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Jan. 1 marked the official start of foaling season in the Northern Hemisphere, and among the notable arrivals this year will be the first foals for a quintet of Eclipse Award winners standing in Kentucky. The first of those represented was 2023 Horse of the Year Cody’s Wish, whose first reported foal is a colt both Jan. 6 in Kentucky.
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Familiar names were atop the lists of leading sires, breeders, and owners of 2024.
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Rich Strike, upset winner of the 2022 Kentucky Derby who had a roller-coaster year-plus trying to make it back to the races, is expected to begin his stud career at Mountain Springs Farm in Palmyra, Pa., in 2025.
The Street Fighter, a stakes-caliber performer by multiple Grade 1 winner Street Boss, has relocated to Rancho San Miguel in California for the 2025 breeding season. The 10-year-old stallion will stand for a fee of $2,500, with a live foal guarantee.
With California racing opportunities dwindling at Big Fame's level, her breeder, Dr. Dorothee Kieckhefer, feared the filly would slip through the cracks into an unsavory situation, and stepped in to re-acquire her. That move set Big Fame on the path to a second career as a sport horse.
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Brickyard Ride is one of several new stallions in California for 2025, a group that includes Storm the Court, winner of the 2019 Breeders' Cup Juvenile; the multiple stakes winner Forbidden Kingdom; and Catholic Boy, a prominent 3-year-old in 2018 who previously stood in Kentucky.
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It is possible that in the final days of the year, a runner owned by Californian Nick Alexander will win or place in a race or two at Santa Anita and push the stable past $1.5 million in earnings for the fifth time in the last six years.
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In a race that looks like it is coming down to the wire, veteran California sire Grazen is looking to hold off Stay Thirsty and secure his second straight leading sire title.
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Uncle Mo, euthanized Thursday at a relatively young 16 following a leg injury, leaves a void bigger than a stall. The beloved Thoroughbred, a champion runner and an even better sire, left a sizeable mark on the sport.
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Born Noble was an eye-catching debut winner at Gulfstream Park 51 weeks ago, but as quickly as his star rose, it faded. Narrowly defeated in his second start in February and away from the races ever since, Born Noble returns Sunday in a first-level/optional $25,000 claiming race at Gulfstream Park.
