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SirePowered Results: Tiznow

Champion and Hall of Fame racehorse Tiznow posted a stakes double on Saturday evening, as his aptly named Royal Son captured the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes at Turfway Park and Rebranded won the Curribot Handicap at Sunland Park. Both stakes competitors represent a productive cross. According to Daily Racing Form’s SirePowered Results, runners by Tiznow won four races in the month of February. Three are out of mares by the pensioned A.P. Indy, a breed-shaping sire and prominent broodmare sire.

DRF Breeding StaffMar 02, 2015

Group 1 winner Creator dead at 29

Group 1 winner Creator was euthanized Feb. 28 at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., due to complications from colic. The Mill Reef horse was 29.

DRF Breeding StaffMar 01, 2015

Sparkman: Main Sequence's pedigree a tapestry of greatness

Main Sequence is a classic example of how great breeders weave the bloodlines of their great racehorses in the pedigrees of champions.

John P. SparkmanFeb 27, 2015

Williamstown euthanized at Old Friends

Graded stakes winner Williamstown, a resident of the Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky., was euthanized on Feb. 25 due to complications from the neurological disease equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM). The son of Seattle Slew was 25.

DRF Breeding StaffFeb 26, 2015

Kentucky Derby contenders: Pedigree profiles

Throughout the spring prep season, DRF Breeding will publish pedigree profiles of Kentucky Derby contenders.

DRF StaffFeb 26, 2015

Barn fire at Chanteclair Farm kills six horses

A fire at Chanteclair Farm in Versailles, Ky., best known as the birthplace of champion Royal Delta, killed six horses Wednesday morning.

DRF Breeding StaffFeb 25, 2015

SirePowered Results: Distorted Humor

Distorted Humor, a perennial leader among the sire ranks, is already off to a stellar start in 2015. According to Daily Racing Form’s SirePowered Results, runners by the WinStar Farm stallion have already won 19 races in North America since the start of the season. That number got a big boost the weekend of Feb. 21-22 with five victories, led by repeat winners House Rules and Khozan.

DRF Breeding StaffFeb 23, 2015

Examining the mares behind Tapit’s record-breaking year

The book of mares set to meet Tapit during the 2015 breeding season will be among the strongest in the world. However, it was the mares Tapit bred in 2010 that helped vault the 14-year-old son of Pulpit to the unforgettable season he had last year.

Joe NevillsFeb 22, 2015

Sucher, breeder of two Hall of Famers, dies at age 89

Donald Sucher, who bred Hall of Fame racemares Chris Evert and Winning Colors, died Feb. 15 in Georgetown, Ky., at age 89.

DRF Breeding StaffFeb 20, 2015

Horse Chestnut dies at age 19

Horse Chestnut, South Africa’s 1999 Horse of the Year and a U.S. Grade 3 winner and sire, died Feb. 20 from heart failure at Drakenstein Stud Farm in South Africa. The 19-year-old, from the first crop of Fort Wood, had resided at Drakenstein since 2009 after beginning his stud career at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky.

DRF Breeding StaffFeb 20, 2015

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