Sparkman: Late to the party, Above Perfection is now belle of the ball
Sparkman: Late to the party, Above Perfection is now belle of the ball
John P. SparkmanDec 03, 2018
Sparkman: Late to the party, Above Perfection is now belle of the ball
Multiple Grade 1 winner Ransom the Moon is the lone newcomer for the upcoming season at Calumet Farm, which has pared down its Kentucky roster, the farm revealed on Wednesday as it announced its stud fees for 2019.
Stakes winner Star of Goshen, the dam of classic sire Pioneerof the Nile, has died, owner Zayat Stables reported on Wednesday. The Lord At War mare was 24, and had produced her final foal in 2015.
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Cloud Computing, whose career since he won the 2017 Preakness Stakes was marked by fits and starts due to injury, has officially been retired and will enter stud in 2019 at Spendthrift Farm.
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Champion Arrogate finished as the leading first-year covering sire by average at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
Juvenile champion and Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist led a group of first-crop weanling sires that included several fellow Eclipse Award champions at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale.
The pattern many breeders follow in the contemporary big-book era of stallion management can be a major problem for all but the most elite prospects. It is generally easy to get plenty of quality mares to a first-year stallion who starts his career in the $20,000 to $40,000 range, but for his second through fourth crops, commercial breeders looking to cash in on the premium buyers pay for first-crop stallions move on to the next similar prospect, and then the next.
Weekend Hideaway, a winner of stakes races in seven consecutive years, will begin his stallion career in his home state of New York, at Irish Hills & Dutchess Views Stallions LLC in Saratoga Springs.