Always Dreaming, the 2017 Kentucky Derby winner, has officially been retired from racing, it was announced Wednesday. He will stand at stud in 2019 at WinStar Farm for a fee of $25,000.
Spendthrift Farm has announced that it will discontinue the Spendthrift Stallion Stakes at Churchill Downs, which is restricted to runners by Spendthrift sires, after October's renewal, citing a refusal by the North American International Cataloguing Standards Committee to give black-type consideration to the race.
Quality Road had a career year in 2017, siring Eclipse Award champions Abel Tasman and Caledonia Road. The stallion indicated during the boutique meetings at Del Mar and Saratoga that his momentum would continue, as his strong summer with his 2-year-olds was capped by Bellafina's victory in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante.
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Multiple Grade 1-winning multi-millionaire Accelerate, a leading contender for the Breeders’ Cup Classic, will stand at Lane’s End Farm upon retirement, the farm announced Wednesday.
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More Than Ready has developed into one of the most consistent and versatile stallions in either hemisphere, as evidenced by Catholic Boy, now that rare Grade 1 winner on both dirt and turf.
If Cot Campbell had not been so stubborn in his belief that partnerships were the way to attract new owners to Thoroughbred racing, the winners circle at Belmont Park after Justify had won the Triple Crown might have been much less crowded.
Breeder Joanne Nielsen’s Sunnyfield Farm in Bedford, N.Y., is coming off a star turn at both Fasig-Tipton yearling sales in Saratoga earlier this month. The operation gets the chance to take a bow during Friday’s state showcase card, as Fasig-Tipton graduate Red Zinger goes in the $200,000 Funny Cide Stakes for juveniles.
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