WinStar Farm has acquired the breeding rights to Santa Anita Derby winner Exaggerator, who is scheduled to make his next start May 7 in the Kentucky Derby. He will go to WinStar at the conclusion of his racing career, Elliott Walden, the president and chief executive of WinStar, said Monday.
Smoke Glacken, the champion sprinter of 1997 and a pensioned stallion, was euthanized last Thursday due to the infirmities of old age.
The not-so-secret weapon that has carried owner Paul Reddam and trainer Doug O'Neill back to Louisville, Ky., is Doug's older brother, Dennis O'Neill. The bloodstock wizard selected both the unbeaten champion Nyquist and Grade 2 winner Land Over Sea as unraced 2-year-olds. Nyquist is expected to be favored in the Kentucky Derby, while Land Over Sea is a strong contender in the Kentucky Oaks following the defection of Songbird.
Arthur B. “Bull” Hancock was justly famous for importing leading sires Nasrullah and Ambiorix as well as outstanding stallions Herbager, Le Fabuleux, and Forli to stand at Claiborne Farm. In retrospect, however, a series of mares Hancock selected and imported in the 10 years following World War II proved almost – if not equally – as important to the development of the international Thoroughbred in the last half of the 20th century.
Freshman sire Creative Cause sired his first winner when his first starter, Milton Freewater, won the first race at Los Alamitos on Friday by a nose over first-time starter Alpenhorn. It was race for California-bred 2-year-olds going 4 1/2 furlongs and a field of just four started.
Littleprincessemma, the dam of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, has been honored as Kentucky’s Broodmare of the Year for 2015.
Classic winner and freshman sire Union Rags got his first winner from his first starter on Wednesday, as the heavily favored Lady Stardust romped in the first 2-year-old maiden special weight of the year at Aqueduct.
Dale Romans calls his Blue Grass Stakes winner Brody's Cause a “prototype” Kentucky Derby horse – and the Giant's Causeway colt certainly has the class in his pedigree to back it up.
Freshman sire To Honor and Serve, a son of Bernardini, got his first winner from his first starter when the juvenile gelding French General won a trial race at Turf Paradise on Apr. 19.
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.
