Multiple graded stakes-winning multimillionaire Prayer for Relief has been retired and will enter stud at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., for the 2017 season, already in progress.
In February 2016, the Communication Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses opened a new affiliate in Chicago of its listing and networking service for owners and trainers. In its first year, CANTER Chicago established itself as one of the fastest-growing satellites of the national nonprofit.
The Pegasus Training and Rehabilitation Center’s 2-year-olds in training sale will be the first opportunity for West Coast buyers land a juvenile locally from the first crops of five sires at auction.
The pedigree question with Gormley was never how far he would run or how good his genetics suggested he could be – but, rather, what surface he would prefer.
Dowsing, a son of leading Japanese sire Deep Impact from the Niarchos breeding program, will enter stud at Holden Thoroughbred and Running Quarter Horse Farm in Greenfield, Ind., for the 2017 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $10,000.
Mineshaft took a turn in the spotlight on Saturday, as he and his son Dialed In, last year's leading freshman sire, swept the day's three stakes races for Kentucky Derby hopefuls.
If Arrogate continues his dominant parade through his principal remaining targets of 2017 he could easily earn $18 million to $20 million this year. With $7 million already in the bank and the $6 million first prize for the Dubai World Cup and about $3.5 million for another Breeders’ Cup Classic likely at his mercy, only a few more $1 million prep races would be required for him to earn more in one year than any horse in Thoroughbred history has earned in a career.
Brazilian champion Berlino Di Tiger and Grade 1 winner Lion Tamer have been exported to Jamaica to stand the 2017 breeding season.
Lady Pamela, the well-bred allowance filly owned by Marty and Pam Wygod, will retire from racing and be bred this spring to Uncle Mo, trainer Cliff Sise said.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Giant Oak was euthanized Wednesday due to complications from an acute onset severe neurological disease.
