The well-traveled Bluegrass Cat has made himself right at home in California. His California-sired runners began racing in 2018, and he comes to the end of the season as the state's leading general stallion with locally sired progeny.
I'll Have Another won the California's major Kentucky Derby prep, the Santa Anita Derby, and then made a Triple Crown run that infamously ended on the eve of the Belmont Stakes. I'll Have Another now returns to his adopted home state for the next phase of his career.
Regally bred champion Champs Elysees has died of an apparent cardiac event at Castlehyde Stud in County Cork, Ireland.
As Horse of the Year and champion older male of 2003, Mineshaft is arguably A.P. Indy’s best son, but his stud career cannot quite match those of A.P. Indy’s best sire sons. He is far from a failure, however, and Grade 3 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes winner Sir Anthony was his 47th career stakes winner and 20th graded stakes winner in an honorable, if not spectacular, career.
Combining two prominent California stallion rosters, John Harris's Harris Farms and the Johnston family's Old English Rancho recently announced that they have merged operations.
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Led by undefeated Triple Crown winner Justify, the new stallions of 2019 are a diverse group bringing varied storylines to the domestic and international marketplace. Daily Racing Form's annual special edition brings you an in-depth look at their stories.
As new stallions have been announced through the fall, much of the attention has focused on the horse WinStar Farm isn’t standing – Triple Crown winner Justify, whom it co-campaigned and who will begin his career at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud. But WinStar will have two incoming stallions, by current or former WinStar sires, from lines it has long invested in. Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming, from the first crop of Bodemeister, and the versatile Grade 2 winner Good Samaritan, by the late Harlan’s Holiday, both begin their new careers in 2019.
Spendthrift Farm struck early to secure Bolt d’Oro for its stallion roster, completing a deal for his breeding rights in the fall of his 2-year-old season, but its relationship with the multiple Grade 1 winner goes back much further than that. Bolt d’Oro’s 10th dam is Hall of Fame filly Myrtlewood, a foundation mare for Spendthrift.
Three Chimneys Farm has an established history with the stellar female family responsible for 2005 Horse of the Year Saint Liam and 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner. The farm has continued to reinvest in that family, developed by the late Edward P. Evans, as it expands its stallion roster. This year, Three Chimneys adds a pair of Grade 1 winners in Funtastic, a half-brother to Saint Liam, and Sharp Azteca, out of a daughter of the champion.
