Broodmares who exert as important and pervasive an influence on the breed as great sires generally occur no more than a few times per century. Almost always they must exert that influence through great sire sons.
Memories of Silver, a Darby Dan homebred who was both a Grade 1 winner and producer for the historic operation, was euthanized Sept. 18 due to the infirmities of old age.
Ken Ramsey has made a successful stallion of his homebred champion Kitten's Joy by marching to the beat of his own drum. Soon, he and his stallion might be playing for a different audience.
Cyrus Alexander, a Grade 3 winner and seven-figure yearling, is in the midst of his first Southern Hemisphere season at stud at Boris Schwartzman’s Haras Barlovento in Peru.
It Tiz Well, winner of the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes at Parx Racing last Saturday, is Arch’s 11th Grade 1 or Group 1 winner among 66 stakes winners and 36 group or graded winners. While those numbers are impressive, they pale next to the totals of some of his contemporaries.
Bolt d’Oro, the winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity earlier this month and one of the nation’s leading 2-year-olds, will stand at stud at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., at the conclusion of his racing career, owner and trainer Mick Ruis and farm owner B. Wayne Hughes said on Sunday.
Proceed, a six-time stakes winner, will begin his stallion career at A & A Ranch in Anthony, N.M., during the 2018 breeding season for a fee to be announced later.
The Jockey Club's 2016 breeding statistics revealed a slight decline in breeding activity among both stallions and broodmares during the 2016 breeding/2017 foaling season.
A good horse can come from anywhere. That racing truism has been used for centuries to explain the emergence of a talented racehorse from unfashionable parents and sometimes unfathomable locations. Both descriptions apply to Patrona Margarita, the 23-1 winner of the Grade 2 Pocahontas Stakes on Saturday.
Rainbow Heir, a Grade 3 winner and contender for this year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, will stand at Ocala Stud in Ocala, Fla., upon his retirement from racing.
