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Five years after shocking the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at 45-1 odds, the 2019 champion juvenile male Storm the Court has been retired to stud in California. Trainer Peter Eurton said the 7-year-old will stand at the Eclipse Thoroughbred Training Center in the Santa Ynez Valley.
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Breeders' Cup Mile winner More Than Looks has been retired and will begin his stud career at Lane's End Farm. More Than Looks, by the late More Than Ready, was intended to race next year as a 5-year-old for Victory Racing Partners and trainer Cherie DeVaux. In a release issued Monday by Lane’s End, no details were given as to why the change of plans.
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Old Forester, the sire of 2017 Canadian Horse of the Year Pink Lloyd, died peacefully at age 23 at T.C. Westmeath Stud on Nov. 17, according to farm owner John Carey.
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Wootton Bassett was already a successful sire when he was purchased by the Coolmore group and moved from France to the international operation's Irish headquarters. He has rapidly rewarded Coolmore, as his first Irish-conceived 2-year-olds on the track this year have been nothing short of sensational.
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The two most recent winners of the Preakness Stakes, National Treasure and Seize the Grey, have officially been retired and have taken up residence at their stallion homes.
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Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Moira, who sold for $4.3 million to rank among the top prices of the Fasig-Tipton November sale, could continue racing before beginning her broodmare career in Australia.
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Eight first-crop offspring of Flightline have been sold at public auction thus far this season, and they have averaged $655,897, against his introductory stud fee of $200,000 at Lane's End Farm. After three first-crop foals by Flightline averaged $974,058 over the summer at a Japan Racing Horse Association sale, he was represented by five lots in his home country this week.
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The late Fast Anna is the sire, from limited crops, of Distaff winner and Horse of the Year candidate Thorpedo Anna. Medaglia d'Oro's son Atreides, who moved from Hill ‘n' Dale in Kentucky to River Oaks Farm in Oklahoma beginning with the 2020 season, sired Filly and Mare Sprint upset winner Soul of an Angel.
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Following the 41st edition of the Breeders' Cup last weekend at Del Mar, there is now a logjam atop the event's list of all-time leading sires, with some of the world's standouts represented. Five-time reigning North American leading sire Into Mischief, the late, great shuttle sire More Than Ready, and European standout Dubawi each had a win on the weekend and are now tied with another leading American sire, Curlin, with eight career wins each at the event.
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The first time the Breeders' Cup was held at Del Mar, Gun Runner won the 2017 Classic – one of four Grade 1 wins in a Horse of the Year campaign. This year, as the Breeders' Cup returned to Del Mar, Sierra Leone, a son of recently minted Hall of Famer Gun Runner, made his own case for championship honors with a victory in the Classic.
