Grade 2 winner Candy Boy has been retired from racing, and will begin his stallion career in Russia, trainer Doug Watson told Michael Adolphson of the Meydan Group on Thursday.
Pedigree can be a useful tool to gauge capability when on-track form is minimal, and the Beyer Sire Performance Rankings can help identify runners by sires proficient at getting elite synthetic horses.
To Honor and Serve, a Grade 1 winner whose first foals are 4-year-olds of 2018, has been exported to Korea to continue his stud career.
Elusive Quality, a world-record-setting miler and North America’s leading sire of 2004, has been euthanized due to the infirmities of old age, Darley said on Wednesday. He was 25.
Vics, a horse owned and raced in the U.S. by the Korean Racing Authority, has been exported to begin his stallion career in South Korea, making a bit of history in the process.
Proven young classic sire Curlin doesn't just have Eclipse Award champion Good Magic eyeing the Kentucky Derby from his most successful crop of juveniles. His arsenal also includes the consistent Solomini, who is bolstered by a long-winded female family.
Eclipse Award champion World Approval added more hardware to his collection, including the award for Florida-bred Horse of the Year, as the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association recognized its Florida-bred champions for 2017.
The status of the state’s racing program is uncertain, but interest in Virginia-breds at auction remains strong thanks in part to the Virginia Thoroughbred Association’s ability to adapt to its surroundings.
Brereton and Libby Jones’s Airdrie Stud has never been in the market for the $10 million stallion coming off the racetrack. Airdrie has focused instead on horses just below that top tier, horses of proven top-class ability with perhaps a bit of a hole in their race records or pedigrees that meant they had to prove their worth to breeders before they could attract the best mares at high-dollar stud fees.
Noted breeder and farm owner Ben Walden, whose involvement in the Thoroughbred industry has shifted recently, has taken a key role with Adena Springs, also undergoing changes.
