Fashion Alert is perhaps the most-accomplished juvenile running at Keeneland on opening weekend, while Take Charge Brandi may be the best-bred. However, both are major question marks in the opening-day feature, the Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes on Keeneland’s new dirt track.
Fiftyshadesofgold, who won the Grade 3 Eight Belles Stakes on the Kentucky Oaks undercard earlier this year, has been retired by owner Doug Scharbauer’s Valor Farm due to a tear in her left fore suspensory.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Strategic Maneuver was euthanized due to the infirmities of old age on Sept. 24 at Betty Moran’s Brushwood Farm in Malvern, Pa., at age 23.
German Derby winner Sea The Moon will make his stallion debut in the 2015 breeding season, standing at Lanwades Stud in Newmarket, England.
Seville, a German-bred son of Galileo with a Group 1 win in Australia and Group 1 placings in three European countries, will stand the 2015 breeding season at Heritage Stallions in Chesapeake City, Md.
Fusaichi Pegasus’s best American son, Roman Ruler, came closest to earning the early juvenile championship that might have validated Fusaichi Pegasus’s syndication price. He also has been by far his sire’s best son at stud, highlighted by the victory of Artemis Agrotera in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom Handicap on Sept. 20.
New York-based Angela Renee is making the trip across the country for the Grade 1 Chandelier Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita – and her pedigree suggests the venture will be worth her while.
Three Chimneys Farm has acquired an interest in Palace Malice, and might return the classic winner to training in 2015 in partnership with Dogwood Stable.
Aaron Jones, one of the most high-profile Thoroughbred owners and breeders of the past 40 years with his wife Marie, died on Monday of heart failure at his home in Eugene, Ore., according to a spokesperson for the family. Jones was 93.
Although they sometimes seem to be working at cross purposes, the Thoroughbred racing and breeding industries are inextricably intertwined. Both are also affected by economic and other external factors, sometimes in diametrically opposite ways, and this is true on both a national level and for individual states.
