Cream of freshman sire crop on display
Two of this year's most exciting freshman sires will have representatives on a major stage this week, as Belmont cards a pair of juvenile stakes in the Tremont and the Astoria.
Nicole RussoJun 06, 2016
Two of this year's most exciting freshman sires will have representatives on a major stage this week, as Belmont cards a pair of juvenile stakes in the Tremont and the Astoria.
As a half-sister to two-time Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve, Trophee is already nearly priceless as a broodmare. But she will look to further burnish her credentials with a graded stakes victory of her own in the Grade 2 New York Stakes on Friday at Belmont Park.
Memories of his outstanding turf mare Wonder Again are everywhere for trainer Jimmy Toner at Belmont Park this week.
On Friday, Belmont Park will card the Rags to Riches Invitational, named to honor the 2007 Belmont Stakes winner – who became the first filly in more than a century to win America's oldest and longest classic when she outdueled eventual two-time Horse of the Year Curlin for the victory.
Proud Citizen, a Grade 2 winner and sire of two Kentucky Oaks winners, was euthanized Saturday at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky. after a four-year battle with laminitis took a turn for the worse. He was 17.
It would be difficult, if not impossible, to exaggerate the historical and genetic importance of the late broodmare Urban Sea.
Caren has carried the banner for the first crop of her sire, Society's Chairman, and would give his profile an incredible boost if she became the third filly to win the Queen's Plate in the last six years.
Most of the horses contesting the 2016 Triple Crown series arrived at the barns of their trainers roughly a calendar year ago as 2-year-olds almost ready to begin their careers. However, trainer Dale Romans has known his Preakness Stakes runner-up and Belmont Stakes contender Cherry Wine much longer, with nearly two decades of association with the colt's family – and even longer with his human connections.
Milton Freewater, a maiden race winner at Los Alamitos in April, was bought for $250,000 at the Barretts May sale of 2-year-olds in training at Del Mar on May 27. The colt is not far from his stakes debut.
Charitable Man, fifth-leading general sire in West Virginia this year, was found dead in his stall yesterday at age ten. The son of Lemon Drop Kid out of Charitabledonation, by Saint Ballado, had stood at Taylor Mountain Farm for a fee of $4,000 and was fifth on the 2015 West Virginia general sire list with just two crops of racing age.