Summer Front retires to Airdrie
Multiple graded stakes winning millionaire Summer Front has been retired and will begin his stallion career at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky.
DRF Breeding StaffOct 22, 2015
Multiple graded stakes winning millionaire Summer Front has been retired and will begin his stallion career at Airdrie Stud in Midway, Ky.
The Jockey Club released its North American Report of Mares Bred statistics for the 2015 breeding season, which revealed fewer active stallions and an almost even number or mares bred compared with the same point on the calendar in 2014.
Prominent California stallion Cee’s Tizzy, best known for siring Horse of the Year Tiznow, has been euthanized due to the infirmities of old age, Harris Farm reported on Tuesday. The son of Relaunch was 28.
Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. has acquired the breeding rights to Grade 1 winner Wicked Strong, who will be retired at the end of the current racing season to begin at stud in 2016.
Valid Expectations, a multiple Grade 3 winner and Texas’ all-time leading sire by earnings, died at age 22.
Pioneerof the Nile, the sire of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, will stand for at least $125,000 in 2016, WinStar Farm of Versailles, Ky., announced on Monday. The amount is more than double the Empire Maker stallion's 2015 advertised fee of $60,000.
Grade 3 winner Major Gain has been retired from racing and will stand the 2016 season at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for an advertised fee of $2,500 live foal, with other options available.
Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona, Calif., has revealed the advertised fees for its 2016 stallion roster, led by Bluegrass Cat, who will stand his second season in the Golden State after relocating from New York.
Grade 1 winner Competitive Edge will make his stallion debut in 2016 at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., for a fee to be announced at a later time.
All through the 1980s, when I was general manager of William du Pont III’s Pillar Stud, we always were on the lookout for stakes-winning mares, even with relatively modest pedigrees. As disciples of Joe Estes, who conclusively demonstrated in the 1940s and 1950s that stakes-winning mares were by far the most successful producers, we always were happy to pay modest prices for mares of proven ability.