World Approval, the Eclipse Award champion turf male of 2017, has been retired. The 7-year-old Northern Afleet gelding will reside at owner-breeder Charlotte Weber's Live Oak Stud in Ocala, Fla.
Spiced Perfection, winner of the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes on Dec. 26, was named the 2018 California-bred horse of the year in a ceremony Monday in San Gabriel, Calif.
Galilean is out to become the fifth Kentucky Derby winner born in California, joining Morvich (1922), Swaps (1955), Decidedly (1962), and California Chrome (2014).
The stallions are new, but the bloodlines aren't. Fittingly in its 40th anniversary season, Lane's End Farm has welcomed three newcomers from sirelines prominent in the farm's history.
Kentucky Derby pedigree analysis: Game Winner
Claiborne Farm opens the doors to its historic breeding shed, where six Triple Crown winners, among dozens of other classic winners, have been conceived, on Monday. War Front will walk into that breeding shed as the most expensive stallion in North America for this breeding season.
The first of what will be just a handful of foals by Battle of Midway, the 2017 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner with fertility obstacles, is a filly born Feb. 7 at Chesapeake Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Grade 2 winner Cheekaboo lived up to high expectations by selling for $300,000 to Japanese interests as the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky winter mixed sale began with gains on Monday.
Our annual Eastern Stallions special edition takes a closer look at the robust regional stallion markets in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Florida. The region is coming off a season in which several state-bred programs or local stallions were represented by Eclipse Award champions or Grade 1 winners, and coming into a season in which the region welcomes several graded stakes winners to stud. Read individual stories below - or download the complete insert as a PDF, which also includes an exclusive look at state-leading Beyer Speed Figures.
Canadian champion Uncaptured got his own racing career off to a swift start with a stellar season as a juvenile. Now a young stallion at Ocala Stud, he started his stud career in fitting fashion, finishing as Florida’s leading freshman sire of 2018.
