Grade 1 winner Texas Red retired at 4
Texas Red, the winner of the 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile, has been retired. Stud plans are pending for the son of Afleet Alex.
Nicole RussoDec 08, 2016
Texas Red, the winner of the 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile, has been retired. Stud plans are pending for the son of Afleet Alex.
Rockridge Stud in Hudson, N.Y., released its advertised fees for the 2017 breeding season, including newcomer War Dancer.
Posse, a stalwart among New York’s stallion ranks, will stand permanently at Haras Rapetti in Uruguay and will not shuttle back to the U.S. for the 2017 Northern Hemisphere breeding season.
Northwest Stud in Ocala, Fla., released the advertised fees for its 2017 stallion roster, headlined by leading Florida juvenile sire Gone Astray at $5,000. The 10-year-old son of Dixie Union stood the 2016 breeding season for $4,500 and has two crops of racing age.
The Korean racing and breeding industry is headed into 2017 with momentum after a year of significant accomplishments.
Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia has been booked to Pioneerof the Nile for 2017, SF Bloodstock's Tom Ryan has confirmed.
Pricedtoperfection, a graded stakes-winning full sister to Miss Temple City, will remain in training for 2017, Tom Ryan of SF Bloodstock confirmed after her older sister won the Matriarch to continue boosting the family's stock.
Young sire Temple City enjoyed a highlight weekend with a Grade 1 double on the Del Mar turf. The Spendthrift Farm stallion was represented by Miss Temple City, who won the closing-day Matriarch Stakes after Annals of Time had taken the Hollywood Derby on the penultimate day of the meet.
There is no doubt that the late Dynaformer was a great sire. His 158 stakes winners from 1,343 foals (11.8 percent) included 23 Grade 1/Group 1 winners, two champions, and four classic winners, but his best son, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, died before he could go to stud. Very few of Dynaformer’s other good sons have been afforded a genuine chance at stud, so Dynaformer has thus far failed to establish a branch of the Roberto male line.
Gainesway Farm, which stands leading sire Tapit, announced Thursday that it would be standing Tapit’s son, Anchor Down, for the 2017 breeding season.