The Jockey Club's Thoroughbred Incentive Program, designed to encourage the re-training of off-the-track racehorses, recently announced the winners of its 2016 performance awards program. The awards recognize Thoroughbreds who accumulated points at horse shows in various disciplines.
Fantastic Style, a Grade 2 winner in Southern California who last raced at Oaklawn, has been retired and is to be bred, trainer Doug O’Neill said Tuesday. A 5-year-old mare by Harlan’s Holiday, Fantastic Style won 5 of 12 starts and earned $427,358.
Kentucky Derby pedigree analysis: Malagacy
Although a decision has yet to be reached on the future of unbeaten Mastery’s racing career, a deal has been inked to stand him at historic Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., upon his eventual retirement.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Frosted will shuttle to Darley Australia for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
A pair of globe-trotting half-siblings are set to once again face off on a major world stage Saturday, as Lani and Awardee contest the $10 million Dubai World Cup.
A solid group of stallions with high hopes entered stud in 2013, lending the possibility of some new blood on this year's Triple Crown trail. So far, the group has delivered. Four different stallions have first-crop representatives in the current Kentucky Derby point standings' top 20 – with others knocking on the door.
One of the most significant long-term benefits of beginning my career in the horse business at Windfields Farm in the early 1970s was the opportunity to acquire first-hand knowledge some of the most significant contributors to the breed of the 20th century.
When Malagacy kicked clear in the stretch of Saturday's Grade 2 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park, he put himself near the top of the Kentucky Derby points leaderboard for a rising owner who already has close ties to two Derby winners – Oussama Aboughazale.
Two-time Horse of the Year California Chrome will shuttle to Oussama Aboughazale’s Haras Sumaya in Chile for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season.
