A catalog of 85 juveniles will be on offer during a 2-year-olds in training sale April 4 at Lone Star Park near Dallas. The track is putting on the auction in conjunction with the Texas Thoroughbred Association.
Grade 2 winner Bern Identity has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career at PJK Team Jamaica in Jamaica.
Nearly a decade after the death of prominent California owner, breeder, and racing-industry philanthropist Trudy McCaffery, her legacy lives on – both on the track and off.
Just Talkin, a full sister to multiple stakes winner Lady Shipman, won her debut Sunday in a 7 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race on the Gulfstream Park turf, closing with a rush in the field of 10 3-year-old fillies.
Seven-figure purchase Aldrin finally broke through with the first win of his career in a maiden special weight race Friday on the Tampa Bay Downs turf, making the pace and then holding off a rallying Extreme Justice to win in his seventh start.
Quality Road had a solid Saturday, siring three winners, including Blofeld, who got back to his winning ways in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap.
The champion filly Songbird remained undefeated and unchallenged with her victory in the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday and continues to lead sire Medaglia d’Oro’s quest for his third Kentucky Oaks winner.
First Dude, standing at owner-breeder Donald Dizney’s Double Diamond Farm in Ocala, Fla., was the Sunshine State’s leading freshman sire of 2015, with 16 winners from 42 starters on the season for earnings of $997,148.
With Distinction was the leading active sire in Florida last year for a number of reasons: Runners, runners, and more runners. And lots of winners.
High Cotton debuted as Florida’s leading freshman sire of 2011 and has continued to rank as a top-15 juvenile sire in the state every year since. With perhaps his best season yet in 2015, he climbed atop the juvenile sire list for the first time – and also earned placings in other major sire rankings.
