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Mystik Dan, winner of the 2024 Kentucky Derby, will stand at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky., upon the conclusion of his ongoing racing career, the farm announced on Monday.
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Curlin ran with distinction through the three Triple Crown races in 2007. He finished third in the Kentucky Derby in just his fourth career start, won the Preakness Stakes, and finished a hard-fought second to fellow champion Rags to Riches in the Belmont Stakes. On Saturday, his son Journalism, who has helped cement Curlin’s reputation as one of the most consistent active sires in the American classics, will become the only member of his crop to start in all three 2025 Triple Crown races.
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Five years after Authentic's glorious 3-year-old campaign, fate has also dictated that Rodriguez, from the first crop of Authentic, will emerge late on the Triple Crown scene.
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Central Banker has claimed four straight titles as New York's leading general sire. As he eyes a fifth, his New York-bred champion Bank Frenzy will be one of his runners on Wednesday's statebred showcase card at Saratoga.
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Classic-placed Grade 1 winner Mindframe will stand at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., upon his eventual retirement from racing, the farm announced Sunday. The 4-year-old son of Constitution currently races for Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable, which purchased him in partnership as a yearling.
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American Flag, who won the 1925 Belmont Stakes, is from one of the most successful sirelines in that classic's history. A century after his Belmont victory, he is linked to this year's Kentucky Derby winner, Sovereignty, as well as a number of other prospects for the 2025 Belmont Stakes.
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The late Uncle Mo recorded an exacta of sorts in Saturday's Preakness Stakes, which serves to underline his continuing legacy. The victorious Journalism is out of Uncle Mo's daughter Mopotism, the late stallion's latest accomplishment as a broodmare sire. Runner-up Gosger is by Uncle Mo's champion son and leading heir, Nyquist.
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Journalism's hard-charging victory in the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown, added another jewel to the crown for sire Curlin, who is firmly ensconced among the reigning kings of the American classics.
The nominations for the 2025 Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards in North America, now in its 10th year, are now open with nominations being accepted through midnight, Monday, July 14.
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Baeza, who finished a closing third in the Kentucky Derby, is among those awaiting the Belmont Stakes a little more than three weeks off. Historic Runnymede Farm, which raised the colt and consigned him to sale for his breeder, does, however, have another rooting interest in Saturday's Preakness Stakes in Goal Oriented. The farm co-bred, raised, and sold the lightly-raced and unbeaten colt, who is from the immediate family of Eclipse Award champion Lady Eli.
