Triple Crown winners in American Pharoah and Justify.
