Belmont Stakes: Pedigree profiles
A closer look at the pedigrees of the entrants for the 147th running of the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes, to be contested Saturday in New York.
DRF Breeding StaffJun 04, 2015
A closer look at the pedigrees of the entrants for the 147th running of the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes, to be contested Saturday in New York.
DRF sales editor Joe Nevills analyzes the Belmont Stakes field, in post position order, in the form of Haiku, a Japanese poem of 17 syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
Charlie Boden will leave his position at Darley as head of sales at the operation’s U.S. base, Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Ky., on July 1.
Escena, the champion older mare of 1998, died Tuesday at Diamond A Farms in Versailles, Ky., from the infirmities of old age, BloodHorse reported. The 22-year-old daughter of Strawberry Road had been living as a pensioner at Diamond A Farms, producing her last foal, a Shackleford filly, in 2014.
European champion Dubawi got off to a flying start as a sire, and has quickly established himself as a worldwide presence. The exciting young stallion will get a chance to conquer a new frontier with Mubtaahij, seeking to become his sire’s first American classic winner in the Belmont Stakes.
Vertigineux, the 2008 Broodmare of the Year and dam of 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta, died last year of colic, the Coolmore Stud Facebook page announced Tuesday.
Grade 2-placed Lion Hearted, a mainstay among the Maryland sire ranks, died May 28 of an apparent heart attack after breeding a mare at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md.
A year ago, Tonalist won the Belmont Stakes to deny California Chrome’s Triple Crown bid. The victory was one milestone en route to a record-setting season for his sire, Gainesway stallion Tapit.
Before American Pharoah arrived in trainer Bob Baffert's barn in 2014, equine professionals at Stockplace Farm, Vinery, Taylor Made, and the McKathans' training center gave the Triple Crown hopeful his earliest care and most basic lessons, in the process becoming the first to see that glimmer of promise.
In 20 years, will we be talking about the A.P. Indy male line, as we do now, or the male line of his most prominent current son, Pulpit? Pulpit’s son Tapit led the American sire list last year with a record total and is more than $2 million clear at the top of the list again this year. Pulpit’s grandson California Chrome, by Lucky Pulpit, captured two classics and Horse of the Year honors in 2014 and has earned a good chance to extend a new branch of the Pulpit male line. And just last week, another good son of Pulpit, Sky Mesa, hit the headlines again when Sky Treasure won the Grade 2 Nassau Stakes on May 23 at Woodbine.