Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Bayern will be retired at the end of this season to join the stallion roster at Hill 'n' Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky., the farm’s John Sikura announced Friday night.
Grade 1 winner Silver Max has been retired from racing and will debut at stud at Adena Springs North in Aurora, Ontario, for the 2016 breeding season.
Green Desert, one of Europe’s top sires, has been euthanized due to the infirmities of old age at Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud in Norfolk, England. He was 32.
Conduit, the champion turf male of 2008, will relocate to Tullyraine House Stud in County Down, Ireland for the 2016 breeding season, Racing Post reports.
Curlin is a big, strong, reasonably correct horse with an impressive shoulder and muscular quarters, and he is sturdy and workmanlike but reminds no one of an Alfred Munnings oil painting. That was one of the major doubts in the minds of breeders when the two-time Horse of the Year went to stud in 2009, and a relatively slow start when his first 2-year-olds came to the races in 2012 did nothing to alleviate those fears. Over the last year or so, though, Curlin’s fortunes as a sire have been on the upswing, and he reached a new peak with the upset victory of his son Keen Ice in the Travers Stakes.
Charlie Boden has been named stallion season sales director and racing manager for historic Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Hall of Famer Curlin, who is in the midst of an outstanding summer season with runners such as Travers Stakes winner Keen Ice, will relocate to Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Lexington, Ky., for the 2016 breeding season.
Grade 3 winner Gallant Son will move to Daehling Ranch in Elk Grove, Calif., for the 2016 breeding season, standing for an advertised fee of $2,000.
Sought After, the sire of Grade 1 winner Masochistic, was euthanized after developing severe laminitis in both front legs.
Who owns the racing game? The answer to that question should be the deciding factor when it comes to who makes the critical decisions on how the sport is managed – and that includes whether the sport should seek federal help to set up a national test lab and establish federal guidelines for all states that conduct Thoroughbred racing if those states want their tracks to be able to simulcast races across state lines.
