Grade 2 winner Cowtown Cat will relocate to Mapleton Thoroughbred Farm in Polk, Ohio, for the 2015 breeding season to stand for a fee to be announced at a later time.
Grade 1 winner Swagger Jack has been purchased by RisenStorm Thoroughbreds and will stand the 2015 breeding season at Nicks Farm in Sellersburg, Ind., for an advertised fee of $2,500.
Linchpin, a full brother to multiple Grade 1 winner and young sire Quality Road, will stand the 2015 breeding season at Gibson Thoroughbred Farm in Thorp, Wash., for an advertised fee of $1,000.
Serena’s Song, the Hall of Fame champion 3-year-old filly of 1995 and the dam of four graded stakes winners, has been pensioned at the age of 23, the owners and manager of the mare said on Monday.
Breeders did not know quite what to make of 2008 champion 3-year-old male Big Brown when he retired to stud at Three Chimneys Farm in 2009. Was he the horse who scored dominant victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, or the one who finished an ignominious last in the Belmont Stakes? What effect did trainer Rick Dutrow’s admitted use of steroids have on the horse’s racing career?
Throughout nearly every segment of the bloodstock market in 2014, Tapit could be found at the forefront.
Grade 1 winner and pensioned stallion Kiri’s Clown was euthanized Monday due to complications from colic surgery at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky. The death came a day after A.P. Slew was euthanized at Rood and Riddle following exploratory colic surgery.
Grade 2 winner Handsome Mike has been retired from racing and will make his debut at stud in 2015 at Pleasant Acres Stallions in Morriston, Fla., for an advertised fee of $4,000.
One was a Grade 1 winner on turf. Two ran in the Kentucky Derby. Another won the same stakes three times. The new stallions in California for the 2015 breeding season are an eclectic mix of horses with lengthy racing careers and lightly raced runners. Here is an alphabetical list of first-year stallions in California and five notable stallions that were moved to the state for the 2015 breeding season.
High Chaparral, a classic winner in England and Ireland, a two-time champion turf horse in North America, and a dual-hemisphere stallion for Coolmore, was euthanized during exploratory colic surgery due to a perforated intestine, the farm announced Sunday through its Twitter account.
