Spendthrift Farm has partnered with the nascent company MyRacehorse.com to campaign horses in a new twist on the club model, and to put its own stamp on the program via “Future Racing Challenge” rewards tied to a colt’s eventual stud career.
Three-time Eclipse Award champion Royal Delta, who will be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame on Friday in Saratoga, had a star-crossed career as a broodmare, producing just one foal. Regardless of the accomplishments for Delta’s Royalty on the racetrack or in the breeding shed, this active family tree will not end with Royal Delta.
Deep Impact, a two-time Japanese Horse of the Year and one of the world's leading sires, was euthanized Tuesday at age 17.
It would be enough for a broodmare to have one undefeated stakes winner in training, but Magical World has two. The mare's juvenile daughter Magic Dance could start in the Grade 2 Adirondack this upcoming weekend at Saratoga, attempting to join older half-sister Guarana as a graded winner at the meeting. Both race as homebreds for Three Chimneys Farm.
When it comes to sons of international titan Galileo at stud, much of the discussion naturally turns to Frankel. The unbeaten two-time European Horse of the Year is off to a stellar start in his stallion career, with 45 stakes winners to date from his first four crops. Yet one of Frankel's old rivals and another son of Galileo, Nathaniel, has given European racing one of its most dazzling stars since Frankel in his daughter Enable.
The late Harlan's Holiday sired a pair of standout juveniles in Eclipse Award divisional champion Shanghai Bobby and Grade 1 winner Into Mischief. Both of those have continued on to produce precocity and speed, continuing to carry on their sire's line. Both had a solid weekend, as Shanghai Bobby's son Shancelot dazzled winning the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga, while leading sire Into Mischief was represented by promising juvenile debut winners on both coasts.
Roaring Lion, the Kentucky-bred who earned the 2018 Cartier Award as Europe's Horse of the Year, underwent emergency colic surgery Saturday in New Zealand and will miss the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
Mucho Macho Man was good as a 2-year-old, better as a 3-year-old, and at his best as an older horse. If his progeny continue to follow in his footsteps, their futures look bright.
Basin became the first winner for freshman sire Liam's Map when he won a maiden special weight by 1 1/4 lengths on Sunday at Saratoga.
Lea was a versatile racehorse and is showing he could be just as versatile as a sire. The stallion recorded his first two winners in early July, one on dirt and one on turf.
