Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver and freshman sire Daredevil are the latest stallions heading overseas to Turkey, which has been bullish in the North American bloodstock market this fall.
Tom's d'Etat, one of the last significant sons of the late leading sire Smart Strike, stamped himself as a major stallion prospect upon his eventual retirement by adding a Grade 1 victory to his résumé in the Clark at Churchill Downs last Friday. Not only is he by Smart Strike, he is from the immediate female family of another prominent sire.
Perennial leading sire Tapit is already represented by a classic-placed runner, and is eyeing next spring's classics in a big way. Silver Prospector and Finite, who earned 10 points toward the Kentucky Derby and Oaks, respectively, with Grade 2 victories on Saturday evening at Churchill Downs, are both out of Tapit mares.
Two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome is the latest accomplished runner to join the Japanese stallion ranks, as he has been purchased to stand at Arrow Stud beginning in 2020.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Heart to Heart, who was retired from racing earlier this year, will begin his stud career at Crestwood Farm in Kentucky.
It would be impossible to top the year the Glennwood Farm of father-daughter team John and Tanya Gunther had in 2018, earning an Eclipse Award after breeding and raising unbeaten Triple Crown winner Justify.
It didn't take long for American Pharoah to get off and running as a Breeders' Cup sire.
Shared Account joined an elite club as the fourth Breeders' Cup winner to be the dam of a Breeders' Cup winner when her daughter Sharing won the Juvenile Fillies Turf.
A Breeders' Cup victory that puts a young horse on the path toward the Kentucky Derby or Kentucky Oaks is virtually priceless. But Storm the Court and British Idiom, who each earned 20 points toward the spring classics with their victories in the Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies, respectively, both were bargain buys, costing just $100,000 combined.
Regally-bred Grade 1 winner Delta Prince, who was scheduled to enter stud next year in Kentucky, was euthanized Friday. The 6-year-old son of Street Cry was undergoing treatment at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital, but suffered complications associated with laminitis and renal failure subsequent to an incident of colic, owner and breeder Adena Springs said in a press release.
