Bern Identity sold to stand in Jamaica
Grade 2 winner Bern Identity has been retired from racing and will begin his stallion career at PJK Team Jamaica in Jamaica.
DRF Breeding StaffMar 08, 2016
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.
Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., had undergone a long period of transition in the time between the death of venerable owner Arthur Appleton in January 2008 to the farm’s purchase by Liberty Media Co. chairman John Malone and his wife, Leslie, in August 2013. The steady hand through it all has been general manager George Isaacs, who has held the position at Bridlewood Farm since 1996. Isaacs spoke about the current state of Florida’s breeding industry, working for the farm’s new ownership, and signing the ticket on a big purchase.