Fresh off a record-setting season, leading sire Tapit will look to add another feather in his cap with his first Kentucky Derby winner, and he has a strong shot to do so in Wood Memorial winner Frosted. The Godolphin color-bearer has classic influences on both sides of the family that place him in good stead moving forward.
A 20 percent interest in two-time Horse of the Year and Lane’s End stallion Curlin belonging to disbarred lawyers Shirley Cunningham Jr. and William Gallion’s Midnight Cry Stables will be offered for sale, along with four annual breeding rights.
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Tapit, who led North America’s general sire list in 2014, is again off to a solid start in 2015. The Gainesway stallion extended his lead atop the sire list over the weekend, as, according to DRF’s SirePowered Results, he recorded eight winners, with three graded stakes winners, on April 10-11 alone. The run helped pushed his earnings for this year to $5,755,277, more than $1.7 million ahead of his closest pursuer.
Is it possible for a stallion to earn three sire championships and be under-appreciated in the country where he led the sire list three times in four years and has ranked in the top 10 for each of the last nine years? If that stallion’s name is Giant’s Causeway, the answer is clearly yes.
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From nails to supplements to colorful glitter hoof polish befitting the Kardashians, hundreds or even thousands of hoof products are available in tack shops, from farrier supply houses, and through online vendors. Most farriers shake their heads and back away when asked about all the hoof products out there today.
Spendthrift Farm, one of the key players in the North American Thoroughbred breeding and racing industry, has acquired Yallambee Stud in Victoria, Australia as the home of its new Australian Thoroughbred operation. The farm, which will be known as Spendthrift Australia, will be involved in breeding, racing, the stallion market, and local sales. The farm’s stallion roster for the upcoming 2015 Southern Hemisphere season will be announced at a later date.
Dayatthespa, already winner of the Eclipse Award as North America’s champion turf female of last year, was named New York’s 2014 Horse of the Year on Monday during the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. annual awards banquet.
A big day of racing in the United States became a big day for young sire Blame, as he posted winners at two major tracks.
Smart Strike’s death March 25 due to complications from laminitis brought an end to one of the most complete résumés a modern Thoroughbred has known. A product of Canada’s most prominent modern family, Smart Strike lived up to expectations on the racetrack, becoming a Grade 1 winner in the U.S. He then became a cornerstone member of a deep stallion roster at Lane’s End in Versailles, Ky., where he led the North American sire list twice by earnings and sent out high-level runners in every division laid before him. By the time his number was called, he had just about done it all.
