Mark Casse has been high on Curlin's Honor for a long time – even before he purchased him for a Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale-record $1.5 million for John Oxley and Breeze Easy LLC.
Grade 2 winner Dramedy will relocate to River Oaks Farm in Sulphur, Okla. for the 2018 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,500.
Holy Boss, a Grade 2 winner, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Anchor & Hope Farm in Port Deposit, Md., for the 2018 breeding season.
Astern, a Group 1 winner in his native Australia, will shuttle to Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2018 Northern Hemisphere breeding season, and he will stand for an advertised fee of $15,000.
Kitten’s Joy, North America’s leading sire by general progeny earnings in 2013 and a perennial leading turf sire, will relocate to Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky., after owner John G. Sikura purchased a 50 percent interest in the horse.
Adena Springs’s flagship breeding farm in Paris, Ky., will be put up for sale, with plans to expand the operation’s breeding program into other states, owner Frank Stronach said in a release on Wednesday.
Charles and Susan Chu, who race under the name Baoma Corp., have been honored by OwnerView for their racetrack successes and contributions to the industry.
Just a stone's throw from her favorite racetrack at trainer Wesley Ward's Keeneland-adjacent property, champion Judy the Beauty is thriving in her second career as a broodmare.
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.
