Tricks To Doo's dominant score Saturday in the Inaugural Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs earned an 89 Beyer Speed Figure, helping grow Into Mischief's lead as the most prolific sire of juvenile runners with Beyers of 80 or higher in 2017.
Coolmore and Mike Repole will donate a total of $220,000 to the Thoroughbred Charities of America's Horses First Fund following the sale of two no-guarantee seasons to champion Uncle Mo to benefit racehorses and their caretakers displaced by the wildfires that devastated California's San Luis Rey training center earlier this month.
Fear the Cowboy won the Grade 3 Harlan's Holiday Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park to put his name into consideration for the $16 million Pegasus World Cup. In the process, he didn't just earn the highest Beyer Speed Figure of his career, or the top number among this past weekend's stakes runners – he earned the top figure of sire Cowboy Cal's career.
The regally bred Principe Guilherme romped by 11 3/4 lengths in an allowance-optional claiming event Saturday at Fair Grounds, moving forward toward the New Orleans track's series of Kentucky Derby preps. The eye-opening performance served as an exclamation point as perennial leading sire Tapit closes the year strong with his juveniles.
The best horse produced in Lonhro's three seasons in Kentucky has been Grade 2 San Marcos winner Isotherm (out of Game for More, by More Than Ready), and he has a horse of similar class in Shakhimat, winner of Saturday’s Grade 3 Tropical Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
Live in Joy, a stakes-winner, has been retired from racing, and will stand at Broughton Farm in Odessa, Texas, for the 2018 breeding season for an advertised fee of $1,500.
The freshman sire race by earnings has been competitive in 2017, and just as apparent was the distribution of efforts by their runners who earned Beyer Speed Figures of 80 or higher.
Tapizar's put together a campaign that saw the sire finish atop his class of second-crop sires by Beyer Speed Figures earned over both the 90 and 100 thresholds.
Hall of Famer Curlin proved himself able to sire an elite dirt runner early on, getting a Belmont Stakes winner in his first crop. In 2017, he has taken that skill to the next level, leading all sires by progeny Beyer Speed Figures of 100 or more in dirt races with 13.
There are many ways to evaluate a stallion's performance, with those measures evolving as the breeding industry has over the decades.
