Equestricon LLC, which is hosting its inaugural horse racing convention, fan festival, and trade show this summer in Saratoga, has partnered with Horse Country, Inc, to showcase the latter’s member farms at the event.
Tiznow is the most prominent stallion continuing the Man o' War line at stud, tracing his male line directly back to the great racehorse. This year, which marks the centennial anniversary of Man o' War's birth, Tiznow will represent the line in the Kentucky Derby with Irap.
George Krikorian had more riding on the finish of Keeneland's Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes than the purse money his runner Big Score stood to gain.
Two New Jersey-breds won major stakes Saturday in their neighboring state of New York, with Green Gratto winning the Grade 1 Carter Handicap, and Irish War Cry punching his ticket to the Kentucky Derby in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial.
Spendthrift Farm has acquired the stud rights to prominent Kentucky Derby candidate Gormley, and will stand the son of its flagship sire Malibu Moon upon his eventual retirement.
Irap's tenacious victory in the Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes put an ideal bookend to the broodmare career of Canadian champion Silken Cat, whose first foal was the champion sprinter and premier sire Speightstown.
More than any other horse of his generation, Union Rags embodied the traditional markers for success at stud. A Grade 1 winner at 2 who missed winning a championship by only a head and a classic winner at 3, he possessed the high-class pedigree and outstanding physique breeders look for when he retired to Lane’s End at a $35,000 initial fee in 2013.
Grade 1 winner Awesome Gem arrived at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky. on Friday.
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As Practical Joke returns to his home state, breeders Keith and Allen Crupper, natives of Georgetown, Ky., will be on hand to watch the colt try to punch his ticket to the Kentucky Derby in the Blue Grass Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland.
