Unbeaten two-time European Horse of the Year Frankel, who is off to a flying start with his highly anticipated first crop, was represented by his first stakes winner Saturday, when his daughter Fair Eva rolled in the Group 3 Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot Racecourse.
Last weekend provided something of a harmonic convergence for the stud career of Medaglia d’Oro. On the same day that the retirement of the only daughter of his first great champion filly Rachel Alexandra was announced, Medaglia d’Oro’s second great American champion filly Songbird soared to an emphatic victory in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga.
Grade 1 winner Rachel's Valentina, the only daughter of 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra, has been retired from racing, owner-breeder Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm announced Sunday.
The Jockey Club reminds stallion managers to submit their Reports of Mares Bred (RMBs) for the 2016 breeding season by Aug. 1.
The first winner by freshman sire Overdriven is so obscure that there is no information to be found in The Jockey Club’s system on when it happened, but it did happen, in the Dominican Republic. The 2-year-old filly Nieve Morena won a race in that country to become the first winner for freshman sire Overdriven, who stands at Ocala Stud in Florida.
Grade 1 winner Gemologist was represented by his first winner Saturday, when Morganite won what looked like a solid maiden special weight at Del Mar, coming four wide into the stretch and drawing clear to win by 1 1/2 lengths.
The popular commercial sire War Front displayed his versatility Saturday with a pair of stakes winners, as American Patriot won the Grade 3 Kent Stakes on the Delaware Park turf and Departing won the Michael G. Schaefer Memorial Stakes on dirt at Indiana Grand.
North America's leading sire, Tapit, hit the $100 million mark in career progeny earnings Saturday thanks to Cupid's victory in the Grade 2 Indiana Derby.
Equestrian Phillip Dutton, who will seek this third gold medal in eventing as he competes for the United States in the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, is involved with a trio of Grade 1-performing Thoroughbreds.
It was inevitable that breeders would repeat the pattern that produced the once-beaten Zenyatta. And since Zenyatta was, in fact, a very well-bred horse, it was almost as inevitable that something good would come from those efforts. That horse arrived in the form of She’s Not Here, winner of the Grade 2 Yellow Ribbon Handicap last Saturday at Del Mar.
