After discussions between partners, Olivier was scratched from the Keeneland April horses of racing age sale, and owner Jane Lyon brought the gelding back to his birthplace, Summer Wind in Georgetown, Ky., to be retired.
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Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Just Steel
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All eyes will be on Leslie’s Rose as the filly, winner of one of the deepest prep races assembled this spring, starts in the Kentucky Oaks on May 3.
Australian champion Lonhro, a leading sire for Darley’s Southern Hemisphere operations who also shuttled to the United States for three seasons, has died at the age of 25, his ownership reported on Friday.
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Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Encino
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Resilience will try to add to the accomplishments of prominent owner and breeder Marty Wygod posthumously when he goes postward in the Kentucky Derby. The Wood Memorial winner is from one of the best families cultivated by Wygod, who died April 11 at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., near his home in Rancho Santa Fe. He was 84.
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Dance Card, the dam of champion Cody's Wish, was named Kentucky's broodmare of the year as the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders presented its seasonal awards at a ceremony Wednesday night in Lexington, Ky.
Kentucky Derby pedigree profile: Stronghold
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As 2-year-old racing got under way last week, Thousand Words became the first North American freshman sire off the mark with a winner as The Queens M G recorded a $92.74 upset in her debut Sunday at Keeneland.
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The first daughter of internationally-popular four-time Australian Horse of the Year Winx sold for a record $10 million Australian (about $6.6 million in U.S. funds) at the Inglis Australian Easter yearling sale on April 8.
