Sparkman: Azamour could be end of the line
Night Shift’s best son Azamour has become his best son at stud, most recently through Robert J. Frankel Stakes winner Goodyearforroses.
John P. SparkmanJan 02, 2017
Night Shift’s best son Azamour has become his best son at stud, most recently through Robert J. Frankel Stakes winner Goodyearforroses.
The 25-horse catalog for the 2017 Pegasus Training and Rehabilitation Center 2-year-olds in training and horses of racing age sale is now available online.
Conquest Enforcer, at $785,000 the most expensive colt of the marquee Conquest Stables racing-age dispersal, led at every point of call in the Mathis Brothers Mile at Santa Anita on Dec. 26 to earn his first graded stakes win. It was a resolute early success for the purchase of Conquest Enforcer, and for the partnership of agent Zach Madden and owner Ron Paolucci.
The outstanding broodmare Cara Rafaela, best known as the dam of champion Bernardini, has been euthanized due to the infirmities of old age, the Godolphin/Darley operation of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum reported on Friday.
In a year of international synergy in the ever-more-global Thoroughbred bloodstock industry, three stallions dominated: Japanese Triple Crown winner Deep Impact; the ineffable Galileo in Europe; and Tapit, who keeps setting the bar higher for himself in North America.
Bellamy Road lacks a fashionable pedigree, and he has never been particularly popular with breeders while still compiling a respectable record as a sire. Constellation, winner of the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita on Dec. 26, is the second Grade 1 winner among his 31 stakes winners.
Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist is recovering from colic surgery performed Dec. 22 in Lexington, but is expected to be ready for the start of his first breeding season in mid-February.
Jess’s Dream, the first foal out of 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, has been retired from racing and will enter stallion duty at Ocala Stud in Ocala, Fla. for an advertised fee of $5,000.
Turkoman, the champion older horse of 1986 and a prominent broodmare sire, was euthanized Wednesday due to ongoing hind-end issues. He was 34.
With Honors, a stakes-winning 2-year-old filly trained by Keith Desormeaux, has been retired and will be bred next spring to Medaglia d’Oro