Red River Farm adds three stallions for 2015 breeding season
Red River Farm in Coushatta, La., will feature a trio of new stallions for the 2015 breeding season in Guilt Trip, Cameo Appearance, and Sum of the Parts.
DRF Breeding StaffDec 20, 2014
Red River Farm in Coushatta, La., will feature a trio of new stallions for the 2015 breeding season in Guilt Trip, Cameo Appearance, and Sum of the Parts.
Disco Rico, a multiple Grade 3 winner and New York sire, was euthanized Thursday after a lengthy struggle with laminitis.
It was with considerable surprise that I read the results of the fourth session of the 2012 Keeneland September sale on Sept. 13, 2012. I had left Kentucky for my home in Tennessee earlier that day with the understanding that my part-time employer Vincent Viola was finished buying at the sale.
Stakes winner Kate’s Event has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 season at Special T Thoroughbreds in Temecula, Calif. for an advertised fee of $1,000.
Calumet Farm, which has seen a rapid expansion in its stallion operation in recent years, has released its advertised fees and stallion locations for the 2015 breeding season. The Lexington, Ky.-based operation of owner Brad Kelley will be represented by stallions in five states, as well as Canada and Ireland.
Big Drama, the champion sprinter of 2010, will relocate to Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., for the 2015 breeding season, where he will stand for an advertised fee of $10,000. The 8-year-old son of Montbrook previously stood at HallMarc Stallions at Stonewall Farm in Ocala.
Grade 3 winner Rydilluc has been retired from racing to stand at Haras San Patricio in Santiago, Chile.
In the provincial and too-often close-minded world of American Thoroughbred racing, the victory of Lawrence Cordes’s Turkish in the Grade 3 Valedictory Stakes at Woodbine on Dec. 7 was almost completely and irrevocably irrelevant. First, the Valedictory was run on Woodbine’s synthetic Polytrack, a surface that American trainers and horseplayers have successfully lobbied almost out of existence. Second, the race, which traditionally closes the Woodbine meeting, is at 1 3/4 miles, a distance representing a vanishingly small percentage of American races. In the slightly larger, and, newly, slightly less provincial world of American Thoroughbred breeding, however, Turkish is a successful representative of a slowly emerging trend.
More than a decade ago, back when Old Friends had just a couple of retirees at Afton Farm in Georgetown, Ky., Sandy Hatfield, stallion manager at Three Chimneys Farm, gave me a halter from my favorite horse of all time – Silver Charm. The idea was to auction it off to raise money. After all, a few months after she donated it, this great Thoroughbred left to revive his breeding career in Japan and the halter would have fetched a serious price. Over the years, no matter how desperate we were for money, and, believe me, we’ve had some desperate times, I always resisted putting it up for grabs and, last week, I got to return it to its rightful owner. The thrill of a lifetime on the cusp of my 68th birthday.
The Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance will award $2.4 million in grants to its 42 accredited facilities for 2014 to assist with the management, rehabilitation, and adoption of former racehorses in their care. The grant amount is a significant increase from the previous year, when 23 facilities received a combined $1 million in grants.