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.
Kingman, a four-time Group 1 winner who captured this year’s Irish 2000 Guineas, has been retired by owner-breeder Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms.
Grade 3-placed Moro Tap has been retired from racing and will stand the 2015 breeding season at Double Infinity Ranch in Sulphur Springs, Texas for an advertised fee of $2,500.
Grade 2 winner Rebellion has been relocated to stand the 2015 breeding season at Hickory Tree Farm in Middleburg, Va. for an advertised fee of $5,000.
A total of 21,697 foals comprise the approximate 2014 North American foal crop as of Sept. 9, The Jockey Club reports, down 1.4 percent from the previous year.
Darley sire Street Cry, a $5 million earner on the racetrack and the sire of Zenyatta and Street Sense, was euthanized due to complications from a neurological condition, according to a Wednesday release from the farm. He was 16.
Grade 2 winner Flashback has been retired from racing and will make his stallion debut in 2015 at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Multiple Grade 1 winner Behrens died Sunday following a brief illness at Old Friends at Cabin Creek, the Bobby Frankel division in Greenfield Center, N.Y.
Grade 3 winner Super Ninety Nine has been retired from racing and will make his debut at stud in 2015 at the Pons family’s Country Life Farm in Bel Air, Md.
Unbeaten Australian champion Black Caviar delivered her first foal, a filly by Darley shuttle sire Exceed And Excel, on Saturday in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia.
