Alphabet Soup, winner of the 1996 Breeders’ Cup Classic and a longtime sire for Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs operation, has been pensioned from stud duty and retired to Old Friends Equine in Georgetown, Ky.
Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky. has released the 2016 advertised fees for its nine-horse stallion roster, led by second-year stallion Will Take Charge.
Grade 1 winner Constitution has been retired from racing and will debut at stud at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky. for the 2016 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $25,000.
Daily Racing Form, in conjunction with the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (TAA), has published a new annual TAA Magazine to increase awareness of the TAA’s mission and its ongoing efforts to help fund Thoroughbred aftercare in the United States and in Canada. The inaugural magazine is currently being distributed throughout Lexington, Ky., in advance of the Breeders’ Cup and will be available at many other key locations across the country.
Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky. has acquired a majority interest in Grade 1-placed stakes winner Fast Anna and will stand the 4-year-old son of Medaglia d’Oro in 2016 for a fee to be announced later.
The fact that Uncle Mo, who is based at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., has emerged as a leading freshman sire should be no surprise. The son of the late Indian Charlie won his three starts as a juvenile – including the Champagne Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile – by a combined 23 1/4 lengths en route to earning the 2010 Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old male. Five years later, Uncle Mo holds a strong hand at the 2015 Breeders’ Cup, as his first crop of runners have been standouts from coast to coast.
Hosting the Breeders’ Cup at Keene-land will bring fans and participants from around the world to Lexington, Ky., some for the first time, and the local community has embraced the occasion.
Retired racehorses and equestrians will soon have a new venue to meet their match. As the country’s leading racehorse rehabilitation and adoption program, New Vocations Racehorse Adoption adopts out more than 450 horses annually, but the aftercare organization still cannot keep up with the demand. With more owners and trainers keen to donate their horses to the nonprofit group than ever before, and riders applying in droves to adopt their very own professional equine athlete, New Vocations is operating at maximum capacity with more than 100 horses in its care at any given time. The answer: Mereworth Farm
Gainesway Farm has purchased an interest in French classic winner Karakontie from the Niarchos family and will stand the colt in Kentucky following his repeat attempt in the Breeders’ Cup Mile.
Conquest Curlinate, a multiple graded-placed runner, will make his debut at stud in 2016 at Shannondoe Farm in St. Thomas, Ontario for an advertised fee of $5,000 Canadian.
