Triple Crown winner American Pharoah never started on turf during his racing career, but has been a standout on that surface early in his stud career. Sweet Melania won a maiden special weight on the Saratoga turf Sunday, becoming American Pharoah’s fifth winner, with all of those runners scoring turf victories.
Regally bred champion Honor Code was among the most anticipated sires in this deep freshman class, but was quiet through the first three months of the juvenile racing season, with few runners and no winners. As the calendar turned to July, however, with the major events in the division still on the horizon, Honor Code, something of a late-blooming runner himself, emerged with a vengeance with his first two winners in the span of 48 hours.
Perennial leading sire Tapit is relatively early in the legacy-building process of becoming a sire of sires. The Gainesway stallion’s oldest foals are 13, the oldest foals by his first sons at stud are 7, and many of his best sons, including his three Belmont Stakes winners, have nascent careers.
Sea Hero, whose three Grade 1 victories included the 1993 Kentucky Derby, has died, the Turkish Jockey Club confirmed on Friday. The pensioned Polish Navy horse was 29.
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.
