The latest example of Tiznow’s exceptional qualities as a sire was last Saturday’s Grade 3 Indiana Derby winner, Irap, who after three graded stakes wins in his last four starts may well be headed for a Grade 1 victory.
Grade 1 winner Sidney's Candy has been sold to stand in Turkey, less than a year after being announced as a full-time resident of Argentina.
Songbird's challengers Saturday in the Grade 1 Delaware Handicap were unremarkable in on-track accomplishment, but the runner-up effort by Martini Glass did produce a long-awaited payoff to a globe-trotting story.
Four of the five entries in the $98,000 Rockville Centre Stakes on Saturday at Belmont Park hailed from the first crops of their respective sires, and three filled out the trifecta.
Grade 1 winning turf mare Illuminant displayed signs of minor discomfort coming out of a workout last week, and follow-up tests showed enough accumulated wear to convince owners Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, SF Bloodstock and Sol Kumin to retire her.
Grade 1 winner Connect has officially been retired and will enter stud in 2018, Lane's End Farm announced on Tuesday.
Zulu Magic, a young sire in Michigan, died suddenly on Monday. He was 12. The son of Johannesburg stood at Davidson’s Tracks-N-Time in Midland, where he was advertised for $1,000 during the most recent breeding season.
Turf racing provides less than 35 percent of purse money in North American racing, which makes it very difficult for top turf horses to succeed as stallions. That is what makes Kitten’s Joy’s feat of leading the American sire list in 2013 all the more remarkable. Almost 74 percent of the more than $70 million that the progeny of Kitten’s Joy have earned to date has come from races over turf, a powerful bias that the 2004 champion turf male has overcome to rank in the top five on the American sire list each of the last five years.
The popular Ben's Cat, who recently arrived at his new home in Kentucky to begin his retirement, underwent colic surgery Thursday.
Because it is a restricted stakes, the quality of the winners of the Queen’s Plate is highly variable. But it is almost certain that this year’s winner, Holy Helena, is a high-class filly by any standard.
