The $3 million Keeneland November buy Quiet Giant was bred to sensational young sire Candy Ride, and her first foal is Gun Runner, who captured the Stephen Foster Stakes at Churchill Downs.
Spirit of Shanghai became the first winner for juvenile champion Shanghai Bobby, a well-regarded member of a strong group of freshman sires, when she won a maiden-claiming race Sunday at Santa Anita.
Eclipse Award champion Blame, standing at historic Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, has flirted with progeny victories in major Grade 1 events, as one might expect. Blameitonthelaw was third behind champion Nyquist in the 2015 Del Mar Futurity, and Going for Broke was second to champion Songbird in the 2016 Alabama Stakes. But Blame’s first Grade/Group 1 winner came in a classic on turf in France, as Senga scored in the Prix de Diane, or French Oaks, over the weekend.
Gun Runner was an honest and consistent 3-year-old. The winner of the Louisiana Derby and Risen Star, both Grade 2 events, he finished a creditable third behind Nyquist and Exaggerator in the Kentucky Derby, then bounced right back to win the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes.
Richard Barton, a Southern California businessman who has taken an increasingly prominent role in California Thoroughbred racing in recent years, is finalizing the purchase of Magali Farms in Santa Ynez, Calif., according to his daughter, Kate.
Achieving a combination of commercial and ontrack success at the level seen from Belmont Stakes winner Tapwrit is so difficult to pull off it can make a $1.2 million auction graduate look like an underdog story.
Queen's Plate predigree analysis: Malibu Secret
Award-winning documentarian and media executive Soledad O'Brien will deliver a keynote speech focused on Thoroughbred aftercare at the inaugural Equestricon fan convention in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Eclipse Award winner Hansel, who captured the 1991 Preakness and Belmont Stakes during his championship campaign, was euthanized Tuesday at Lazy Lane Farm in Upperville, Va., due to the infirmities of old age. The son of Woodman was 29 and had been pensioned since 2012.
Mastery, a Grade 1-winning son of Candy Ride, has officially been retired from racing a day after arriving at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., and will debut at stud during the 2018 breeding season.
