Afleet Express standing stud in Korea
Grade 1 winner Afleet Express has been sold to stand in Korea, where he will continue his stud career.
Joe NevillsJan 17, 2017
Grade 1 winner Afleet Express has been sold to stand in Korea, where he will continue his stud career.
Grade 1 winner Bradester and Grade 1-placed Mexikoma will each begin his stallion career in Texas for the 2017 breeding season.
Grade 3 winner Metaboss will begin his stallion career at Harris Farms in Coalinga, Calif. for the 2017 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $2,000.
Eclipse Award finalist Exaggerator owns three Grade 1 victories – more than any other son of rising young classic sire Curlin. As a result, he already has several Grade 1 winners in his first book for 2017 at WinStar Farm.
Three stallions are represented by multiple individual finalists at this weekend's Eclipse Awards – Curlin, Dansili, and Medaglia d'Oro.
It remains very unusual to see a high-class runner closely inbred to a female. Saturday’s Grade 3 Hal’s Hope Stakes winner Tommy Macho is one such runner.
Michael Blowen did not hear voices that said, “If you build it, they will come.” But everyone did think he was out of his mind when he told people his concept for Old Friends.
Grade 2 winner Valid could make his return from a year-plus layoff in the $75,000 Bosselman/Gus Fonner Stakes at Fonner Park on April 29 after selling to owner Tom Thurman for $15,000 on Monday at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale.
With Triple Crown winner American Pharoah's first foals starting to arrive, one of a commercial buyer's final chances to pick up a member of his first crop in utero comes at Keeneland January, where seven mares in foal to the young star will be offered, mainly in the early portion of the sale.
Serena’s Song has generated an explosion of class all her own, and the most recent example, the well-named Made You Look, expanded his CV with a victory in the Grade 3 Dania Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park last Saturday.