Grade 1 winner Frosted retired at 4
Multiple Grade 1 winner Frosted has been retired and will stand at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2017 breeding season.
Nicole RussoNov 07, 2016
Multiple Grade 1 winner Frosted has been retired and will stand at Darley’s Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., for the 2017 breeding season.
The 15 years or so from the mid-1960s through the end of the 1970s is rightly regarded as the Golden Age of American Thoroughbred racing. Beginning with the Kentucky Derby and Preakness victories of Northern Dancer in 1964, the following decade and a half produced a steady stream American-bred horses with credentials both on the racetrack and in the breeding shed that rival or surpass the all-time greats of the Thoroughbred breed.
Airdrie Stud announced fees for its stallions for 2017, and Cairo Price, Creative Cause, and Majesticperfection top its eight-stallion roster with fees of $15,000 each. The Midway, Ky., farm will have two new stallions in 2017, Upstart and Mark Valeski, the latter moving from Florida to replace the deceased Proud Citizen.
Three-time Eclipse Award winner Beholder, who won her final career start in last Friday's Breeders' Cup Distaff, has been booked to standout young sire Uncle Mo for her first season as a broodmare.
Stellar Wind, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2015, will remain in training in 2017 after being withdrawn from the Keeneland November breeding stock Sale, trainer John Sadler said on Sunday.
Leading first-crop sire Union Rags will stand for the second-highest advertised fee on the Lane’s End stallion roster in 2017, rising to $50,000.
A number of owners and trainers will be supporting New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program by pledging a percentage of their 2016 Breeders’ Cup World Championship purse earnings to New Vocations, which rehabilitates, retrain, and rehomes retired racehorses. This will be the seventh year owners and trainers have donated a percentage of their Breeders’ Cup purse earnings, and so far from such efforts more than $380,000 has been raised, with 100 percent of funds raised supporting the program’s aftercare efforts.
A multinational partnership has been formed to stand multiple Grade/Group 1 winner Flintshire in Kentucky.
A multinational partnership has been formed to stand Flintshire, a Grade/Group 1 winner in three different countries and the morning-line favorite in the Breeders’ Cup Turf, at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Lexington, Ky., upon his retirement following the Breeders’ Cup. The partnership is composed of Flintshire’s owner-breeder, Juddmonte Farms, John G. Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms, S.F. Bloodstock, and China Horse Club.
Managers of major stud farms know the Breeders' Cup Juvenile is a fertile hunting ground for stallion prospects, so they will closely watch Saturday's race at Santa Anita.