Multiple Grade 3 winner Wiseman's Ferry, best known as the sire of two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan, died March 17 at Dana Point Farm in Lenhartsville, Pa. A cause of death has yet to be determined for the 16-year-old Hennessy stallion.
Multiple graded stakes winner Wildcat Red was named Florida’s 2014 Horse of the Year Monday night at the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association annual awards banquet and gala in Ocala, Fla.
American Pharoah, who races for his breeder, Zayat Stables, and is trained by Bob Baffert, is the son of another standout for the same connections – WinStar Farm stallion Pioneerof the Nile. According to Daily Racing Form's SirePowered Results, the young sire has been represented by eight individual winners thus far in 2015.
Ogygian, a multiple Grade 1 winner, prominent sire, and the oldest resident at Old Friends Equine Retirement in Georgetown, Ky., was euthanized Saturday due to complications from colic. He was 32 years old.
DRF Breeding's complete coverage of the New York stallion market for 2015, including news features, leading sire profiles, and statistics.
Big Brown is one of several high-class stallions coming to New York at a time when New York-breds are a hot commodity.
Throughout the myriad changes in the landscape of New York’s breeding program in recent years, one name has consistently remained on top. Empire State mainstay Freud has finished first or second by earnings among New York stallions with state-sired runners in each of the past seven years, and he has led by turf earnings every year in the same time period.
When Darley moved its homebred Desert Party to Sequel Stallions in Hudson, N.Y., after his second season at stud in Kentucky, the goal was almost certainly to position him as one of the Empire State’s most attractive offerings. So far, so good. The 9-year-old son of Street Cry led all current New York sires by first-crop earnings.
Fueled by the exploits of unbeaten Dortmund and three other juvenile stakes winners in 2014, Big Brown is the leading returning or incoming juvenile sire in New York.
As we have discussed in this space on several occasions, the Storm Cat male line has not flourished in exactly the manner breeders anticipated when his yearlings were all the rage during the first five years of the 21st century. Among Storm Cat’s sons, only Giant’s Causeway developed into a genuinely top sire, and Giant’s Causeway’s champion son Shamardal has already passed on the male line to his highweighted son Lope de Vega, leading 2014 freshman sire in Europe. One other branch of the Storm Cat male line has successfully extended to the third generation, that descending through Hennessy.
