Bolt d'Oro retired to stand at Spendthrift Farm
Multiple Grade 1 winner Bolt d'Oro has been retired and has settled in at Spendthrift Farm, where he will begin his stud career in February.
Nicole RussoNov 07, 2018
Multiple Grade 1 winner Bolt d'Oro has been retired and has settled in at Spendthrift Farm, where he will begin his stud career in February.
Breeders' Cup Classic winner Accelerate will debut for a stud fee of $20,000 at Lane's End Farm in 2019, the farm has announced.
Multiple Group 2 winner Daddy Long Legs has been purchased by a partnership to stand at Taylor Made Stallions in 2019, becoming the most recent son of the late Scat Daddy to stand in Kentucky.
Dual classic winner and champion I'll Have Another, who has spent his entire stud career to this point in Japan, will relocate to stand at Ballena Vista Farm in California for the 2019 season, a major coup of the regional program.
America has always prided itself on being the land of opportunity, the country where by sheer merit and hard work one can achieve wealth or power - or both. The results of this year’s Breeders’ Cup meeting, though, reflect a different kind of opportunity.
Cross Traffic already recorded a major accomplishment for a freshman sire, with a Grade 1 winner in his first crop in Frizette Stakes heroine Jaywalk. The Spendthrift Farm resident now goes for an even higher bar, as Jaywalk contests the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.
Quality Road had a career year in 2017 as the sire of two Eclipse Award champions – Abel Tasman, who won the Kentucky Oaks and finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, and Caledonia Road, who won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. His momentum has continued this year, and he could have an even more stellar showing at this Breeders’ Cup.
Thoroughbred industry professionals from Kentucky, California, Delaware, and Pennsylvania were honored as the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards were presented Wednesday afternoon at Churchill Downs.
Grade 1 winner Collected will stand at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., in 2019, the farm announced Monday evening.
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