Laoban will begin stallion career in New York
Laoban, a Grade 2 winner whose retirement due to a soft-tissue injury was announced this week, will begin his stallion career at Sequel Stallions in New York in 2017.
Nicole RussoDec 15, 2016
Laoban, a Grade 2 winner whose retirement due to a soft-tissue injury was announced this week, will begin his stallion career at Sequel Stallions in New York in 2017.
Swipe, runner-up to champion Nyquist in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, has been purchased for stallion duty by Ivan Sjoberg’s Ravdansen Stud of Sweden.
The Grade 3 stakes-winning turf sprinter Lady Shipman has been retired, owner Randall Lowe announced Wednesday.
Love the Chase, the dam of 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome, has been booked to classic sire Pioneerof the Nile for 2017.
With less than three weeks remaining in 2016, the freshman sire race is too close to call, with Dialed In and Union Rags separated by a narrow margin atop the earnings list.
Unbeaten champion and standout freshman sire Frankel has recorded his first Group 1 winner, as Soul Stirring won the Hanshin Juvenile Fillies in Japan. The stallion will have a chance to put another exclamation point on his stellar season with another daughter chasing Group 1 glory this weekend.
In a 14-race career that featured eight wins, four of them in particularly prestigious Grade 1s, Quality Road still managed sometimes to look like something of an underachiever. His raw speed and dominant brilliance were so readily apparent that his short-priced defeats in three other equally prestigious Grade 1s were seen as disappointments that, in the minds of some, raised questions about his temperament, questions that intensified after his refusal to enter the starting gate for the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Keane Stud in Amenia, N.Y., announced its advertised stud fees for the 2017 breeding season, led by Frost Giant at $5,000.
Firing Line, a Grade 3 winner and runner-up in the 2015 Kentucky Derby, will enter stud at Crestwood Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2017 breeding season at an advertised fee of $5,000.
David Jacobs began dabbling in racing with a one-horse stable a quarter century ago, and his investments into that modest line delivered with a “marquee” accomplishment last week. In an improbable result, Marquee Miss edged her older full sister Marquee Cal Gal by a neck to win the $50,000 Holiday Inaugural Stakes on Dec. 3 at Turfway Park. The winner races for owner Joe Ragsdale, while the runner-up races for Jacobs, the breeder of both. Both runners are by Cowboy Cal and out of Jacobs's graded stakes-placed homebred Marquee Delivery.