Race Day to Spendthrift in 2016
Multiple graded stakes winner Race Day will stand at Spendthrift Farm in 2016 as the Lexington, Ky., farm continues to expand its strong stallion roster.
DRF Breeding StaffOct 08, 2015
Multiple graded stakes winner Race Day will stand at Spendthrift Farm in 2016 as the Lexington, Ky., farm continues to expand its strong stallion roster.
Normandy Invasion, a multiple graded-placed runner, has been retired from racing due to a suspensory issue, with stud plans to be determined.
Grade 1 winner Golden Ticket will begin his stud career next year at Questroyal North in Stillwater, N.Y. The son of Speightstown will stand for $7,500.
Daily Racing Form is polling its readers to gauge opinion on several key industry issues, notably the use of race-day Lasix (furosemide) and the bill proposed in Congress that would require all drug testing for horse racing be performed by an independent national testing lab and that all states that want to simulcast races across state lines to adopt federal medication guidelines.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Palace will stand at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. for the 2016 breeding season after concluding his 2015 on-track campaign, which is scheduled to include a start in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
Stallions Court Vision and Victor’s Cry will relocate to Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky. after beginning their stud careers at Park Stud in Orangeville, Ontario.
Golden Horn, the winner of Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and a possible contender for this year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf, will stand at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England beginning in 2016. A fee will be announced at a later time.
Multiple graded stakes winner Golden Lad has been retired and will begin his stud career at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md.
The male line of three-time leading sire Danzig is secure, but exactly how many branches may grow on that highly colorful and varied tree remains unclear. Danehill and Green Desert have emerged as prolific sires of sires in their own right, and there are still possibilities, however remote, that branches from Anabaa, Boundary, Lure, and National Assembly could somehow flourish if the right horse comes along.
Ten years ago on Sunday, Barbaro won his career debut at Delaware Park – launching a six-race win streak to begin his career, culminating with a dominating performance in the following spring’s Kentucky Derby. But if that streak captured the racing world’s imagination, it was nothing compared to what commenced two weeks following in the Preakness Stakes, when the colt pulled up with severe injuries in the first quarter-mile of the race and captivated the nation with his fight to survive over the next eight months. Waiting in the wings were four full brothers to the classic winner: Nicanor, Lentenor, Margano, and Pennmarydel.