Discreet Cat to stand at Darley Japan
Grade 1 winner Discreet Cat will relocate to Darley Japan for the 2017 breeding season.
DRF Breeding StaffOct 18, 2016
Grade 1 winner Discreet Cat will relocate to Darley Japan for the 2017 breeding season.
Prominent commercial sire War Front's breeding fees are increasing to $250,000 in 2017, Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., announced Monday.
It took about 12.7 seconds for Time and Motion to charge her final furlong down the center of the Keeneland turf course late Saturday afternoon, delving between Hawksmoor on the rail and a flying Harmonize on the outside, thrusting her elegant bay head with its distinctive blaze toward the rapidly approaching wire.
Two winters ago on one of my visits to Jimmy Crupi’s New Castle Farm to inspect the 2-year-olds training there owned by Vincent and Teresa Viola, I could not help noticing the elegant, beautifully made Tapit filly in a corner stall at the other end of the shed row from the Viola’s Greenpointcrusader.
Quiet American was euthanized last week due to the infirmities of old age, but will still maintain his presence via his offspring, as he has developed into an extremely successful broodmare sire.
Judy Klosterman, an Ohio-based owner, breeder, and consignor, died Oct. 13 from complications due to Parkinson’s disease. She was 78.
Grade 1 winner and prominent stallion Quiet American, sire of two Eclipse Award champions and broodmare sire of two more, has been euthanized at age 30 at Darley’s Jonabell Farm near Lexington, Ky.
Grade 1-winning millionaire Majestic Harbor has been retired and will take up stud duties in 2017 at Swifty Farms in Seymour, Ind., joining a growing roster at that operation. His fee will be announced at a later date.
Australian champion Vancouver will shuttle to Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., for the 2017 Northern Hemisphere breeding season.
The Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP) will honor former Kentucky governor and founding KEEP member Brereton Jones and Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Farm of Georgetown, Ky., as recipients of the inaugural Industry Vision Award during the KEEP Equine Industry Conference on October 18 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Lexington, Ky. The award was established to recognize distinguished leadership in Kentucky’s equine industry.