Like mother, like daughter. Newly elected Canadian Horse of the Year Catch a Glimpse won the Grade 3 Appalachian Stakes last week at Keeneland – a race her mother, Halo River, established the stakes record for in 1998.
Kentucky Oaks winner Lemons Forever produced her second Grade 1 winner when her daughter Forever Unbridled captured the Apple Blossom Invitational at Oaklawn Park.
As Miss Temple City was being led back onto the Keeneland turf course for her photo after an impressive win in the Grade 1 Maker's 46 Mile, Mark Toothaker of Spndthrift Farm said that he'd sold her dam, the stakes-placed Artax mare Glittering Tax, for “a quesadilla and a cold beer.”
Throughout the decade that turned the corner into the 21st century, sons of Storm Cat were all the rage among international stallion masters, with scores of his well-bred sons given a chance at stud in addition to the usual Grade 1 winners and champions. The results were understandably mixed. The only real superstar that emerged was three-time leading North American sire Giant’s Causeway, but the title of Storm Cat’s second-best sire son is very much a matter of opinion.
Warriors on Horseback, written by John Carter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing, was named the winner of the tenth annual Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award on April 13. The announcement was made at an evening reception at the Ryan family’s Castleton Lyons in Lexington, Ky. In a year when books about jockeys were a dominant voice in horse racing publishing, Carter’s well-researched work stood out and took home the $10,000 prize.
In the fall of 2014, Iowa businessman Dennis Albaugh and his son-in-law Jason Loutsch sat in the sale pavilion at Keeneland and selected nine yearlings. The nine youngsters came from a North American foal crop estimated at 23,509. Less than two years later, the men were walking back through the tunnel at Keeneland, arms around each others' shoulders, celebrating after one of those Albaugh Family Stable colts, Brody's Cause, won the Blue Grass Stakes to punch his ticket to the Kentucky Derby.
Zenyatta's newborn War Front colt died Wednesday morning at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital near Lexington, Ky., continuing a run of bad luck for the champion as a broodmare.
Cupid is one of the best-bred 3-year-olds of this class, as evidenced by his purchase price as a yearling. However, the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes winner, likely to be favored in the Arkansas Derby on Saturday, has also been outrunning some aspects of his pedigree.
Lentenor, one of two full brothers to ill-fated Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro standing at stud, was represented by his first starter on Sunday when Macy's Attitude finished eighth in a maiden special weight at Keeneland.
Champion Zenyatta has delivered a colt by popular young stallion War Front, her team announced Monday morning.
