American Pharoah has first stakes winner
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah heads into the summer racing season with momentum, getting his first stakes winner on Saturday in Europe.
Nicole RussoJul 01, 2019
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah heads into the summer racing season with momentum, getting his first stakes winner on Saturday in Europe.
Queen's Plate pedigree profile: Avie's Flatter
The superstar Australian mare Winx has been matched with Australian sire I Am Invincible for her first mating, her connections have announced.
Blue Point, who turned in the superb accomplishment of winning two Group 1 races at the renowned Royal Ascot meeting last week, has been retired. He will enter stud in the 2020 season at Darley's Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England.
The North American 2-year-old auction season has wrapped up, and the major summer race meetings at Del Mar and Saratoga, which traditionally unveil standout juveniles, are on the horizon.
Queen's Plate hopeful Rising Star will attempt to give his sire a third winner of the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.
It is far too early in the 2-year-old racing season to predict who will claim the freshman sire title in a strong group led by Triple Crown winner American Pharoah. However, the Florida-based Khozan is off to a flying start.
The late Scat Daddy's best sons, including Triple Crown winner Justify, have come to stud in the last two years, but those already with young runners on the track are setting the bar high.
Queen's Plate pedigree profile: Desert Ride
Dual Grade 1 winner and dual classic-placed Menifee, who became a prominent sire for the growing Korean breeding industry, has died. The 23-year-old Harlan horse died June 13 from a reported heart attack at the KRA Stud Farm on Jeju Island, according to Alastair Middleton of the Korean Racing Authority on the Horse Racing in Korea website.