First foals of 2015
DRF Breeding compiles information on the first reported foals for the first-year-sires of 2014. Reports are listed alphabetically by stallion name below.
DRF Breeding StaffFeb 06, 2015
DRF Breeding compiles information on the first reported foals for the first-year-sires of 2014. Reports are listed alphabetically by stallion name below.
Encosta de Lago, a leading Australian sire and Group 2 winner, has been pensioned from stallion duty at Coolmore’s Australian base.
Grade 3 winner Can the Man has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 breeding season at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., for an advertised fee of $5,000.
Liberty Lover, who won five races last year at 2, and Proceed, winner of the Mine That Bird Derby, were among the New Mexico-breds honored as divisional champions during a Jan. 29 banquet in Albuquerque.
Stay Gold, a multiple Group 1 winner and sire of Japanese Horse of the Year Orfevre, has died at age 21, Racing Post reports.
Richard W. Lossen, a prominent owner, breeder, and bloodstock agent died Feb. 3 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington, Ky. at age 76.
The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) has approved awards and classes for nearly 750 shows in 43 states or Canadian provinces for 2015.
Australian champion Pierro was Australia’s most active stallion during the 2014 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, covering 220 mares in his second year at stud.
The early demise of Summer Bird may yet prove regrettable. From his first start in March to his last in November, he never stopped improving, and had he not been injured, it seems highly likely that he would have been even better at 4.
Champion, classic winner, and classic sire Thunder Gulch has been pensioned at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky. The son of Gulch is 23.