Snuck In, a Grade 3 winner, has been moved to Sky PH Quarter Horses and Paints in Paynton, Saskatchewan, for the 2018 breeding season and is advertised for 1,500 Canadian dollars. The 21-year-old son of Montbrook previously stood at Matthews Thoroughbred Farm in Benton, La., for $1,000.
Canadian champion Eye of the Leopard will relocate to Osborne Farm in Cambridge, Minn., where he will stand for an advertised fee of $1,500 for the 2018 breeding season.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Justify
The champion Untapable delivered her first foal, a colt by Frankel, in England over the weekend, and will remain overseas for the immediate future to be bred back to Frankel.
Blame, who famously handed Zenyatta her sole defeat in the 2010 edition of the Classic, has not achieved at the same level as Curlin, Tiznow, or Ghostzapper, but he has done more than some other recent Classic winners, and one of his best offspring, Fault, gave him another graded stakes win in the Grade 2 Buena Vista Stakes at Santa Anita last Saturday.
Da Big Hoss, a Grade 2 winner and multiple course record holder, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Poplar Creek Horse Center in Bethel, Ohio, for the 2018 breeding season, where he will stand for a private fee.
Derby Watch member Principe Guilherme's pedigree balances both sides of the coin. Principe Guilherme, who wound up back in the hands of his breeder after running through the auction ring, is by a prominent stallion who has been represented by three winners of the Belmont Stakes – America's longest classic race – in the last four years. He's also the first foal out of a mare who was best around one turn.
Just Howard was named Maryland-bred horse of the year for 2017 at the inaugural Maryland Thoroughbred Industry Renaissance Awards dinner Monday night at the Sagamore Pendry Baltimore Hotel in Fell's Point on Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
Champion female sprinter Unique Bella earned a 109 Beyer Speed Figure for her authoritative score in the Grade 2 Santa Maria Stakes on Feb. 10, helping her sire Tapit further pad his early lead in multiple Beyer Sire Performance standings this season.
The race for leading freshman sire was a heated affair in 2017, and the competition has already begun in earnest as the same group angles for leading second-crop sire honors during the prep season for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks.
